Best Value Visual Novel Games Under $40
The Visual Novel games on Steam games under $40 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%
- 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%
- 24Marco & The Galaxy Dragon$0.56/1hr7h90.37%97.30%
- 25Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.60/1hr33h88.08%89.87%
- 26Far Away$0.63/1hr21h89.38%94.77%
- 27Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet$0.63/1hr32h80.93%78.86%
- 28Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.66/1hr31h93.71%96.01%
- 29Tiny Bunny$0.67/1hr16h83.48%82.99%
- 30Harold Halibut$0.72/1hr14h84.66%82.11%
- 31Knowledge, or know Lady$0.77/1hr9h89.81%95.22%
- 32Otaku's Adventure$0.78/1hr9h89.67%94.85%
- 33The Coffin of Andy and Leyley$0.79/1hr15h93.68%95.93%
- 34The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.79/1hr9h93.09%94.45%
- 35Tales of the Black Forest$0.79/1hr5h92.62%97.60%
- 36STEINS;GATE$0.79/1hr38h93.76%97.08%
- 37This Is the Police$0.81/1hr18h83.60%82.36%
- 38Beacon Pines$0.82/1hr7h88.86%97.63%
- 39AI: The Somnium Files$0.82/1hr24h88.15%91.55%
- 40Growing Up$0.82/1hr18h85.75%87.83%
- 41I Was a Teenage Exocolonist$0.83/1hr30h88.62%96.31%
- 42Mirror 2: Project X$0.90/1hr2h29.22%24.40%
- 43Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.91/1hr8h85.81%87.63%
- 44DRAMAtical Murder$0.91/1hr22h88.79%96.64%
- 45Raging Loop$0.92/1hr33h90.42%95.62%
- 46Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.92/1hr43h83.53%82.90%
- 47Until Then$0.93/1hr20h92.59%96.74%
- 48Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.95/1hr21h84.43%82.21%
- 49Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.99/1hr13h77.31%72.25%
- 50LoveChoice$1.00/1hr2h90.68%92.25%
- 51Long Live The Queen$1.01/1hr10h89.09%94.84%
- 52Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$1.04/1hr14h94.08%96.96%
- 53An alt girl for skoof$1.07/1hr5h84.17%83.39%
- 54Love Is All Around$1.11/1hr9h91.78%93.26%
- 55TOGETHER BnB$1.13/1hr16h72.35%58.82%
- 56Disco Elysium - The Final Cut$1.13/1hr35h92.05%92.60%
- 57VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action$1.14/1hr13h94.75%97.28%
- 58Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$1.15/1hr17h88.10%92.24%
- 59Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$1.18/1hr12h87.54%95.29%
- 60StarVaders$1.20/1hr15h88.60%97.13%
- 61Minds Beneath Us$1.21/1hr17h89.25%96.33%
- 62魔女的夜宴$1.26/1hr28h92.23%98.53%
- 63STEINS;GATE 0$1.28/1hr27h89.99%96.06%
- 64Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series$1.29/1hr12h88.73%92.28%
- 65Nunholy$1.30/1hr6h86.38%89.03%
- 66Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening$1.32/1hr14h85.13%85.65%
- 67Scarlet Hollow$1.33/1hr19h89.31%97.96%
- 68Fate/Samurai Remnant$1.37/1hr29h87.30%90.61%
- 69NEKOPARA Vol. 0$1.39/1hr2h90.58%93.72%
- 70NEKOPARA Vol. 3$1.42/1hr7h91.48%96.89%
- 71Night in the Woods$1.44/1hr14h91.52%94.77%
- 72NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD$1.45/1hr11h92.96%94.36%
- 73The Wolf Among Us$1.46/1hr10h95.30%97.89%
- 74Senren＊Banka$1.52/1hr23h95.59%98.49%
- 75Batman - The Telltale Series$1.53/1hr10h86.71%87.67%
- 76BlazBlue Centralfiction$1.55/1hr26h89.91%93.95%
- 77KinitoPET$1.58/1hr4h89.75%93.02%
- 78Winter Memories$1.58/1hr13h91.37%97.46%
- 79The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$1.59/1hr9h84.01%83.48%
- 80Tales from the Borderlands$1.70/1hr12h91.15%94.32%
- 81GIRLS MADE PUDDING$1.71/1hr6h85.79%95.24%
- 82To Be or Not to Be$1.75/1hr7h86.91%89.26%
- 83NEKOPARA Vol. 4$1.76/1hr6h90.68%97.15%
- 84The Operator$1.76/1hr5h88.07%91.66%
- 85NEKOPARA Vol. 1$1.79/1hr6h92.38%95.09%
- 86Dreamlike Love with Seira$1.79/1hr4h86.90%98.65%
- 87Coffee Talk$1.80/1hr7h90.38%94.72%
- 88NEKOPARA Vol. 2$1.83/1hr5h91.68%96.90%
- 89ATRI -My Dear Moments-$1.90/1hr11h94.33%98.39%
- 90Summer Memories$1.93/1hr10h90.47%92.67%
- 91Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$1.95/1hr5h88.20%90.28%
- 92We. The Revolution$2.13/1hr9h82.98%74.87%
- 931 to 1 humanoid edible toys$2.14/1hr4h86.48%92.60%
- 94Sanfu$2.15/1hr5h83.58%82.79%
- 95The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante$2.17/1hr9h86.81%88.41%
- 96Her Story$2.24/1hr4h87.23%89.40%
- 97No Case Should Remain Unsolved$2.24/1hr3h90.84%96.47%
- 98OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition$2.26/1hr11h90.39%96.17%
- 99American Arcadia$2.39/1hr8h87.65%94.08%
- 100Class of '09$2.49/1hr4h89.52%94.60%
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.