Even before I started learning Japanese, through the work of guys like Tim Rogers I was exposed to games like ぼくのなつやすみ and ときめきメモリアル, and exploring works such as these, which didn't make it to the west, was one of my primary motivations for learning Japanese. It's clear that there are so many treasures which either never got translated or hardly got any exposure here; games that are so authentic, or culturally significant, or even literary.
Please offer any Japanese games of this nature that you'd recommend. They could even be well-known but have a particularly compelling original text (i.e. FF7 has a notoriously poor English translation). Of course, there is a whole scene of doujin developers too.
For starters, I'll throw up:
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by xx0ur3n