Some of the creators that talked about how the game impacted them included Tamiki Wakaki, creator of The World God Only Knows, who cited YU-NO as an influence on his work. To celebrate YU-NO's 20th anniversary and the release of the remake, 5pb collected a number of quotes from different creators as well as artwork from different illustrators for a booklet included with the special edition of the remake.
Famitsu Magazine held a reader poll in 2017 where people could vote on their favorite adventure games of all time where YU-NO ranked 12th in the final tally with 140 points. Over two decades after YU-NO's release the title is still highly regarded by fans in Japan. Hiroki Azuma, a Japanese cultural critic and writer, analyzed YU-NO in his 2001 book "Otaku: Japan's Database Animals" and complimented the game for how it makes its game systems visible to the player and incorporates those systems into its narrative, stating that he believes YU-NO to be a work "constructed with extreme care". However, volume 17 of Dengeki Sega Saturn states that YU-NO sold closer to 240,000 copies on the Saturn. Volume 165 of the magazine Comptiq has stated that the PC-98 release of YU-NO sold around 100,000 copies by March 1997 and Famitsu calculates that the Saturn port sold 139,509 copies, which would make it the 63rd best selling title on the system. Legacyīoth the original PC-98 and Saturn versions of YU-NO sold very well on their respective platforms. In particular, the "A.D.M.S." or "Auto Diverge Mapping System," which visually displays the branching parallel worlds or timelines as a tree, aids the player in navigation. Although parallel worlds are not an unfamiliar concept in science fiction, the game uses concepts from physics, mathematics, philosophy, history and religion to construct a unique fictional universe. The gameplay uses a point-and-click interface to interact with the game world and the plot revolves around the protagonist time-traveling between various parallel worlds in order to solve the mystery of his parents' disappearance. as well as Division 8 and was initially launched on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in 2017.
A remake of YU-NO, featuring a completely redone presentation, was later developed by 5pb. The game was also adapted into several other forms of media including an adult anime OVA (Original Video Animation) in 1998 as well as manga and several novels.
A port of the original PC-98 version was later ported to Windows as part of the Elf Classics Collection in 2000 with some of its content altered or removed in order to be compliant with modern Japanese ethics laws. YU-NO was soon ported to the Sega Saturn in 1997, which removed the game's explicit sexual content and remastered its presentation with higher fidelity artwork and a reworked soundtrack. The title was was written, designed and directed by Hiroyuki Kanno while its soundtrack was composed by Ryu Umemoto, both of whom had previously worked together on several titles at C's Ware such as EVE burst error. YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World (この世の果てで恋を唄う少女YU-NO) is an adult Japanese adventure game released on December 26, 1996, developed and published by ELF Corporation for the NEC PC-98 computer.