Visual Novel games on Steam
Visual Novel on Steam: 14,248 released games, 4,341 in the last 12 months, 4,484 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 17. 41% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Visual Novel is a Steam store tag, applied by the developer and refined by players; a game carries several tags at once, so niche counts overlap and do not add up to the size of the Steam catalogue. Data as of .
What releases end up with
lifetime reviews · released 3 years ago to 90 days ago · failures included6,479 releasesp100
p250
median17
p7576
p90301
41% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $6.99 · 11% free-to-play
Releases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago — anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2019
540med 94 · 14% unseen
2020
770med 58 · 16% unseen
2021
983med 43 · 22% unseen
2022
1,280med 30 · 23% unseen
2023
1,513med 32 · 28% unseen
2024
1,950med 26 · 31% unseen
2025
2,400med 20 · 38% unseen
2026
2,564med 0 · 59% unseen · 909 too fresh
Best known here
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Latest releases
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