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.
- 1Persona 4 Golden85,10295.80%97.03%
- 2Volcano Princess48,02295.68%97.82%
- 3Senren＊Banka35,90595.67%98.54%
- 4Firework44,05995.41%97.69%
- 5The Wolf Among Us39,35095.36%97.89%
- 6Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy43,64495.28%97.55%
- 7Mirror84,23695.21%96.37%
- 8VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action38,23594.83%97.30%
- 9ATRI -My Dear Moments-22,71094.44%98.42%
- 10Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!31,12994.13%96.94%
- 11Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut32,10294.09%96.77%
- 12What Remains of Edith Finch51,04693.92%95.60%
- 13Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk33,53393.91%96.45%
- 14STEINS;GATE25,96993.83%97.08%
- 15The Coffin of Andy and Leyley37,50493.76%95.99%
- 16Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc37,12393.75%96.00%
- 17Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair31,55993.31%95.82%
- 18The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty59,26193.17%94.48%
- 19Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk21,64793.10%96.66%
- 20NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD55,52293.04%94.42%
- 21The Test20,13192.97%96.74%
- 22Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation54,23992.84%94.21%
- 23Tales of the Black Forest15,22592.77%97.61%
- 24Library Of Ruina42,51692.73%94.45%
- 25Until Then16,75192.58%96.88%
- 26NEKOPARA Vol. 127,28892.48%95.08%
- 27魔女的夜宴11,17392.33%98.54%
- 28Disco Elysium - The Final Cut127,42892.11%92.64%
- 29Love Is All Around45,85291.86%93.28%
- 30NEKOPARA Vol. 212,79591.85%96.90%
- 31Night in the Woods19,97391.66%94.79%
- 32NEKOPARA Vol. 311,98391.65%96.88%
- 33Winter Memories10,39791.59%97.45%
- 34Find Love or Die Trying11,96791.52%96.63%
- 35BAD END THEATER9,70391.38%97.55%
- 36Tales from the Borderlands19,38291.27%94.31%
- 37Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy11,78691.25%96.22%
- 38NEKOPARA Vol. 48,79190.96%97.17%
- 39No Case Should Remain Unsolved10,10290.95%96.46%
- 40Detention11,71890.93%95.65%
- 41LoveChoice36,19690.81%92.31%
- 42NEKOPARA Vol. 017,72190.71%93.71%
- 43Summer Memories24,54590.62%92.75%
- 44OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition9,28790.61%96.22%
- 45Coffee Talk12,35690.58%94.77%
- 46Raging Loop10,15690.57%95.67%
- 47Marco & The Galaxy Dragon7,68690.56%97.29%
- 48Yog-Sothoth’s Yard13,45890.52%94.32%
- 49Florence16,05690.23%93.24%
- 50Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth112,23490.23%94.18%
- 51STEINS;GATE 08,13990.19%96.08%
- 52The Red Strings Club13,94390.14%93.54%
- 53Knowledge, or know Lady8,84190.02%95.25%
- 54BlazBlue Centralfiction11,91590.00%93.87%
- 55The Test: Hypothesis Rising5,92689.94%97.60%
- 56Monster Prom14,29089.89%93.04%
- 57KinitoPET14,37789.86%92.96%
- 58Otaku's Adventure8,95889.85%94.83%
- 59Vampires' Melody5,69789.77%97.45%
- 60The Test: Final Revelation5,37189.75%97.88%
- 61Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-8,20089.73%95.01%
- 62The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles9,23789.69%94.35%
- 63Class of '098,64789.67%94.62%
- 64Far Away8,13089.60%94.78%
- 65小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop10,23989.57%93.64%
- 66Scarlet Hollow4,82589.56%97.97%
- 67Minds Beneath Us5,78889.39%96.29%
- 68Long Live The Queen7,12889.32%94.82%
- 69Suzerain11,40589.21%92.56%
- 70Beacon Pines4,33789.17%97.63%
- 71Hatoful Boyfriend7,56089.12%94.06%
- 72DRAMAtical Murder4,70789.01%96.71%
- 73Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series10,42488.91%92.29%
- 74I Was a Teenage Exocolonist4,66088.88%96.35%
- 75StarVaders4,15488.84%97.14%
- 76The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel5,84788.77%94.54%
- 77Chill Pulse4,77088.71%95.68%
- 78Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You15,45588.39%90.33%
- 79AI: The Somnium Files9,23688.38%91.61%
- 80Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth7,48988.34%92.28%
- 81The Operator8,31588.26%91.70%
- 82Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales17,12388.19%89.83%
- 83Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code4,80088.04%93.56%
- 84Assemble with Care10,38687.95%90.42%
- 85American Arcadia4,03387.87%94.00%
- 86Pyre9,30187.80%90.39%
- 87Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate3,14487.76%95.29%
- 88Fate/Samurai Remnant6,89787.56%90.71%
- 89The Song of Saya9,56287.51%89.73%
- 90Her Story10,31387.41%89.37%
