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.
- 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%
- 10Disco Elysium - The Final Cut$0.27/1hr38h92.03%92.58%
- 11Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet$0.28/1hr36h80.86%78.85%
- 12Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$0.45/1hr6h88.19%90.29%
- 13An alt girl for skoof$0.48/1hr7h83.99%83.33%
- 14Tiny Bunny$0.50/1hr15h83.48%83.00%
- 15The Red Strings Club$0.59/1hr5h89.94%93.46%
- 16Knowledge, or know Lady$0.74/1hr9h89.79%95.22%
- 17Otaku's Adventure$0.78/1hr9h89.65%94.85%
- 18Coffee Talk$0.86/1hr8h90.36%94.70%
- 19Mirror 2: Project X$0.88/1hr2h29.21%24.40%
- 20Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.90/1hr8h85.78%87.61%
- 21OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition$0.93/1hr11h90.37%96.15%
- 22LoveChoice$0.96/1hr2h90.65%92.21%
- 23Nunholy$0.97/1hr8h86.17%88.99%
- 24The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.98/1hr10h93.07%94.44%
- 25Love Is All Around$1.01/1hr10h91.75%93.24%
- 26Assemble with Care$1.04/1hr2h87.75%90.41%
- 27Sanfu$1.12/1hr5h83.57%82.81%
- 28NEKOPARA Vol. 0$1.12/1hr3h90.55%93.71%
- 29Firework$1.24/1hr4h95.33%97.67%
- 30Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut$1.28/1hr8h94.04%96.71%
- 31NEKOPARA Vol. 4$1.29/1hr8h90.78%97.14%
- 32NEKOPARA Vol. 3$1.36/1hr7h91.45%96.87%
- 33Dreamlike Love with Seira$1.56/1hr4h86.74%98.60%
- 34Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-$1.59/1hr6h89.50%95.03%
- 35KinitoPET$1.61/1hr4h89.74%93.02%
- 36NEKOPARA Vol. 2$1.74/1hr6h91.65%96.88%
- 37NEKOPARA Vol. 1$2.06/1hr5h92.36%95.06%
- 38Venba$2.10/1hr2h86.98%92.54%
- 39No Case Should Remain Unsolved$2.14/1hr3h90.83%96.46%
- 40Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love$2.14/1hr5h85.52%92.91%
- 411 to 1 humanoid edible toys$2.23/1hr4h86.24%92.56%
- 42Her Story$2.40/1hr4h87.21%89.40%
- 43Class of '09$2.51/1hr4h89.48%94.53%
- 44A Bird Story$2.78/1hr1h84.96%84.99%
- 45Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk$3.06/1hr3h93.01%96.64%
- 46Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk$3.31/1hr0h93.81%96.41%
- 47The Test$3.73/1hr1h92.81%96.72%
- 48BAD END THEATER$5.12/1hr2h91.24%97.56%
- 49Florence$5.99/1hr1h90.06%93.20%
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.