We've conducted 4 usability tests this week. Feedback remains positive:
- Users with prior VN experience found RouteVN easier to use
- Clean intuitive UI appreciated has been praised
- Complete beginners could install and test
independently
Now we're focused on fixing all bugs

Something we've been working on yesterday

After 1.5 years on RouteVN, I wrote about the journey: the lessons learned, challenges faced, and the design process behind creating a visual novel engine and editor from scratch
routevn.com/blog/2025/04...

We've conducted 7 in person usability tests in the last 2 months. The main purpose of the test was to check whether users (minimal or some game/VN dev experience) could just get the product and start figuring out and use it by themself with minimal guidance. They mostly passed.

We’ve been heads down coding for the past months. Now that a timeline for an internal release is coming into view, I’ll start sharing more updates on the RouteVN Visual Novel engine and editor we’re building.

🧵 1. We've talked to several VN creators last month trying to ask them to publish their VNs on RouteVN. It has been very challenging, and I'll share a bit of the main reasons.

🧵 1. Interesting article from Winter Wolves titled "Death of Visual Novels". The title I think is a bit exaggerated, it does convey a challenging trend in the market. There are always new VNs being released which creates a larger supply and competition
www.winterwolves.net/blog/2025/02...

Call for VN Creators to be early adopters of our new Visual Novel store. We will port your Visual Novel and make it available on web and from RouteVN iOS and Android app

routevn.com/blog/2025/03...

RouteVN mobile app is now available on App Store and Google Play. Review process was surprisingly smooth. Next step, will reach out to creators to publish their VNs with RouteVN and make them available on the app

Link to App Store: apps.apple.com/sg/app/route...

What am I building here? A mobile app!? Do you read Visual Novels on you phone? What if you could browse and read Visual Novels directly from a mobile app. Wouldn't it be much more convenient?

What does it take to build a Visual Novel store? I have put much thinking into it and shared it in this post: routevn.com/blog/2025/02...

I started working on a Visual Novel engine around a year ago. In this article I share more about my journey and what is my vision for the future of Visual Novels routevn.com/blog/2025/01...