unfortunately I don't have any on me that I'd be comfortable sharing, but my usual forum haunts absolutely rave about the game and its sequels. Its on nearly every recommendation chart and infographic I've seen for VNs (which are apparently too big in filesize to upload here) and the people I've talked to absolutely rave about it.

I'm impressed by how many people are happy visual novels are now on GOG. Personally I've never understood the appeal of such games, but then again, I've never played one. Maybe some day, when I find one, that is praised by the majority as being a masterpiece of the genre.

Except that doesn't solve much either, take the main Sunrider games for example, sure, they are unquestionably visual novel, and there is an option to make the strategy sections easy so you can get on with the plot in difficulty selection, but there's an array of difficulties and some of them are quite difficult, saying because it's a visual novel means it shouldn't be counted as a game is unfair, or let's look at a non-hybrid game, such as Long Live the Queen, sure, the gameplay is entirely delivered through mostly standard stat raising sim scheduling segments with visual novel portions in between, but someone just looking for a good book probably isn't going to pick it up, because seriously, the amount of effort, in learning the schedule, in figuring out which skills will save your butt on which weeks, and then having to figure out how things change if you want to aim for a different ending so that you can get the at times wildly different stats you need while still having ones to avoid getting assassinated long enough to see coronation day, I mean, by that sort of logic, we shouldn't consider any of the wonderful text based classics available here as games because it's all typing words into a text box, reading results and reacting, I'd say it certainly takes at least as much mental effort at times, even if it's your mouse not your keyboard doing the control work for a game like that, it doesn't matter if you sell them as games, or sell them as interactive books, either way the simple breadth of what can constitute a visual novel is itself what muddies the waters, but calling them games is honestly the safer option, as you're more likely to find someone who loves a good narrative enough to forgive some underwhelming gameplay, than someone who came here expecting nice read who keeps getting slapped in the face with various collectable death chibis, or who assumes interactive book means choose your own adventure, not choose your own adventure while having to play through space battles really feeling like they made the right choice with their purchase.

It's not even in the top 50 when you check the visual novel database and when it comes to the sequels (which are all without 18+ content), they don't sell well in Japan (see Media Create lists every week). Considering they don't take much money to develop (no surprise here), it's still profitable though.

For those wondering.

A lot of Visual novels are like reading books/manga with more features, voice overs, music, animated characters, visuals, and some more interaction.

Some visual novels actually have quite a lot of gameplay, just that there isn't many of those officially released int he west.

As for those with actual gameplay aside from story:
ero:
Tears to Tiara
Utawarerumono
Daibanchou Big Bang Age
Sengoku Rance - this one can trigger some people even among 18+ games :D There's actually more of the series but i think it's good starting point as first games have barely any gameplay or enjoyable story, 3+ are quite interconnected with story from first two, most games in series are rpg, this is like simple 4x+rpg.
Kamidori alchemy meister

from non ero:
Policenauts (psx)
Disgaea Infinite (psp)
Gadget Trial this one doesnt seem to be classified as vn but it's often seen as such

All those games got unnoficial translation patches. Enjoy.

edit: also Ace Attorney series :)

Don't forget Ace Attorney.

Well dang, already got Eden on steam. But thanks for feeding my japanimation loving soul with this VN barrage.

Thank you GOG for welcoming the VN genre with open arms.

Please work on bringing Winter wolves games over next

Scary!

Well, that's not a cool move, GOG.

This game can best be described as a poor man's Advance Wars.

And there are, of course, a lot more VNs with gameplay.

Utawarerumono is considered a classic by many VN fans (myself included). It was even popular enough to make an anime series from it which was also released in the US and Europe:

http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=3427

The Anime doesn't contain any sex-scenes so it's "save to watch". ;)

Right, how could i have forgotten this one, perfect example of good vn with gameplay, i guess it's so mainstream it escaped my memory.

True, i just picked stuff from my memory, besides when it goes towards gameplay it's hard to classify between other genres and vn, especially since a lot of jrpgs use vn mechanics, ar tonelico is one example of rpg that has quite a lot of vn elements.

I know, I've watched the anime which has hilariously bad CGI + the OVA. Good on you for linking anidb instead of MAL by the way :P

Never seen it being referred to as a classic. When was the English patch released? Around 2008? In contrast, X-Change and the like was like seven years earlier and that is usually seen as a "classic" in the English-speaking community.

Yep, absolutely. Gadget Trial was considered a VN until it got removed from that classification. I think it was the same with the Farland series (Farland Symphony in particular).