Hidden Gem Visual Novel Games Under $20
Highly rated Visual Novel games on Steam for games under $20, capped at 25,000 reviews. The 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.
- 1Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk21,64793.10%96.66%
- 2The Test20,13192.97%96.74%
- 3Tales of the Black Forest15,22592.77%97.61%
- 4Until Then16,75192.58%96.88%
- 5NEKOPARA Vol. 212,79591.85%96.90%
- 6Night in the Woods19,97391.66%94.79%
- 7NEKOPARA Vol. 311,98391.65%96.88%
- 8Winter Memories10,39791.59%97.45%
- 9Find Love or Die Trying11,96791.52%96.63%
- 10BAD END THEATER9,70391.38%97.55%
- 11Tales from the Borderlands19,38291.27%94.31%
- 12Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy11,78691.25%96.22%
- 13NEKOPARA Vol. 48,79190.96%97.17%
- 14No Case Should Remain Unsolved10,10290.95%96.46%
- 15Detention11,71890.93%95.65%
- 16NEKOPARA Vol. 017,72190.71%93.71%
- 17Summer Memories24,54590.62%92.75%
- 18Coffee Talk12,35690.58%94.77%
- 19Marco & The Galaxy Dragon7,68690.56%97.29%
- 20Yog-Sothoth’s Yard13,45890.52%94.32%
- 21Florence16,05690.23%93.24%
- 22Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth112,23490.23%94.18%
- 23The Red Strings Club13,94390.14%93.54%
- 24Knowledge, or know Lady8,84190.02%95.25%
- 25The Test: Hypothesis Rising5,92689.94%97.60%
- 26Monster Prom14,29089.89%93.04%
- 27KinitoPET14,37789.86%92.96%
- 28Otaku's Adventure8,95889.85%94.83%
- 29Vampires' Melody5,69789.77%97.45%
- 30The Test: Final Revelation5,37189.75%97.88%
- 31Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-8,20089.73%95.01%
- 32Class of '098,64789.67%94.62%
- 33Far Away8,13089.60%94.78%
- 34小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop10,23989.57%93.64%
- 35Minds Beneath Us5,78889.39%96.29%
- 36Long Live The Queen7,12889.32%94.82%
- 37Suzerain11,40589.21%92.56%
- 38Beacon Pines4,33789.17%97.63%
- 39Hatoful Boyfriend7,56089.12%94.06%
- 40DRAMAtical Murder4,70789.01%96.71%
- 41Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series10,42488.91%92.29%
- 42Chill Pulse4,77088.71%95.68%
- 43Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You15,45588.39%90.33%
- 44AI: The Somnium Files9,23688.38%91.61%
- 45Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth7,48988.34%92.28%
- 46The Operator8,31588.26%91.70%
- 47Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales17,12388.19%89.83%
- 48Assemble with Care10,38687.95%90.42%
- 49American Arcadia4,03387.87%94.00%
- 50Pyre9,30187.80%90.39%
- 51Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate3,14487.76%95.29%
- 52The Song of Saya9,56287.51%89.73%
- 53Her Story10,31387.41%89.37%
- 54The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante9,64887.38%89.45%
- 55Gaokao.Love.100Days8,20987.35%89.73%
- 56Chicken Police - Paint it RED!2,50887.23%94.54%
- 57Venba3,50887.22%92.45%
- 58Dreamlike Love with Seira1,59287.22%98.68%
- 59Yokai's Secret6,90887.15%89.69%
- 60To Be or Not to Be8,12387.12%89.24%
- 61MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA10,38986.99%88.54%
- 62坏小孩1,68986.98%95.74%
- 631 to 1 humanoid edible toys2,38386.86%93.03%
- 64Storyteller8,82286.82%88.44%
- 65Batman - The Telltale Series17,83686.78%87.56%
- 66Swaying Girl5,08086.65%88.92%
- 67Nunholy5,16986.61%88.97%
- 68Long Dream98486.55%98.37%
- 69Cooking Companions1,19386.29%93.80%
- 70Vanity Fair: The Pursuit4,51486.13%87.77%
- 71GIRLS MADE PUDDING82086.13%95.12%
- 72Growing Up3,62986.05%87.85%
- 73Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love96186.03%92.72%
- 74The Herbalist73885.96%93.63%
- 75Banner of the Maid8,19185.94%86.62%
- 76Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel1,71285.90%88.90%
- 77Pixel Cafe84085.90%91.90%
- 78Super Robot Wars 306,42085.69%86.15%
- 79Mika and The Witch's Mountain1,13385.67%88.17%
- 80Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening2,93485.44%85.62%
- 81Girls of The Tower60985.39%85.39%
- 82Maid Cafe on Electric Street70885.39%85.31%
- 83恋爱关系/Romance2,58585.24%84.64%
- 84A Bird Story10,72085.14%84.91%
- 85Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost2,41384.82%81.97%
- 86Witchy Life Story1,21084.62%78.26%
- 87恋爱单选题2,46684.49%80.82%
- 88An alt girl for skoof10,38184.35%83.35%
