Hidden Gem Visual Novel Games Under $20
Highly rated Visual Novel games on Steam for games under $20, capped at 25,000 reviews. The 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 milk22,12193.16%96.65%
- 2Our Life: Beginnings & Always13,63793.13%98.76%
- 3The Test20,13892.98%96.72%
- 4A Date with Death14,41492.85%97.99%
- 5Tales of the Black Forest15,34592.81%97.60%
- 6Until Then18,35092.76%96.75%
- 7CLANNAD10,80792.19%98.43%
- 8Eternal Senia12,05292.04%97.50%
- 9missed messages.15,52191.90%96.06%
- 10NEKOPARA Vol. 212,82891.88%96.90%
- 11NEKOPARA Vol. 312,00991.70%96.89%
- 12Night in the Woods20,11691.68%94.77%
- 13Winter Memories10,51191.61%97.46%
- 14Find Love or Die Trying11,95591.52%96.60%
- 15BAD END THEATER9,94291.48%97.55%
- 16Tales from the Borderlands19,44391.31%94.32%
- 17No Case Should Remain Unsolved10,40491.07%96.46%
- 18Detention11,77790.97%95.65%
- 19NEKOPARA Vol. 48,81590.93%97.15%
- 20NEKOPARA Vol. 017,77990.75%93.72%
- 21Marco & The Galaxy Dragon7,77890.64%97.30%
- 22Summer Memories24,92990.60%92.67%
- 23Coffee Talk12,47390.59%94.72%
- 24Yog-Sothoth’s Yard13,62690.55%94.29%
- 25Florence16,28890.25%93.20%
- 26Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth112,25190.24%94.16%
- 27The Red Strings Club14,15690.15%93.47%
- 28Knowledge, or know Lady8,92190.06%95.22%
- 29KinitoPET14,59889.94%93.02%
- 30Otaku's Adventure9,04889.92%94.85%
- 31Monster Prom14,31389.91%93.03%
- 32Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-8,23189.77%95.02%
- 33Class of '098,94089.77%94.60%
- 34The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles9,35789.73%94.30%
- 35The Test: Hypothesis Rising5,92589.67%97.59%
- 36Far Away8,16489.64%94.77%
- 37小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop10,24089.60%93.64%
- 38Vampires' Melody5,71789.51%97.45%
- 39The Test: Final Revelation5,37189.47%97.82%
- 40Long Live The Queen7,14889.36%94.84%
- 41Minds Beneath Us6,02489.25%96.33%
- 42Suzerain11,64989.24%92.49%
- 43Hatoful Boyfriend7,56789.16%94.07%
- 44Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series10,58188.96%92.28%
- 45I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator12,67388.96%91.73%
- 46Beacon Pines4,42588.86%97.63%
- 47DRAMAtical Murder4,85488.79%96.64%
- 48StarVaders4,25088.60%97.13%
- 49Chill Pulse4,80188.41%95.54%
- 50AI: The Somnium Files9,33088.40%91.55%
- 51Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You15,50988.39%90.28%
- 52Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth7,54288.37%92.24%
- 53The Operator8,65888.33%91.65%
- 54Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales17,23188.25%89.87%
- 55Assemble with Care10,57588.01%90.42%
- 56Pyre9,33287.84%90.39%
- 57American Arcadia4,15587.65%94.08%
- 58Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate3,31087.54%95.29%
- 59Her Story10,36787.46%89.40%
- 60Gaokao.Love.100Days8,22987.38%89.73%
- 61The Song of Saya9,97487.37%89.29%
- 62Yokai's Secret6,90187.19%89.71%
- 63To Be or Not to Be8,20187.17%89.26%
- 64Carpe Diem8,55687.13%89.10%
- 65The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante11,52886.99%88.32%
- 66Venba3,59786.97%92.52%
- 67Storyteller9,01386.94%88.59%
- 68Chicken Police - Paint it RED!2,52786.90%94.50%
- 69Dreamlike Love with Seira1,63186.90%98.65%
- 70Batman - The Telltale Series18,05086.88%87.67%
- 71Nunholy5,25586.68%89.02%
- 72Long Dream1,00686.64%98.41%
- 73坏小孩1,69886.54%95.76%
- 741 to 1 humanoid edible toys2,44586.48%92.60%
- 75Durka Simulator1,69086.30%94.08%
- 76Swaying Girl5,08586.29%88.87%
- 77Vanity Fair: The Pursuit4,56186.14%87.63%
- 78Cooking Companions1,19985.91%93.66%
- 79Banner of the Maid8,30685.89%86.42%
- 80Blush Blush7,54585.80%86.26%
- 81GIRLS MADE PUDDING86285.79%95.24%
- 82Growing Up3,67485.75%87.83%
- 83Super Robot Wars 306,45985.69%86.07%
- 84Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love98085.68%92.86%
- 85First Snow67985.59%94.55%
- 86The Herbalist74085.58%93.65%
- 87Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel1,75185.55%88.81%
- 88Pixel Cafe86485.50%91.55%
- 89Mika and The Witch's Mountain1,16985.29%87.94%
- 90A Bird Story10,78185.20%84.97%
- 91Summer in Mara Prologue1,04485.19%87.16%
- 92Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening2,96285.13%85.65%
- 93Girls of The Tower61285.01%85.46%
- 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%
- 99Amorous10,47184.41%83.42%
- 100An alt girl for skoof10,40984.40%83.39%
