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$0.11/1hr46h87.90%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%
- 5Tricolour Lovestory$0.33/1hr6h82.22%81.16%
- 6Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1$0.38/1hr40h90.36%94.10%
- 7Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$0.40/1hr6h88.25%90.23%
- 8Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.42/1hr26h90.44%94.23%
- 9Far Away$0.43/1hr30h89.34%94.69%
- 10Banner of the Maid$0.44/1hr39h85.73%86.40%
- 11School Days$0.45/1hr25h81.84%76.90%
- 12Neo Cab$0.45/1hr5h83.02%78.73%
- 13We. The Revolution$0.53/1hr11h83.09%74.66%
- 14Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.53/1hr38h93.31%95.77%
- 15Volcano Princess$0.55/1hr20h95.66%97.79%
- 16Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.57/1hr35h88.10%89.78%
- 17A Bird Story$0.57/1hr1h84.67%85.04%
- 18Otaku's Adventure$0.61/1hr11h89.80%94.87%
- 19Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.64/1hr16h82.90%78.87%
- 20LoveChoice$0.64/1hr2h90.66%92.15%
- 21Harold Halibut$0.73/1hr13h83.99%81.94%
- 22This Is the Police$0.73/1hr20h83.63%82.26%
- 23Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.75/1hr27h93.88%95.96%
- 24The Coffin of Andy and Leyley$0.75/1hr16h93.73%95.89%
- 25Tales of the Black Forest$0.76/1hr5h92.72%97.59%
- 26Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.78/1hr9h86.31%87.49%
- 27Knowledge, or know Lady$0.78/1hr9h89.93%95.21%
- 28ATRI -My Dear Moments-$0.79/1hr11h94.44%98.38%
- 29Suzerain$0.80/1hr25h89.09%92.37%
- 30OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition$0.80/1hr12h90.38%96.11%
- 31GIRLS MADE PUDDING$0.81/1hr6h86.60%95.47%
- 32Nunholy$0.82/1hr7h86.46%88.82%
- 33Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.82/1hr16h75.75%69.72%
- 34Until Then$0.83/1hr24h92.74%96.64%
- 35Tiny Bunny$0.83/1hr13h83.54%83.00%
- 36AI: The Somnium Files$0.84/1hr24h88.12%91.49%
- 37Beacon Pines$0.85/1hr7h89.44%97.56%
- 38Love Is All Around$0.88/1hr11h91.79%93.23%
- 39An alt girl for skoof$0.89/1hr7h84.51%83.31%
- 40DRAMAtical Murder$0.97/1hr21h88.39%96.66%
- 41American Arcadia$1.03/1hr8h87.20%94.06%
- 42AI2U: With You 'Til The End$1.04/1hr14h84.94%87.84%
- 43The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$1.06/1hr9h93.10%94.42%
- 44VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action$1.07/1hr14h94.79%97.27%
- 45Gaokao.Love.100Days$1.14/1hr9h87.25%89.74%
- 46Minds Beneath Us$1.16/1hr17h88.95%96.26%
- 47Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$1.18/1hr12h88.24%95.36%
- 48Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$1.20/1hr12h94.20%96.97%
- 49Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$1.25/1hr16h85.07%82.26%
- 50Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series$1.36/1hr11h88.85%92.26%
- 51TOGETHER BnB$1.36/1hr13h72.42%58.78%
- 52The Wolf Among Us$1.36/1hr11h95.35%97.88%
- 53Night in the Woods$1.38/1hr15h91.32%94.80%
- 54Winter Memories$1.39/1hr14h91.69%97.49%
- 55Growing Up$1.52/1hr10h85.18%87.63%
- 56Florence$1.54/1hr1h90.19%93.24%
- 57Monster Prom$1.58/1hr8h89.79%93.01%
- 58KinitoPET$1.63/1hr4h89.87%93.04%
- 59Coffee Talk$1.64/1hr8h90.08%94.70%
- 60The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante$1.65/1hr12h86.60%87.69%
- 61Venba$1.66/1hr2h87.62%92.49%
- 62Dreamlike Love with Seira$1.68/1hr4h87.10%98.62%
- 63To Be or Not to Be$1.68/1hr8h87.02%89.25%
- 64The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$1.69/1hr9h84.01%83.51%
- 65Batman - The Telltale Series$1.70/1hr9h87.03%87.72%
- 66Tales from the Borderlands$1.74/1hr11h91.24%94.34%
- 67Rift of the NecroDancer$1.79/1hr11h88.06%94.13%
- 68What Remains of Edith Finch$1.80/1hr3h93.94%95.59%
- 69NEKOPARA Vol. 0$1.91/1hr2h90.64%93.71%
- 70Mika and The Witch's Mountain$1.93/1hr10h84.65%87.78%
- 71The Operator$1.94/1hr5h88.17%91.53%
- 72NEKOPARA Vol. 2$1.95/1hr5h91.77%96.89%
- 73NEKOPARA Vol. 1$2.01/1hr5h92.40%95.03%
- 74Summer Memories$2.01/1hr10h90.43%92.65%
- 75No Case Should Remain Unsolved$2.04/1hr3h90.97%96.37%
- 76Class of '09$2.13/1hr5h89.18%94.57%
- 77Sanfu$2.15/1hr5h83.56%82.84%
- 78The Song of Saya$2.18/1hr7h87.23%89.22%
- 79Firework$2.25/1hr4h95.37%97.67%
- 80Her Story$2.30/1hr4h87.29%89.32%
- 81Detention$2.50/1hr5h90.87%95.69%
- 82NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD$2.52/1hr6h92.98%94.31%
- 83Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut$2.54/1hr7h94.15%96.67%
- 841 to 1 humanoid edible toys$2.71/1hr3h86.45%92.48%
- 85The Red Strings Club$2.92/1hr5h90.04%93.43%
- 86Marco & The Galaxy Dragon$2.98/1hr7h90.53%97.30%
- 87Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk$3.03/1hr3h93.09%96.62%
- 88Escape Academy$3.15/1hr6h84.59%86.90%
- 89Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk$3.44/1hr0h93.88%96.41%
- 90Storyteller$3.55/1hr4h86.36%88.64%
- 91Assemble with Care$4.36/1hr2h87.31%90.07%
- 92BAD END THEATER$4.87/1hr2h91.36%97.50%
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.