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Custom visual novels

Bring your story to life as a game you can play.

Start with a story you wish existed: a gift for someone, an adventure starring your friends, or one where you're the hero. GoodEndGames turns it into a finished visual novel with its own characters, art and endings. It's a real game, and it's yours to keep.

From €20 Regular price €40Launch priceready in 3 days

Paid when you order. If the story plan isn't for you, you get half your money back.

Bring your story to life Play a free demo

Made with AI that runs locally, not in the cloud. Nothing goes to an online AI company unless you add the optional voice-over. How it's made

Aoi, a young woman with a ponytail and a yellow cardigan, arms flung wide
Aoi “Everyone! This boy has eaten toast for breakfast every day for a year!”

Try it: click the scene to play a moment from Red Thread Spring. A visual novel is a story you play. You read, the characters talk to you, and your choices change how it ends.

Made for…

  • A gift nobody else will give

    An anniversary, a birthday, a goodbye. Your story together, with a dedication on the title screen.

  • Your friend group

    Your flatmates, your book club, your tabletop party: the cast of a mystery or a comedy.

  • The story you wish existed

    That idea you've carried for years. A haunted lighthouse. A bakery run by a retired witch.

  • You, as the hero

    Your name on the main character, and a story that turns on what you choose.

Sample games

See what a story becomes

Play one from start to finish in your browser, or click a scene to play a moment from it.

Leo, a tall young man with curly hair in a maroon varsity jacket, one fist raised
Leo “Poster.”

Pictures from the game. Click one to see it larger.

School comedy · free demo

Results Day

Joel's university answer arrives at noon, and he has promised to open it with his two best friends. So why is Sara whispering behind her planner, and what is that under Leo's jacket? One school day, two terrible liars, and a secret that depends on what you do before the last bell.

  • 10 minutes
  • 4 choices
  • 3 characters

Smaller than an order: a short one to try.

Play the whole game

Plays in your browser. Nothing to download, no account.

Mio, a young woman with a bob and a light blue dress, hands out in alarm
Mio “It came with a train ticket. A real one! So it must be a serious scholarship.”

Pictures from the game. Click one to see it larger.

Campus romance · drama

Red Thread Spring

Your childhood friend came back to Hiiragi wearing a red thread on her wrist. A small city on a bay, a coffee shop at the tram stop, a literature club, and a university society that ties people together and doesn't let go. Three storylines, and a hidden fourth that opens once you've seen them all.

  • 100+ scenes
  • 4 storylines
  • 12 endings

About the size of a Deluxe order.

Akari, grinning in a cap and grey hoodie, hand on her hip Yoru, in a black dress with a paper parasol on her shoulder
Yoru “She will not stop, Ren Asahina. She has named every dog on our street.”

Pictures from the game. Click one to see it larger.

Vampire comedy · slice of life

Not By Blood

Dad came home from Osaka married. Your new step-mother works nights and never eats, and her twin daughters can't come into your room unless you invite them in. They're vampires, all three of them, and they are trying very hard to be normal. A summer of family dinners, shifts at the beach café and one household learning to live together. Tonight's welcome dinner has garlic in it.

  • 260+ scenes
  • 16 endings
  • 8 characters

Much bigger than an order.

How it works

From one sentence to a game you can play

  1. 1

    Share your idea

    A sentence is enough: who it's about, where, and the mood. Questions are free.

  2. 2

    Order and pay

    Through Etsy or PayPal. Payment is up front, because writing your story plan is the biggest part of the work.

  3. 3

    Approve your story plan

    The cast, the world and how the story branches. Ask for changes, or stop here and get half your money back.

  4. 4

    Download and play

    Ready within 3 days of you approving the plan, or 1 day with the priority add-on. One round of changes to the story is included.

Characters made for your story

Full-body character art created for your story, each with up to eight expressions.

A picture for every place

A background for each location, shifting with the time of day.

Choices that matter

Branching scenes, different storylines and several endings, including bad ones if you want them.

A proper game

Title screen, save slots and autosave, and you can scroll back through what was said.

Plays in any browser

One zip you download. Unzip it and open the game's page: it runs in any modern browser on Windows, Mac or Linux, with no install, no account and no internet needed.

