Hidden Gem Visual Novel Games
Highly rated Visual Novel games that never got big: under $20, fewer than 25,000 reviews. The review cap filters out everything you've already heard of.
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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
- 1ATRI -My Dear Moments-23,53994.44%98.38%
- 2Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk22,39593.09%96.62%
- 3Our Life: Beginnings & Always13,77893.04%98.74%
- 4The Test20,11192.88%96.71%
- 5A Date with Death14,92392.83%97.96%
- 6Until Then19,40992.74%96.64%
- 7Tales of the Black Forest15,50492.72%97.59%
- 8CLANNAD11,00692.41%98.43%
- 9Eternal Senia12,06691.81%97.49%
- 10missed messages.15,55391.79%96.03%
- 11NEKOPARA Vol. 212,85891.77%96.89%
- 12Winter Memories10,65591.69%97.49%
- 13Find Love or Die Trying11,94291.39%96.58%
- 14BAD END THEATER10,06591.36%97.50%
- 15Night in the Woods20,28291.32%94.80%
- 16Tales from the Borderlands19,59191.24%94.34%
- 17NEKOPARA Vol. 312,01991.14%96.85%
- 18NEKOPARA Vol. 48,83191.10%97.14%
- 19Raging Loop11,30491.02%95.66%
- 20No Case Should Remain Unsolved10,71590.97%96.37%
- 21Detention11,82890.87%95.69%
- 22NEKOPARA Vol. 017,80990.64%93.71%
- 23Marco & The Galaxy Dragon7,89290.53%97.30%
- 24Yog-Sothoth’s Yard13,87290.44%94.23%
- 25OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition9,47090.38%96.11%
- 26Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth112,27790.36%94.10%
- 27Florence16,48490.19%93.24%
- 28STEINS;GATE 08,50790.13%95.94%
- 29Coffee Talk12,58890.08%94.70%
- 30The Red Strings Club14,31690.04%93.43%
- 31Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-8,25789.96%95.03%
- 32Knowledge, or know Lady8,98689.93%95.21%
- 33BlazBlue Centralfiction12,32189.91%93.93%
- 34KinitoPET14,76889.87%93.04%
- 35Otaku's Adventure9,10789.80%94.87%
- 36Monster Prom14,33989.79%93.01%
- 37The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles9,51789.51%94.29%
- 38Vampires' Melody5,73189.51%97.45%
- 39小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop10,24389.44%93.61%
- 40Beacon Pines4,51489.44%97.56%
- 41Far Away8,19789.34%94.69%
- 42The Test: Hypothesis Rising5,91989.22%97.58%
- 43I Was a Teenage Exocolonist4,84889.21%96.31%
- 44Long Live The Queen7,16889.21%94.84%
- 45Class of '099,11289.18%94.57%
- 46Suzerain11,91689.09%92.37%
- 47Hatoful Boyfriend7,58289.01%94.06%
- 48The Test: Final Revelation5,36188.99%97.82%
- 49Minds Beneath Us6,41188.95%96.26%
- 50Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series10,72788.85%92.26%
- 51I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator12,68188.83%91.70%
- 52StarVaders4,38988.78%96.97%
- 53The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel5,93788.67%94.54%
- 54DRAMAtical Murder4,99488.39%96.66%
- 55Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You15,58188.25%90.23%
- 56Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth7,60788.25%92.28%
- 57Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate3,46788.24%95.36%
- 58The Operator8,88288.17%91.53%
- 59AI: The Somnium Files9,41988.12%91.49%
- 60Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales17,37588.10%89.78%
- 61Rift of the NecroDancer6,25088.06%94.13%
- 62Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code4,87787.92%93.52%
- 63Chill Pulse4,83687.90%95.43%
- 64Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition13,31487.69%89.58%
- 65Pyre9,35387.68%90.36%
- 66Venba3,78487.62%92.49%
- 67Assemble with Care11,07587.31%90.07%
- 68Her Story10,42087.29%89.32%
- 69Gaokao.Love.100Days8,25987.25%89.74%
- 70The Song of Saya10,25987.23%89.22%
- 71American Arcadia4,27487.20%94.06%
- 72Dreamlike Love with Seira1,66587.10%98.62%
- 73MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA10,60287.08%88.65%
- 74Batman - The Telltale Series18,25187.03%87.72%
- 75To Be or Not to Be8,27887.02%89.25%
- 76Yokai's Secret6,89887.02%89.68%
- 77Carpe Diem8,56286.99%89.10%
- 78Durka Simulator1,68486.95%93.94%
- 79Chicken Police - Paint it RED!2,54886.80%94.39%
- 80Fate/EXTELLA4,48386.72%90.85%
- 81The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante13,07886.60%87.69%
- 82GIRLS MADE PUDDING92886.60%95.47%
- 83坏小孩1,70586.53%95.78%
- 84Nunholy5,41086.46%88.82%
- 851 to 1 humanoid edible toys2,48786.45%92.48%
- 86Storyteller9,20586.36%88.64%
- 87Vanity Fair: The Pursuit4,59586.31%87.49%
- 88Swaying Girl5,07986.26%88.84%
- 89Long Dream1,02286.20%98.43%
- 90Super Robot Wars 306,51085.88%86.04%
- 91Banner of the Maid8,35885.73%86.40%
- 92Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love1,00485.69%93.03%
- 93Blush Blush7,62185.65%86.27%
- 94DEAD OR SCHOOL2,81785.42%84.17%
- 95B100X - Auto Dungeon RPG97685.29%80.33%
- 96Cooking Companions1,21085.29%93.72%
- 97Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening2,99285.28%85.63%
- 98Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online4,71585.21%87.21%
- 99Girls of The Tower61885.21%85.60%
- 100Growing Up3,72785.18%87.63%
