Best Rated Games Under $40

The highest rated games under $40 on Steam. Scores are weighted by review volume, so a game can't ride a handful of glowing reviews to the top of this list.

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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
  1. 1Portal 298.48%
  2. 2Stardew Valley98.38%
  3. 3Portal98.03%
  4. 4Vampire Survivors97.93%
  5. 5Hades97.68%
  6. 6Schedule I97.48%
  7. 7RimWorld97.47%
  8. 8Wallpaper Engine97.46%
  9. 9Left 4 Dead 297.43%
  10. 10Balatro97.37%
  11. 11Euro Truck Simulator 297.34%
  12. 12Terraria97.31%
  13. 13Half-Life 297.27%
  14. 14Slime Rancher97.24%
  15. 15DELTARUNE97.19%
  16. 16People Playground97.19%
  17. 17Mount & Blade: Warband97.18%
  18. 18Factorio97.14%
  19. 19Counter-Strike97.06%
  20. 20Resident Evil 497.06%
  21. 21Totally Accurate Battle Simulator97.05%
  22. 22Slay the Spire97.04%
  23. 23ULTRAKILL96.98%
  24. 24BeamNG.drive96.98%
  25. 25Bloons TD 696.96%
  26. 26Satisfactory96.94%
  27. 27Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition96.94%
  28. 28MiSide96.92%
  29. 29Deep Rock Galactic96.87%
  30. 30Subnautica96.86%
  31. 31Dispatch96.82%
  32. 32tModLoader96.82%
  33. 33Garry's Mod96.81%
  34. 34Lethal Company96.78%
  35. 35Helltaker96.77%
  36. 36Hollow Knight96.76%
  37. 37The Henry Stickmin Collection96.76%
  38. 38Stray96.73%
  39. 39Pizza Tower96.70%
  40. 40Resident Evil 296.65%
  41. 41Celeste96.63%
  42. 42The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth96.61%
  43. 43Dead Cells96.55%
  44. 44OneShot96.50%
  45. 45American Truck Simulator96.49%
  46. 46Katana ZERO96.43%
  47. 47Dishonored96.37%
  48. 48HoloCure - Save the Fans!96.28%
  49. 49Undertale96.27%
  50. 50Dyson Sphere Program96.21%
  51. 51POSTAL 296.15%
  52. 52Doki Doki Literature Club!96.14%
  53. 53Inscryption96.09%
  54. 54South Park: The Stick of Truth96.09%
  55. 55Detroit: Become Human96.09%
  56. 56Half-Life96.01%
  57. 57The Walking Dead95.99%
  58. 58Hotline Miami95.98%
  59. 59Oxygen Not Included95.97%
  60. 60Papers, Please95.96%
  61. 61Counter-Strike: Source95.89%
  62. 62OMORI95.87%
  63. 63DAVE THE DIVER95.83%
  64. 64Persona 4 Golden95.83%
  65. 65WEBFISHING95.82%
  66. 66Life is Strange - Episode 195.82%
  67. 67A Hat in Time95.82%
  68. 68R.E.P.O.95.81%
  69. 69Cuphead95.79%
  70. 70Ori and the Will of the Wisps95.78%
  71. 71Tomb Raider Game of the Year95.73%
  72. 72BattleBlock Theater95.73%
  73. 73Outlast95.68%
  74. 74Fallout: New Vegas95.68%
  75. 75Volcano Princess95.66%
  76. 76Senren＊Banka95.65%
  77. 77Don't Starve95.62%
  78. 78INSIDE95.62%
  79. 79Bongo Cat95.62%
  80. 80Devil May Cry 595.58%
  81. 81Castle Crashers95.45%
  82. 82Touhou Mystia's Izakaya95.44%
  83. 83Ravenfield95.42%
  84. 84The Forest95.42%
  85. 85Titanfall 295.41%
  86. 86Aseprite95.38%
  87. 87Firework95.37%
  88. 88STAR WARS Empire at War - Gold Pack95.37%
  89. 89The Wolf Among Us95.35%
  90. 90Chants of Sennaar95.33%
  91. 91Crime Scene Cleaner95.33%
  92. 92Cookie Clicker95.33%
  93. 93Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy95.31%
  94. 94Sid Meier's Civilization V95.26%
  95. 95Broforce95.26%
  96. 96Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition95.22%
  97. 97DOOM95.20%
  98. 98It Takes Two95.18%
  99. 99Mirror95.17%
  100. 100Cult of the Lamb95.12%