Made personal

Your names, your setting, your tone, and a dedication on the title screen if it's a gift.

Pricing

Pick the size of your story

Standard

Regular price €40 €20

Launch price

One story, start to finish

  • A single storyline with choices that matter
  • 2–4 endings
  • Up to 4 characters with expressions
  • About 1 hour of story
  • One round of changes
Start with Standard
Fuller story

Deluxe

Regular price €70 €35

Launch price

Several storylines to follow

  • Shared opening chapters, then up to 3 character storylines
  • Good, bad and hidden endings
  • Up to 7 characters with expressions
  • About 2 hours of story
  • One round of changes
Start with Deluxe

Custom

Pricing on request

Something bigger, or something different

  • A longer story or more storylines than Deluxe
  • More characters, places or endings
  • A plan and a quote before any work starts
  • Changes agreed as part of the quote
Ask about Custom

Optional add-on

Priority

Your game is ready within 1 day of you approving the plan, instead of 3 days. It can be added to Standard or Deluxe when you order.

+€10

Optional add-on, coming soon

Full voice-over and music

Every character's lines spoken aloud, and music for each scene. It can't be ordered yet. For now, every game is silent.

The voices and music will be made with ElevenLabs, an online AI audio service, so for this option the lines of your story will be sent to them. Everything else is still made locally. How it's made

+€20

Launch prices for the first orders. The regular prices are €40 and €70. Prices in euros, paid when you order. If you don't want to go ahead after seeing your story plan, you get half your money back.

Why AI

Months of work, ready in days

A visual novel is a lot of work: a cast of characters with a face for every mood, a picture for every place, and hours of story. Made alone and by hand, a game like this takes months, sometimes years.

It makes the time possible

AI does the slowest part, the pictures, so your game is ready in 3 days instead of next year.

It makes the price possible

That much hand-drawn art would cost far more than most gifts. AI is what lets a one-off game, made for one person, start at €20.

Creative supervision

AI is fast, not careful. An experienced game developer reviews everything it produces, corrects the pictures by hand and writes the story. Expect good, consistent art, not the polish of a studio game that took years.

How it's made

Made with local AI, not the cloud

You should know exactly what you're buying, so here it is plainly.

AI-made art, directed by hand

The pictures are generated by AI models and corrected by hand. The story is planned and written by a person. Every game is played through before you get it.

It all runs locally

Your idea, your story and your art are made on our own computer, not on someone else's servers. Nothing is sent to ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney or any other AI company, and what you send is never used to train anything. The one exception is yours to choose: the optional voice-over and music add-on uses ElevenLabs, an online service.

Not a chatbot with a prompt

GoodEndGames runs on its own story engine. AI models tailored for making visual novels run locally inside it, and it keeps characters and facts consistent, directs every picture and checks the results. That is why you can't get the same thing by typing into a general AI app.

Deleted when you ask

Ask, and your idea, script, art and game files are deleted from our computer. After that, the only copy is yours.

What's in a game, and how each part is made

Part of the gameHow AI is usedWhat's done by hand
Characters with their expressions and outfits Local AI Generated by an AI model running locally. Corrected by hand, so each character stays the same from one picture to the next.
Full-screen illustrations the big moments in the story Local AI Generated by an AI model running locally. Corrected by hand, so the people and places match the rest of the game.
Backgrounds a picture for every place Local AI Generated by an AI model running locally. Corrected by hand, so each place stays consistent.
Storyline the plot, the storylines and the endings Written by hand A local AI model is used only for spelling and grammar checks, and to translate the game if you want it in another language. The plot points, the storylines and the English writing are done by a person, then carefully proofread and fixed.
Checking before you get it Local AI A local model can flag pictures that look wrong. Every picture is looked at by a person, and the whole game is played through.
The game itself title screen, menus and saves No AI Nothing is generated while you play, and the game never goes online. It's ordinary software, the same player for every game, tested before delivery.
Voices and music optional add-on; without it the game is silent Online AI Made with ElevenLabs, an online service. The lines of your story are sent to them. A voice is chosen for each character and music for each scene, and the result is listened to before delivery.
  • Your message reaches us through this site's host and by email, and payment goes through Etsy or PayPal. Those services keep their own records. When you ask for deletion, everything we hold is deleted, including your message.
  • If you add voice-over and music, the lines of your story, including any names in them, and a short description of each scene's mood are sent to ElevenLabs to make the audio. ElevenLabs handles that text under its own terms and privacy policy. If you don't add it, nothing is sent to them.
  • The sample games on this page were made while the engine was being built. Their art was made locally; their scripts were written with help from a cloud AI assistant. Games made to order are written locally.
  • This page loads nothing from other companies: no trackers, no analytics, no outside fonts.

