There are literally hundreds of Visual novels. In Japan they're HUGE. Probably one of the most widely made type of game there, if not the most. This is largely because they're significantly cheaper to make than other types though. As a result, while there are so many, you often have to do a little sifting to get to the good stuff. (I don't know if you're much into anime, but you'll find a very large number of animes based on VNs too! Most of those already mentioned have been made into animes.)
Most of those on that list are pretty good too, so really it's just a matter of finding one that looks/sounds good to you and giving it a go!
Good luck and happy playing! :)

I've been checking these games out and found this

FREE VN : Seduce Me the Otome

A romantic comedy visual novel centered around a girl named Mika Anderson, who gets entangled in the affairs of incubi.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/367120/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otome_game

An otome game (乙女ゲーム otome gēmu?, literally "girl game") is a story based video game that is targeted towards the female market. Generally one of the goals, besides the main plot goal, is to develop a romantic relationship between the female player character and one of several male, or occasionally female characters. This genre is most established in Japan, and is mostly made up of visual novels and simulation games (particularly dating sims).

Okay this is pretty silly, granted GOG has been known to do silly things like initially rejecting Xenonauts for being too high priced for a indie, seems at the time they felt Indies shouldn't be more then 14.99.

I don't get the logic behind this outside either it being the stigma of Visual novels and some of the people they attract. I mean if I had a dollar for every prev that gets all bothered that they can't see nipples or pornographic scenes in some of the visual novels on Steam like the Sakura games or NEKOPARA Vol. 1 I would be better off financially then I am now, not insanely wealthy but I could easily live off that extra income and be able to reduce how many hours I put in at my job.

But still if that is the case, it's still a poor excuse to not allow visual novels in general but I can't see that being the case since we have Hatoful Boyfriend and Long Live the Queen here, it's seem more possible to me that those games just didn't sell well enough here.

Even so it's still silly to go well we have two of those types of games here and they didn't sell well enough so thus we don't have enough of a market for these types of games since you can't really base if you should carry a entire genre of games based on two titles.

Aselia the Eternal would be a good choice as well and also has a strong JRPG elements as when you're not engaging with the chactors in the typical vn manner you are leading them in a military campaign to capture territory with perma death. I would love to see Valcuria Chronicles as well as it uses a basic game structure similar to Aselia just without dialogue options. Actually, thinking about it Argest, Generations of War would be a better ccomparison.
Personally I think gog is trying to protect itself from the possibility of a loli scene getting through their venting process and all the controversies that may cause. the scene itself may be innocent but if someone sees it puts it out of context it's easy to imagine the s*** storm that would happen

Then there are games have mods to restore the deleated scenes and "remove" censoring, thus bypassing gog venting altogether. This is the reason why Argest 2 is not on gog, because of a hot spring scene with a loli may make it back into the game via a mod

Manga Gamer is interested, but they say that their games are gonna need a lot more votes:
https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/607883311269048321

They do have some non-hentai stuff I'd like to see them bring DRM-free, but a lot of the catalog is hentai so I can't exactly link their site here. =\

Yeah, visual novel database has actually thousands of VNs.
http://vndb.org/

Of course, they list everything from pure porn to Western-made freeware indies and everything in between. But that's exactly what a database should do, even if finding gems from all that material may be challenging.

because most of them are untranslated and japan doesn't really care about dirty "gaijin" sales?

as for indie VNs... they're quite horrible. or just plain free for download anyway, so who cares? GOG isn't a file sharing site. not yet.
oh yeah, forgot that part. most VNs cater to the horny otaku.

that COULD get GOG.com banned/blocked in singapoor and most asian countries. call me a dirty SJW, but i don't want that to happen... VPN tunnels and shit severely slow down my connection.

Ah. Makes no difference to me since I buy your games from your website, since that's how I support indie devs. Same as I buy Jeff Vogel's games from his website. Figure it's the best way to give you guys the whole piece of the pie, so to speak.

Sorry for late reply, but just wanted to say thank you :)

I think this is actually a very nice advertisement for VNs as computer games. GOG should definitely bring good VNs to its shop.
I imagine it could work better. Search engine quality is not yet there unfortunately. I wish I could tell GOG my preferences and then it would show me only those games I might be interested in and not those it shows me currently.

I believe that curation has its pros and cons. The best would be to combine it. Basically GOG could have a curated (and adaptable) part of their website and a non-curated Steam like part. I would then probably stay in the curated area not because I want to limit myself but because I don't have the time to check everything myself. I would gladly leave the choice to GOG.

Also for the VNs now: Maybe someone could make a list where to buy them DRM free instead? That would probably be helpful.

I also wonder why? VNs may be something in between books, comics, movies and games but still kind of close enough to rather want to have them then not want to have them. Not really understandable to me.

GOG don't be silly. There are plenty of VN games worth attention. I can't think of any rational reason to ignore them.

Maybe you could try to get your "foot in the doorstep" by submitting your published zombie game as its' not strictly a VN ;)

The fact that visual novels seem to end up in bundles pretty quickly suggests that the "fanbase" might not be as big as you might think, or at the very least, that they don't sell as well as you want to suggest. Also, in the midst of the deluge of visual novels (and other similar easy-to-develop genres like hidden object games) there are probably barely a dozen good ones. Off the top of my head: Phoenix Wright, Danganronpa, Virtue's Last Reward. Hatoful Boyfriend is not one of them, although as others have said, I suspect that its inclusion here was simply a result of GOG's partnership with Devolver.

VNs don't get developed to the extent that they do because they're popular. They get developed because they're cheap and easy to make, just like hidden object games and the countless and soulless RPG Maker games we keep seeing.

I agree, there are many intereting VN we could get here. And not only the classic ones...