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Top rated · Visual Novel

Where itch.io itself ranks 1,008 games in this category, read once on 2026-10-17. The positions are itch.io’s; the climb columns and the line beside each game are ours, computed from what this chart said before.

How this chart is moving — turnover, entries and exits since the last walk, and the top 20 day by day ↓

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Top rated · Visual Novel

1–50 of 1,008 · read 2026-10-17

Top rated · Visual Novel on itch.io, positions 1 onwards
#	Game	7d	30d	Peak 30d	On chart
position 1	The Freak Circus · Garula	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 1	31 of 31 walked days
position 2	Our Life: Beginnings & Always · GBPatch	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 2	31 of 31 walked days
position 3	Adventures With Anxiety! · Nicky Case!	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 3	31 of 31 walked days
position 4	A Date with Death · Two and a Half Studios	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 4	31 of 31 walked days
position 5	Blooming Panic · robobarbie	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 5	31 of 31 walked days
position 6	Don't eat the cashier! · DETCc	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 6	31 of 31 walked days
position 7	14 Days With You [DEMO] · cutiesai	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 7	31 of 31 walked days
position 8	Our Life: Now & Forever · GBPatch	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 8	31 of 31 walked days
position 9	Doki Doki Literature Club! · Team Salvato	unchanged over seven days	1 places up over thirty days	best position 9	31 of 31 walked days
position 10	Butterfly Soup · Brianna Lei	unchanged over seven days	1 places up over thirty days	best position 10	31 of 31 walked days
position 11	Killer Chat! Original Edition · rosesrot	unchanged over seven days	2 places down over thirty days	best position 9	31 of 31 walked days
position 12	Mushroom Oasis · DeersphereStudios	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 12	31 of 31 walked days
position 13	TOUCHSTARVED: A Dark Romance Visual Novel · Red Spring Studio	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 13	31 of 31 walked days
position 14	Where Eternity Sleeps · Livingslime	unchanged over seven days	1 places up over thirty days	best position 14	31 of 31 walked days
position 15	Andromeda Six · Wanderlust Games$14.99	unchanged over seven days	1 places down over thirty days	best position 14	31 of 31 walked days
position 16	Prescription:LOVE · Livingslime	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 16	31 of 31 walked days
position 17	Online Obsession · sourmilk	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 17	31 of 31 walked days
position 18	Big Bad Dogs · spar0w	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 18	31 of 31 walked days
position 19	To Eat a God · Soffis_mbm	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 18	31 of 31 walked days
position 20	seekL · robobarbie	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 20	31 of 31 walked days
position 21	Kingdom Of Marionettes (DEMO) · Thepipi	5 places up over seven days	7 places up over thirty days	best position 21	31 of 31 walked days
position 22	OBSCURA · Rotten Raccoons$14.99	1 places down over seven days	1 places down over thirty days	best position 21	31 of 31 walked days
position 23	Lookouts · paranoidhawk	1 places down over seven days	1 places down over thirty days	best position 22	31 of 31 walked days
position 24	Dating Killmulator 2 · Coolom Games	unchanged over seven days	3 places up over thirty days	best position 23	31 of 31 walked days
position 25	Vincent: The Secret of Myers · dino999z	2 places down over seven days	2 places down over thirty days	best position 23	31 of 31 walked days
position 26	Dead Plate · racheldrawsthis	1 places down over seven days	2 places down over thirty days	best position 24	31 of 31 walked days
position 27	Dawn Chorus · Dawn Chorus	unchanged over seven days	1 places down over thirty days	best position 26	31 of 31 walked days
position 28	ERROR143 · Jenny Vi Pham	unchanged over seven days	3 places down over thirty days	best position 25	31 of 31 walked days
position 29	purrgatory · Niv	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 29	31 of 31 walked days
position 30	Dating Killmulator · Coolom Games	1 places up over seven days	2 places up over thirty days	best position 30	31 of 31 walked days
position 31	Keyframes · (BLANK) HOUSE$25	1 places down over seven days	1 places down over thirty days	best position 30	31 of 31 walked days
position 32	Elevator Hitch · racheldrawsthis	unchanged over seven days	1 places down over thirty days	best position 31	31 of 31 walked days
position 33	Swooning Over Stans · sovonight	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 32	31 of 31 walked days
position 34	Ebon Light · Underbliss	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 34	31 of 31 walked days
position 35	When The Night Comes · Lunaris Games$12.99	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 35	31 of 31 walked days
position 36	Chilling Devotion (Day 1-2) · Remina	unchanged over seven days	1 places up over thirty days	best position 36	31 of 31 walked days
position 37	CreepyDates · Hahadit	unchanged over seven days	1 places up over thirty days	best position 36	31 of 31 walked days
position 38	missed messages. · angela he	unchanged over seven days	2 places down over thirty days	best position 36	31 of 31 walked days
position 39	Married in Red · racheldrawsthis	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 39	31 of 31 walked days
position 40	Therapy with Dr. Albert Krueger · dino999z	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 40	31 of 31 walked days
position 41	Promises to Keep · Promises to Keep VN	1 places up over seven days	1 places up over thirty days	best position 41	31 of 31 walked days
position 42	Threads of You: Beyond the Bay · Lavendeer Studios	1 places down over seven days	1 places down over thirty days	best position 41	31 of 31 walked days
position 43	The Ratchelor: A Rat Dating Sim · Algorat	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 43	31 of 31 walked days
position 44	her tears were my light · NomnomNami$3	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 44	31 of 31 walked days
position 45	Welcome, Dear Human [Demo] · Ronkad	2 places up over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 45	31 of 31 walked days
position 46	Cold Front · racheldrawsthis	unchanged over seven days	1 places up over thirty days	best position 45	31 of 31 walked days
position 47	Butterfly Soup 2 · Brianna Lei	2 places down over seven days	1 places down over thirty days	best position 45	31 of 31 walked days
position 48	Going Live! · Jenny Vi Pham	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 48	31 of 31 walked days
position 49	Saint Spell's Love Guide to the Magical Student's Spellbook · jiefinch	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 49	31 of 31 walked days
position 50	Devil Express · Bad Pet	unchanged over seven days	unchanged over thirty days	best position 50	31 of 31 walked days

