Best Visual Novel Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated visual novel games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Visual Novel games on Steam.

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Kill or Love A visual novel about obsession, loneliness, and, based on your choices, varying amounts of murder.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Feb 2020
Yokai's Secret "Yokai's secret" is a decrypt game with ecchi girls. The "Country of Yamato" once had cherry blossoms, and Yokai lived in peace with human beings. One day, the Yokai suddenly began to riot. In order to heal the world, you, as the "Master Hentai", embarked on the journey.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Feb 2020
Summer Pockets From the creators of Angel Beats! and CLANNAD, Key, comes their latest emotional, award-winning journey. Follow protagonist Takahara Hairi as he travels to the secluded island Torishirojima, where he rediscovers what it means to enjoy summer vacation.

Price 37.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 05 Feb 2020
Moe Era Welcome to Moe Era, the era of cute things! It has everything but a hero to help four adorable girls. You're the one they're waiting for!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 04 Feb 2020
Through the Darkest of Times Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.

Price -95% 0.85€
Rating 8.0
Release 30 Jan 2020
SIMULACRA 2 A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.

Price -86% 1.15€
Rating 8.3
Release 30 Jan 2020
Coffee Talk Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Price -63% 4.84€
Rating 9.2
Release 29 Jan 2020
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters is a Korean survival horror-adventure. Venture from your deserted school to survive the horrors of the night. Explore the surrounding Sehwa district and uncover the shadow realm's dark secrets. Use everything at your disposal to avoid a demoness hellbent on killing you!

Price -95% 0.80€
Rating 9.2
Release 28 Jan 2020
Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception You awaken in a field of snow with no memory of even your name. The local monstrosities nearly devour you before you meet your rescuer, a beautiful girl named Kuon—who has animal ears and a tail. She names you Haku⸺ The Japanese hit tactics-RPG visual novel series returns to PC at last!

Price 33.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 23 Jan 2020
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth Haku has sacrificed a lot to inherit a mask. With his natural wiles and the reputation of his departed friend, he strikes out on the path to a new future. The curtains rise on an era of strife that will shake Yamato to its very foundations.

Price 33.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 23 Jan 2020
looK INside - Chapter 1 In a book found in the attic, Manon discovers the past of her family members through their memories, their gestures, their quirks and their little secrets.

Price -58% 2.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 22 Jan 2020
Bullet Girls Phantasia "Bullet Girls Phantasia" is the latest installment of the all-female third person shooter "Bullet Girls" series. This game is a thrilling action-packed game where cute girls shoot assault rifles and bazookas in a world filled with slimes, orcs, and dragons.

Price -86% 4.38€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Jan 2020
Some Some Convenience Store A game about starting a relationship while working part-time at a convenience store

Price 12.49€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 Jan 2020
Seek Girl Ⅳ This is a fun casual decryption game that trains your observations. At the beginning of the game, the game will show a white shape, you need to find one or two items of the same shape as white to complete the task.

Price 1.55€
Rating 7.3
Release 09 Jan 2020
泡沫冬景 It is the year 1988. Japan is in the midst of the bubble economy. New buildings are sprouting up everywhere, and the people are ecstatic. This is a story of people who live for one year... in such a little corner of the city.

Price -30% 8.74€
Rating 9.2
Release 02 Jan 2020
My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life This is you, and this – is You. Both of you have something in common – exceptionality in a monotonous moment of time, when meaningless decisions have to be made. Or meaningful, to such an extent, that there is nothing left once they are made.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 26 Dec 2019
Drinks With Abbey Drinks with Abbey is a short, slice-of-life visual novel about a first date.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Dec 2019
Baldr Sky Kou Kadokura, a cyber officer, seeks to uncover the truth behind the tragedy that ended his once peaceful life. A war looms, and the answers he’s looking for are locked away in him... So why can't he remember anything? Unravel the mysteries hidden in his lost memories through this fast-paced mech action game!

Price 48.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 Dec 2019
Pretty Angel Relax class puzzle game to keep you in a good mood

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 13 Dec 2019
West Sweety Welcome to the bar in the wild west, in this game, you roled a cowboy, use bullets & the wisdom of luck to conquer the beauty...

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Dec 2019
Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York is a narrative experience set in the rich universe of Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition. It presents the struggle for power between two vampiric factions - the Camarilla and the Anarchs - bathed in the night lights of the Big Apple.

Price -98% 0.53€
Rating 7.2
Release 11 Dec 2019
Omega Labyrinth Life Roguelike x Relaxation! Take it easy in the latest addition to the series where you buff your bust with every foe you defeat, Omega Labyrinth! Enjoy your daily life in an academy of fair maidens!

Price -97% 2.18€
Rating 6.5
Release 10 Dec 2019
STEINS;GATE: My Darling's Embrace Fall in love with the lab members all over again in this sweet and slapstick romantic comedy!

Price -80% 4.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 10 Dec 2019
Interrogation: You will be deceived As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?

Price -94% 0.81€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Dec 2019