Visual Novel Compatibility List

A brief overview on what works for a visual novel and its confirmed working platforms. Linux versions have been tested with Lutris, Wine/Proton and Winetricks following the Lutris and Wineprefixes guides.

• ✅: Verified to work
• ⚠️: Playable, with some issues
• ❓: Unknown
• ❌: Broken
• N/A: Not applicable

If you are experiencing font issues, be sure to install the Windows Japanese Fonts. Common examples are MS Gothic, Mincho, etc.

Notes

1. Disable Esync
2. Add WINE_DO_NOT_CREATE_DXGI_DEVICE_MANAGER=1 %command% in the launch options on Steam
3. Add GST_PLUGIN_FEATURE_RANK=protonaudioconverterbin:NONE %command% in the launch options on Steam (fix opening playback)
4. Add PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8" %command% in the launch options on Steam (fix white screen issue during opening playback)
5. Configure Japanese locale
6. Runs a little laggy on Wine 8 but is smoother on Lutris 7.2.2
7. Use the special codec script to install wmp11
8. Change Kirikiri settings to use “Layer” in Advanced Settings > Movie Rendering
9. Use liarsoftengine prefix or install mciqtz32 with the special codec script
10. Graphical glitches on default Wine
11. Use lavfilters or ffdshow prefixes
12. The original japanese release might require deleting some fonts from the Wine prefix as NScripter defaults to a font on its own and there are no options to select one
13. Movies don’t play
14. Input lag on some GNU/Linux devices, possible lag when loading an asset
15. Not yet tested
16. Install xact with lavfilters or ffdshow
17. Opening video & audio desync issue can be fixed by limiting the FPS to 30 or running the game with gamescope --framerate 30 game.exe
18. Disable DXVK. In steam: PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
19. Use wmp10quartz or wmp11quartz prefix where wmp11 is installed in the latter through the special codec script
20. Requires special install
21. Override “d3d9.dll” with n,b in “Wine Configuration”
22. Movies flicker
23. On the Steam Deck, override the resolution in “Steam Game Properties” to 1920x1080 and limit the framerate to 40 FPS
24. Turn on fullscreen mode and enable compatibility mode in the game settings
25. LÖVE engine required (which has native Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux versions}
26. Set the virtual resolution to 800x600 (fix video cropping)
27. Fullscreen does not work but can be worked around with Gamescope
28. Tested with the “Committee of Zero” patch
29. Read the game-specific guide to see which prefix is needed
30. Use wmp10quartz or wmp11 prefix
31. Font is rendered in low quality on Unix systems
32. Severe frame drops when there’re a lot of enemies (Steam Deck)
33. Use lavfilters or wmp10quartz prefix
34. Use Gamescope or “Game mode” to avoid video flickering
35. Spanish translation works but some characters like “ñ” or letters with accents don’t appear
36. Use modified batch script to run the game
37. Override “d2d1.dll” with n,b in “Wine Configuration”
38. Make sure patch is up to date
39. Use wmp10quartz or liarsoftengine prefix
40. Needs a font in the prefix to avoid crash at startup
41. Opening sometimes crashes if not stopped before the end
42. Broken formatting in the textbox on GNU/Linux
43. Interface is in Japanese
44. Install wmp11 and quartz_dx with the special codecs script
45. Install xact
46. English fan translation has wordwrapping issues on GNU/Linux but the Japanese one works fine
47. Japanese version requires the wmp10quartz prefix (wmp11quartz does not work)
48. Install quartz manually as the special codecs script does not work here for 32-bit
49. English version should work out of the box on Steam
50. If running the new Unity version in Lutris, make sure to enable DKVX (disable otherwise)
51. The Kirikiri version requires wmp11quartz_dx prefix with Lutris 7.2 while the Unity version should work with a Wine GE 8.22 prefix
52. Seems to crash on 32-bit prefixes and some Wine versions
53. need to have the windows scripting host system set up on the prefix (winetricks wsh57).
54. WINEDLLOVERRIDES=“jscript=n” being set up otherwise the javascript of srpg studio won’t run and it crashes on startup (this may not be needed anymore).
55. Having certain fonts seem to work but the fakejapanese winetricks package seems to work fine without anything. In case of performance issue delete the content of the font folder of your prefix and try with fewer fonts.
56. Install mf with the special codecs. Steam thread
57. Run with PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=120 environment variable if audio crackling
58. Game freezes in auto read scenes in linux; need to read those scenes in windows transfering saves back and forth. Only 1 scene per route has autoread so other than that it works perfectly fine.
59. Install directshow and wmp9: protontricks/winetricks -q directshow wmp9
60. Some versions like lutris 7.2 and proton-ge 9.9 have audio crackling. 9.13 works fine and plays videos.
61. Can increase font in engine: use garbro in Windows, extract init.ini from cfg.pak, make cfg folder, place init.ini into cfg folder, change MsgFontSize

Game-specific information

• True Remembrance has native GNU/Linux and macOS versions
• Run the Switch version of “Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-” on Ryujinx to avoid sprite lag
• Umineko - When They Cry PS3 version has been ported to Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux thanks to the Umineko Project Team
• Katawa Shoujo has native GNU/Linux and macOS versions
• For Evenicle 1, you must be on the game version 1.04 to do what is described in “Note 24”
• Kara no Shoujo 2 has native GNU/Linux and macOS versions
• The Yu-No edition listed here is the Windows port PC with the optional voice and BGM patch