Best Value Visual Novel Games Under $5
The Visual Novel games on Steam games under $5 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%
- 4Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$0.11/1hr45h87.69%89.58%
- 5Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.11/1hr35h88.10%89.78%
- 6Tricolour Lovestory$0.11/1hr6h82.22%81.16%
- 7Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$0.12/1hr17h88.25%92.28%
- 8Mirror$0.15/1hr5h95.17%96.36%
- 9AI: The Somnium Files$0.17/1hr24h88.12%91.49%
- 10This Is the Police$0.18/1hr20h83.63%82.26%
- 11An alt girl for skoof$0.21/1hr7h84.51%83.31%
- 12Tales of the Black Forest$0.23/1hr5h92.72%97.59%
- 13Otaku's Adventure$0.31/1hr11h89.80%94.87%
- 14Monster Prom$0.32/1hr8h89.79%93.01%
- 15Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.32/1hr16h82.90%78.87%
- 16Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.39/1hr9h86.31%87.49%
- 17Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$0.40/1hr6h88.25%90.23%
- 18The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$0.42/1hr9h84.01%83.51%
- 19Neo Cab$0.45/1hr5h83.02%78.73%
- 20Escape Academy$0.47/1hr6h84.59%86.90%
- 21Detention$0.50/1hr5h90.87%95.69%
- 22Knowledge, or know Lady$0.55/1hr9h89.93%95.21%
- 23A Bird Story$0.57/1hr1h84.67%85.04%
- 24The Red Strings Club$0.58/1hr5h90.04%93.43%
- 25Marco & The Galaxy Dragon$0.60/1hr7h90.53%97.30%
- 26Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code$0.60/1hr8h87.92%93.52%
- 27LoveChoice$0.64/1hr2h90.66%92.15%
- 28Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk$0.76/1hr3h93.09%96.62%
- 29NEKOPARA Vol. 0$0.76/1hr2h90.64%93.71%
- 30NEKOPARA Vol. 2$0.78/1hr5h91.77%96.89%
- 31NEKOPARA Vol. 1$0.80/1hr5h92.40%95.03%
- 32GIRLS MADE PUDDING$0.81/1hr6h86.60%95.47%
- 33Assemble with Care$1.09/1hr2h87.31%90.07%
- 34Firework$1.13/1hr4h95.37%97.67%
- 35Her Story$1.15/1hr4h87.29%89.32%
- 361 to 1 humanoid edible toys$1.35/1hr3h86.45%92.48%
- 37No Case Should Remain Unsolved$1.42/1hr3h90.97%96.37%
- 38Florence$1.54/1hr1h90.19%93.24%
- 39Venba$1.66/1hr2h87.62%92.49%
- 40Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk$1.71/1hr0h93.88%96.41%
- 41What Remains of Edith Finch$1.80/1hr3h93.94%95.59%
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.