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 milk22,11993.02%96.65%
- 2Our Life: Beginnings & Always13,63492.93%98.75%
- 3The Test20,13892.82%96.72%
- 4A Date with Death14,40292.66%97.99%
- 5Tales of the Black Forest15,34192.62%97.60%
- 6Until Then18,33592.59%96.74%
- 7CLANNAD10,80391.96%98.43%
- 8Eternal Senia12,05191.82%97.50%
- 9missed messages.15,52091.72%96.06%
- 10NEKOPARA Vol. 212,82991.68%96.90%
- 11Night in the Woods20,11591.52%94.77%
- 12NEKOPARA Vol. 312,00891.48%96.89%
- 13Winter Memories10,50591.37%97.46%
- 14Find Love or Die Trying11,95591.30%96.60%
- 15BAD END THEATER9,93891.24%97.54%
- 16Tales from the Borderlands19,44291.15%94.32%
- 17No Case Should Remain Unsolved10,39990.84%96.47%
- 18Detention11,77590.75%95.65%
- 19NEKOPARA Vol. 48,81690.68%97.15%
- 20NEKOPARA Vol. 017,78090.58%93.72%
- 21Summer Memories24,92090.47%92.67%
- 22Coffee Talk12,47390.38%94.72%
- 23Marco & The Galaxy Dragon7,77690.37%97.30%
- 24Yog-Sothoth’s Yard13,62390.35%94.29%
- 25Florence16,28390.07%93.20%
- 26Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth112,24990.03%94.15%
- 27The Red Strings Club14,15289.96%93.47%
- 28Knowledge, or know Lady8,91989.81%95.22%
- 29KinitoPET14,59389.75%93.02%
- 30Monster Prom14,31089.72%93.03%
- 31The Test: Hypothesis Rising5,92589.67%97.59%
- 32Otaku's Adventure9,04489.67%94.85%
- 33Class of '098,92989.52%94.60%
- 34Vampires' Melody5,71789.51%97.45%
- 35Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-8,23089.51%95.02%
- 36The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles9,35289.49%94.31%
- 37The Test: Final Revelation5,37189.47%97.82%
- 38Far Away8,16389.38%94.77%
- 39小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop10,24089.36%93.64%
- 40Minds Beneath Us6,02489.25%96.33%
- 41Long Live The Queen7,14789.09%94.84%
- 42Suzerain11,63889.02%92.49%
- 43Hatoful Boyfriend7,56788.89%94.07%
- 44Beacon Pines4,42588.86%97.63%
- 45DRAMAtical Murder4,85488.79%96.64%
- 46I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator12,67488.75%91.73%
- 47Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series10,57988.73%92.28%
- 48StarVaders4,25088.60%97.13%
- 49Chill Pulse4,80188.41%95.54%
- 50Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You15,50988.20%90.28%
- 51AI: The Somnium Files9,32688.15%91.55%
- 52Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth7,54288.10%92.24%
- 53Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales17,23088.08%89.87%
- 54The Operator8,64088.07%91.66%
- 55Assemble with Care10,57287.77%90.42%
- 56American Arcadia4,15587.65%94.08%
- 57Pyre9,33187.59%90.39%
- 58Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate3,31087.54%95.29%
- 59Her Story10,36687.23%89.40%
- 60The Song of Saya9,96687.13%89.29%
- 61Gaokao.Love.100Days8,23087.13%89.74%
- 62Venba3,59786.97%92.52%
- 63Yokai's Secret6,90186.91%89.71%
- 64To Be or Not to Be8,20086.91%89.26%
- 65Chicken Police - Paint it RED!2,52786.90%94.50%
- 66Dreamlike Love with Seira1,63186.90%98.65%
- 67Carpe Diem8,55686.88%89.10%
- 68The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante11,39286.81%88.41%
- 69Batman - The Telltale Series18,04986.71%87.67%
- 70Storyteller9,01186.70%88.60%
- 71坏小孩1,69886.54%95.76%
- 721 to 1 humanoid edible toys2,44586.48%92.60%
- 73Nunholy5,25286.38%89.03%
- 74Durka Simulator1,69086.30%94.08%
- 75Swaying Girl5,08586.29%88.87%
- 76Long Dream1,00686.21%98.41%
- 77Cooking Companions1,19985.91%93.66%
- 78Vanity Fair: The Pursuit4,56185.81%87.63%
- 79GIRLS MADE PUDDING86285.79%95.24%
- 80Growing Up3,67485.75%87.83%
- 81Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love98085.68%92.86%
- 82Banner of the Maid8,30685.63%86.42%
- 83First Snow67985.59%94.55%
- 84The Herbalist74085.58%93.65%
- 85Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel1,75185.55%88.81%
- 86Blush Blush7,54785.52%86.25%
- 87Pixel Cafe86485.50%91.55%
- 88Super Robot Wars 306,45985.41%86.07%
- 89Mika and The Witch's Mountain1,16985.29%87.94%
- 90Summer in Mara Prologue1,04485.19%87.16%
- 91Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening2,96285.13%85.65%
- 92Girls of The Tower61285.01%85.46%
- 93A Bird Story10,78184.98%84.97%
- 94Maid Cafe on Electric Street72584.96%84.69%
- 95恋爱关系/Romance2,58684.87%84.45%
- 96Harold Halibut1,26984.66%82.11%
- 97B100X - Auto Dungeon RPG97484.56%80.29%
- 98Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost2,46284.43%82.21%
- 99Witchy Life Story1,22284.24%78.15%
- 100Amorous10,47084.18%83.42%
