Best Value Visual Novel Games Under $20
The Visual Novel games on Steam games under $20 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.
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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%
- 12Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.40/1hr28h90.35%94.29%
- 13School Days$0.41/1hr28h81.21%76.36%
- 14Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1$0.41/1hr36h90.03%94.15%
- 15Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.43/1hr23h82.48%78.98%
- 16CLANNAD$0.45/1hr35h91.96%98.43%
- 17Banner of the Maid$0.46/1hr37h85.63%86.42%
- 18Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-$0.49/1hr6h89.51%95.02%
- 19Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel$0.52/1hr19h85.55%88.81%
- 20Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.52/1hr38h93.23%95.80%
- 21Marco & The Galaxy Dragon$0.56/1hr7h90.37%97.30%
- 22Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.60/1hr33h88.08%89.87%
- 23Far Away$0.63/1hr21h89.38%94.77%
- 24Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet$0.63/1hr32h80.93%78.86%
- 25Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.66/1hr31h93.71%96.01%
- 26Tiny Bunny$0.67/1hr16h83.48%82.99%
- 27Harold Halibut$0.72/1hr14h84.66%82.11%
- 28Knowledge, or know Lady$0.77/1hr9h89.81%95.22%
- 29Otaku's Adventure$0.78/1hr9h89.67%94.85%
- 30The Coffin of Andy and Leyley$0.79/1hr15h93.68%95.93%
- 31The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.79/1hr9h93.09%94.45%
- 32Tales of the Black Forest$0.79/1hr5h92.62%97.60%
- 33This Is the Police$0.81/1hr18h83.60%82.36%
- 34Beacon Pines$0.82/1hr7h88.86%97.63%
- 35AI: The Somnium Files$0.82/1hr24h88.15%91.55%
- 36Growing Up$0.82/1hr18h85.75%87.83%
- 37Mirror 2: Project X$0.90/1hr2h29.22%24.40%
- 38Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.91/1hr8h85.81%87.63%
- 39DRAMAtical Murder$0.91/1hr22h88.79%96.64%
- 40Until Then$0.93/1hr20h92.59%96.74%
- 41Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.95/1hr21h84.43%82.21%
- 42Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.99/1hr13h77.31%72.25%
- 43LoveChoice$1.00/1hr2h90.68%92.25%
- 44Long Live The Queen$1.01/1hr10h89.09%94.84%
- 45Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$1.04/1hr14h94.08%96.96%
- 46An alt girl for skoof$1.07/1hr5h84.17%83.39%
- 47Love Is All Around$1.11/1hr9h91.78%93.26%
- 48TOGETHER BnB$1.13/1hr16h72.35%58.82%
- 49VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action$1.14/1hr13h94.75%97.28%
- 50Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$1.15/1hr17h88.10%92.24%
- 51Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$1.18/1hr12h87.54%95.29%
- 52StarVaders$1.20/1hr15h88.60%97.13%
- 53Minds Beneath Us$1.21/1hr17h89.25%96.33%
- 54Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series$1.29/1hr12h88.73%92.28%
- 55Nunholy$1.30/1hr6h86.38%89.03%
- 56Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening$1.32/1hr14h85.13%85.65%
- 57NEKOPARA Vol. 0$1.39/1hr2h90.58%93.72%
- 58NEKOPARA Vol. 3$1.42/1hr7h91.48%96.89%
- 59Night in the Woods$1.44/1hr14h91.52%94.77%
- 60NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD$1.45/1hr11h92.96%94.36%
- 61The Wolf Among Us$1.46/1hr10h95.30%97.89%
- 62Batman - The Telltale Series$1.53/1hr10h86.71%87.67%
- 63KinitoPET$1.58/1hr4h89.75%93.02%
- 64Winter Memories$1.58/1hr13h91.37%97.46%
- 65The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$1.59/1hr9h84.01%83.48%
- 66Tales from the Borderlands$1.70/1hr12h91.15%94.32%
- 67GIRLS MADE PUDDING$1.71/1hr6h85.79%95.24%
- 68To Be or Not to Be$1.75/1hr7h86.91%89.26%
- 69NEKOPARA Vol. 4$1.76/1hr6h90.68%97.15%
- 70The Operator$1.76/1hr5h88.07%91.66%
- 71NEKOPARA Vol. 1$1.79/1hr6h92.38%95.09%
- 72Dreamlike Love with Seira$1.79/1hr4h86.90%98.65%
- 73Coffee Talk$1.80/1hr7h90.38%94.72%
- 74NEKOPARA Vol. 2$1.83/1hr5h91.68%96.90%
- 75Summer Memories$1.93/1hr10h90.47%92.67%
- 76Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$1.95/1hr5h88.20%90.28%
- 77We. The Revolution$2.13/1hr9h82.98%74.87%
- 781 to 1 humanoid edible toys$2.14/1hr4h86.48%92.60%
- 79Sanfu$2.15/1hr5h83.58%82.79%
- 80The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante$2.17/1hr9h86.81%88.41%
- 81Her Story$2.24/1hr4h87.23%89.40%
- 82No Case Should Remain Unsolved$2.24/1hr3h90.84%96.47%
- 83American Arcadia$2.39/1hr8h87.65%94.08%
- 84Class of '09$2.49/1hr4h89.52%94.60%
- 85Detention$2.61/1hr5h90.75%95.65%
- 86Firework$2.63/1hr4h95.33%97.67%
- 87Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut$2.67/1hr7h94.01%96.74%
- 88The Song of Saya$2.74/1hr5h87.13%89.29%
- 89A Bird Story$2.78/1hr1h84.98%84.97%
- 90Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk$3.03/1hr3h93.02%96.65%
- 91Mika and The Witch's Mountain$3.07/1hr7h85.29%87.94%
- 92Long Dream$3.11/1hr2h86.21%98.41%
- 93The Red Strings Club$3.18/1hr5h89.96%93.47%
- 94Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk$3.31/1hr0h93.83%96.42%
- 95Storyteller$3.66/1hr4h86.70%88.60%
- 96The Test$3.85/1hr1h92.82%96.72%
- 97Assemble with Care$4.52/1hr2h87.77%90.42%
- 98BAD END THEATER$5.21/1hr2h91.24%97.54%
- 99Florence$6.20/1hr1h90.07%93.20%
- 100Venba$7.31/1hr2h86.97%92.52%
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.