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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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.
  1. 1Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr
  2. 2Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr
  3. 3Banner of the Maid$0.09/1hr
  4. 4Library Of Ruina$0.10/1hr
  5. 5Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.11/1hr
  6. 6Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$0.11/1hr
  7. 7Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.11/1hr
  8. 8Tricolour Lovestory$0.11/1hr
  9. 9Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$0.12/1hr
  10. 10Persona 4 Golden$0.12/1hr
  11. 11Persona 5 Royal$0.14/1hr
  12. 12Mirror$0.15/1hr
  13. 13AI: The Somnium Files$0.17/1hr
  14. 14Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1$0.17/1hr
  15. 15Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.18/1hr
  16. 16This Is the Police$0.18/1hr
  17. 17BlazBlue Centralfiction$0.20/1hr
  18. 18An alt girl for skoof$0.21/1hr
  19. 19Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$0.21/1hr
  20. 20Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.21/1hr
  21. 21Tales of the Black Forest$0.23/1hr
  22. 22Persona 3 Reload$0.23/1hr
  23. 23STEINS;GATE$0.24/1hr
  24. 24Suzerain$0.24/1hr
  25. 25The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles$0.25/1hr
  26. 26Disco Elysium - The Final Cut$0.26/1hr
  27. 27The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series$0.27/1hr
  28. 28Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.29/1hr
  29. 29Soul Hackers 2$0.29/1hr
  30. 30STEINS;GATE 0$0.30/1hr
  31. 31The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.30/1hr
  32. 32Otaku's Adventure$0.31/1hr
  33. 33Monster Prom$0.32/1hr
  34. 34Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.32/1hr
  35. 35Super Robot Wars 30$0.32/1hr
  36. 36Until Then$0.33/1hr
  37. 37Raging Loop$0.35/1hr
  38. 38I Was a Teenage Exocolonist$0.35/1hr
  39. 39Volcano Princess$0.36/1hr
  40. 40CLANNAD$0.38/1hr
  41. 41Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.39/1hr
  42. 42Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$0.40/1hr
  43. 43Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.41/1hr
  44. 44The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$0.42/1hr
  45. 45Far Away$0.43/1hr
  46. 46School Days$0.45/1hr
  47. 47Neo Cab$0.45/1hr
  48. 48Escape Academy$0.47/1hr
  49. 49The Thaumaturge$0.48/1hr
  50. 50The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante$0.49/1hr
  51. 51Detention$0.50/1hr
  52. 52Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus$0.50/1hr
  53. 53The Coffin of Andy and Leyley$0.50/1hr
  54. 54We. The Revolution$0.53/1hr
  55. 55Rift of the NecroDancer$0.54/1hr
  56. 56Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series$0.54/1hr
  57. 57Knowledge, or know Lady$0.55/1hr
  58. 58A Bird Story$0.57/1hr
  59. 59Tiny Bunny$0.58/1hr
  60. 60The Red Strings Club$0.58/1hr
  61. 61DRAMAtical Murder$0.58/1hr
  62. 62Marco & The Galaxy Dragon$0.60/1hr
  63. 63Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code$0.60/1hr
  64. 64Summer Memories$0.60/1hr
  65. 65Love Is All Around$0.62/1hr
  66. 66Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.62/1hr
  67. 67LoveChoice$0.64/1hr
  68. 68Gaokao.Love.100Days$0.65/1hr
  69. 69AI2U: With You 'Til The End$0.67/1hr
  70. 70Batman - The Telltale Series$0.68/1hr
  71. 71Growing Up$0.69/1hr
  72. 72Night in the Woods$0.69/1hr
  73. 73Senren＊Banka$0.70/1hr
  74. 74VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action$0.72/1hr
  75. 75Harold Halibut$0.73/1hr
  76. 76The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.74/1hr
  77. 77Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk$0.76/1hr
  78. 78To Be or Not to Be$0.76/1hr
  79. 79NEKOPARA Vol. 0$0.76/1hr
  80. 80NEKOPARA Vol. 2$0.78/1hr
  81. 81ATRI -My Dear Moments-$0.79/1hr
  82. 82魔女的夜宴$0.80/1hr
  83. 83NEKOPARA Vol. 1$0.80/1hr
  84. 84OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition$0.80/1hr
  85. 85Mika and The Witch's Mountain$0.81/1hr
  86. 86GIRLS MADE PUDDING$0.81/1hr
  87. 87Coffee Talk$0.82/1hr
  88. 88Nunholy$0.82/1hr
  89. 89Beacon Pines$0.85/1hr
  90. 90NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD$0.86/1hr
  91. 91Fate/Samurai Remnant$0.86/1hr
  92. 92Minds Beneath Us$0.87/1hr
  93. 93Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$0.90/1hr
  94. 94StarVaders$0.92/1hr
  95. 95Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$0.94/1hr
  96. 96MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA$0.94/1hr
  97. 97TOGETHER BnB$0.95/1hr
  98. 98Winter Memories$0.97/1hr
  99. 99Scarlet Hollow$0.98/1hr
  100. 100American Arcadia$1.03/1hr

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.