Best Rated Visual Novel Games Under $40
The best rated Visual Novel games on Steam for games under $40. 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%
- 4Senren＊Banka37,13395.69%98.48%
- 5Volcano Princess49,13295.68%97.79%
- 6Firework44,44795.40%97.67%
- 7The Wolf Among Us40,25295.38%97.88%
- 8Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy45,02795.34%97.56%
- 9Mirror83,98995.19%96.36%
- 10VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action38,72894.82%97.27%
- 11ATRI -My Dear Moments-23,49494.49%98.38%
- 12Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!32,32494.23%96.98%
- 13Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut33,99994.18%96.73%
- 14What Remains of Edith Finch52,86593.96%95.59%
- 15Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc38,43893.79%95.97%
- 16Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk34,30093.78%96.41%
- 17The Coffin of Andy and Leyley39,41293.76%95.90%
- 18STEINS;GATE27,00393.75%97.07%
- 19Everlasting Summer78,13293.39%94.42%
- 20Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair32,75593.35%95.77%
- 21Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk22,37193.13%96.62%
- 22The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty60,01193.12%94.42%
- 23NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD57,91393.01%94.33%
- 24The Test20,12092.94%96.71%
- 25A Date with Death14,83292.92%97.98%
- 26Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation57,07292.91%94.23%
- 27Our Life: Beginnings & Always13,75092.87%98.76%
- 28Library Of Ruina45,07492.81%94.47%
- 29Until Then19,24092.58%96.63%
- 30Tales of the Black Forest15,48492.56%97.59%
- 31NEKOPARA Vol. 127,46192.44%95.03%
- 32魔女的夜宴11,79892.19%98.47%
- 33Disco Elysium - The Final Cut131,08892.04%92.55%
- 34NEKOPARA Vol. 212,84991.86%96.88%
- 35missed messages.15,54691.84%96.03%
- 36Love Is All Around45,89491.82%93.23%
- 37Eternal Senia12,06291.73%97.49%
- 38Winter Memories10,62891.64%97.50%
- 39Find Love or Die Trying11,94591.49%96.58%
- 40Night in the Woods20,25691.48%94.79%
- 41NEKOPARA Vol. 312,01591.37%96.85%
- 42BAD END THEATER10,04391.15%97.50%
- 43Tales from the Borderlands19,57991.10%94.34%
- 44No Case Should Remain Unsolved10,66291.08%96.39%
- 45Detention11,81490.97%95.67%
- 46NEKOPARA Vol. 48,82690.91%97.13%
- 47LoveChoice36,64590.70%92.16%
- 48NEKOPARA Vol. 017,78590.68%93.69%
- 49Summer Memories25,08490.60%92.66%
- 50Raging Loop11,22390.53%95.65%
- 51Coffee Talk12,56690.29%94.68%
- 52Marco & The Galaxy Dragon7,86190.29%97.30%
- 53OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition9,45990.29%96.11%
- 54Yog-Sothoth’s Yard13,79790.27%94.26%
- 55Florence16,47090.25%93.23%
- 56Knowledge, or know Lady8,97890.05%95.21%
- 57KinitoPET14,75289.95%93.02%
- 58Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth112,27089.92%94.12%
- 59STEINS;GATE 08,46689.92%96.00%
- 60The Test: Hypothesis Rising5,92189.89%97.58%
- 61The Red Strings Club14,30189.87%93.43%
- 62BlazBlue Centralfiction12,31389.83%93.94%
- 63Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-8,25589.76%95.03%
- 64Vampires' Melody5,72989.75%97.45%
- 65The Test: Final Revelation5,36289.69%97.82%
- 66Scarlet Hollow5,27689.69%97.93%
- 67Monster Prom14,33389.63%93.02%
- 68Otaku's Adventure9,10089.58%94.87%
- 69Class of '099,09189.43%94.56%
- 70The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles9,48689.42%94.32%
- 71Minds Beneath Us6,37989.25%96.25%
- 72Far Away8,19289.25%94.70%
- 73小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop10,24289.24%93.60%
- 74Suzerain11,86389.18%92.36%
- 75Beacon Pines4,50589.14%97.58%
- 76Long Live The Queen7,16988.98%94.84%
- 77I Was a Teenage Exocolonist4,83488.97%96.32%
- 78StarVaders4,36288.94%97.04%
- 79I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator12,68288.93%91.70%
- 80The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel5,93188.81%94.55%
- 81Hatoful Boyfriend7,58188.79%94.08%
- 82DRAMAtical Murder4,98288.72%96.65%
- 83Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series10,70588.64%92.25%
- 84Chill Pulse4,83388.62%95.43%
- 85The Operator8,86488.30%91.55%
- 86Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code4,86988.11%93.53%
- 87Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You15,57088.09%90.22%
- 88AI: The Somnium Files9,40188.04%91.51%
- 89Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth7,59688.02%92.29%
- 90Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales17,35487.95%89.78%
- 91Crush Crush28,52187.94%88.85%
- 92Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate3,45387.91%95.37%
- 93Assemble with Care11,04187.87%90.09%
- 94Emily is Away32,32787.81%88.57%
- 95Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition13,23087.57%89.67%
- 96American Arcadia4,25487.54%94.03%
- 97Fate/Samurai Remnant7,04387.48%90.53%
- 98Pyre9,34787.47%90.35%
- 99Venba3,77387.29%92.47%
- 100Dreamlike Love with Seira1,66187.23%98.62%
