The Visual Novel Database

The Visual Novel Database (rendered as vndb) is an online database, wiki and Internet forum for visual novels. As of 2019, the vndb had catalogued a total of 24,000 visual novels, and its forum had reached 14,300 users. According to "Electronic Gaming Monthly", the vndb was responsible for helping bring visual novels to an international audience.
History.
The vndb was created in September 2007 by yorhel (real name Yoran Heling). After completing "", he noticed the absence of a community dedicated to visual novels, or a place to find more of them. yorhel created the vndb over the course of three weeks as a centralised place for people to find and discuss visual novels. The first game to be documented on the vndb was "Lolita Yakyuuken", an eroge released in 1982 for the PC-88, which is also believed to be the first visual novel, however it was later deleted. Within a year, the vndb contained 1,000 visual novels.