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$0.01/1hr899h86.68%92.45%
- 2Starbound$0.04/1hr120h89.63%90.00%
- 3Dead by Daylight$0.05/1hr404h78.51%78.44%
- 4Geometry Dash$0.06/1hr86h92.92%93.05%
- 5Warhammer: Vermintide 2$0.06/1hr51h85.02%85.02%
- 6Crosshair X$0.06/1hr159h91.83%93.37%
- 7The Vagrant$0.06/1hr12h87.12%89.60%
- 8FOR HONOR$0.07/1hr69h70.03%69.11%
- 9Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.07/1hr166h74.10%73.70%
- 10Styx: Master of Shadows$0.07/1hr28h84.03%83.21%
- 11Wall World$0.07/1hr14h88.17%90.73%
- 12Monster Hunter: World$0.07/1hr106h88.70%88.77%
- 13Arma 3$0.07/1hr120h90.23%90.41%
- 14Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.53%86.94%
- 15Bean Battles$0.09/1hr6h89.42%93.80%
- 16Kenshi$0.09/1hr138h94.72%95.56%
- 17Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.09/1hr52h87.85%88.44%
- 18Terraria$0.09/1hr107h97.30%97.38%
- 19Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.10/1hr26h86.72%87.02%
- 20Cyberhunt$0.10/1hr5h84.97%84.95%
- 21Brotato$0.10/1hr31h95.18%96.06%
- 22The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos$0.10/1hr53h85.96%87.17%
- 23Valheim$0.10/1hr96h93.83%93.99%
- 24Death Road to Canada$0.10/1hr21h88.93%92.73%
- 25The Surge$0.10/1hr18h79.31%74.62%
- 26The Elder Scrolls Online$0.11/1hr188h81.16%80.92%
- 27Souldiers$0.11/1hr28h81.27%69.22%
- 28UBERMOSH$0.11/1hr5h88.35%92.26%
- 29Warhammer: Chaosbane$0.11/1hr14h74.59%58.26%
- 30MONSTER HUNTER RISE$0.11/1hr71h83.47%83.35%
- 31Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.11/1hr88h72.46%71.54%
- 32Path of Exile 2$0.11/1hr263h74.97%74.53%
- 33Vampire Survivors$0.12/1hr35h97.84%98.33%
- 34Rust$0.12/1hr342h86.81%86.82%
- 35Elite Dangerous$0.12/1hr170h77.95%77.29%
- 36Company of Heroes$0.12/1hr34h91.03%94.28%
- 37Pax Dei$0.12/1hr126h69.97%56.54%
- 38Karate Survivor$0.12/1hr14h85.06%85.30%
- 39Timberman$0.12/1hr8h89.26%93.09%
- 40Phasmophobia$0.12/1hr115h94.30%94.41%
- 41Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.12/1hr243h79.47%79.00%
- 42Trailmakers$0.12/1hr40h90.61%92.09%
- 43Deep Rock Galactic$0.13/1hr71h96.82%97.14%
- 44Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.13/1hr51h85.55%86.85%
- 45Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced$0.13/1hr116h82.53%82.41%
- 46ARK: Survival Evolved$0.13/1hr114h83.35%83.33%
- 47PAYDAY 2$0.13/1hr38h89.28%89.34%
- 48DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE$0.14/1hr28h88.40%89.94%
- 49Vampyr$0.14/1hr28h79.61%77.46%
- 50Enter the Gungeon$0.15/1hr31h94.12%95.14%
- 51TerraTech$0.15/1hr42h89.55%91.39%
- 52DayZ$0.15/1hr167h77.93%77.77%
- 53The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.35%75.46%
- 54Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr66h95.58%95.99%
- 55Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition$0.15/1hr127h83.79%83.52%
- 56ARC Raiders$0.16/1hr252h82.78%82.73%
- 57Lost Castle / 失落城堡$0.16/1hr19h86.06%86.51%
- 58Natural Selection 2$0.16/1hr30h85.06%85.13%
- 59Mortal Online 2$0.17/1hr241h70.52%60.08%
- 60Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.17/1hr36h72.19%70.87%
- 61DSX$0.18/1hr45h77.87%69.55%
- 62Children of Morta$0.18/1hr18h87.40%88.45%
- 63Planes, Bullets and Vodka$0.18/1hr6h84.99%85.02%
- 64Mechabellum$0.18/1hr83h84.16%83.73%
- 65HELLDIVERS 2$0.18/1hr217h75.24%75.16%
- 66Crashlands$0.19/1hr28h86.80%89.50%
- 67Left 4 Dead 2$0.19/1hr53h97.41%97.52%
- 68Scrap Mechanic$0.19/1hr154h91.47%92.02%
- 69Hades$0.19/1hr40h97.61%98.02%
- 70Cluckmech Oasis$0.19/1hr52h85.85%88.29%
- 71V Rising$0.19/1hr81h88.68%88.95%
- 72Warpips$0.19/1hr13h85.75%87.24%
- 73Green Hell$0.20/1hr19h84.75%84.72%
- 74Generation Zero$0.20/1hr25h74.52%72.03%
- 75FlatOut$0.20/1hr8h87.44%91.18%
- 76CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.38%83.12%
- 77R.E.P.O.$0.20/1hr32h95.80%96.06%
- 78Moonlighter$0.20/1hr15h83.04%82.16%
- 79Easy Red 2$0.20/1hr22h88.03%90.22%
- 80ROUNDS$0.20/1hr15h93.34%95.25%
- 81Space Engineers$0.21/1hr97h88.59%88.86%
- 82Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.21/1hr19h87.23%89.95%
- 83Muse Dash$0.21/1hr14h91.02%91.51%
- 84Shadow Warrior$0.21/1hr14h90.03%91.92%
- 85Town of Salem$0.21/1hr24h87.26%87.88%
- 86Hollow Knight$0.21/1hr72h96.70%96.91%
- 87EVERSPACE 2$0.21/1hr48h85.54%85.97%
- 88The Isle$0.21/1hr95h80.53%80.15%
- 89Voidigo$0.21/1hr12h88.76%96.53%
- 90Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr23h93.27%94.12%
- 91Slime Rancher$0.21/1hr23h97.21%98.00%
- 92Call of Juarez: Gunslinger$0.22/1hr7h93.12%94.97%
- 93鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.22/1hr60h56.80%55.54%
- 94Hero Siege$0.22/1hr36h70.29%67.16%
- 95From the Depths$0.22/1hr113h87.38%89.26%
- 96Grim Dawn$0.22/1hr112h92.94%93.68%
- 97Celeste$0.22/1hr22h96.60%97.40%
- 98Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok$0.23/1hr27h86.24%88.23%
- 99The Battle of Polytopia$0.23/1hr20h88.32%93.95%
- 100Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour$0.23/1hr9h84.75%84.40%
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.