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$0.08/1hr65h88.41%95.54%
- 2Tricolour Lovestory$0.15/1hr13h82.27%81.30%
- 3Super Robot Wars 30$0.18/1hr83h85.41%86.07%
- 4Suzerain$0.22/1hr28h89.02%92.49%
- 5Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$0.22/1hr45h95.25%97.56%
- 6The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles$0.24/1hr68h89.49%94.31%
- 7Persona 4 Golden$0.25/1hr80h95.79%97.04%
- 8Mirror$0.28/1hr7h95.16%96.37%
- 9Volcano Princess$0.28/1hr26h95.61%97.80%
- 10Neo Cab$0.34/1hr7h83.65%79.01%
- 11Monster Prom$0.37/1hr7h89.72%93.03%
- 12Library Of Ruina$0.38/1hr79h92.71%94.47%
- 13Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.40/1hr28h90.35%94.29%
- 14School Days$0.41/1hr28h81.21%76.36%
- 15Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1$0.41/1hr36h90.03%94.15%
- 16Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.43/1hr23h82.48%78.98%
- 17CLANNAD$0.45/1hr35h91.96%98.43%
- 18Banner of the Maid$0.46/1hr37h85.63%86.42%
- 19Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.48/1hr52h92.82%94.22%
- 20Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-$0.49/1hr6h89.51%95.02%
- 21The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.52/1hr77h88.52%94.53%
- 22Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel$0.52/1hr19h85.55%88.81%
- 23Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.52/1hr38h93.23%95.80%
- 24Persona 5 Royal$0.53/1hr114h95.60%96.39%
- 25Marco & The Galaxy Dragon$0.56/1hr7h90.37%97.30%
- 26Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.60/1hr33h88.08%89.87%
- 27Far Away$0.63/1hr21h89.38%94.77%
- 28Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet$0.63/1hr32h80.93%78.86%
- 29Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.66/1hr31h93.71%96.01%
- 30Tiny Bunny$0.67/1hr16h83.48%82.99%
- 31Harold Halibut$0.72/1hr14h84.66%82.11%
- 32Knowledge, or know Lady$0.77/1hr9h89.81%95.22%
- 33Otaku's Adventure$0.78/1hr9h89.67%94.85%
- 34The Coffin of Andy and Leyley$0.79/1hr15h93.68%95.93%
- 35The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.79/1hr9h93.09%94.45%
- 36Tales of the Black Forest$0.79/1hr5h92.62%97.60%
- 37Persona 3 Reload$0.79/1hr76h93.03%94.36%
- 38STEINS;GATE$0.79/1hr38h93.76%97.08%
- 39This Is the Police$0.81/1hr18h83.60%82.36%
- 40Beacon Pines$0.82/1hr7h88.86%97.63%
- 41AI: The Somnium Files$0.82/1hr24h88.15%91.55%
- 42Growing Up$0.82/1hr18h85.75%87.83%
- 43I Was a Teenage Exocolonist$0.83/1hr30h88.62%96.31%
- 44Mirror 2: Project X$0.90/1hr2h29.22%24.40%
- 45Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.91/1hr8h85.81%87.63%
- 46DRAMAtical Murder$0.91/1hr22h88.79%96.64%
- 47Raging Loop$0.92/1hr33h90.42%95.62%
- 48Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.92/1hr43h83.53%82.90%
- 49Until Then$0.93/1hr20h92.59%96.74%
- 50Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.95/1hr21h84.43%82.21%
- 51Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.99/1hr13h77.31%72.25%
- 52LoveChoice$1.00/1hr2h90.68%92.25%
- 53Long Live The Queen$1.01/1hr10h89.09%94.84%
- 54The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series$1.03/1hr48h94.46%96.52%
- 55Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$1.04/1hr14h94.08%96.96%
- 56An alt girl for skoof$1.07/1hr5h84.17%83.39%
- 57Love Is All Around$1.11/1hr9h91.78%93.26%
- 58TOGETHER BnB$1.13/1hr16h72.35%58.82%
- 59Disco Elysium - The Final Cut$1.13/1hr35h92.05%92.60%
- 60VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action$1.14/1hr13h94.75%97.28%
- 61Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$1.15/1hr17h88.10%92.24%
- 62Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$1.18/1hr12h87.54%95.29%
- 63StarVaders$1.20/1hr15h88.60%97.13%
- 64Minds Beneath Us$1.21/1hr17h89.25%96.33%
- 65魔女的夜宴$1.26/1hr28h92.23%98.53%
- 66STEINS;GATE 0$1.28/1hr27h89.99%96.06%
- 67Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series$1.29/1hr12h88.73%92.28%
- 68Nunholy$1.30/1hr6h86.38%89.03%
- 69Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening$1.32/1hr14h85.13%85.65%
- 70Scarlet Hollow$1.33/1hr19h89.31%97.96%
- 71Fate/Samurai Remnant$1.37/1hr29h87.30%90.61%
- 72Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$1.39/1hr36h87.71%89.80%
- 73NEKOPARA Vol. 0$1.39/1hr2h90.58%93.72%
- 74NEKOPARA Vol. 3$1.42/1hr7h91.48%96.89%
- 75Night in the Woods$1.44/1hr14h91.52%94.77%
- 76NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD$1.45/1hr11h92.96%94.36%
- 77The Wolf Among Us$1.46/1hr10h95.30%97.89%
- 78Senren＊Banka$1.52/1hr23h95.59%98.49%
- 79Batman - The Telltale Series$1.53/1hr10h86.71%87.67%
- 80BlazBlue Centralfiction$1.55/1hr26h89.91%93.95%
- 81KinitoPET$1.58/1hr4h89.75%93.02%
- 82Winter Memories$1.58/1hr13h91.37%97.46%
- 83The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$1.59/1hr9h84.01%83.48%
- 84Soul Hackers 2$1.67/1hr36h80.17%65.53%
- 85Tales from the Borderlands$1.70/1hr12h91.15%94.32%
- 86GIRLS MADE PUDDING$1.71/1hr6h85.79%95.24%
- 87To Be or Not to Be$1.75/1hr7h86.91%89.26%
- 88NEKOPARA Vol. 4$1.76/1hr6h90.68%97.15%
- 89The Operator$1.76/1hr5h88.07%91.66%
- 90NEKOPARA Vol. 1$1.79/1hr6h92.38%95.09%
- 91Dreamlike Love with Seira$1.79/1hr4h86.90%98.65%
- 92Coffee Talk$1.80/1hr7h90.38%94.72%
- 93NEKOPARA Vol. 2$1.83/1hr5h91.68%96.90%
- 94ATRI -My Dear Moments-$1.90/1hr11h94.33%98.39%
- 95Summer Memories$1.93/1hr10h90.47%92.67%
- 96Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$1.95/1hr5h88.20%90.28%
- 97We. The Revolution$2.13/1hr9h82.98%74.87%
- 981 to 1 humanoid edible toys$2.14/1hr4h86.48%92.60%
- 99Sanfu$2.15/1hr5h83.58%82.79%
- 100The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante$2.17/1hr9h86.81%88.41%
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.