Best Rated Visual Novel Games Under $40
The best rated Visual Novel games on Steam for games under $40. 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.
- 1Helltaker127,92596.76%97.68%
- 2Doki Doki Literature Club!225,65496.00%96.49%
- 3Persona 4 Golden86,66895.79%97.04%
- 4Volcano Princess48,82895.61%97.80%
- 5Senren＊Banka36,68895.59%98.49%
- 6Firework44,33495.33%97.67%
- 7The Wolf Among Us39,98695.30%97.89%
- 8Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy44,57895.25%97.56%
- 9Mirror84,07495.15%96.37%
- 10VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action38,55294.74%97.28%
- 11ATRI -My Dear Moments-23,12894.34%98.40%
- 12Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!31,90494.09%96.96%
- 13Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut33,25794.04%96.71%
- 14What Remains of Edith Finch52,22193.88%95.59%
- 15Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk34,17293.81%96.41%
- 16STEINS;GATE26,57393.75%97.07%
- 17Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc38,09993.70%96.00%
- 18The Coffin of Andy and Leyley38,91893.69%95.94%
- 19Everlasting Summer78,01393.34%94.42%
- 20Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair32,40293.23%95.79%
- 21The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty59,80393.07%94.44%
- 22Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk22,22693.01%96.64%
- 23NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD57,33592.95%94.35%
- 24Our Life: Beginnings & Always13,66792.92%98.76%
- 25Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation56,29092.83%94.23%
- 26The Test20,12892.81%96.72%
- 27Library Of Ruina44,34392.72%94.47%
- 28A Date with Death14,54092.66%97.98%
- 29Until Then18,61892.62%96.74%
- 30Tales of the Black Forest15,39692.52%97.60%
- 31NEKOPARA Vol. 127,40492.36%95.06%
- 32魔女的夜宴11,63892.24%98.51%
- 33Disco Elysium - The Final Cut129,72692.03%92.58%
- 34Eternal Senia12,05491.80%97.49%
- 35Love Is All Around45,88191.75%93.24%
- 36missed messages.15,52291.70%96.06%
- 37NEKOPARA Vol. 212,83791.65%96.88%
- 38Night in the Woods20,16591.52%94.78%
- 39NEKOPARA Vol. 312,01291.45%96.87%
- 40Winter Memories10,55391.37%97.46%
- 41Find Love or Die Trying11,95791.28%96.59%
- 42BAD END THEATER9,98091.24%97.56%
- 43Tales from the Borderlands19,46391.13%94.32%
- 44No Case Should Remain Unsolved10,45890.83%96.46%
- 45NEKOPARA Vol. 48,82190.78%97.14%
- 46Detention11,79390.74%95.66%
- 47LoveChoice36,52590.65%92.21%
- 48NEKOPARA Vol. 017,77890.55%93.71%
- 49Summer Memories24,98090.45%92.66%
- 50Yog-Sothoth’s Yard13,68390.44%94.29%
- 51Raging Loop10,52390.43%95.65%
- 52OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition9,40690.37%96.15%
- 53Marco & The Galaxy Dragon7,82690.37%97.32%
- 54Coffee Talk12,51090.36%94.70%
- 55Florence16,33090.06%93.20%
- 56STEINS;GATE 08,30389.98%96.06%
- 57Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth112,25189.95%94.16%
- 58The Red Strings Club14,21089.94%93.46%
- 59BlazBlue Centralfiction12,23089.90%93.95%
- 60Knowledge, or know Lady8,94189.79%95.22%
- 61KinitoPET14,65289.74%93.02%
- 62Monster Prom14,31989.69%93.02%
- 63Otaku's Adventure9,07289.65%94.85%
- 64The Test: Hypothesis Rising5,92389.64%97.59%
- 65Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-8,23689.50%95.03%
- 66The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles9,40089.48%94.32%
- 67Class of '099,00089.48%94.53%
- 68The Test: Final Revelation5,36789.44%97.82%
- 69Scarlet Hollow5,12389.35%97.97%
- 70Far Away8,17389.35%94.74%
- 71小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop10,23789.34%93.63%
- 72Vampires' Melody5,71889.33%97.45%
- 73Minds Beneath Us6,15789.29%96.36%
- 74Long Live The Queen7,15689.07%94.84%
- 75Suzerain11,72688.99%92.44%
- 76Hatoful Boyfriend7,57388.87%94.07%
- 77Beacon Pines4,44588.85%97.64%
- 78DRAMAtical Murder4,88788.77%96.62%
- 79Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series10,61988.71%92.27%
- 80I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator12,67288.61%91.71%
- 81I Was a Teenage Exocolonist4,75088.60%96.32%
- 82StarVaders4,30188.59%97.09%
- 83The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel5,90288.50%94.53%
- 84Chill Pulse4,80788.38%95.55%
- 85Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You15,52388.19%90.29%
- 86AI: The Somnium Files9,35288.12%91.53%
- 87Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth7,55388.08%92.24%
- 88The Operator8,77188.05%91.60%
- 89Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales17,28388.04%89.83%
- 90Crush Crush28,32987.81%88.82%
- 91Assemble with Care10,59487.75%90.41%
- 92Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code4,84487.74%93.52%
- 93Emily is Away32,32487.72%88.58%
- 94Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate3,34087.70%95.30%
- 95American Arcadia4,17787.63%94.09%
- 96Pyre9,33887.57%90.39%
- 97Her Story10,37887.21%89.40%
- 98Fate/Samurai Remnant6,99787.12%90.61%
- 99Gaokao.Love.100Days8,23187.11%89.75%
- 100The Song of Saya10,04587.10%89.25%
