Narcissu
Narcissu is a short story about a couple of young terminally ill patients in a hospice... and I was kind of nonplussed by it. Â It's an OK story, but I didn't really feel it worked best as a visual novel. Â There are few backgrounds and no sprites over them, so it's not so different from a book with a few illustrations per chapter. Â The pictures are not tall and usually only 2 lines are used for text, so most of your screen is unused (especially if playing this 4:3 game on a wide screen) and clicking to go to the next page is happening all the time. Â It also doesn't bother to identify speakers, so even when there are usually only two people talking in a given scene there can be occasional confusion. Â The main thing that would be lost if not in VN form is the background music, some of which is pretty decent. Â It also has voice, but only for one character, and I didn't find it added much beyond making me realize she was more listless than I would've guessed by text alone.
If you do want to check out Narcissu, I recommend going straight to Narcissu: Side 2nd. Â It's a prequel that includes the entirety of the original. Â In addition there's an epilogue if you have saves completed for both games, so I had to go through the content of the first game again to unlock that--though the inclusion of the automatic mode made that a mostly painless thing to do in the background.