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Best Visual Novel Games

Top 50 of 326 qualifying games — tagged Visual Novel (community voting), 1,000+ reviews · ranked by Wilson lower bound on Steam review score · review data as of 2026-08-06.

1 Chicken Hill (2025) Hidden Object · Point & Click · Creature Collector · $2.99 99.5%1,144 reviews 2 Our Life: Beginnings & Always (2020) Visual Novel · Romance · LGBTQ+ · Free 98.8%13,662 reviews 3 买个可乐饼吧！ - Buy a Croquette! (2024) RPGMaker · Mystery · Sci-fi · Free 98.8%8,167 reviews 4 Monster Prom 4: Monster Con (2025) Visual Novel · Comedy · LGBTQ+ · $14.99 99.0%2,112 reviews 5 planetarian HD (2017) Visual Novel · Anime · Casual · $9.99 98.9%3,407 reviews 6 星空列车与白的旅行 (2021) Visual Novel · Cute · Adventure · $19.99 98.5%6,354 reviews 7 CLANNAD (2015) Visual Novel · Anime · Story Rich · $44.99 98.4%10,846 reviews 8 Threefold Recital (2025) Drama · Mystery · Visual Novel · $14.99 98.3%5,703 reviews 9 DOTOKOI / 像素男友 (2019) Casual · RPG · Indie · Free 98.6%1,168 reviews 10 I Wani Hug that Gator! (2024) Visual Novel · Story Rich · Romance · $14.99 98.2%5,675 reviews 11 A Date with Death (2023) Dating Sim · Visual Novel · LGBTQ+ · Free 98.0%14,494 reviews 12 The Wolf Among Us (2013) Adventure · Detective · Story Rich · $14.99 97.9%39,944 reviews 13 Volcano Princess (2023) Life Sim · Multiple Endings · Choices Matter · $10.99 97.8%48,752 reviews 14 像素女友 (2020) RPG · Indie · Casual · Free 98.4%1,397 reviews 15 Hello Charlotte EP3: Childhood's End (2018) Story Rich · Psychological Horror · Gore · $3.99 98.1%3,402 reviews 16 Scarlet Hollow (2021) Early Access · Choices Matter · Visual Novel · $24.99 98.0%5,086 reviews 17 Firework (2021) Horror · Indie · Puzzle · $9.99 97.7%44,295 reviews 18 Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines (2023) Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · $9.99 98.2%1,983 reviews 19 Long Dream (2023) Adventure · Point & Click · Visual Novel · $6.99 98.4%1,008 reviews 20 Ticy Adventure Club (2022) RPG · Cute · Story Rich · Free 98.0%3,262 reviews 21 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy (2019) Detective · Visual Novel · Story Rich · $29.99 97.6%44,525 reviews 22 The Test: Final Revelation (2020) Simulation · Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · $1.99 97.8%5,368 reviews 23 Aliya: Timelink (2024) RPG · Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel · $2.99 97.7%9,448 reviews 24 Tales of the Black Forest (2019) RPG · RPGMaker · Pixel Graphics · $3.99 97.6%15,377 reviews 25 坦率的小红帽和爱说谎的狼 (2020) Free to Play · RPG · Casual · Free 98.2%1,132 reviews 26 BAD END THEATER (2021) Multiple Endings · Visual Novel · Story Rich · $9.99 97.6%9,966 reviews 27 Eternal Senia (2015) Anime · Free to Play · RPG · Free 97.5%12,054 reviews 28 The Test: Hypothesis Rising (2020) Simulation · Multiple Endings · Choices Matter · $1.99 97.6%5,923 reviews 29 Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (2023) Puzzle · Adventure · Mystery · $29.99 97.5%8,451 reviews 30 Beacon Pines (2022) Visual Novel · Story Rich · Emotional · $19.99 97.6%4,439 reviews 31 Katawa Shoujo (2024) Visual Novel · Romance · Dating Sim · Free 97.6%5,977 reviews 32 VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action (2016) Cyberpunk · Visual Novel · Pixel Graphics · $14.99 97.3%38,515 reviews 33 Vampires' Melody (2020) Visual Novel · Casual · Adventure · $3.99 97.4%5,719 reviews 34 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi (2017) Horror · Visual Novel · Adventure · $7.99 98.0%1,138 reviews 35 Marco & The Galaxy Dragon (2020) Visual Novel · Anime · Adventure · $19.99 97.3%7,814 reviews 36 Persona 4 Golden (2020) JRPG · Great Soundtrack · Story Rich · $19.99 97.0%86,565 reviews 37 STEINS;GATE (2016) Visual Novel · Story Rich · Anime · $29.99 97.1%26,514 reviews 38 候鸟 (2023) Word Game · 2D Platformer · Interactive Fiction · $10.99 97.4%3,965 reviews 39 planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~ (2014) Visual Novel · Anime · Post-apocalyptic · Free 97.6%2,031 reviews 40 Sakuya Izayoi Gives You Advice And Dabs (2020) Casual · Visual Novel · Relaxing · $0.99 97.5%2,408 reviews 41 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi (2016) Visual Novel · Anime · Mystery · $7.99 97.6%1,358 reviews 42 Class of '09: The Re-Up (2023) Visual Novel · Female Protagonist · Comedy · $14.99 97.1%4,715 reviews 43 StarVaders (2025) Roguelike Deckbuilder · Deckbuilding · Turn-Based Tactics · $24.99 97.1%4,285 reviews 44 Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip (2022) Visual Novel · LGBTQ+ · Dating Sim · $11.99 97.2%3,307 reviews 45 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut (2023) Visual Novel · Choices Matter · Psychological Horror · $17.99 96.7%33,229 reviews 46 The Test (2020) Choose Your Own Adventure · Simulation · Multiple Endings · $1.99 96.7%20,130 reviews 47 Until Then (2024) Visual Novel · Pixel Graphics · Emotional · $19.99 96.7%18,537 reviews 48 Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo (2016) Psychological Horror · 2D · Horror · Free 97.2%2,387 reviews 49 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk (2021) Psychological Horror · Visual Novel · Psychedelic · $8.99 96.6%22,199 reviews 50 The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series (2020) Choices Matter · Story Rich · Interactive Fiction · $49.99 96.5%46,230 reviews