Art and film
Faces, light and places, with illustrated or animated key moments. The scene unfolds before you.
I turned the page, and a star rose.The story followed its light and became a door.
Iseo
…Oh? That book, it’s reacting to you.
Where novels
become games.
Stories you used to read. Now you play them.
NOVL turns fiction into visual novels with art, music, choices and mini-games. Nothing to install, it plays right in your browser.
Watch a manuscript
become a game in one minute
From the moment a manuscript is uploaded to the moment you play. Watch how NOVL builds a story.
Chapter 1For readers
The story you were reading
now plays out in front of you
We layer art, sound and branching paths over the original prose. At the decisive moments, the mini-games below take over.
Music and voice
Music and effects follow the scene, and the characters’ voices come with it.
Branching story
Your choices decide the next scene. Same story, different endings.
Open the same scene
two different ways
Flip the same scene between the original prose and the game. You will see at a glance what NOVL adds to a story.
Catch the starlightTap · Space
Iseo
Past midnight in the library. On the returns desk lay a book with no title.
This is where the story begins
The rest of the story is waiting in the NOVL demo gallery.
It was past midnight in the library. On the returns desk lay a book with no title. As I turned the page, a small star of light rose from between the leaves.
“…Oh? That book, it’s reacting to you,” Iseo said from the end of the stacks. “No one has ever finished this story. The next chapter is decided by whoever reads it.”
The starlight drifted slowly toward the round window. Beyond it, a story not yet written was waiting.
A novel flows one way. In NOVL, you choose the way.
Click or press Space to continue · You can also press 1 or 2
Chapter 1 is free.
The rest plays like a theater.
Discover a story, own it, and play it as if you were in a theater.
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Chapter 1 is free
Sign in and start right away. No install, no app required.
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Own the volumes
Love it? Own the volumes with NOVL Coins.
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Theater mode
A full-screen stage keeps you immersed all the way to each branching ending.
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Continue anywhere
Your saves live in your account and follow you to any device.
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Serials
Serialized stories keep going as each new episode opens.
- Coming soonMobile appsThe same wallet and saves, continued in the app.
- Coming soonAI character chatKeep talking with the characters you love, outside the story.
The Night LibraryFantasy · MysteryPlay chapter 1 freePopular this week
Romance fantasy
Mystery
Youth romance
Eastern fantasy
Adventure
Sci-fi
Follow the starlight
Close the book
Iseo
…Oh? That book, it’s reacting to you.
Chapter 2For writers and IP partners
You bring the manuscript.
NOVL builds the game.
Even great stories struggle to reach more readers as text alone. NOVL turns a single manuscript into a world you can play.
Why turning prose into games
has been so hard
Time and cost
Adapting text into comics, film or games is expensive and slow.
Readers beyond text
People used to watching and listening rarely come to prose first.
The language wall
Every market means translating, typesetting and launching all over again.
From manuscript to play, in one flow
AI drafts quickly. Every step that costs money or changes the original is reviewed and approved by a person.
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01
Manuscript
Drop in a PDF, TXT or MD manuscript and AI reads the work.
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02
Structure
Chapters and scenes, characters, places and branches, laid out on one canvas.
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03
Visuals & sound
Character, place and event art, film, music, effects and voices.
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04
Gameplay
Choices and mini-games go between scenes, so the path a reader picks decides the ending.
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Language editions
Dialogue, UI, character names and fonts, built separately for each language.
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Release
Playable on the web right away, finding new readers for years to come.
- 01Manuscript
- 02Structure
- 03Visuals & sound
- 04Gameplay
- 05Language editions
- 06Release
Chapter 1. The Night Library
It was past midnight in the library. On the returns desk lay a book with no title. As I turned the page, a small star of light rose from between the leaves.
“…Oh? That book, it’s reacting to you,” Iseo said from the end of the stacks. “No one has ever finished this story. The next chapter is decided by whoever reads it.”
PDFTXTMD
It was past midnight in the library. On the returns desk lay a book with no title. As I turned the page, a small star of light rose from between the leaves. Iseo spoke from the end of the stacks. The starlight drifted toward the round window.
CharacterIseo
PlaceThe night library
PlaceBeyond the window
BGM
Generate 2 background illustrations, needs approvalApprove
Chapter 2 · Game design
SceneThe returned book
Choice 1Follow the starlightIseo affinity +1
Choice 2Close the book
Mini-gameSafe puzzleWin to go beyond the window
EndingThe closed library
Paths from this scene: 2 choices · 1 mini-game · 1 ending
KOENJA
Iseo
다음 장은 읽는 사람이 정하거든요.
The next chapter is decided by whoever reads it.
次の章は、読む人が決めるんです。
BUILDKO · EN · JA
The rights to your work
stay with you
- 1Authors keep the rights to their original work.
- 2NOVL reviews quality and rights, then produces and releases the game together with you.
- 3One story reaches readers as a game, in many languages.
Creators and IP partnershello@novl.art
Work with usWin, and a door opens.
Lose, and the story turns.
Mini-games aren’t a break between scenes. They start where the dialogue stops, and the result picks the next scene.
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IseoEvery constellation hides behind two of these cards.
Scattered constellation cards
Win The untitled book
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IseoTurn the cover. There’s a star pattern somewhere.
The cover of the untitled book
Found The safe’s code
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IseoThe code was in the book. Turn it slowly.
The library’s locked safe
Win Beyond the windowLose The closed library
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IseoReach that island and the last chapter opens.
The way beyond the window
Arrive The starlit stage
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IseoDon’t miss a beat. This song is how the story ends.
The starlit stage
Clear Chapter 1 ending
Bullet hell, cooking, training and more can be placed inside a story when it fits.
From romance to sci-fi
each genre plays its own way
From romance to mystery, fantasy to sci-fi, with direction and games that suit the genre.
Translation is not the last step.
It is the first.
Translation is part of production, not an afterthought. Dialogue, UI, fonts and typesetting are built for each language.
AI translation, AI review
Every translated line is reviewed again by AI, with character names managed separately.
Fonts and typesetting per language
Each language gets fonts and line breaks that read well on screen.
A build for each language
Each edition is built as its own game and can be released on its own.
We aim to launch editions in 12 languages at once.
- English
- 한국어
- 日本語
- 简体中文
- 繁體中文
- Tiếng Việt
- Bahasa Melayu
- ไทย
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Français
- Español
- Deutsch
The core product is built.
Now we open the first stage.
NOVL is preparing for launch. Here is where we have been and where we are going, as it is.
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Core production & play
We built the production tools and the play platform that take a manuscript all the way to a web game.
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Invite-only demo gallery
Invited members are already playing our demo stories.
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Closed beta
An invite-based beta opens with our first stories.
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Global launch
Meeting readers around the world, in many language editions.
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Mobile apps · AI character chat
Ways to stay close to the characters, even outside the story.
The next chapter
is decided by the reader
If you have an invitation, meet NOVL’s stories first in the demo gallery.
Demo (Invite-only demo gallery, opens in a new tab)Invite-only · opens in a new tab
Work with usCreators, IP partners and business inquiries: hello@novl.art