Hidden Gem Visual Novel Games
Highly rated Visual Novel games that never got big: under $20, fewer than 25,000 reviews. The review cap filters out everything you've already heard of.
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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
- 1Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk22,37193.13%96.62%
- 2The Test20,12092.94%96.71%
- 3A Date with Death14,83292.92%97.98%
- 4Our Life: Beginnings & Always13,75092.87%98.76%
- 5Until Then19,24092.58%96.63%
- 6Tales of the Black Forest15,48492.56%97.59%
- 7NEKOPARA Vol. 212,84991.86%96.88%
- 8missed messages.15,54691.84%96.03%
- 9Eternal Senia12,06291.73%97.49%
- 10Winter Memories10,62891.64%97.50%
- 11Find Love or Die Trying11,94591.49%96.58%
- 12Night in the Woods20,25691.48%94.79%
- 13NEKOPARA Vol. 312,01591.37%96.85%
- 14BAD END THEATER10,04391.15%97.50%
- 15Tales from the Borderlands19,57991.10%94.34%
- 16No Case Should Remain Unsolved10,66291.08%96.39%
- 17Detention11,81490.97%95.67%
- 18NEKOPARA Vol. 48,82690.91%97.13%
- 19NEKOPARA Vol. 017,78590.68%93.69%
- 20Coffee Talk12,56690.29%94.68%
- 21Marco & The Galaxy Dragon7,86190.29%97.30%
- 22Yog-Sothoth’s Yard13,79790.27%94.26%
- 23Florence16,47090.25%93.23%
- 24Knowledge, or know Lady8,97890.05%95.21%
- 25KinitoPET14,75289.95%93.02%
- 26Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth112,27089.92%94.12%
- 27The Test: Hypothesis Rising5,92189.89%97.58%
- 28The Red Strings Club14,30189.87%93.43%
- 29Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-8,25589.76%95.03%
- 30Vampires' Melody5,72989.75%97.45%
- 31The Test: Final Revelation5,36289.69%97.82%
- 32Monster Prom14,33389.63%93.02%
- 33Otaku's Adventure9,10089.58%94.87%
- 34Class of '099,09189.43%94.56%
- 35The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles9,48689.42%94.32%
- 36Minds Beneath Us6,37989.25%96.25%
- 37Far Away8,19289.25%94.70%
- 38小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop10,24289.24%93.60%
- 39Suzerain11,86389.18%92.36%
- 40Beacon Pines4,50589.14%97.58%
- 41Long Live The Queen7,16988.98%94.84%
- 42I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator12,68288.93%91.70%
- 43The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel5,93188.81%94.55%
- 44Hatoful Boyfriend7,58188.79%94.08%
- 45DRAMAtical Murder4,98288.72%96.65%
- 46Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series10,70588.64%92.25%
- 47Chill Pulse4,83388.62%95.43%
- 48The Operator8,86488.30%91.55%
- 49Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You15,57088.09%90.22%
- 50AI: The Somnium Files9,40188.04%91.51%
- 51Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth7,59688.02%92.29%
- 52Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales17,35487.95%89.78%
- 53Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate3,45387.91%95.37%
- 54Assemble with Care11,04187.87%90.09%
- 55Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition13,23087.57%89.67%
- 56American Arcadia4,25487.54%94.03%
- 57Pyre9,34787.47%90.35%
- 58Venba3,77387.29%92.47%
- 59Dreamlike Love with Seira1,66187.23%98.62%
- 60Chicken Police - Paint it RED!2,54887.17%94.39%
- 61Fate/EXTELLA4,48287.14%90.87%
- 62Her Story10,40687.11%89.34%
- 63The Song of Saya10,19187.06%89.30%
- 64Gaokao.Love.100Days8,25787.02%89.74%
- 65坏小孩1,70586.86%95.78%
- 66To Be or Not to Be8,27886.80%89.24%
- 67Yokai's Secret6,89586.78%89.69%
- 68Carpe Diem8,56086.76%89.08%
- 691 to 1 humanoid edible toys2,48586.76%92.47%
- 70Batman - The Telltale Series18,22186.67%87.71%
- 71Storyteller9,18386.62%88.63%
- 72Nunholy5,38786.62%88.86%
- 73Durka Simulator1,68586.58%93.95%
- 74Long Dream1,02186.55%98.43%
- 75Swaying Girl5,08186.52%88.84%
- 76The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante12,92186.44%87.73%
- 77Cooking Companions1,21086.24%93.72%
- 78GIRLS MADE PUDDING92386.19%95.45%
- 79Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love1,00486.04%93.03%
- 80Vanity Fair: The Pursuit4,59286.01%87.48%
- 81Growing Up3,72485.96%87.65%
- 82First Snow67885.92%94.54%
- 83The Herbalist74385.90%93.54%
- 84Pixel Cafe88285.83%91.50%
- 85Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel1,76585.83%88.61%
- 86Mika and The Witch's Mountain1,22385.60%87.74%
- 87Banner of the Maid8,34485.51%86.40%
- 88Summer in Mara Prologue1,04385.51%87.15%
- 89Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening2,98885.46%85.64%
- 90Blush Blush7,61185.45%86.34%
- 91AI2U: With You 'Til The End2,28285.38%88.04%
- 92Girls of The Tower61685.35%85.55%
- 93Maid Cafe on Electric Street73385.27%84.31%
- 94恋爱关系/Romance2,58985.12%84.28%
- 95Escape Academy1,41685.04%86.86%
- 96A Bird Story10,81684.89%85.00%
- 97B100X - Auto Dungeon RPG97584.89%80.31%
- 98Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost2,48584.77%82.17%
- 99Witchy Life Story1,23984.50%77.72%
- 100恋爱单选题2,48784.43%80.78%
