Best Rated Visual Novel Games Under $20
The best rated Visual Novel games on Steam for games under $20. Scores are weighted by review volume, so small-sample flukes stay off the list.
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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
- 1Helltaker127,82196.80%97.68%
- 2Doki Doki Literature Club!224,66596.02%96.49%
- 3Persona 4 Golden86,37695.84%97.04%
- 4Volcano Princess48,60695.69%97.80%
- 5Firework44,24895.42%97.67%
- 6The Wolf Among Us39,90595.40%97.89%
- 7Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy44,35095.33%97.56%
- 8Mirror84,10595.21%96.37%
- 9VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action38,48294.84%97.28%
- 10Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!31,68294.20%96.96%
- 11Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut33,05094.12%96.74%
- 12What Remains of Edith Finch52,01693.96%95.59%
- 13Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk34,07893.93%96.42%
- 14Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc37,91093.81%96.01%
- 15The Coffin of Andy and Leyley38,67993.78%95.94%
- 16Everlasting Summer77,95393.42%94.44%
- 17Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair32,21993.35%95.80%
- 18Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk22,12193.16%96.65%
- 19The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty59,65893.15%94.45%
- 20Our Life: Beginnings & Always13,63793.13%98.76%
- 21NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD57,08493.03%94.36%
- 22The Test20,13892.98%96.72%
- 23A Date with Death14,41492.85%97.99%
- 24Tales of the Black Forest15,34592.81%97.60%
- 25Until Then18,35092.76%96.75%
- 26NEKOPARA Vol. 127,38292.51%95.09%
- 27CLANNAD10,80792.19%98.43%
- 28Eternal Senia12,05292.04%97.50%
- 29missed messages.15,52191.90%96.06%
- 30NEKOPARA Vol. 212,82891.88%96.90%
- 31Love Is All Around45,87691.86%93.25%
- 32NEKOPARA Vol. 312,00991.70%96.89%
- 33Night in the Woods20,11691.68%94.77%
- 34Winter Memories10,51191.61%97.46%
- 35Find Love or Die Trying11,95591.52%96.60%
- 36BAD END THEATER9,94291.48%97.55%
- 37Tales from the Borderlands19,44391.31%94.32%
- 38No Case Should Remain Unsolved10,40491.07%96.46%
- 39Detention11,77790.97%95.65%
- 40NEKOPARA Vol. 48,81590.93%97.15%
- 41LoveChoice36,47590.79%92.25%
- 42NEKOPARA Vol. 017,77990.75%93.72%
- 43Marco & The Galaxy Dragon7,77890.64%97.30%
- 44Summer Memories24,92990.60%92.67%
- 45Coffee Talk12,47390.59%94.72%
- 46Yog-Sothoth’s Yard13,62690.55%94.29%
- 47Florence16,28890.25%93.20%
- 48Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth112,25190.24%94.16%
- 49The Red Strings Club14,15690.15%93.47%
- 50Knowledge, or know Lady8,92190.06%95.22%
- 51KinitoPET14,59889.94%93.02%
- 52Otaku's Adventure9,04889.92%94.85%
- 53Monster Prom14,31389.91%93.03%
- 54Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-8,23189.77%95.02%
- 55Class of '098,94089.77%94.60%
- 56The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles9,35789.73%94.30%
- 57The Test: Hypothesis Rising5,92589.67%97.59%
- 58Far Away8,16489.64%94.77%
- 59小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop10,24089.60%93.64%
- 60Vampires' Melody5,71789.51%97.45%
- 61The Test: Final Revelation5,37189.47%97.82%
- 62Long Live The Queen7,14889.36%94.84%
- 63Minds Beneath Us6,02489.25%96.33%
- 64Suzerain11,64989.24%92.49%
- 65Hatoful Boyfriend7,56789.16%94.07%
- 66Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series10,58188.96%92.28%
- 67I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator12,67388.96%91.73%
- 68Beacon Pines4,42588.86%97.63%
- 69DRAMAtical Murder4,85488.79%96.64%
- 70StarVaders4,25088.60%97.13%
- 71Chill Pulse4,80188.41%95.54%
- 72AI: The Somnium Files9,33088.40%91.55%
- 73Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You15,50988.39%90.28%
- 74Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth7,54288.37%92.24%
- 75The Operator8,65888.33%91.65%
- 76Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales17,23188.25%89.87%
- 77Assemble with Care10,57588.01%90.42%
- 78Crush Crush28,26587.94%88.82%
- 79Emily is Away32,30987.84%88.58%
- 80Pyre9,33287.84%90.39%
- 81American Arcadia4,15587.65%94.08%
- 82Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate3,31087.54%95.29%
- 83Her Story10,36787.46%89.40%
- 84Gaokao.Love.100Days8,22987.38%89.73%
- 85The Song of Saya9,97487.37%89.29%
- 86Yokai's Secret6,90187.19%89.71%
- 87To Be or Not to Be8,20187.17%89.26%
- 88Carpe Diem8,55687.13%89.10%
- 89The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante11,52886.99%88.32%
- 90Venba3,59786.97%92.52%
- 91Storyteller9,01386.94%88.59%
- 92Chicken Police - Paint it RED!2,52786.90%94.50%
- 93Dreamlike Love with Seira1,63186.90%98.65%
- 94Batman - The Telltale Series18,05086.88%87.67%
- 95Nunholy5,25586.68%89.02%
- 96Long Dream1,00686.64%98.41%
- 97坏小孩1,69886.54%95.76%
- 981 to 1 humanoid edible toys2,44586.48%92.60%
- 99Durka Simulator1,69086.30%94.08%
- 100Swaying Girl5,08586.29%88.87%