What we can make

Almost any story

Romance, comedy, drama, mystery, fantasy and spooky stories are all welcome. A few to get you started:

  • How we met, as a romantic comedy
  • A murder-mystery weekend starring my friends (nobody actually dies)
  • A retired witch opens a bakery; a dragon keeps ordering croissants
  • A ghost story on a night train where every passenger remembers a different destination
  • Our tabletop party's origin story
  • My grandmother's village, the summer she was twenty

House rules

  • Stories about you and people you know are welcome. Share first names and describe each person in words (for example: brown skin, glasses, a little chubby).
  • No photos. Characters are made from written descriptions only.
  • Permission for real people. You confirm that everyone real in your story is happy to be in it. No celebrities or public figures.
  • Original characters. None from existing anime, games, films or books, though “inspired by” is fine.
  • Romance is between adults who look like adults. Flirty is fine; nothing explicit.
  • Violence stays mild. A fight, some danger or a mention of violence is fine; nothing graphic or gory.
  • We'll say straight away if something can't be done, and may turn a request down.

FAQ

Questions

What is a visual novel?

A story you play. You read it on screen with pictures of the characters and places, and every so often you choose what to do. Your choices change what happens and how it ends. If you can read a text message, you can play one. Try the scene at the top of this page.

How is it made?

The art is generated with AI that runs locally and corrected by hand. The story is planned and written by a person. Every game is played through before it's delivered. The details are under Made with local AI, not the cloud.

Can it be about me and people I know?

Yes. Share first names and describe each person in words: hair, build, glasses, how they talk. Photos aren't accepted, and you'll be asked to confirm that everyone real in the story is happy to be in it.

Can I give it as a gift?

Yes, and it makes a good one. Say who it's for and a dedication goes on the title screen. You get a download link you can pass on, and it plays in the browser they already have.

What do I need to play it?

A computer with a web browser: Windows, Mac or Linux. You get a download link to one zip file, usually under 20 MB. Unzip it, open the folder and double-click the game's page. It opens in your browser and works without the internet. A phone or tablet can't open a game from a folder, but the same files play there once they're on a web host. To see how a game plays, try the free demo, Results Day, right here on this page.

Do I have to install anything?

No. The game is a folder of ordinary web files, not a program, so nothing is installed. Your saves are kept by your browser on your computer: they stay when you close it, and they go if you clear that browser's site data or switch to a different browser.

How long does it take?

Within 3 days of you approving the plan. With the priority add-on, for €10 more, it's ready within 1 day.

Can I ask for changes?

Yes. One round of changes to the story is included: lines, names, a scene that should go differently. Bigger reworks are quoted separately.

What if I change my mind?

You pay when you order. If you cancel before work has started, you get a full refund. If you've seen your story plan and don't want to go ahead, you get half your money back: writing the plan is the biggest part of the work.

What happens to my idea?

It's used to make your game and nothing else, and it is never used to train anything. It stays on our own computer unless you add the voice-over and music option, in which case the lines of your story are sent to ElevenLabs to be voiced. Everything we hold, along with your game files, is deleted whenever you ask.

Does the game have sound?

Not yet: for now, every game is silent. Full voice-over and music is coming as an optional add-on for €20. It will be made with ElevenLabs, an online AI audio service, so for that option the lines of your story will be sent to them. The voices come from their library; no real person's voice is copied.

Ready?

Bring your story to life

Share your idea in a sentence or two. You'll get a reply about what's possible and how to order. It's free to ask. Your story plan, with the cast, the world and how it branches, is written once you've ordered.

Who is it for?
What kind of story? Pick any
Stuck? Start from one of these:
Which size?

This is not an order and costs nothing. Your details are only used to reply about your story.

From €20Start your story