Best Value Adventure Games Under $40
The Adventure 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.
- 1Starbound$0.04/1hr120h89.66%90.00%
- 2Crosshair X$0.05/1hr196h91.91%93.37%
- 3The Vagrant$0.06/1hr14h87.38%89.61%
- 4Wall World$0.07/1hr14h88.37%90.71%
- 5Melvor Idle$0.08/1hr131h88.34%90.15%
- 6Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr65h88.41%95.54%
- 7Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.53%86.94%
- 8Beasts of Bermuda$0.09/1hr226h77.34%68.97%
- 9My Time at Portia$0.09/1hr63h90.40%91.51%
- 10Tricolour Lovestory$0.10/1hr21h82.40%81.31%
- 11Terraria$0.10/1hr105h97.30%97.38%
- 12Cyberhunt$0.10/1hr5h84.97%84.95%
- 13The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos$0.10/1hr53h85.96%87.17%
- 14Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr47h87.93%88.44%
- 15Deponia$0.11/1hr9h86.09%86.54%
- 16Souldiers$0.11/1hr28h81.63%69.22%
- 17Elite Dangerous$0.11/1hr185h77.99%77.30%
- 18The Elder Scrolls Online$0.11/1hr184h81.18%80.92%
- 19Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.11/1hr89h72.49%71.55%
- 20Path of Exile 2$0.11/1hr265h75.00%74.53%
- 21Trailmakers$0.11/1hr44h90.70%92.09%
- 22Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition$0.12/1hr39h93.45%94.96%
- 23Pax Dei$0.12/1hr124h70.20%56.56%
- 24Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced$0.12/1hr123h82.56%82.42%
- 25Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.13/1hr240h79.50%78.99%
- 26theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.13/1hr31h88.90%89.07%
- 27Rust$0.13/1hr311h86.81%86.82%
- 28河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu : The Books of Dragon)$0.13/1hr68h83.22%81.63%
- 29My Time at Sandrock$0.13/1hr104h87.48%88.19%
- 30ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr110h83.36%83.33%
- 31Dragon Cliff$0.14/1hr73h86.63%88.66%
- 32Beholder$0.14/1hr10h90.15%91.68%
- 33Enter the Gungeon$0.14/1hr32h94.16%95.14%
- 34DayZ$0.15/1hr172h77.94%77.77%
- 35Warhammer: Chaosbane$0.15/1hr10h74.88%58.27%
- 36This War of Mine$0.15/1hr20h93.07%93.85%
- 37Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.15/1hr43h85.87%86.82%
- 38Internet Cafe Simulator$0.16/1hr6h78.73%72.67%
- 39Sun Haven$0.16/1hr55h81.96%80.58%
- 40Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition$0.16/1hr123h83.88%83.52%
- 41Cauldron$0.16/1hr47h86.17%93.18%
- 42Eco$0.17/1hr181h82.70%80.73%
- 43Across the Obelisk$0.17/1hr120h82.68%80.55%
- 44Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.17/1hr35h72.24%70.87%
- 45Sailing Era$0.17/1hr64h83.13%78.48%
- 46DSX$0.18/1hr45h77.87%69.55%
- 47Children of Morta$0.18/1hr18h87.54%88.45%
- 48SnowRunner$0.18/1hr66h89.41%90.13%
- 49Crashlands$0.19/1hr28h86.80%89.50%
- 50The Room Three$0.19/1hr8h90.98%95.48%
- 51The Last Campfire$0.19/1hr8h93.36%97.53%
- 52The Planet Crafter$0.19/1hr63h94.75%96.04%
- 53Scrap Mechanic$0.19/1hr151h91.50%92.00%
- 54Generation Zero$0.19/1hr26h74.61%72.03%
- 55SKYHILL$0.19/1hr5h82.83%78.23%
- 56Green Hell$0.19/1hr19h84.79%84.72%
- 57Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok$0.20/1hr31h86.53%88.23%
- 58Paleo Pines$0.20/1hr31h84.49%82.63%
- 59Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.20/1hr25h93.32%94.12%
- 60Grim Dawn$0.20/1hr126h92.95%93.64%
- 61Tales of Maj'Eyal$0.20/1hr35h89.33%94.56%
- 62Black Desert$0.20/1hr50h74.69%73.54%
- 63Moonlighter$0.20/1hr15h83.19%82.15%
- 64Satisfactory$0.20/1hr199h96.85%97.26%
- 65Voidigo$0.20/1hr12h89.08%96.53%
- 66Nothing$0.20/1hr5h89.77%94.14%
- 67Shadow Warrior$0.21/1hr14h90.03%91.92%
- 68Hollow Knight$0.21/1hr72h96.71%96.91%
- 69Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition$0.21/1hr95h79.36%77.62%
- 70EVERSPACE 2$0.21/1hr48h85.54%85.97%
- 71The Isle$0.21/1hr95h80.57%80.16%
- 72Wandering Sword$0.21/1hr82h93.11%94.86%
- 73Hero Siege$0.21/1hr37h70.38%67.16%
- 74Celeste$0.22/1hr23h96.63%97.40%
- 75鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.22/1hr58h56.82%55.54%
- 76From the Depths$0.22/1hr111h87.59%89.26%
- 77Sally Face - Episode One$0.23/1hr13h94.12%97.30%
- 78Slime Rancher$0.23/1hr22h97.24%98.00%
- 79Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion$0.23/1hr78h84.78%84.51%
- 80Soulmask$0.23/1hr104h79.77%77.19%
- 81Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$0.23/1hr43h95.33%97.56%
- 82The Long Dark$0.23/1hr85h88.70%88.96%
- 83Curse of the Dead Gods$0.23/1hr17h84.52%83.50%
- 84Laika: Aged Through Blood$0.23/1hr21h87.87%91.55%
- 85Resident Evil 6$0.24/1hr21h78.33%77.31%
- 86Legend of Mortal$0.24/1hr76h78.00%75.98%
- 87The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles$0.24/1hr67h89.73%94.30%
- 8820 Minutes Till Dawn$0.24/1hr13h89.28%90.60%
- 89Suzerain$0.24/1hr25h89.24%92.49%
- 90The Talos Principle 2$0.24/1hr37h90.67%94.96%
- 91Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.14%95.25%
- 92The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome$0.24/1hr123h68.00%65.50%
- 93Ratopia$0.24/1hr54h86.21%87.80%
- 94Streamer Life Simulator$0.24/1hr8h81.33%76.10%
- 95Outpath$0.25/1hr18h86.85%92.90%
- 96Greedland$0.25/1hr21h84.56%83.28%
- 97Dome Keeper$0.26/1hr21h90.19%92.35%
- 98Call of the Wild: The Angler$0.26/1hr35h76.14%63.81%
- 99No Man's Sky$0.26/1hr93h84.98%84.97%
- 100Death's Door$0.26/1hr16h90.76%93.20%
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.