"The Fruit of Grisaia is one of those visual novels that’s going to be held up down the road as a classic by fans, and it’s not hard to see why; it’s well written, well translated, compelling, and quite accessible despite its length to almost anyone, making it an experience that can be enjoyed by almost everyone."

Diehard GameFAN

"The Fruit of Grisaia can feel drawn out at times. It can be slow at getting to the point, but when it delivers, it delivers well with an emotional gut punch. I laughed, I cried, and I connected with the characters. That’s what makes a great story, and that’s why Grisaia is an awesome visual novel."

Gaming Trend

"Surpassing even my wildest expectations, Grisaia deftly weaves together the very best of what visual novels have to offer to earn itself a comfortable spot as one of the best games of the medium."

RPG Fan

Mihama Academy - on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has fallen too far from its tree.

Whatever the circumstances behind its establishment, Mihama Academy is at present home to five female students, all with their own reasons for "enrollment." For better or worse, each girl has established a routine obliging of her current situation; life moves at an idle, yet accommodating pace within the walls of Mihama.

Yet with the arrival of the institute's first male student, the nearly preposterously opaque Kazami Yuuji, the students at Mihama begin to fall out of step with their predetermined rhythms. Will Yuuji prove to be the element the girls around him needed to take hold of their lives once more, or will the weight of their pasts prove too steep a wall to overcome?

And in the first place, just who is Kazami Yuuji? While the true nature of the "job" he is wont to alight to at the most haphazard of moments remains shrouded in secrecy, one thing is for certain - his encroachment upon the quiet orchard known as Mihama Academy will prove itself momentous in one way or another. And of course, one cannot discount the possibility that perhaps Yuuji himself carries the weightiest past of any of the students...

(From VNDB)