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 milk22,22693.01%96.64%
- 2Our Life: Beginnings & Always13,66792.92%98.76%
- 3The Test20,12892.81%96.72%
- 4A Date with Death14,54092.66%97.98%
- 5Until Then18,61892.62%96.74%
- 6Tales of the Black Forest15,39692.52%97.60%
- 7Eternal Senia12,05491.80%97.49%
- 8missed messages.15,52291.70%96.06%
- 9NEKOPARA Vol. 212,83791.65%96.88%
- 10Night in the Woods20,16591.52%94.78%
- 11NEKOPARA Vol. 312,01291.45%96.87%
- 12Winter Memories10,55391.37%97.46%
- 13Find Love or Die Trying11,95791.28%96.59%
- 14BAD END THEATER9,98091.24%97.56%
- 15Tales from the Borderlands19,46391.13%94.32%
- 16No Case Should Remain Unsolved10,45890.83%96.46%
- 17NEKOPARA Vol. 48,82190.78%97.14%
- 18Detention11,79390.74%95.66%
- 19NEKOPARA Vol. 017,77890.55%93.71%
- 20Summer Memories24,98090.45%92.66%
- 21Yog-Sothoth’s Yard13,68390.44%94.29%
- 22OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition9,40690.37%96.15%
- 23Marco & The Galaxy Dragon7,82690.37%97.32%
- 24Coffee Talk12,51090.36%94.70%
- 25Florence16,33090.06%93.20%
- 26STEINS;GATE 08,30389.98%96.06%
- 27Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth112,25189.95%94.16%
- 28The Red Strings Club14,21089.94%93.46%
- 29Knowledge, or know Lady8,94189.79%95.22%
- 30KinitoPET14,65289.74%93.02%
- 31Monster Prom14,31989.69%93.02%
- 32Otaku's Adventure9,07289.65%94.85%
- 33The Test: Hypothesis Rising5,92389.64%97.59%
- 34Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-8,23689.50%95.03%
- 35Class of '099,00089.48%94.53%
- 36The Test: Final Revelation5,36789.44%97.82%
- 37Scarlet Hollow5,12389.35%97.97%
- 38Far Away8,17389.35%94.74%
- 39小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop10,23789.34%93.63%
- 40Vampires' Melody5,71889.33%97.45%
- 41Minds Beneath Us6,15789.29%96.36%
- 42Long Live The Queen7,15689.07%94.84%
- 43Suzerain11,72688.99%92.44%
- 44Hatoful Boyfriend7,57388.87%94.07%
- 45Beacon Pines4,44588.85%97.64%
- 46DRAMAtical Murder4,88788.77%96.62%
- 47Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series10,61988.71%92.27%
- 48I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator12,67288.61%91.71%
- 49Chill Pulse4,80788.38%95.55%
- 50Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You15,52388.19%90.29%
- 51AI: The Somnium Files9,35288.12%91.53%
- 52Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth7,55388.08%92.24%
- 53The Operator8,77188.05%91.60%
- 54Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales17,28388.04%89.83%
- 55Assemble with Care10,59487.75%90.41%
- 56Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate3,34087.70%95.30%
- 57American Arcadia4,17787.63%94.09%
- 58Pyre9,33887.57%90.39%
- 59Her Story10,37887.21%89.40%
- 60Gaokao.Love.100Days8,23187.11%89.75%
- 61The Song of Saya10,04587.10%89.25%
- 62Venba3,68486.98%92.54%
- 63To Be or Not to Be8,21286.89%89.27%
- 64Yokai's Secret6,89986.89%89.71%
- 65Carpe Diem8,55586.85%89.09%
- 66MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA10,54486.82%88.61%
- 67Dreamlike Love with Seira1,64086.74%98.60%
- 68坏小孩1,69886.70%95.76%
- 69Batman - The Telltale Series18,09386.69%87.66%
- 70Storyteller9,06086.68%88.61%
- 71Chicken Police - Paint it RED!2,53286.67%94.51%
- 72The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante12,27286.64%88.03%
- 73Long Dream1,00986.38%98.41%
- 74Swaying Girl5,08386.26%88.86%
- 751 to 1 humanoid edible toys2,45986.24%92.56%
- 76Nunholy5,27086.17%88.99%
- 77Durka Simulator1,68686.14%94.13%
- 78Cooking Companions1,20185.88%93.76%
- 79Vanity Fair: The Pursuit4,56785.78%87.61%
- 80GIRLS MADE PUDDING86685.76%95.27%
- 81Growing Up3,68785.73%87.88%
- 82Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online4,71485.66%87.19%
- 83Banner of the Maid8,31685.62%86.45%
- 84First Snow67885.55%94.54%
- 85The Herbalist74285.54%93.67%
- 86Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love98885.52%92.91%
- 87Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel1,75385.50%88.71%
- 88Blush Blush7,55985.49%86.22%
- 89Pixel Cafe86785.47%91.58%
- 90Mika and The Witch's Mountain1,18785.25%87.87%
- 91Summer in Mara Prologue1,04485.15%87.16%
- 92Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening2,96885.10%85.65%
- 93A Bird Story10,79684.96%84.99%
- 94Maid Cafe on Electric Street72984.91%84.50%
- 95Girls of The Tower61384.83%85.48%
- 96恋爱关系/Romance2,58984.82%84.36%
- 97B100X - Auto Dungeon RPG97484.73%80.29%
- 98Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost2,47784.39%82.20%
- 99Witchy Life Story1,22484.19%78.10%
- 100Amorous10,45384.17%83.43%
