Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon and games like it

The WhatsNext verdict

This is essential for readers who want ambitious, literary visual novels with unforgettable characters and a beautiful supernatural-horror mood. It is a demanding, incomplete first half, but the material it does contain is extraordinary.

What it does best

Literary supernatural fiction with a voice all its own
A cast whose relationships carry the entire experience
A romantic city-night mood steeped in supernatural dread
A lavish visual-novel presentation that makes reading feel cinematic

What might put you off

Only the Near Side routes are included
Long, dense, and sometimes disturbing

The setup

What you are walking into

A remake of Type-Moon's classic doujin game Tsukihime, featuring a rewritten scenario with major differences in its setting and plot, as well as several new characters.