21 Best Cozy Visual Novel Games on Nintendo Switch (2025 Update)

Tavern Talk is a fantasy innkeeper sim where you serve drinks, talk to adventurers, and decorate your tavern. Befriend a colourful cast of adventurers as they brag about their latest triumph – or commiserate an utter failure. Whether it’s relaxation or a fresh thrill, you’re on hand to give each patron what they need.

One fine fall day, Tess Devine and her mother, Opal, discover a cache of old notes and letters carefully stashed away in the attic of their house. Hints of deep-rooted family secrets, decades-old burglaries, a lost treasure somewhere near the Canadian border… What they uncover suggests a much darker mystery, best left well enough alone.

Play with a library full of characters and themes, featuring heroes and villains, dragons and vampires, infidelity and remorse, love, lies, madness, and more! Use the blank canvas to manipulate secrets and desires, slay monsters or terrorise people with them, betray lovers or bring them together. You know how the stories go — but this time you are the author.

At 25, Florence Yeoh feels a little stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media. Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world. 

You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something’s not right. Where is everyone? And what’s happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game. There is no horror. No ghosts. No monsters.

Play as a single Dad and meet other cute Dads. You and your daughter have just moved into the sleepy seaside town of Maple Bay only to discover that everyone in your neighborhood is a single, dateable Dad!

With minigames, sidequests, and a variety of paths and endings, Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is probably the best cozy Dad-based visual novel.

As a passionate artist, seek the missing colours that will bring your paintings to life – all while remembering to take the occasional coffee and breakfast breaks that keep you going. There is more than what meets the eye, for every painting has a story to tell.

Inspired by real-life events, The Wreck intimately portrays a pivotal day in the life of failed screenwriter Junon. Alter the past, present and future to help Junon find peace with herself as she’s called to the ER to find her estranged mother in a critical condition.

The Wreck covers mature themes and is a 3D visual novel about sisterhood, motherhood, grief and survival.

Not many puzzle games can boost a gut-wrenching slice-of-life story, but Hindsight does it so well. Hindsight is an emotional story that delves into the life of a woman, covering her experiences from birth to the present day as she tries to better understand her late mother.

The game takes you on a journey through her childhood home, reliving memories frozen in time. This story captures the many aspects of grief so well.

South of the Circle is a love story between colleagues Peter and Clara, set against the backdrop of the Cold War. The main story takes place in the Antarctic and UK during the 60s.

A narrative adventure game about memory, survival, and the consequences of not dealing with the past. This is a beautiful story you can finish in 3-4 hours but the story will linger with you much longer.

A Sketchbook About Her Sun is a narrative-driven game based on the album Planet X from Red Ribbon. Lose yourself into Lucia’s mindscape, divided between her thoughts, drawings and the music she’s listening to through her journey to re-discover her own self.

Inua is a mystical narrative adventure spanning several time periods in the Canadian far North. Follow the story of Taïna, Peter and Simon, three characters separated by more than a century but whose destinies are mysteriously intertwined with Nanurluk, the great polar bear. A supernatural tale based on incredible historical facts.

Reminiscence in the Night is a visual novel that tells the story of a character who wakes up one day with no memories. The story is told through interactions with the world, which see you gather your memories as you progress through a few days and explore more of your apartment.

A boy named Thomas, has a difficult life. It gets even worse when his father marries a woman who simply can’t stand her stepson.

His whole life changes with a sudden trip to his aunt, whom he visited once many years ago. Now he is definitely distracted from all sad thoughts, because his aunt Alice is a real witch who has a talking cat and a bunch of magical things, and her house is not exactly the right place for little boys.

If Found… is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything, an interactive novel about finding connections. This is the wistful story of Kasio, as told through her journal, set in 90’s Ireland. Kasio is a trans woman who’s trying to understand where she is going by erasing where she has been.

To the Moon is an indie adventure game that offers a poignant and story-heavy play through. In the game, players take on the role of two doctors who are able to fulfil the dying wish of a man to go to the moon.

Travel through memories, unlocking new ones by solving puzzles, to change his past and create a new timeline that leads to him achieving his dream.

SeaBed is a critically acclaimed yuri-themed mystery visual novel told through the perspectives of three separate characters: Mizuno Sachiko, a designer plagued by hallucinations of her past lover; Narasaki Hibiki, Sachiko’s friend and a psychiatrist researching the workings of human memories; and Takako, Sachiko’s former lover who has been rapidly forgetting her past, including how or why the two women drifted apart despite being together since childhood.

The Nintendo Switch version of SeaBed features two new, never before seen scenes.

Coffee Talk is a narrative-driven game that won the hearts of cozy gamers. Based on a fantasy world version of Seattle, alternative human beings, werewolves, and vampires live side by side. You play as the barista and owner of Coffee Talk. The only late-night coffee shop in the city.

As Seattle sleeps you brew a warm drink or two for the local night shift workers, secret lovers, and nocturnal regulars.

Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternate timeline set in the year 20XX where the 1983 video game crash never occurred.

After a period of turbulent employment, your character starts an exciting new job at the Funplex: a popular local arcade with a team of staff that are as eccentric as the customers.

A Memoir Blue is an interactive fiction about the bond between mother and daughter. A sweet tale that will make you think about your own relationships and all for less than a price of a cup of coffee. Can be completed in under 2 hours.

Set in late 19th century Japan and London, each title features five murder-mystery episodes filled with all the drama, laughs, twists and “turnabouts” you’ve come to expect from the legally labyrinthine legacy of Ace Attorney. Join Ryunosuke Naruhodo, ancestor of series mainstay Phoenix Wright, as he attempts to uncover the secrets behind an international criminal conspiracy and solve a hauntingly baffling cold case, while tackling a series of tricky trials along the way. Dozens of hours of attorney action awaits you!