List of best-selling visual novels
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Sales data for visual novels is frequently unavailable; the sales listed below can be significantly outdated as some of the sources are over a decade old, and series qualified for an entry could be missing.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.
Standalone
Notes
- ↑ Sakura Wars series:
- Up until 2010 – 4.5 million[4]
- 2013–2018 – 39,687 (Japan)[5]
- Shin Sakura Taisen (2019) – 178,426 (Japan)[6]
- ↑ Tokimeki Memorial series:
- ↑ See 428: Shibuya Scramble § Reception
- ↑ Sound Novel series:
- Otogirisō (1992) – 400,000+[8]
- Kamaitachi no Yoru (Banshee's Last Cry) – 1,941,758
- Machi (1998) – 164,866[5]
- 428: Shibuya Scramble (2008) – 203,283[c]
- ↑ Tantei Jingūji Saburō series
- ↑ See Fate/stay night § Reception
- ↑ Fate series (Japan)
- Fate/stay night – 751,488[f]
- Fate/hollow ataraxia – 247,474
- PC – 154,015[citation needed]
- PS Vita – 93,459[5]
- Fate spin-off titles (consoles) – 1,097,186[5]
- ↑ Sakura series:
- Sakura Agent, Sakura Dungeon, Sakura Gamer, Sakura Magical Girls – 206,022
- Other titles – 1.36 million[11]
- ↑ Zero Escape series:
- ↑ Steins;Gate series:
- 2009–2015 (Japan) – 1 million+[13]
- Steins;Gate 0 (PS4) (Japan) – 4,087 (April 2018)[14]
- Steins;Gate 0 (Steam) – 50,000+[15]
- Steins;Gate Elite (Japan) – 30,442[16]
- ↑ Rance series:
- Japan – 1,000,000 (Data of all series until Rance 03 –Fall of Leazas–)
- Rance X (PC) – 159,193 (2018)[17]
- ↑ See Higurashi When They Cry § Reception
- ↑ Higurashi When They Cry series:
- Japan (consoles) – 908,391[l]
- Steam (PC) – 200,627+
- Ch.1 – 100,000+[18]
- Ch.2 – 28,301+[citation needed]
- Ch.3 – 20,000+[18]
- Ch.4 – 12,326+[citation needed]
- Ch.5 and Ch.6 – 40,000+[18]
- ↑ Neon Genesis Evangelion series (Japan)
- 1st Impression and 2nd Impression (Sega Saturn) – 785,034[19]
- Girlfriend of Steel and Girlfriend of Steel 2 – 255,938[5]
- ↑ Muv-Luv series
- Worldwide – 800,000 (Total cumulative of series)[20]
- Japan – 500,000 (Total cumulative of series until 2015)[21]
- Muv-Luv Alternative (PC) – 62,546 (2006)[22]
- Consoles – 72,906[5]
- Steam (PC) overseas – 5,256[citation needed]
- ↑ D.C Da Capo series:
- Japan – 800,000 (Total cumulative of all games until Da Capo 5)[23]
- ↑ Dōkyūsei series (Japan)
- Dōkyūsei (PC Engine) – 107,594[24]
- Sega Saturn – 615,068[19]
- ↑ The Death Trap series:
- The Death Trap – 500,000[25]
- Will: The Death Trap II – 100,000[26]
- ↑ To Heart series (Japan)
- Consoles – 473,870[5]
- To Heart 2 X Rated (PC) – 110,393 (2006)[citation needed]
- ↑ EVE series [ja]
- EVE: Burst Error – 350,000[27]
- EVE: The Lost One [ja] (Sega Saturn) – 145,071 (Japan)[19]
- Later EVE titles (consoles) – 80,802 (Japan)[5]
- ↑ Clannad series:
- Clannad – 365,757+
- Windows (Japan) – 100,560[citation needed]
- PS2, PSP, X360 (Japan) – 105,197[5]
- PS3, PSV, PS4 (worldwide) – 60,000[28]
- Steam (overseas) – 100,000+[29]
- Hikari Mimamoru Sakamichi de (On the Hillside Path that Light Watches Over) – 28,984[5]
- Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life (consoles) – 73,537
- PS2 – 49,226[citation needed]
- PSP and Xbox 360 – 24,311[5]
- Clannad – 365,757+
- ↑ Majikoi! series:
- Japan – 400,000 (Total series sales until Majikoi A-5)[30]
- Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! (PS3) – 12,565 (2012)[31]
- Japan – 400,000 (Total series sales until Majikoi A-5)[30]
- ↑ Pia Carrot series (Japan)
- ↑ Hatoful Boyfriend:
- Steam – 309,725[citation needed]
- DLsite English – 7,290[32]
- ↑ Kidou Senkan Nadesico series (Japan)
- ↑ See YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World § Reception
- ↑ Kanon:
- ↑ Air:
- ↑ Tsukimhime:
- Sales prior to September 2021 – 240,000+[46]
- ↑ Tsukimhime:
- First Week Sales – 110,000+[50]
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To solve this problem programmatically, the team employed a postgraduate student from Keio University—one of the best private universities, located in Tokyo and Yokohama—and Japan's first animated PC game, Will, was released in 1985. One hundred thousand copies of Will were sold, which was a major commercial success at the time.
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It was a huge hit, selling over 3 million copies.
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