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.
- 1Helltaker128,21296.77%97.67%
- 2Doki Doki Literature Club!229,38096.14%96.49%
- 3Persona 4 Golden87,52295.83%97.04%
- 4Volcano Princess49,20695.66%97.79%
- 5Senren＊Banka37,17595.65%98.47%
- 6Firework44,46295.37%97.67%
- 7The Wolf Among Us40,29095.35%97.88%
- 8Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy45,15095.31%97.55%
- 9Mirror83,95595.17%96.36%
- 10VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action38,74994.79%97.27%
- 11ATRI -My Dear Moments-23,53994.44%98.38%
- 12Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!32,46394.20%96.97%
- 13Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut34,28194.15%96.67%
- 14What Remains of Edith Finch52,95693.94%95.59%
- 15Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk34,34893.88%96.41%
- 16Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc38,78293.88%95.96%
- 17The Coffin of Andy and Leyley39,51393.73%95.89%
- 18STEINS;GATE27,10493.62%97.07%
- 19Everlasting Summer78,16193.37%94.42%
- 20Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair32,91693.31%95.77%
- 21The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty60,05893.10%94.42%
- 22Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk22,39593.09%96.62%
- 23Our Life: Beginnings & Always13,77893.04%98.74%
- 24NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD58,18592.98%94.31%
- 25Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation57,18892.89%94.24%
- 26The Test20,11192.88%96.71%
- 27A Date with Death14,92392.83%97.96%
- 28Library Of Ruina45,19592.79%94.47%
- 29Until Then19,40992.74%96.64%
- 30Tales of the Black Forest15,50492.72%97.59%
- 31NEKOPARA Vol. 127,48092.40%95.03%
- 32魔女的夜宴11,82892.38%98.47%
- 33Disco Elysium - The Final Cut131,35492.03%92.55%
- 34Eternal Senia12,06691.81%97.49%
- 35Love Is All Around45,88691.79%93.23%
- 36missed messages.15,55391.79%96.03%
- 37NEKOPARA Vol. 212,85891.77%96.89%
- 38Winter Memories10,65591.69%97.49%
- 39Find Love or Die Trying11,94291.39%96.58%
- 40BAD END THEATER10,06591.36%97.50%
- 41Night in the Woods20,28291.32%94.80%
- 42Tales from the Borderlands19,59191.24%94.34%
- 43NEKOPARA Vol. 312,01991.14%96.85%
- 44NEKOPARA Vol. 48,83191.10%97.14%
- 45Raging Loop11,30491.02%95.66%
- 46No Case Should Remain Unsolved10,71590.97%96.37%
- 47Detention11,82890.87%95.69%
- 48LoveChoice36,67990.66%92.15%
- 49NEKOPARA Vol. 017,80990.64%93.71%
- 50Marco & The Galaxy Dragon7,89290.53%97.30%
- 51Yog-Sothoth’s Yard13,87290.44%94.23%
- 52Summer Memories25,10990.43%92.65%
- 53OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition9,47090.38%96.11%
- 54Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth112,27790.36%94.10%
- 55Florence16,48490.19%93.24%
- 56STEINS;GATE 08,50790.13%95.94%
- 57Coffee Talk12,58890.08%94.70%
- 58The Red Strings Club14,31690.04%93.43%
- 59Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-8,25789.96%95.03%
- 60Knowledge, or know Lady8,98689.93%95.21%
- 61BlazBlue Centralfiction12,32189.91%93.93%
- 62KinitoPET14,76889.87%93.04%
- 63Otaku's Adventure9,10789.80%94.87%
- 64Monster Prom14,33989.79%93.01%
- 65The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles9,51789.51%94.29%
- 66Vampires' Melody5,73189.51%97.45%
- 67小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop10,24389.44%93.61%
- 68Beacon Pines4,51489.44%97.56%
- 69Far Away8,19789.34%94.69%
- 70The Test: Hypothesis Rising5,91989.22%97.58%
- 71I Was a Teenage Exocolonist4,84889.21%96.31%
- 72Long Live The Queen7,16889.21%94.84%
- 73Class of '099,11289.18%94.57%
- 74Suzerain11,91689.09%92.37%
- 75Hatoful Boyfriend7,58289.01%94.06%
- 76Scarlet Hollow5,30289.00%97.93%
- 77The Test: Final Revelation5,36188.99%97.82%
- 78Minds Beneath Us6,41188.95%96.26%
- 79Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series10,72788.85%92.26%
- 80I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator12,68188.83%91.70%
- 81StarVaders4,38988.78%96.97%
- 82The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel5,93788.67%94.54%
- 83DRAMAtical Murder4,99488.39%96.66%
- 84Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You15,58188.25%90.23%
- 85Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth7,60788.25%92.28%
- 86Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate3,46788.24%95.36%
- 87The Operator8,88288.17%91.53%
- 88AI: The Somnium Files9,41988.12%91.49%
- 89Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales17,37588.10%89.78%
- 90Rift of the NecroDancer6,25088.06%94.13%
- 91Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code4,87787.92%93.52%
- 92Chill Pulse4,83687.90%95.43%
- 93Crush Crush28,54587.88%88.83%
- 94Emily is Away32,33487.77%88.58%
- 95Pyre9,35387.68%90.36%
- 96Venba3,78487.62%92.49%
- 97Fate/Samurai Remnant7,05387.40%90.54%
- 98Assemble with Care11,07587.31%90.07%
- 99Her Story10,42087.29%89.32%
- 100Gaokao.Love.100Days8,25987.25%89.74%
