Laura of GAMElitist.com - "I hadn’t really heard the term “visual novel” until about a year ago, and as I was browsing a certain image-posting board I came across a thread discussing Katawa Shoujo... Once I’d played through all the paths I decided to look up some more visual novels, as the general consensus on the internet was that Katawa Shoujo was “baby’s first VN”, and I felt like branching out."
MonsterVine: "October is the month of Halloween, so what better time to sit down and play some spooky games? Here are a few of my top picks (in no particular order) for spooky games–which are not necessarily all horror games–to play this month. "
KeenGamer: "We have the best visual novels to suggest to you, but we do recognize that many gamers don’t consider visual novels as games. Sluggishly leafing through dialogues, from time to time making choices. Additionally, many don’t like the anime style of the genre. Maybe we can change your mind."
COGconnected: With hundreds of horror games vying for the position of most fear-inducing, we've narrowed down our list to the top ten scariest PC games...for now.
Saya no Uta was intense man... That game actually gave me nightmares it was so disturbing. Not anything about jump scares, or actual scary scenes. Just the general vibe and atmosphere of hopelessness. Absolutely wonderful game though, I just wish there was a way to turn off the 18+ scenes.