Best Value Visual Novel Games Under $10
The Visual Novel games on Steam games under $10 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.
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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.
- 1Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr27h93.88%95.96%
- 2Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 3Banner of the Maid$0.09/1hr39h85.73%86.40%
- 4Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.11/1hr79h92.89%94.24%
- 5Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$0.11/1hr45h87.69%89.58%
- 6Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.11/1hr35h88.10%89.78%
- 7Tricolour Lovestory$0.11/1hr6h82.22%81.16%
- 8Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$0.12/1hr17h88.25%92.28%
- 9Persona 4 Golden$0.12/1hr83h95.83%97.04%
- 10Mirror$0.15/1hr5h95.17%96.36%
- 11AI: The Somnium Files$0.17/1hr24h88.12%91.49%
- 12Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1$0.17/1hr40h90.36%94.10%
- 13Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.18/1hr45h83.52%82.81%
- 14This Is the Police$0.18/1hr20h83.63%82.26%
- 15BlazBlue Centralfiction$0.20/1hr29h89.91%93.93%
- 16An alt girl for skoof$0.21/1hr7h84.51%83.31%
- 17Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$0.21/1hr48h95.31%97.55%
- 18Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.21/1hr38h93.31%95.77%
- 19Tales of the Black Forest$0.23/1hr5h92.72%97.59%
- 20STEINS;GATE$0.24/1hr38h93.62%97.07%
- 21Suzerain$0.24/1hr25h89.09%92.37%
- 22Disco Elysium - The Final Cut$0.26/1hr38h92.03%92.55%
- 23Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.29/1hr26h90.44%94.23%
- 24STEINS;GATE 0$0.30/1hr30h90.13%95.94%
- 25Otaku's Adventure$0.31/1hr11h89.80%94.87%
- 26Monster Prom$0.32/1hr8h89.79%93.01%
- 27Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.32/1hr16h82.90%78.87%
- 28Until Then$0.33/1hr24h92.74%96.64%
- 29Volcano Princess$0.36/1hr20h95.66%97.79%
- 30Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.39/1hr9h86.31%87.49%
- 31Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$0.40/1hr6h88.25%90.23%
- 32Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.41/1hr16h75.75%69.72%
- 33The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$0.42/1hr9h84.01%83.51%
- 34Neo Cab$0.45/1hr5h83.02%78.73%
- 35Escape Academy$0.47/1hr6h84.59%86.90%
- 36The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante$0.49/1hr12h86.60%87.69%
- 37Detention$0.50/1hr5h90.87%95.69%
- 38The Coffin of Andy and Leyley$0.50/1hr16h93.73%95.89%
- 39We. The Revolution$0.53/1hr11h83.09%74.66%
- 40Rift of the NecroDancer$0.54/1hr11h88.06%94.13%
- 41Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series$0.54/1hr11h88.85%92.26%
- 42Knowledge, or know Lady$0.55/1hr9h89.93%95.21%
- 43A Bird Story$0.57/1hr1h84.67%85.04%
- 44Tiny Bunny$0.58/1hr13h83.54%83.00%
- 45The Red Strings Club$0.58/1hr5h90.04%93.43%
- 46Marco & The Galaxy Dragon$0.60/1hr7h90.53%97.30%
- 47Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code$0.60/1hr8h87.92%93.52%
- 48Summer Memories$0.60/1hr10h90.43%92.65%
- 49Love Is All Around$0.62/1hr11h91.79%93.23%
- 50Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.62/1hr16h85.07%82.26%
- 51LoveChoice$0.64/1hr2h90.66%92.15%
- 52Gaokao.Love.100Days$0.65/1hr9h87.25%89.74%
- 53AI2U: With You 'Til The End$0.67/1hr14h84.94%87.84%
- 54Batman - The Telltale Series$0.68/1hr9h87.03%87.72%
- 55Growing Up$0.69/1hr10h85.18%87.63%
- 56Night in the Woods$0.69/1hr15h91.32%94.80%
- 57Harold Halibut$0.73/1hr13h83.99%81.94%
- 58The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.74/1hr9h93.10%94.42%
- 59Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk$0.76/1hr3h93.09%96.62%
- 60To Be or Not to Be$0.76/1hr8h87.02%89.25%
- 61NEKOPARA Vol. 0$0.76/1hr2h90.64%93.71%
- 62NEKOPARA Vol. 2$0.78/1hr5h91.77%96.89%
- 63ATRI -My Dear Moments-$0.79/1hr11h94.44%98.38%
- 64NEKOPARA Vol. 1$0.80/1hr5h92.40%95.03%
- 65OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition$0.80/1hr12h90.38%96.11%
- 66Mika and The Witch's Mountain$0.81/1hr10h84.65%87.78%
- 67GIRLS MADE PUDDING$0.81/1hr6h86.60%95.47%
- 68Coffee Talk$0.82/1hr8h90.08%94.70%
- 69Nunholy$0.82/1hr7h86.46%88.82%
- 70Beacon Pines$0.85/1hr7h89.44%97.56%
- 71NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD$0.86/1hr6h92.98%94.31%
- 72American Arcadia$1.03/1hr8h87.20%94.06%
- 73Assemble with Care$1.09/1hr2h87.31%90.07%
- 74The Song of Saya$1.09/1hr7h87.23%89.22%
- 75Firework$1.13/1hr4h95.37%97.67%
- 76Her Story$1.15/1hr4h87.29%89.32%
- 77Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut$1.27/1hr7h94.15%96.67%
- 78Sanfu$1.29/1hr5h83.56%82.84%
- 79Dreamlike Love with Seira$1.34/1hr4h87.10%98.62%
- 801 to 1 humanoid edible toys$1.35/1hr3h86.45%92.48%
- 81No Case Should Remain Unsolved$1.42/1hr3h90.97%96.37%
- 82Class of '09$1.49/1hr5h89.18%94.57%
- 83Florence$1.54/1hr1h90.19%93.24%
- 84KinitoPET$1.63/1hr4h89.87%93.04%
- 85Venba$1.66/1hr2h87.62%92.49%
- 86Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk$1.71/1hr0h93.88%96.41%
- 87What Remains of Edith Finch$1.80/1hr3h93.94%95.59%
- 88The Operator$1.94/1hr5h88.17%91.53%
- 89BAD END THEATER$3.90/1hr2h91.36%97.50%
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.