That's all? OK. Then let's celebrate it with a song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cRPeXQvH4Q

If that's a new hand-held gaming device / tablet, then I don't want to know what the white shape in the lower right corner is... but it definitely belongs in the NSFW / adults-only corner of the shop.

Has GOG-Chan been given a Theo teddy bear yet? I thought she was shown with him at some point, but maybe I'm misremembering.

• $0.99 • -90% • A New Beginning: Final Cut
• $0.99 • -90% • Always Sometimes Monsters
• $0.99 • -90% • Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure
• $0.99 • -90% • Dracula: Love Kills
• $0.99 • -80% • SIMULACRA
• $0.99 • -90% • Yesterday Origins
• $1.43 • -80% • Evan's Remains Deluxe Edition
• $1.49 • -90% • Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
• $1.49 • -85% • Murder Mystery Machine
• $1.49 • -90% • Wanderlust: Travel Stories
• $1.97 • -67% • Florence
• $1.99 • -80% • HuniePop
• $1.99 • -80% • Kathy Rain
• $1.99 • -90% • Ken Folletts The Pillars of the Earth
• $1.99 • -90% • State of Mind
• $1.99 • -80% • Sunrider Academy
• $1.99 • -90% • Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York
• $2.24 • -75% • Bastard
• $2.24 • -75% • OPUS: The Day We Found Earth
• $2.39 • -70% • She Sees Red - Interactive Movie
• $2.49 • -75% • Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo - Digital Deluxe Upgrade
• $2.49 • -75% • Bleeding Moons
• $2.49 • -75% • Long Live the Queen
• $2.49 • -50% • Mhakna Gramura and Fairy Bell
• $2.49 • -50% • Murder Is Game Over
• $2.49 • -75% • Orwell
• $2.49 • -75% • Orwell's Animal Farm
• $2.54 • -15% • A TAVERN FOR TEA
• $2.59 • -80% • Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York
• $2.79 • -60% • Evan's Remains
• $2.99 • -70% • Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion
• $2.99 • -85% • Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure
• $2.99 • -70% • Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I and II
• $2.99 • -50% • Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.4 Himatsubushi
• $2.99 • -75% • Rainswept
• $2.99 • -70% • Trap Shrine
• $2.99 • -80% • Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures
• $2.99 • -80% • Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Heart of the Forest
• $3.14 • -65% • OPUS: Rocket of Whispers
• $3.19 • -68% • Lust Epidemic
• $3.19 • -60% • SIMULACRA 2
• $3.24 • -75% • Forgotten Fields
• $3.24 • -35% • garage:VAMP
• $3.49 • -30% • A YEAR OF SPRINGS
• $3.49 • -50% • The Book of Bondmaids
• $3.49 • -65% • The Longest Road on Earth
• $3.49 • -50% • Three kingdoms story: Conussia
• $3.49 • -65% • Virginia
• $3.74 • -85% • Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure Deluxe Edition
• $3.74 • -75% • Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game
• $3.74 • -75% • Leap of Love
• $3.74 • -75% • Orwell Deluxe Edition
• $3.83 • -70% • Moero Chronicle Deluxe Bundle
• $3.99 • -50% • Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi
• $3.99 • -50% • Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi
• $3.99 • -60% • Just Deserts
• $3.99 • -80% • Shining Song Starnova: Idol Empire
• $3.99 • -60% • Summer with Mia Season 1
• $3.99 • -80% • Tangle Tower
• $3.99 • -60% • The Falconers: Moonlight
• $3.99 • -50% • The Lion's Song
• $3.99 • -60% • Trap Legend
• $3.99 • -80% • Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York - Deluxe Edition
and more:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_weekly_weekend_sales/post2910

Nice picture indeed!!! :)
Isn't that a cat?

Well, you wouldn't quite know it from GOG's text, but a whole lot of the games here aren't in the area that people love to complain about, at least :)

I have to ask... what do categories mean? Real question.

"Oh a visual novel sale. What do we have here?"

Porn, porn, porn, porn, porn, porn, Not porn, porn, porn, Actually not porn, porn, porn, porn... I have to ask, what's the difference between this and the NSFW sales?

Also some of the other items in the same are not visual novels, because they seem to have significant gameplay mechanics. Point and click adventure games, deck builders, RPG's... those aren't actually visual novels.

Yes, lets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3h7d6LidWk

They're the same genre.

In Japan, they're all just considered to be "adventure" genre games, the same as adventure games from other countries.

"Visual novel" is just a marketing tagline that one company used on some of their games that stuck because Americans are super bad at naming video game genres (because let's face it, "adventure" isn't really a good name for the genre either, it just stuck because the first game in the genre had the word in the title).

It's just like trying to insist that Splinter Cell or Thief or Deus Ex be called "Tactical Espionage Action" genre games because that phrase is in the logo for Metal Gear Solid.

As I was just saying right above your post, the difference is that a whole lot of the included titles aren't sexual. Look at ciemnogrodzianin's list, sorted by price, or the first page on the sale page with the default sorting, by discount, and you'll see that a minority would fit those labels. And, leaving aside the accuracy of tags, if I filter out NSFW and Sexual Content tags, 239 of 432 titles are left. Or 145 out of 284 if I click Hide DLCs and Extras. So more than half in both cases.

About the second comment, yeah, agree with that, plenty of the titles aren't VNs or JRPGs, or J-anything.

Which is exactly why the GOG Bear is the true mascot of GOG. Something's always broken. xD

Cheers for the sale
Now the question is, which of these visual novels have an engaging story? ( the last true vis novel i loved was Katawa Shoujo - and that was a freebie many years ago. FWIW there is an updated version on F-droid for android if anyone is interested - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fhs.ksre/ ))

The very few "not porn" titles.
I'm glad to see the WoD (World of Darkness) ones here, those gave a bit of a nuance here.