Best Value Action Games Under $40
The Action games on Steam games under $40 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.
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By price
Price divided by median reviewer playtime — how much you pay per hour of gameplay. Lower is better. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
- 1YoloMouse - Cursor Changer$0.01/1hr610h86.57%92.52%
- 2Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.03/1hr393h74.12%73.71%
- 3GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.03/1hr64h88.32%94.92%
- 4Crosshair X$0.03/1hr296h91.92%93.37%
- 5Rust$0.05/1hr392h86.72%86.73%
- 6Black Desert$0.05/1hr187h74.64%73.51%
- 7Monster Hunter: World$0.06/1hr124h88.73%88.80%
- 8Geometry Dash$0.06/1hr79h92.88%93.00%
- 9X4: Foundations$0.06/1hr156h81.29%79.94%
- 10Terraria$0.07/1hr152h97.30%97.38%
- 11Hero Siege$0.07/1hr116h70.29%67.14%
- 12SpiritVale$0.07/1hr217h73.26%50.93%
- 13Deep Rock Galactic$0.07/1hr129h96.81%97.11%
- 14Space Engineers$0.07/1hr142h88.57%88.81%
- 15Brotato$0.07/1hr42h95.11%95.93%
- 16Dead by Daylight$0.07/1hr274h78.38%78.31%
- 17The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth$0.07/1hr203h96.60%96.85%
- 18Foxhole$0.08/1hr395h80.38%79.45%
- 19Wall World$0.08/1hr14h88.28%90.56%
- 20MONSTER HUNTER RISE$0.08/1hr102h83.59%83.45%
- 21Vampire Survivors$0.09/1hr57h97.84%98.32%
- 22Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.09/1hr28h86.79%87.04%
- 23Cyberhunt$0.10/1hr5h85.31%84.98%
- 24Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.10/1hr5h85.89%87.11%
- 25Monster Sanctuary$0.10/1hr49h88.65%91.21%
- 26The Elder Scrolls Online$0.10/1hr195h81.15%80.89%
- 27Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr46h87.90%88.42%
- 28Borderlands 2$0.11/1hr47h89.40%89.53%
- 29Elite Dangerous$0.11/1hr185h77.97%77.28%
- 30UBERMOSH$0.11/1hr5h88.78%92.49%
- 31Mechabellum$0.11/1hr136h84.36%83.81%
- 32DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2$0.11/1hr45h89.23%89.89%
- 33Town of Salem$0.11/1hr44h87.32%87.87%
- 34ARC Raiders$0.11/1hr348h81.98%81.90%
- 35Bean Battles$0.12/1hr9h89.69%93.82%
- 36Crime Boss: Rockay City$0.12/1hr17h76.67%68.36%
- 37ORION: Prelude$0.12/1hr8h78.05%75.47%
- 38DSX$0.12/1hr67h77.59%69.43%
- 39Left 4 Dead 2$0.12/1hr82h97.41%97.52%
- 40ICARUS$0.12/1hr72h76.03%74.67%
- 41R.E.P.O.$0.12/1hr53h95.76%96.00%
- 42Borderlands 3$0.12/1hr48h81.28%81.04%
- 43Curse of the Dead Gods$0.12/1hr32h84.14%83.45%
- 44Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 45Avorion$0.13/1hr197h87.88%90.01%
- 46Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.67%84.61%
- 47Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition$0.13/1hr145h83.83%83.49%
- 48Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)$0.14/1hr11h88.07%92.74%
- 49ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr108h83.36%83.33%
- 50Subsistence$0.14/1hr99h77.65%72.08%
- 51FlatOut$0.14/1hr11h87.66%91.13%
- 52Nioh: Complete Edition$0.15/1hr52h80.27%78.97%
- 53House Flipper$0.15/1hr17h93.27%93.97%
- 54Mortal Online 2$0.15/1hr271h70.62%59.91%
- 55Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr67h95.59%95.98%
- 56Portal Knights$0.15/1hr20h84.00%83.37%
- 57Generation Zero$0.15/1hr33h74.58%72.03%
- 58Dungeon Defenders$0.16/1hr95h90.44%93.09%
- 59Army of Ruin$0.16/1hr25h85.99%88.05%
- 60Mount & Blade: Warband$0.16/1hr127h97.04%97.72%
- 61Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.16/1hr62h84.98%85.44%
- 62Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok$0.16/1hr61h86.50%88.21%
- 63Streamer Life Simulator$0.16/1hr12h81.27%76.03%
- 6420 Minutes Till Dawn$0.16/1hr15h89.04%90.31%
- 65鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.17/1hr78h56.87%55.60%
- 66Halls of Torment$0.17/1hr29h92.94%95.33%
- 67God Of Weapons$0.18/1hr33h84.94%84.03%
- 68DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.18/1hr56h91.34%92.22%
- 69Children of Morta$0.18/1hr12h87.55%88.42%
- 70Valheim$0.18/1hr165h93.74%93.89%
- 71Starbound$0.18/1hr82h89.59%89.94%
- 72Crab Champions$0.19/1hr54h94.84%97.89%
- 73Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.19/1hr27h93.37%94.18%
- 74Chivalry 2$0.19/1hr43h80.18%79.31%
- 75KovaaK's$0.19/1hr50h91.49%92.97%
- 76PEAK$0.19/1hr42h94.21%94.45%
- 77Planes, Bullets and Vodka$0.20/1hr5h85.34%85.12%
- 78Blood and Bacon$0.20/1hr5h93.14%95.27%
- 79Laika: Aged Through Blood$0.20/1hr25h87.86%91.53%
- 80Soulstone Survivors$0.21/1hr51h89.55%91.33%
- 81Warpips$0.21/1hr12h86.00%87.13%
- 82Don't Starve Together$0.21/1hr73h94.74%94.91%
- 83Muse Dash$0.21/1hr14h91.03%91.50%
- 84SteamWorld Dig$0.21/1hr7h89.67%93.55%
- 85Resident Evil 6$0.21/1hr23h78.18%77.18%
- 86People Playground$0.21/1hr47h98.04%98.44%
- 87Death Must Die$0.21/1hr33h88.61%90.11%
- 88Insurgency: Sandstorm$0.22/1hr28h84.81%84.77%
- 89The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut$0.22/1hr46h89.01%89.43%
- 90ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN$0.22/1hr184h81.89%81.71%
- 91Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.22/1hr23h94.48%96.50%
- 92Party Hard$0.22/1hr9h87.78%90.15%
- 93Shadow Warrior 2$0.22/1hr14h86.63%87.07%
- 94Slime Rancher$0.22/1hr23h97.25%98.01%
- 95Path of Exile 2$0.22/1hr135h75.39%74.95%
- 96Friends vs Friends$0.22/1hr11h83.78%82.68%
- 97No Man's Sky$0.22/1hr107h85.19%85.19%
- 98DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE$0.23/1hr29h88.34%89.94%
- 99Sniper Elite 5$0.23/1hr22h84.15%83.76%
- 100Shadow Warrior$0.23/1hr13h90.14%91.91%
How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.