Best Rated Visual Novel Games Free

The best rated Visual Novel games on Steam that are free to play. Scores are weighted by review volume, so small-sample flukes stay off the list.

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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.
  1. 1Helltaker96.76%
  2. 2Doki Doki Literature Club!96.00%
  3. 3Everlasting Summer93.34%
  4. 4Our Life: Beginnings & Always92.92%
  5. 5A Date with Death92.66%
  6. 6Eternal Senia91.80%
  7. 7missed messages.91.70%
  8. 8I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator88.61%
  9. 9Crush Crush87.81%
  10. 10Emily is Away87.72%
  11. 11Carpe Diem86.85%
  12. 12Durka Simulator86.14%
  13. 13First Snow85.55%
  14. 14Blush Blush85.49%
  15. 15Summer in Mara Prologue85.15%
  16. 16B100X - Auto Dungeon RPG84.73%
  17. 17Amorous84.17%
  18. 18MONMUSU83.11%