>>32763661i consider them novels for the most part, due to the lack of gameplay in most of them and, obviously, the reading
in ones like higurashi or umineko they're mostly linear (excluding twilight of the golden witch) so they're practically novels with music, sprites, and sometimes voices
and very rarely cg, in ones like muvluv or school days, but those are nonlinear too so i consider them video games more than novels