I'm not sure this really counts as a visual novel as such because it's more like the sort of games Supermassive make, at least that's what this reminded me of (and they make some of my favourite games, so I mean that in a good way :D) I don't actually know what people call those kinds of games, but they're my favourite kind, even more so than VNs, haha. I would guess just interactive fiction, but when I look online it says "Interactive drama survival horror" which makes sense! Anyways, this reminded me of the Dark Pictures Anthology games that they make :3
I like reading VNs and I love making them, but I wish I could make something more like this where it's 3D and you can actually control your characters. I just have no idea how >.<