How this chart is moving

Every figure below is about our own record of itch.io’s ordering: what its top 100 looked like on earlier walks, and what changed between them.

Turnover, 7d

of today's top 100 were not in the top 100 on 2026-10-10

Since last walk

0 of 100

entered the top 100; a gap of 1 day

Distinct games, 30d

102

held a top-100 place across 31 walks

Since the last walk

Top 100: 2026-10-17 02:00 against 2026-10-16 02:00 UTC, a gap of 1 day. Both readings are itch.io’s own ordering, read by us; the movement is what changed between the two walks.

Entered: 0
Left: 0
Up: 7
Down: 5
Unchanged: 88

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Entered the top

Nothing entered.

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Left the top

Nothing left.

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Biggest climbs

itch.io: games that climbed within the head of this chart
Now	Was	Places	Game
76	78	+2	Helping Your Boyfriend · Zieelane
51	52	+1	A Date with Death 2: REMNANTS · Two and a Half Studios
52	53	+1	WAN2TALK? · mirawakestudios
53	54	+1	Looking For You · Mir_Visual
67	68	+1	Loving Decays [FULL GAME] · linglyum
78	79	+1	I Became an Evil Witch that Cursed the Male Lead · fluuen
99	100	+1	NEET Girl Date Night · Hitsuji

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Biggest falls

itch.io: games that fell within the head of this chart
Now	Was	Places	Game
54	51	-3	You Make This House a Home. · JULIAN
79	77	-2	Fear Me [Jeff the Killer's Dating Sim] · Neesa
68	67	-1	Project: Eden's Garden (Cancelled) · Project: Eden's Garden
77	76	-1	Chromatic Agape [New Demo] · Deniz G. Lerosi
100	99	-1	A Mortician's Tale · Laundry Bear Games

itch.io's own chart

Top 20, day by day

31 walked days

20 games held a top-20 place over the last 30 days; 20 of today's top 20 were there 7 days ago.

Every game on the drawing

Games in the top 20 of itch.io's chart over the window
Game	Days in top	Best	First day	Last day
The Freak Circus	31	1	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Our Life: Beginnings & Always	31	2	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Adventures With Anxiety!	31	3	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
A Date with Death	31	4	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Blooming Panic	31	5	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Don't eat the cashier!	31	6	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
14 Days With You [DEMO]	31	7	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Our Life: Now & Forever	31	8	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Doki Doki Literature Club!	31	9	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Butterfly Soup	31	10	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Killer Chat! Original Edition	31	9	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Mushroom Oasis	31	12	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
TOUCHSTARVED: A Dark Romance Visual Novel	31	13	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Where Eternity Sleeps	31	14	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Andromeda Six	31	14	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Prescription:LOVE	31	16	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Online Obsession	31	17	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
Big Bad Dogs	31	18	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
To Eat a God	31	18	2026-09-17	2026-10-17
seekL	31	20	2026-09-17	2026-10-17