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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By price
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.
- 1Chill Pulse$0.11/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 2Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$0.12/1hr17h88.25%92.28%
- 3Mirror$0.15/1hr5h95.17%96.36%
- 4Persona 4 Golden$0.24/1hr83h95.83%97.04%
- 5Library Of Ruina$0.31/1hr97h92.79%94.47%
- 6Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.31/1hr79h92.89%94.24%
- 7Tricolour Lovestory$0.33/1hr6h82.22%81.16%
- 8Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1$0.38/1hr40h90.36%94.10%
- 9Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$0.40/1hr6h88.25%90.23%
- 10Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.42/1hr26h90.44%94.23%
- 11Far Away$0.43/1hr30h89.34%94.69%
- 12Banner of the Maid$0.44/1hr39h85.73%86.40%
- 13School Days$0.45/1hr25h81.84%76.90%
- 14Neo Cab$0.45/1hr5h83.02%78.73%
- 15Persona 5 Royal$0.46/1hr130h95.61%96.36%
- 16We. The Revolution$0.53/1hr11h83.09%74.66%
- 17Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.53/1hr38h93.31%95.77%
- 18Super Robot Wars 30$0.54/1hr47h85.88%86.04%
- 19Volcano Princess$0.55/1hr20h95.66%97.79%
- 20Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.57/1hr35h88.10%89.78%
- 21A Bird Story$0.57/1hr1h84.67%85.04%
- 22The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.61/1hr66h88.67%94.54%
- 23Otaku's Adventure$0.61/1hr11h89.80%94.87%
- 24Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$0.63/1hr48h95.31%97.55%
- 25The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles$0.63/1hr63h89.51%94.29%
- 26Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.64/1hr16h82.90%78.87%
- 27LoveChoice$0.64/1hr2h90.66%92.15%
- 28I Was a Teenage Exocolonist$0.71/1hr35h89.21%96.31%
- 29Harold Halibut$0.73/1hr13h83.99%81.94%
- 30This Is the Police$0.73/1hr20h83.63%82.26%
- 31Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.75/1hr27h93.88%95.96%
- 32The Coffin of Andy and Leyley$0.75/1hr16h93.73%95.89%
- 33Persona 3 Reload$0.76/1hr79h93.11%94.35%
- 34Tales of the Black Forest$0.76/1hr5h92.72%97.59%
- 35Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.78/1hr9h86.31%87.49%
- 36Knowledge, or know Lady$0.78/1hr9h89.93%95.21%
- 37ATRI -My Dear Moments-$0.79/1hr11h94.44%98.38%
- 38STEINS;GATE$0.79/1hr38h93.62%97.07%
- 39Suzerain$0.80/1hr25h89.09%92.37%
- 40OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition$0.80/1hr12h90.38%96.11%
- 41GIRLS MADE PUDDING$0.81/1hr6h86.60%95.47%
- 42Nunholy$0.82/1hr7h86.46%88.82%
- 43Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.82/1hr16h75.75%69.72%
- 44Until Then$0.83/1hr24h92.74%96.64%
- 45Tiny Bunny$0.83/1hr13h83.54%83.00%
- 46AI: The Somnium Files$0.84/1hr24h88.12%91.49%
- 47Beacon Pines$0.85/1hr7h89.44%97.56%
- 48Fate/Samurai Remnant$0.86/1hr30h87.40%90.54%
- 49Raging Loop$0.87/1hr34h91.02%95.66%
- 50Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.88/1hr45h83.52%82.81%
- 51Love Is All Around$0.88/1hr11h91.79%93.23%
- 52An alt girl for skoof$0.89/1hr7h84.51%83.31%
- 53DRAMAtical Murder$0.97/1hr21h88.39%96.66%
- 54Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus$1.00/1hr30h83.57%80.60%
- 55American Arcadia$1.03/1hr8h87.20%94.06%
- 56AI2U: With You 'Til The End$1.04/1hr14h84.94%87.84%
- 57Disco Elysium - The Final Cut$1.05/1hr38h92.03%92.55%
- 58The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$1.06/1hr9h93.10%94.42%
- 59VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action$1.07/1hr14h94.79%97.27%
- 60The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series$1.08/1hr46h94.54%96.51%
- 61CLANNAD$1.10/1hr41h92.41%98.43%
- 62Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$1.10/1hr45h87.69%89.58%
- 63Gaokao.Love.100Days$1.14/1hr9h87.25%89.74%
- 64Minds Beneath Us$1.16/1hr17h88.95%96.26%
- 65Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$1.18/1hr12h88.24%95.36%
- 66STEINS;GATE 0$1.18/1hr30h90.13%95.94%
- 67Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$1.20/1hr12h94.20%96.97%
- 68Scarlet Hollow$1.22/1hr25h89.00%97.93%
- 69Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$1.25/1hr16h85.07%82.26%
- 70Senren＊Banka$1.35/1hr26h95.65%98.47%
- 71Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series$1.36/1hr11h88.85%92.26%
- 72TOGETHER BnB$1.36/1hr13h72.42%58.78%
- 73The Wolf Among Us$1.36/1hr11h95.35%97.88%
- 74BlazBlue Centralfiction$1.36/1hr29h89.91%93.93%
- 75Night in the Woods$1.38/1hr15h91.32%94.80%
- 76魔女的夜宴$1.38/1hr25h92.38%98.47%
- 77Winter Memories$1.39/1hr14h91.69%97.49%
- 78StarVaders$1.41/1hr18h88.78%96.97%
- 79Soul Hackers 2$1.47/1hr41h79.61%65.61%
- 80Growing Up$1.52/1hr10h85.18%87.63%
- 81Florence$1.54/1hr1h90.19%93.24%
- 82Monster Prom$1.58/1hr8h89.79%93.01%
- 83The Thaumaturge$1.61/1hr22h83.76%82.92%
- 84KinitoPET$1.63/1hr4h89.87%93.04%
- 85Coffee Talk$1.64/1hr8h90.08%94.70%
- 86The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante$1.65/1hr12h86.60%87.69%
- 87Venba$1.66/1hr2h87.62%92.49%
- 88Dreamlike Love with Seira$1.68/1hr4h87.10%98.62%
- 89To Be or Not to Be$1.68/1hr8h87.02%89.25%
- 90The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$1.69/1hr9h84.01%83.51%
- 91Batman - The Telltale Series$1.70/1hr9h87.03%87.72%
- 92Tales from the Borderlands$1.74/1hr11h91.24%94.34%
- 93Rift of the NecroDancer$1.79/1hr11h88.06%94.13%
- 94What Remains of Edith Finch$1.80/1hr3h93.94%95.59%
- 95NEKOPARA Vol. 0$1.91/1hr2h90.64%93.71%
- 96Mika and The Witch's Mountain$1.93/1hr10h84.65%87.78%
- 97The Operator$1.94/1hr5h88.17%91.53%
- 98NEKOPARA Vol. 2$1.95/1hr5h91.77%96.89%
- 99NEKOPARA Vol. 1$2.01/1hr5h92.40%95.03%
- 100Summer Memories$2.01/1hr10h90.43%92.65%
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.