List of best-selling visual novels
Sales data for visual novels is frequently unavailable; the sales listed below can be significantly outdated as some of the sources are over a decade old, and series qualified for an entry could be missing. These lists should be referenced carefully.
Free visual novels do not appear in these lists due to the unreliability of download numbers and for consistency with other best-selling lists.
Series
Series |
Debut |
Creator(s) |
Sales |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ace Attorney |
2001 |
Capcom / Shu Takumi |
14,000,000 |
|
Danganronpa |
2010 |
Spike (Spike Chunsoft) / Kazutaka Kodaka |
10,000,000 |
|
Nekopara |
2014 |
Neko Works / Sayori |
6,500,000 |
|
Sakura Wars (Sakura Taisen) |
1996 |
Sega CS2 R&D / Red Entertainment |
4,718,113 |
|
Tokimeki Memorial |
1994 |
Konami / Koji Igarashi |
3,714,704 |
|
Sound Novel |
1992 |
Chunsoft (Spike Chunsoft) |
2,709,907 |
|
Tantei Jingūji Saburō (Jake Hunter) |
1987 |
Data East |
2,346,841 |
|
Fate |
2004 |
Type-Moon / Kinoko Nasu |
2,096,148 |
|
Sakura |
2014 |
Winged Cloud |
1,566,022 |
|
Zero Escape |
2009 |
Chunsoft / Kotaro Uchikoshi |
1,290,213 |
|
Steins;Gate |
2009 |
5pb. / Nitroplus |
1,244,545 |
|
Rance |
1989 |
AliceSoft |
1,159,193 |
|
Higurashi: When They Cry |
2002 |
07th Expansion / Ryukishi07 |
1,109,018 |
|
Shinseiki Evangelion (Neon Genesis Evangelion) |
1996 |
Sega AM2 / Gainax Network Systems |
1,040,972 |
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Muv-Luv |
2003 |
âge |
800,000 |
|
D.C Da Capo |
2002 |
Circus |
800,000 |
|
Dōkyūsei |
1992 |
ELF Corporation |
722,662 |
|
The Death Trap |
1984 |
Squaresoft / Hironobu Sakaguchi |
600,000 |
|
To Heart |
1997 |
Leaf |
584,263 |
|
EVE |
1995 |
Hiroyuki Kanno / C's Ware |
575,873 |
|
Clannad |
2004 |
Key / Jun Maeda |
468,278 |
|
Majikoi! |
2009 |
400,000 |
||
Welcome to Pia Carrot |
1996 |
320,696 |
||
Hatoful Boyfriend |
2011 |
PigeoNation Inc. / Hato Moa |
317,015 |
|
Kidou Senkan Nadesico (Martian Successor Nadesico) |
1997 |
Sega |
284,255 |
|
Cardcaptor Sakura ~Sakura to Card to O-Tomodachi~ |
1999 |
MTO |
193,745 |
|
Dies irae |
2007 |
Light |
100,000 |
Standalone
Title |
Release |
Developer(s) |
Sales (1986-2025) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
Needy Streamer Overload |
2022 |
Xemono |
3,000,000+ |
|
Slay the Princess |
2023 |
Black Tabby Games |
1,000,000+ |
|
Senren * Banka |
2016 |
Yuzusoft |
1,000,000+ |
|
Magical Girl Witch Trials |
2025 |
Re,AER |
500,000+ |
|
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! |
2021 |
Team Salvato |
500,000 |
|
Digimon Survive |
2022 |
Hyde |
500,000 |
|
VA-11 HALL-A |
2016 |
Sukeban Games |
500,000 |
|
ATRI -My Dear Moments- |
2020 |
Frontwing & Makura |
400,000+ |
|
(Mystery of Nonomura Hospital) |
1996 |
ELF Corporation |
400,000 |
|
YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World |
1996 |
Hiroyuki Kanno / ELF Corporation |
380,820 |
|
Policenauts |
1994 |
Hideo Kojima / Konami |
341,483 |
|
Kanon |
1999 |
Key / Naoki Hisaya |
317,512 |
|
Air |
2000 |
Key / Jun Maeda |
308,382 |
|
Sabbat of the Witch |
2015 |
Yuzusoft |
300,000+ |
|
The House in Fata Morgana |
2012 |
Novectacle |
300,000 |
|
Tsukihime –A piece of blue glass moon- |
2021 |
Type-Moon |
240,000 |
|
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 |
2007 |
Cing |
213,208 |
|
Café Stella and the Reaper’s Butterflies |
2019 |
Yuzusoft |
200,000+ |
|
J.B. Harold [...] Club |
1986 |
Riverhillsoft |
200,000 |
|
Monster Prom |
2018 |
Beautiful Glitch |
200,000 |
|
1992 |
Cocktail Soft / KID |
159,502 |
||
1997 |
Data East |
131,085 |
||
Witch on the Holy Night |
2022 |
Type-Moon |
110,000 |
|
Desire |
1994 |
Hiroyuki Kanno / |
102,187 |
|
Scarlet Hollow |
2021 |
Black Tabby Games |
100,000+ |
|
One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e |
1998 |
Tactics |
100,000 |