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.
- 1Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr29h93.79%95.97%
- 2Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr47h88.62%95.43%
- 3Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$0.11/1hr47h87.57%89.67%
- 4AI: The Somnium Files$0.16/1hr25h88.04%91.51%
- 5Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1$0.20/1hr34h89.92%94.12%
- 6Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$0.20/1hr49h95.34%97.56%
- 7Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.22/1hr23h82.33%78.91%
- 8Persona 4 Golden$0.24/1hr83h95.84%97.04%
- 9Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.25/1hr48h83.59%82.81%
- 10Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.25/1hr40h93.35%95.77%
- 11The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles$0.25/1hr64h89.42%94.32%
- 12Mirror$0.27/1hr7h95.19%96.36%
- 13Monster Prom$0.28/1hr9h89.63%93.02%
- 14Volcano Princess$0.28/1hr25h95.68%97.79%
- 15The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.28/1hr70h88.81%94.55%
- 16An alt girl for skoof$0.29/1hr8h84.36%83.36%
- 17Tricolour Lovestory$0.33/1hr6h82.27%81.18%
- 18Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.37/1hr17h76.00%69.96%
- 19Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.38/1hr29h90.27%94.26%
- 20Far Away$0.45/1hr29h89.25%94.70%
- 21School Days$0.47/1hr24h81.59%76.87%
- 22Banner of the Maid$0.50/1hr34h85.51%86.40%
- 23Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus$0.51/1hr30h83.97%80.44%
- 24Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.57/1hr35h87.95%89.78%
- 25Marco & The Galaxy Dragon$0.57/1hr7h90.29%97.30%
- 26NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD$0.57/1hr9h93.01%94.33%
- 27NEKOPARA Vol. 2$0.61/1hr7h91.86%96.88%
- 28Otaku's Adventure$0.61/1hr11h89.58%94.87%
- 29NEKOPARA Vol. 0$0.64/1hr2h90.68%93.69%
- 30NEKOPARA Vol. 1$0.70/1hr6h92.44%95.03%
- 31Vampires' Melody$0.70/1hr6h89.75%97.45%
- 32This Is the Police$0.74/1hr20h83.46%82.29%
- 33Suzerain$0.75/1hr27h89.18%92.36%
- 34Mirror 2: Project X$0.76/1hr3h29.23%24.37%
- 35Tiny Bunny$0.77/1hr14h83.44%83.00%
- 36Knowledge, or know Lady$0.79/1hr9h90.05%95.21%
- 37The Coffin of Andy and Leyley$0.79/1hr15h93.76%95.90%
- 38Tales of the Black Forest$0.83/1hr5h92.56%97.59%
- 39Until Then$0.83/1hr23h92.58%96.63%
- 40LoveChoice$0.84/1hr2h90.70%92.16%
- 41Love Is All Around$0.89/1hr11h91.82%93.23%
- 42Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.95/1hr7h86.01%87.48%
- 43The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.95/1hr11h93.12%94.42%
- 44Winter Memories$0.97/1hr14h91.64%97.50%
- 45VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action$1.01/1hr15h94.82%97.27%
- 46DRAMAtical Murder$1.03/1hr19h88.72%96.65%
- 47Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$1.13/1hr12h87.91%95.37%
- 48Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$1.16/1hr13h94.23%96.98%
- 49Minds Beneath Us$1.20/1hr17h89.25%96.25%
- 50Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$1.24/1hr16h88.02%92.29%
- 51Gaokao.Love.100Days$1.28/1hr8h87.02%89.74%
- 52Nunholy$1.30/1hr6h86.62%88.86%
- 53The Wolf Among Us$1.33/1hr11h95.38%97.88%
- 54Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series$1.36/1hr11h88.64%92.25%
- 55The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante$1.38/1hr14h86.44%87.73%
- 56Growing Up$1.41/1hr11h85.96%87.65%
- 57Night in the Woods$1.43/1hr14h91.48%94.79%
- 58Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening$1.45/1hr12h85.46%85.64%
- 59AI2U: With You 'Til The End$1.46/1hr10h85.38%88.04%
- 60KinitoPET$1.54/1hr4h89.95%93.02%
- 61GIRLS MADE PUDDING$1.63/1hr6h86.19%95.45%
- 62Tales from the Borderlands$1.66/1hr12h91.10%94.34%
- 63Batman - The Telltale Series$1.67/1hr9h86.67%87.71%
- 64The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$1.67/1hr9h83.95%83.51%
- 65Coffee Talk$1.69/1hr8h90.29%94.68%
- 66TOGETHER BnB$1.71/1hr11h72.22%58.78%
- 67Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-$1.72/1hr6h89.76%95.03%
- 68Dreamlike Love with Seira$1.76/1hr4h87.23%98.62%
- 69Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$1.80/1hr6h88.09%90.22%
- 70To Be or Not to Be$1.80/1hr7h86.80%89.24%
- 71Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet$1.98/1hr10h80.85%78.84%
- 72Summer Memories$2.01/1hr10h90.60%92.66%
- 73Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut$2.09/1hr9h94.18%96.73%
- 74No Case Should Remain Unsolved$2.12/1hr3h91.08%96.39%
- 75Sanfu$2.13/1hr5h83.53%82.84%
- 76The Song of Saya$2.16/1hr7h87.06%89.30%
- 77Her Story$2.28/1hr4h87.11%89.34%
- 78Firework$2.34/1hr4h95.40%97.67%
- 79Class of '09$2.36/1hr4h89.43%94.56%
- 80Detention$2.42/1hr5h90.97%95.67%
- 81American Arcadia$2.42/1hr8h87.54%94.03%
- 82Mika and The Witch's Mountain$2.50/1hr8h85.60%87.74%
- 83A Bird Story$2.78/1hr1h84.89%85.00%
- 84Beacon Pines$2.84/1hr7h89.14%97.58%
- 85The Operator$2.85/1hr5h88.30%91.55%
- 86Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk$2.90/1hr3h93.13%96.62%
- 87The Red Strings Club$3.01/1hr5h89.87%93.43%
- 881 to 1 humanoid edible toys$3.20/1hr3h86.76%92.47%
- 89Escape Academy$3.22/1hr6h85.04%86.86%
- 90Neo Cab$3.53/1hr4h83.43%78.76%
- 91Storyteller$3.60/1hr4h86.62%88.63%
- 92Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk$3.89/1hr0h93.78%96.41%
- 93BAD END THEATER$4.91/1hr2h91.15%97.50%
- 94Assemble with Care$4.99/1hr2h87.87%90.09%
- 95Florence$5.99/1hr1h90.25%93.23%
- 96Venba$6.42/1hr2h87.29%92.47%
- 97What Remains of Edith Finch$7.54/1hr3h93.96%95.59%
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.