Best Value Visual Novel Games

The Visual Novel games that stretch a budget furthest: median reviewer playtime divided by current price. Pick your currency in the top bar to rank against your local prices.

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Price divided by median reviewer playtime — how much you pay per hour of gameplay. Lower is better. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
  1. 1Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr
  2. 2Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr
  3. 3Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$0.11/1hr
  4. 4AI: The Somnium Files$0.16/1hr
  5. 5Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1$0.20/1hr
  6. 6Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$0.20/1hr
  7. 7Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.22/1hr
  8. 8Persona 4 Golden$0.24/1hr
  9. 9Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.25/1hr
  10. 10Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.25/1hr
  11. 11The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles$0.25/1hr
  12. 12Mirror$0.27/1hr
  13. 13Monster Prom$0.28/1hr
  14. 14Volcano Princess$0.28/1hr
  15. 15The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.28/1hr
  16. 16An alt girl for skoof$0.29/1hr
  17. 17Library Of Ruina$0.31/1hr
  18. 18Tricolour Lovestory$0.33/1hr
  19. 19Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.37/1hr
  20. 20Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.38/1hr
  21. 21Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.39/1hr
  22. 22Far Away$0.45/1hr
  23. 23Persona 5 Royal$0.45/1hr
  24. 24School Days$0.47/1hr
  25. 25Banner of the Maid$0.50/1hr
  26. 26Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus$0.51/1hr
  27. 27Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.57/1hr
  28. 28Marco & The Galaxy Dragon$0.57/1hr
  29. 29NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD$0.57/1hr
  30. 30NEKOPARA Vol. 2$0.61/1hr
  31. 31Otaku's Adventure$0.61/1hr
  32. 32NEKOPARA Vol. 0$0.64/1hr
  33. 33NEKOPARA Vol. 1$0.70/1hr
  34. 34Vampires' Melody$0.70/1hr
  35. 35This Is the Police$0.74/1hr
  36. 36Suzerain$0.75/1hr
  37. 37Persona 3 Reload$0.76/1hr
  38. 38Mirror 2: Project X$0.76/1hr
  39. 39Tiny Bunny$0.77/1hr
  40. 40STEINS;GATE$0.78/1hr
  41. 41I Was a Teenage Exocolonist$0.79/1hr
  42. 42Super Robot Wars 30$0.79/1hr
  43. 43Knowledge, or know Lady$0.79/1hr
  44. 44The Coffin of Andy and Leyley$0.79/1hr
  45. 45Tales of the Black Forest$0.83/1hr
  46. 46Until Then$0.83/1hr
  47. 47LoveChoice$0.84/1hr
  48. 48Raging Loop$0.88/1hr
  49. 49Love Is All Around$0.89/1hr
  50. 50Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.95/1hr
  51. 51The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.95/1hr
  52. 52Winter Memories$0.97/1hr
  53. 53CLANNAD$1.00/1hr
  54. 54VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action$1.01/1hr
  55. 55The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series$1.02/1hr
  56. 56DRAMAtical Murder$1.03/1hr
  57. 57Disco Elysium - The Final Cut$1.06/1hr
  58. 58Scarlet Hollow$1.08/1hr
  59. 59STEINS;GATE 0$1.08/1hr
  60. 60StarVaders$1.10/1hr
  61. 61Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$1.13/1hr
  62. 62Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$1.16/1hr
  63. 63Fate/Samurai Remnant$1.16/1hr
  64. 64Minds Beneath Us$1.20/1hr
  65. 65Senren＊Banka$1.24/1hr
  66. 66Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$1.24/1hr
  67. 67Gaokao.Love.100Days$1.28/1hr
  68. 68Nunholy$1.30/1hr
  69. 69The Wolf Among Us$1.33/1hr
  70. 70Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series$1.36/1hr
  71. 71The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante$1.38/1hr
  72. 72Growing Up$1.41/1hr
  73. 73Night in the Woods$1.43/1hr
  74. 74BlazBlue Centralfiction$1.44/1hr
  75. 75魔女的夜宴$1.45/1hr
  76. 76Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening$1.45/1hr
  77. 77AI2U: With You 'Til The End$1.46/1hr
  78. 78KinitoPET$1.54/1hr
  79. 79GIRLS MADE PUDDING$1.63/1hr
  80. 80Soul Hackers 2$1.65/1hr
  81. 81Tales from the Borderlands$1.66/1hr
  82. 82Batman - The Telltale Series$1.67/1hr
  83. 83The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$1.67/1hr
  84. 84Coffee Talk$1.69/1hr
  85. 85TOGETHER BnB$1.71/1hr
  86. 86Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-$1.72/1hr
  87. 87Dreamlike Love with Seira$1.76/1hr
  88. 88Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$1.80/1hr
  89. 89To Be or Not to Be$1.80/1hr
  90. 90Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet$1.98/1hr
  91. 91Summer Memories$2.01/1hr
  92. 92ATRI -My Dear Moments-$2.04/1hr
  93. 93Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut$2.09/1hr
  94. 94No Case Should Remain Unsolved$2.12/1hr
  95. 95Sanfu$2.13/1hr
  96. 96The Song of Saya$2.16/1hr
  97. 97OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition$2.17/1hr
  98. 98Her Story$2.28/1hr
  99. 99Firework$2.34/1hr
  100. 100Class of '09$2.36/1hr

How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.