Have you played Japanese Visual Novels?

Lux Pain:o

For beginner:

Nacrissu

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney

Planetarian

Tsukihime

Yume Miru Kusuri

Try few title above, if you can finish it, welcome to visual novel world.

I'm a huge fan of the KEY visual novels, but you seem to be familiar if you've played CLANNAD. CLANNAD and Kanon are my favorites.

Utawarerumono is a really great story, with tactical RPG elements and an English patch. The only downside is a lack of multiple endings.

There isn't too many, and I've forgotten the names of most.

Katawa Shoujo and (the obvious) Saya no Uta.

9 Doors 9 Persons 9 Doors

Tsukihime

Fate Stay Night

and Adult oriented ones that I don't want to mention.

As mentioned before, Sengoku Rance is a great game (does involve a little nudity every now and again :P).

As not mentioned before (i think), Kamidori Alchemy Meister is a great game as well (less nudity).

Lets not forget about Tears to Tiara (even less nudity)

++ a whole load that dont really have gameplay (or less).

None of em are really visual novels, but they do have visual novel like convo's, i prefer the titles with a little more gameplay.

I'd recomment Princess Waltz. It's a bit linear, but the art is simply glorious, story nice, and it has some of my most favourite VN characters. Utawarerumono has a bit worse art, and weird ending, but the story is good, and the side game (replaying battles you do in story) is excellent even on its own.

I played Clannad and Tomoyo After.
I am currently waiting on a translation for Yosuga no Sora

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney

Hate everything else including dating sim's and all.

999, Lux Pain, Analogue: A Hate Story (which utterly sucks) and Katawa Shoujo, among with other minor stuff. The last one in particular is one perfect example of how an anime drama (or a visual novel) should be: the player really creates a bond with the girl of his choice and tries to do his best to comfort her and make her life better. It's not a story about a spoiled teen who is too ashamed to declare to his crush, KS's girls suffers from really bad problems and that's how you make a drama.

As for Lux Pain, i literally did not understood a single thing of that game, and i don't blame it entirely on the poor translation. The setting is kinda confusing and it just lacks of a clear explanation on what's going on there.

I was thinking about trying some of those visual novels to improve my Japanese - which of them are easily available in Japanese and worth of recommendation? Thanks a lot for help :)

Ever 17 is a really memorable one for me.

You should check out Katawa Shoujo. It's not a Japanese VN but it's really good.

forever alone game

I've played Steins;gate, a bit of Robotics;Notes and Beyond the future

Played Higurashi & Steins;Gate, & watched the anime, epic.

I've played Katawa Shoujo, Shuffle and Ever 17, 999, analogue a hate story, Lux Pain, and a few other's which I can't name right now.

Saya no Uta. Ohhh yes that was a good one.

Hmm, not much, Amagami & Suzumiya Haruhi no Tomadoi, hmm, Demonbane? Some other junk I've forgotten.