Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
Visual novel and video game are two different things. However, they are not mutually exclusive. So just because two different things are both visual novels doesn't mean you have to blanket them both into either Video Games or Not Video Games.
I guess. In my mind, VNs are a subcategory/genre of video games. They're not common enough to make up a category by themselves, so I usually see them marked as games.

Although it seems in Japan there is indeed a distinction between NVLs ("novels") and ADV ("adventure games"), and it's just lumped together into 'visual novels' over here. So there you go, I guess.