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You can get everything you need to know from the locked FAQ sticky on the front page. vndb is particularly handy in finding new VNs in lieu of a proper recommendation or one of those fancy infographics floating around. You can find VNs ordered by tags and sort them by things like available languages or popularity ratings and whatnot. Be aware that vndb will list goddamn everything, though, including really garbage-tier no-effort OELVNs, but you'll be able to discern that from the available screenshots anyway.
https://vndb.org/v/all?q=;fil=tagspoil-2;o=d;s=pop
You should be able to torrent everything you're looking for, but if for some reason you can't do torrents, then erogedownload is going to be your best bet.
Of course, I would encourage you to become a buyfag if you like what you come across, but I'm not going to pretend we all haven't taken some of this stuff for free. Be aware, though, that VNs are picking up recognition, and are showing up on Steam lately. You can even buy Planetarian, and Narcissu is being distributed free of charge.