Tags · Data as of October 12, 2026
How much do Visual Novel games make on Steam?
Median revenue
$3.1K
All Steam: $1.1K
Middle half earn
$479–$23.1K
Top 10% earn over
$128.8K
All Steam: $94.4K
Earn over $100K
11%
All Steam: 10%
Games
11,214
How revenue is spread
Under $1K
3,827
$1K–10K
3,515
$10K–100K
2,589
$100K–1M
905
$1M–10M
324
$10M+
54
Median revenue by price
Under $5
$6534,269 games
$5–10
$3.8K3,391 games
$10–15
$14.9K1,767 games
$15–20
$26.2K973 games
$20–30
$56.4K496 games
$30+
$109.1K318 games
Median revenue by release year
2009
$72.4K2 games
2011
$76.1K2 games
2012
$565.7K5 games
2013
$129.7K10 games
2014
$57.1K56 games
2015
$27.3K119 games
2016
$23.9K225 games
2017
$18.8K277 games
2018
$9.4K400 games
2019
$11.3K458 games
2020
$6.2K653 games
2021
$4.8K851 games
2022
$2.9K1,079 games
2023
$3.6K1,298 games
2024
$3K1,654 games
2025
$1.8K2,058 games
2026
$8962,065 games
Top games
- 1Dispatch$252.8M
- 2Disco Elysium - The Final Cut$227.8M
- 3The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series$90.3M
- 4Persona 4 Golden$84.4M
- 5Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$78.1M
- 6Library Of Ruina$60.4M
- 7Senren＊Banka$58.1M
- 8Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$52.7M
- 9NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD$51.5M
- 10The Walking Dead$47.5M
- 11What Remains of Edith Finch$46.3M
- 12Magical Girl Witch Trials$44.9M
- 13Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$43.4M
- 14STEINS;GATE$37.4M
- 15Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$35.9M
- 16Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$30.6M
- 17Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut$28.6M
- 18Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$26.7M
- 19VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action$24.9M
- 20The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$24.4M
- 21Volcano Princess$24.3M
- 22The Wolf Among Us$23.9M
- 23Summer Memories$23.8M
- 24Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$22.4M
- 25ATRI -My Dear Moments-$22.1M
Top developers
- AdHoc Studio1 games · $252.8M
- ZA/UM1 games · $227.8M
- Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.16 games · $152.1M
- ProjectMoon2 games · $138.5M
- ATLUS6 games · $106.8M
- Skybound Games1 games · $90.3M
- YUZUSOFT6 games · $87.4M
- CAPCOM Co., Ltd.5 games · $78M
- Telltale Games3 games · $73.7M
- Abstraction Games3 games · $73.4M
Top publishers
- AdHoc Studio1 games · $252.8M
- ZA/UM1 games · $227.8M
- Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.44 games · $218.2M
- Skybound Games4 games · $149.3M
- ProjectMoon2 games · $138.5M
- HIKARI FIELD51 games · $122.8M
- SEGA6 games · $106.8M
- NekoNyan Ltd.36 games · $89.9M
- CAPCOM Co., Ltd.5 games · $78M
- Sekai Project139 games · $66.1M