Visual novel jam statistics

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

Data Collection Methods & How to Interpret

Main article: Interpreting 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	272	Spooktober 2024
2	210	Spooktober 2023
3	192	O2A2 2024
4	187	SuNoFes 2024
5	185	NaNoRenO 2022
6	161	NaNoRenO 2023
7	160	Spooktober 2022
8	155	O2A2 2023
9	152	NaNoRenO 2024
10	138	WinterJam 2022
11	115	SuNoFes 2022
12	112	Spooktober 2021
13	109	Ukrainian Micro Visual Novel Jam 2024
14 (tie)	106	O2A2 2022
14 (tie)	106	Yuri Jam 2024
16	105	NaNoRenO 2020
17 (tie)	103	Otome Jam 2024
17 (tie)	103	O2A2 2023 Queer Edition
19	96	O2A2 2021
20	89	Pulse Pounding Heart Stopping Dating Sim Jam 2013

Most participants in a single jam

Rank	Count	Jam
1	1487	Spooktober 2024
2	1450	SuNoFes 2024
3	1097	Spooktober 2023
4	965	SuNoFes 2022
5	891	NaNoRenO 2022
6	852	Winter Jam 2022
7	811	Spooktober 2022
8	802	Otome Jam 2024
9	708	NaNoRenO 2023
10	678	SuNoFes 2021
11	552	Yuri Jam 2024
12	535	Spooktober 2021
13	466	NaNoRenO 2024
14	465	WinterJam 2021
15	450	NaNoRenO 2020
16	439	NaNoRenO 2017
17	408	O2A2 2024
18	394	NaNoRenO 2021
19	380	Winter Jam 2023
20	378	Monstrous Desires Jam 2024

Cumulative entries per jam

Rank	Count	Jam	Includes
1	1149	NaNoRenO	2024
2	813	Spooktober	2024
3	672	O2A2	2024
4	552	SuNoFes	2024
5	524	YuriJam	2024
6	311	WinterJam	2023
7	271	Otome Jam	2024
8	236	YaoiJam	2024
9	132	Josei Jam	2024
10	124	Yandere Jam	2024

Cumulative participants per jam

Rank	Count	Jam	Includes
1	4167	Spooktober	2024
2	4130	NaNoRenO	2015-2024
3	4056	SuNoFes	2024
4	2517	YuriJam	2024
5	1803	WinterJam	2023
6	1723	Yaoi Jam	2024
7	1634	Otome Jam	2024
8	1326	O2A2	2024
9	585	Yandere Jam	2024
10	542	Trans Representation Jam	2024

Most participants per year

Year	1st	2nd	3rd
2024 (partial)	Spooktober (1487)	SuNoFes (1450)	Otome Jam (802)
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
2024 (partial)	Spooktober (272)	O2A2 (192)	SuNoFes (187)
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)