Best Value Visual Novel Games
The Visual Novel games that stretch a budget furthest: median reviewer playtime divided by current price. Pick your currency in the top bar to rank against your local prices.
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By price
Price divided by median reviewer playtime — how much you pay per hour of gameplay. Lower is better. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
- 1Chill Pulse$0.04/1hr115h88.38%95.55%
- 2Tricolour Lovestory$0.10/1hr20h82.26%81.30%
- 3Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$0.11/1hr17h88.08%92.24%
- 4Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.12/1hr34h88.04%89.83%
- 5STEINS;GATE$0.16/1hr37h93.75%97.07%
- 6This Is the Police$0.22/1hr17h83.57%82.35%
- 7STEINS;GATE 0$0.23/1hr31h89.98%96.06%
- 8Tales of the Black Forest$0.23/1hr5h92.52%97.60%
- 9Mirror$0.25/1hr8h95.15%96.37%
- 10Persona 4 Golden$0.25/1hr80h95.79%97.04%
- 11Disco Elysium - The Final Cut$0.27/1hr38h92.03%92.58%
- 12Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet$0.28/1hr36h80.86%78.85%
- 13Library Of Ruina$0.34/1hr87h92.72%94.47%
- 14Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.37/1hr30h90.44%94.29%
- 15Banner of the Maid$0.39/1hr44h85.62%86.45%
- 16Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$0.45/1hr6h88.19%90.29%
- 17Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.46/1hr54h92.83%94.23%
- 18Volcano Princess$0.47/1hr23h95.61%97.80%
- 19An alt girl for skoof$0.48/1hr7h83.99%83.33%
- 20The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.49/1hr82h88.50%94.53%
- 21School Days$0.49/1hr30h81.24%76.52%
- 22Tiny Bunny$0.50/1hr15h83.48%83.00%
- 23Far Away$0.53/1hr25h89.35%94.74%
- 24DRAMAtical Murder$0.57/1hr21h88.77%96.62%
- 25Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.58/1hr35h93.23%95.79%
- 26Persona 5 Royal$0.58/1hr103h95.60%96.38%
- 27The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles$0.59/1hr68h89.48%94.32%
- 28The Red Strings Club$0.59/1hr5h89.94%93.46%
- 29Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$0.61/1hr49h95.25%97.56%
- 30Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.66/1hr30h84.39%82.20%
- 31Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.68/1hr29h93.70%96.00%
- 32Knowledge, or know Lady$0.74/1hr9h89.79%95.22%
- 33Fate/Samurai Remnant$0.74/1hr35h87.12%90.61%
- 34Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$0.76/1hr15h94.09%96.96%
- 35Scarlet Hollow$0.77/1hr24h89.35%97.97%
- 36Persona 3 Reload$0.77/1hr78h93.06%94.39%
- 37VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action$0.78/1hr13h94.74%97.28%
- 38Otaku's Adventure$0.78/1hr9h89.65%94.85%
- 39Suzerain$0.79/1hr25h88.99%92.44%
- 40Growing Up$0.79/1hr19h85.73%87.88%
- 41AI: The Somnium Files$0.80/1hr25h88.12%91.53%
- 42The Coffin of Andy and Leyley$0.83/1hr15h93.69%95.94%
- 43Raging Loop$0.83/1hr36h90.43%95.65%
- 44Coffee Talk$0.86/1hr8h90.36%94.70%
- 45Mirror 2: Project X$0.88/1hr2h29.21%24.40%
- 46Minds Beneath Us$0.89/1hr16h89.29%96.36%
- 47Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.90/1hr8h85.78%87.61%
- 48I Was a Teenage Exocolonist$0.93/1hr27h88.60%96.32%
- 49Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.93/1hr43h83.49%82.87%
- 50OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition$0.93/1hr11h90.37%96.15%
- 51Until Then$0.93/1hr21h92.62%96.74%
- 52LoveChoice$0.96/1hr2h90.65%92.21%
- 53Nunholy$0.97/1hr8h86.17%88.99%
- 54The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.98/1hr10h93.07%94.44%
- 55The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series$0.99/1hr51h94.46%96.52%
- 56CLANNAD$1.01/1hr45h91.96%98.43%
- 57Love Is All Around$1.01/1hr10h91.75%93.24%
- 58Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$1.03/1hr49h87.69%89.79%
- 59Super Robot Wars 30$1.03/1hr58h85.37%86.03%
- 60Assemble with Care$1.04/1hr2h87.75%90.41%
- 61Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$1.06/1hr13h87.70%95.30%
- 62Sanfu$1.12/1hr5h83.57%82.81%
- 63NEKOPARA Vol. 0$1.12/1hr3h90.55%93.71%
- 64Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$1.15/1hr11h76.55%71.08%
- 65BlazBlue Centralfiction$1.22/1hr33h89.90%93.95%
- 66Firework$1.24/1hr4h95.33%97.67%
- 67魔女的夜宴$1.24/1hr28h92.24%98.51%
- 68Senren＊Banka$1.25/1hr28h95.59%98.49%
- 69MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA$1.28/1hr12h86.82%88.61%
- 70Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut$1.28/1hr8h94.04%96.71%
- 71NEKOPARA Vol. 4$1.29/1hr8h90.78%97.14%
- 72TOGETHER BnB$1.32/1hr14h72.32%58.81%
- 73Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series$1.34/1hr11h88.71%92.27%
- 74NEKOPARA Vol. 3$1.36/1hr7h91.45%96.87%
- 75Night in the Woods$1.37/1hr15h91.52%94.78%
- 76NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD$1.47/1hr11h92.95%94.35%
- 77The Wolf Among Us$1.50/1hr10h95.30%97.89%
- 78Soul Hackers 2$1.51/1hr40h80.13%65.50%
- 79Batman - The Telltale Series$1.53/1hr10h86.69%87.66%
- 80Dreamlike Love with Seira$1.56/1hr4h86.74%98.60%
- 81StarVaders$1.57/1hr16h88.59%97.09%
- 82Winter Memories$1.58/1hr13h91.37%97.46%
- 83Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-$1.59/1hr6h89.50%95.03%
- 84KinitoPET$1.61/1hr4h89.74%93.02%
- 85The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$1.68/1hr9h84.00%83.49%
- 86Monster Prom$1.71/1hr7h89.69%93.02%
- 87Tales from the Borderlands$1.73/1hr12h91.13%94.32%
- 88NEKOPARA Vol. 2$1.74/1hr6h91.65%96.88%
- 89To Be or Not to Be$1.79/1hr7h86.89%89.27%
- 90ATRI -My Dear Moments-$1.86/1hr11h94.34%98.40%
- 91The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante$1.87/1hr10h86.64%88.03%
- 92Mika and The Witch's Mountain$1.96/1hr10h85.25%87.87%
- 93Summer Memories$2.06/1hr10h90.45%92.66%
- 94NEKOPARA Vol. 1$2.06/1hr5h92.36%95.06%
- 95Venba$2.10/1hr2h86.98%92.54%
- 96No Case Should Remain Unsolved$2.14/1hr3h90.83%96.46%
- 97Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love$2.14/1hr5h85.52%92.91%
- 981 to 1 humanoid edible toys$2.23/1hr4h86.24%92.56%
- 99Her Story$2.40/1hr4h87.21%89.40%
- 100Harold Halibut$2.41/1hr15h84.62%82.18%
How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.