Visual novel jam statistics

This page maintains leaderboards for the largest VN jams across a variety of metrics. For additional details about each occurrence of jams, see List of VN jams.

Data Collection Methods & How to Interpret

Main article: Interpreting VN Jam Statistics

The VNDev Wiki collects the officially visible participant and entry counts on the itch.io jam page, immediately after the jam is completed. Caveats for this data are available on the above reference page.

Most entries in a single jam

Rank	Count	Jam
1	210	Spooktober 2023
2	192	O2A2 2024
3	185	NaNoRenO 2022
4	161	NaNoRenO 2023
5	160	Spooktober 2022
6	155	O2A2 2023
7	152	NaNoRenO 2024
8	138	WinterJam 2022
9	115	SuNoFes 2022
10	112	Spooktober 2021
11	106	O2A2 2022
12	105	NaNoRenO 2020
13 (tie)	103	Otome Jam 2024
13 (tie)	103	O2A2 2023 Queer Edition
15	96	O2A2 2021
16 (tie)	88	NaNoRenO 2019
16 (tie)	88	NaNoRenO 2021
18	77	WinterJam 2021
19	75	NaNoRenO 2016
20	73	Winter Jam 2023

Most participants in a single jam

Rank	Count	Jam
1	1391	SuNoFes 2024
2	1097	Spooktober 2023
3	965	SuNoFes 2022
4	891	NaNoRenO 2022
5	852	WinterJam 2022
6	811	Spooktober 2022
7	802	Otome Jam 2024
8	708	NaNoRenO 2023
9	678	SuNoFes 2021
10	535	Spooktober 2021
11	466	NaNoRenO 2024
12	465	WinterJam 2021
13	450	NaNoRenO 2020
14	439	NaNoRenO 2017
15	403	O2A2 2024
16	394	NaNoRenO 2021
17	380	Winter Jam 2023
18	373	YaoiJam 2022
19	368	SuNoFes 2020
20	335	Yuri Jam 2023

Cumulative VNs per jam

Rank	Count	Jam	Includes
1	1149	NaNoRenO	2024
2	672	O2A2	2024
3	541	Spooktober	2023
4	418	YuriJam	2023
5	386	SuNoFes	2023
6	311	WinterJam	2023
7	271	Otome Jam	2024
8	203	YaoiJam	2023
9	132	Josei Jam	2024
10	124	Yandere Jam	2024

Cumulative participants per jam

Rank	Count	Jam	Includes
1	4130	NaNoRenO	2015-2024
2	3997	SuNoFes	2024 (partial)
3	2680	Spooktober	2023
4	1965	YuriJam	2023
5	1803	WinterJam	2023
6	1634	Otome Jam	2024
7	1495	Yaoi Jam	2023
8	1306	O2A2	2024
9	585	Yandere Jam	2024
10	533	Trans Representation Jam	2024 (partial)

Most participants per year

Year	1st	2nd	3rd
2023	Spooktober (1097)	NaNoRenO (708)	WinterJam (380)
2022	SuNoFes (965)	NaNoRenO (891)	WinterJam (852)
2021	SuNoFes (678)	Spooktober (535)	WinterJam (465)
2020	NaNoRenO (450)	SuNoFes (368)	YaoiJam (198)
2019	NaNoRenO (330)	YuriJam (177)	YaoiJam (84)
2018	YuriJam (251)	NaNoRenO (235)	YaoiJam (123)
2017	NaNoRenO (439)	YuriJam (325)	TyranoJam (320)
2016	NaNoRenO (178)	YuriJam (166)	YaoiJam (105)
2015	YuriJam (103)	TyranoJam (41)	NaNoRenO (39)

Most entries per year

Year	1st	2nd	3rd
2023	Spooktober (210)	NaNoRenO (161)	O2A2 (155)
2022	NaNoRenO (185)	Spooktober (160)	WinterJam (138)
2021	Spooktober (112)	O2A2 (96)	NaNoRenO (88)
2020	NaNoRenO (105)	SuNoFes (62)	Spooktober (44)
2019	NaNoRenO (88)	YuriJam (37)	BaraJam (19)
2018	NaNoRenO (71)	YuriJam (55)	Ren'Py Jam (27)
2017	NaNoRenO (68)	YuriJam (66)	TyranoJam (44)
2016	NaNoRenO (75)	YuriJam (56)	YaoiJam (19)
2015	NaNoRenO (34)	YuriJam (33)	TyranoJam (33)