I'm not sure why you include plot-driven stories here. NTR is for fap purposes and story-driven stories are for enjoying, well, the story. Basically, everything from VNDB top 100-200 is worth unless it is outside of your prefernce like moeges. If you like vns with a good story then just play all top 50 visual novels. By the way, the bayesian rating isn't reliable when it comes to untranslated stories (because they often lack enough votes), so just check an average one instead. Have you tried nakige genre like games from Key (Clannad, Little Busters)? If it is your thing then you'll consider this genre as one of the best things ever because those strong emotions are hard to get anywhere else, drama is just not so strong in other mediums.
Yeah - good point, maybe I should have kept it to nukige-only within my question. I only added it because my nukige tastes are fairly narrow and I was curious what kind of breadth of tastes other folks here have.
As for Key games - I haven't thought about the brand in a long time since I have lost interest in high school romance type stories but maybe I'll do some research and check out some of their newer games. The last Key game I played was Air over 15 years ago - lol.