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.
- 1Helltaker128,21296.77%97.67%
- 2Doki Doki Literature Club!229,38096.14%96.49%
- 3Persona 4 Golden87,52295.83%97.04%
- 4Volcano Princess49,20695.66%97.79%
- 5Firework44,46295.37%97.67%
- 6The Wolf Among Us40,29095.35%97.88%
- 7Mirror83,95595.17%96.36%
- 8VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action38,74994.79%97.27%
- 9ATRI -My Dear Moments-23,53994.44%98.38%
- 10Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!32,46394.20%96.97%
- 11Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut34,28194.15%96.67%
- 12What Remains of Edith Finch52,95693.94%95.59%
- 13Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk34,34893.88%96.41%
- 14Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc38,78293.88%95.96%
- 15The Coffin of Andy and Leyley39,51393.73%95.89%
- 16Everlasting Summer78,16193.37%94.42%
- 17Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair32,91693.31%95.77%
- 18The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty60,05893.10%94.42%
- 19Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk22,39593.09%96.62%
- 20Our Life: Beginnings & Always13,77893.04%98.74%
- 21NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD58,18592.98%94.31%
- 22The Test20,11192.88%96.71%
- 23A Date with Death14,92392.83%97.96%
- 24Until Then19,40992.74%96.64%
- 25Tales of the Black Forest15,50492.72%97.59%
- 26NEKOPARA Vol. 127,48092.40%95.03%
- 27Eternal Senia12,06691.81%97.49%
- 28Love Is All Around45,88691.79%93.23%
- 29missed messages.15,55391.79%96.03%
- 30NEKOPARA Vol. 212,85891.77%96.89%
- 31Winter Memories10,65591.69%97.49%
- 32Find Love or Die Trying11,94291.39%96.58%
- 33BAD END THEATER10,06591.36%97.50%
- 34Night in the Woods20,28291.32%94.80%
- 35Tales from the Borderlands19,59191.24%94.34%
- 36NEKOPARA Vol. 312,01991.14%96.85%
- 37NEKOPARA Vol. 48,83191.10%97.14%
- 38No Case Should Remain Unsolved10,71590.97%96.37%
- 39Detention11,82890.87%95.69%
- 40LoveChoice36,67990.66%92.15%
- 41NEKOPARA Vol. 017,80990.64%93.71%
- 42Marco & The Galaxy Dragon7,89290.53%97.30%
- 43Yog-Sothoth’s Yard13,87290.44%94.23%
- 44Summer Memories25,10990.43%92.65%
- 45OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition9,47090.38%96.11%
- 46Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth112,27790.36%94.10%
- 47Florence16,48490.19%93.24%
- 48Coffee Talk12,58890.08%94.70%
- 49The Red Strings Club14,31690.04%93.43%
- 50Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-8,25789.96%95.03%
- 51Knowledge, or know Lady8,98689.93%95.21%
- 52KinitoPET14,76889.87%93.04%
- 53Otaku's Adventure9,10789.80%94.87%
- 54Monster Prom14,33989.79%93.01%
- 55Vampires' Melody5,73189.51%97.45%
- 56小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop10,24389.44%93.61%
- 57Beacon Pines4,51489.44%97.56%
- 58Far Away8,19789.34%94.69%
- 59The Test: Hypothesis Rising5,91989.22%97.58%
- 60Long Live The Queen7,16889.21%94.84%
- 61Class of '099,11289.18%94.57%
- 62Suzerain11,91689.09%92.37%
- 63Hatoful Boyfriend7,58289.01%94.06%
- 64The Test: Final Revelation5,36188.99%97.82%
- 65Minds Beneath Us6,41188.95%96.26%
- 66Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series10,72788.85%92.26%
- 67I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator12,68188.83%91.70%
- 68DRAMAtical Murder4,99488.39%96.66%
- 69Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You15,58188.25%90.23%
- 70Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth7,60788.25%92.28%
- 71Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate3,46788.24%95.36%
- 72The Operator8,88288.17%91.53%
- 73AI: The Somnium Files9,41988.12%91.49%
- 74Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales17,37588.10%89.78%
- 75Rift of the NecroDancer6,25088.06%94.13%
- 76Chill Pulse4,83687.90%95.43%
- 77Crush Crush28,54587.88%88.83%
- 78Emily is Away32,33487.77%88.58%
- 79Pyre9,35387.68%90.36%
- 80Venba3,78487.62%92.49%
- 81Assemble with Care11,07587.31%90.07%
- 82Her Story10,42087.29%89.32%
- 83Gaokao.Love.100Days8,25987.25%89.74%
- 84The Song of Saya10,25987.23%89.22%
- 85American Arcadia4,27487.20%94.06%
- 86Dreamlike Love with Seira1,66587.10%98.62%
- 87Batman - The Telltale Series18,25187.03%87.72%
- 88To Be or Not to Be8,27887.02%89.25%
- 89Yokai's Secret6,89887.02%89.68%
- 90Carpe Diem8,56286.99%89.10%
- 91Durka Simulator1,68486.95%93.94%
- 92Chicken Police - Paint it RED!2,54886.80%94.39%
- 93The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante13,07886.60%87.69%
- 94GIRLS MADE PUDDING92886.60%95.47%
- 95坏小孩1,70586.53%95.78%
- 96Nunholy5,41086.46%88.82%
- 971 to 1 humanoid edible toys2,48786.45%92.48%
- 98Storyteller9,20586.36%88.64%
- 99Vanity Fair: The Pursuit4,59586.31%87.49%
- 100Swaying Girl5,07986.26%88.84%
