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.
- 1Helltaker128,15296.78%97.68%
- 2Doki Doki Literature Club!227,86896.02%96.49%
- 3Persona 4 Golden87,38395.84%97.04%
- 4Volcano Princess49,13295.68%97.79%
- 5Firework44,44795.40%97.67%
- 6The Wolf Among Us40,25295.38%97.88%
- 7Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy45,02795.34%97.56%
- 8Mirror83,98995.19%96.36%
- 9VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action38,72894.82%97.27%
- 10Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!32,32494.23%96.98%
- 11Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut33,99994.18%96.73%
- 12What Remains of Edith Finch52,86593.96%95.59%
- 13Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc38,43893.79%95.97%
- 14Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk34,30093.78%96.41%
- 15The Coffin of Andy and Leyley39,41293.76%95.90%
- 16Everlasting Summer78,13293.39%94.42%
- 17Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair32,75593.35%95.77%
- 18Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk22,37193.13%96.62%
- 19The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty60,01193.12%94.42%
- 20NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD57,91393.01%94.33%
- 21The Test20,12092.94%96.71%
- 22A Date with Death14,83292.92%97.98%
- 23Our Life: Beginnings & Always13,75092.87%98.76%
- 24Until Then19,24092.58%96.63%
- 25Tales of the Black Forest15,48492.56%97.59%
- 26NEKOPARA Vol. 127,46192.44%95.03%
- 27NEKOPARA Vol. 212,84991.86%96.88%
- 28missed messages.15,54691.84%96.03%
- 29Love Is All Around45,89491.82%93.23%
- 30Eternal Senia12,06291.73%97.49%
- 31Winter Memories10,62891.64%97.50%
- 32Find Love or Die Trying11,94591.49%96.58%
- 33Night in the Woods20,25691.48%94.79%
- 34NEKOPARA Vol. 312,01591.37%96.85%
- 35BAD END THEATER10,04391.15%97.50%
- 36Tales from the Borderlands19,57991.10%94.34%
- 37No Case Should Remain Unsolved10,66291.08%96.39%
- 38Detention11,81490.97%95.67%
- 39NEKOPARA Vol. 48,82690.91%97.13%
- 40LoveChoice36,64590.70%92.16%
- 41NEKOPARA Vol. 017,78590.68%93.69%
- 42Summer Memories25,08490.60%92.66%
- 43Coffee Talk12,56690.29%94.68%
- 44Marco & The Galaxy Dragon7,86190.29%97.30%
- 45Yog-Sothoth’s Yard13,79790.27%94.26%
- 46Florence16,47090.25%93.23%
- 47Knowledge, or know Lady8,97890.05%95.21%
- 48KinitoPET14,75289.95%93.02%
- 49Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth112,27089.92%94.12%
- 50The Test: Hypothesis Rising5,92189.89%97.58%
- 51The Red Strings Club14,30189.87%93.43%
- 52Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-8,25589.76%95.03%
- 53Vampires' Melody5,72989.75%97.45%
- 54The Test: Final Revelation5,36289.69%97.82%
- 55Monster Prom14,33389.63%93.02%
- 56Otaku's Adventure9,10089.58%94.87%
- 57Class of '099,09189.43%94.56%
- 58The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles9,48689.42%94.32%
- 59Minds Beneath Us6,37989.25%96.25%
- 60Far Away8,19289.25%94.70%
- 61小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop10,24289.24%93.60%
- 62Suzerain11,86389.18%92.36%
- 63Beacon Pines4,50589.14%97.58%
- 64Long Live The Queen7,16988.98%94.84%
- 65I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator12,68288.93%91.70%
- 66The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel5,93188.81%94.55%
- 67Hatoful Boyfriend7,58188.79%94.08%
- 68DRAMAtical Murder4,98288.72%96.65%
- 69Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series10,70588.64%92.25%
- 70Chill Pulse4,83388.62%95.43%
- 71The Operator8,86488.30%91.55%
- 72Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You15,57088.09%90.22%
- 73AI: The Somnium Files9,40188.04%91.51%
- 74Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth7,59688.02%92.29%
- 75Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales17,35487.95%89.78%
- 76Crush Crush28,52187.94%88.85%
- 77Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate3,45387.91%95.37%
- 78Assemble with Care11,04187.87%90.09%
- 79Emily is Away32,32787.81%88.57%
- 80Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition13,23087.57%89.67%
- 81American Arcadia4,25487.54%94.03%
- 82Pyre9,34787.47%90.35%
- 83Venba3,77387.29%92.47%
- 84Dreamlike Love with Seira1,66187.23%98.62%
- 85Chicken Police - Paint it RED!2,54887.17%94.39%
- 86Fate/EXTELLA4,48287.14%90.87%
- 87Her Story10,40687.11%89.34%
- 88The Song of Saya10,19187.06%89.30%
- 89Gaokao.Love.100Days8,25787.02%89.74%
- 90坏小孩1,70586.86%95.78%
- 91To Be or Not to Be8,27886.80%89.24%
- 92Yokai's Secret6,89586.78%89.69%
- 93Carpe Diem8,56086.76%89.08%
- 941 to 1 humanoid edible toys2,48586.76%92.47%
- 95Batman - The Telltale Series18,22186.67%87.71%
- 96Storyteller9,18386.62%88.63%
- 97Nunholy5,38786.62%88.86%
- 98Durka Simulator1,68586.58%93.95%
- 99Long Dream1,02186.55%98.43%
- 100Swaying Girl5,08186.52%88.84%
