When it comes to well-established video game genres in the West, visual novel may not be the first that comes to mind. Before the massive interest generated around Doki Doki Literature Club, one of the few break-out visual novels to be developed in the United States, Western gamers may not have known about a single visual novel. Visual novels are further divided into several subgenres, with "eroge" titles like Nekopara being one of particular note in Japan.