Visual Novel games on Steam
3,364 adult-tagged games hidden and not counted here. Show them
Steam tag · 14,461 games · 2,292 released in the last 12 months · median 87% positive across 6,907 games with 10+ reviews · 4,994,676 Steam reviews
Share of new releases
8.6% of new Steam releases in the last 12 months (2,292 games), 9.0% the 12 before (1,706). By year: 2014: 4.1%, 2015: 5.5%, 2016: 6.3%, 2017: 4.8%, 2018: 5.7%, 2019: 6.4%, 2020: 7.7%, 2021: 8.4%, 2022: 9.6%, 2023: 9.1%, 2024: 8.7%, 2025: 9.0%, 2026: 8.5%.
Most reviewed Visual Novel games
- Doki Doki Literature Club! · 2017
- Helltaker · 2020
- Limbus Company · 2023
- Disco Elysium - The Final Cut · 2019
- Mirror 2: Project X · 2022
- Everlasting Summer · 2014
- Persona 4 Golden · 2020
- Umamusume: Pretty Derby · 2025
Breakouts of the last 12 months
- Tiny Bunny · 2025
- Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It · 2025
- Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story · 2025
- Esoteric Ebb · 2026
- The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall · 2026
- Road to Empress Ⅱ · 2026
- Magical Princess · 2026
- Mixtape · 2026
Often paired with
Story Rich, Adventure, 2D, Anime, Multiple Endings, Choices Matter, Interactive Fiction, Romance, Choose Your Own Adventure, RPG