Best Value Anime Games Under $40
The Anime 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.
- 1Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.05/1hr94h92.62%97.58%
- 2Chill Pulse$0.11/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 3Touhou Mystia's Izakaya$0.12/1hr49h95.44%98.56%
- 4Mirror$0.15/1hr5h95.17%96.36%
- 5觅长生$0.16/1hr91h91.20%93.07%
- 6Palworld$0.19/1hr111h94.47%94.60%
- 7Fields of Mistria$0.19/1hr74h94.21%97.04%
- 8Coromon$0.19/1hr26h84.72%84.44%
- 9Wallpaper Engine$0.19/1hr26h97.46%97.55%
- 10NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER$0.19/1hr26h83.85%83.61%
- 11The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome$0.19/1hr155h67.82%65.35%
- 12Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions$0.20/1hr24h79.78%72.20%
- 13Muse Dash$0.21/1hr14h91.02%91.49%
- 14gogh: Focus with Your Avatar$0.23/1hr53h86.71%91.19%
- 15Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion$0.23/1hr78h84.70%84.50%
- 16Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.23/1hr107h85.49%85.62%
- 17Street Fighter 6$0.24/1hr67h82.36%82.01%
- 18Persona 4 Golden$0.24/1hr83h95.83%97.04%
- 19河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon)$0.24/1hr74h83.61%81.65%
- 20Dead Estate$0.24/1hr20h88.94%94.59%
- 21Granblue Fantasy: Relink$0.25/1hr98h89.27%90.00%
- 22Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.27/1hr19h94.47%96.51%
- 23A Dance of Fire and Ice$0.28/1hr22h93.15%94.10%
- 24TEKKEN 8$0.28/1hr85h60.11%56.67%
- 25Library Of Ruina$0.31/1hr97h92.79%94.47%
- 26Yakuza: Like a Dragon$0.31/1hr64h92.13%93.98%
- 27Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.31/1hr79h92.89%94.24%
- 28CrossCode$0.33/1hr61h89.73%92.37%
- 29Tricolour Lovestory$0.33/1hr6h82.22%81.16%
- 30TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children$0.33/1hr75h89.27%93.42%
- 31Wedding Witch$0.34/1hr9h86.60%89.62%
- 32Sailing Era$0.34/1hr74h82.98%78.66%
- 33VillageRhapsody$0.36/1hr8h92.34%96.87%
- 34Okami HD$0.37/1hr27h88.70%91.97%
- 35Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1$0.38/1hr40h90.36%94.10%
- 36Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising$0.38/1hr66h84.35%83.17%
- 37Chinese Parents$0.39/1hr14h89.64%91.29%
- 38The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky$0.39/1hr51h89.69%94.03%
- 39Craftopia$0.40/1hr37h78.98%75.91%
- 40Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.42/1hr26h90.44%94.23%
- 41Far Away$0.43/1hr30h89.34%94.69%
- 42Banner of the Maid$0.44/1hr39h85.73%86.40%
- 43Resident Evil Revelations$0.44/1hr11h82.32%81.28%
- 44School Days$0.45/1hr25h81.84%76.90%
- 45FINAL FANTASY IX$0.46/1hr45h90.95%95.13%
- 46Epic Battle Fantasy 5$0.47/1hr54h90.13%98.57%
- 47DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2$0.47/1hr43h89.22%89.90%
- 48Sands of Salzaar$0.47/1hr32h82.70%81.62%
- 49Yakuza 5 Remastered$0.48/1hr42h86.48%88.55%
- 50HuniePop$0.52/1hr19h93.08%95.57%
- 51Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy$0.53/1hr13h91.37%97.46%
- 52Rune Factory 4 Special$0.53/1hr56h85.59%88.31%
- 53Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.53/1hr38h93.31%95.77%
- 54Super Robot Wars 30$0.54/1hr47h85.88%86.04%
- 55Chrono Ark$0.55/1hr45h88.34%90.63%
- 56Valkyria Chronicles$0.55/1hr36h87.89%89.93%
- 57Volcano Princess$0.55/1hr20h95.66%97.79%
- 58Neon White$0.56/1hr18h93.77%97.88%
- 59MONSTER HUNTER RISE$0.57/1hr70h83.60%83.47%
- 60Tales of Seikyu$0.60/1hr42h84.30%84.43%
- 61DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT$0.60/1hr33h91.99%93.16%
- 62BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.60/1hr33h92.34%94.30%
- 63OMORI$0.61/1hr33h95.87%97.07%
- 64The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.61/1hr66h88.67%94.54%
- 65KINGDOM HEARTS -HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX-$0.61/1hr66h86.11%86.85%
- 66100% Orange Juice$0.61/1hr11h89.56%91.01%
- 67Otaku's Adventure$0.61/1hr11h89.80%94.87%
- 68Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.62/1hr48h85.77%85.89%
- 69CHRONO TRIGGER$0.62/1hr24h86.92%88.21%
- 70DRAGON QUEST XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition$0.63/1hr64h89.21%92.72%
- 71Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$0.63/1hr48h95.31%97.55%
- 729 Years of Shadows$0.63/1hr13h83.04%76.70%
- 73The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles$0.63/1hr63h89.51%94.29%
- 74FINAL FANTASY XIII-2$0.63/1hr31h74.74%58.57%
- 75Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.64/1hr16h82.90%78.87%
- 76GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-$0.64/1hr63h87.57%87.93%
- 77LoveChoice$0.64/1hr2h90.66%92.15%
- 78Chained Echoes$0.65/1hr38h86.71%88.59%
- 79Rabbit and Steel$0.65/1hr23h91.52%96.97%
- 80Yakuza 6: The Song of Life$0.66/1hr30h88.47%92.69%
- 81GUILTY GEAR XX ACCENT CORE PLUS R$0.66/1hr23h90.00%96.23%
- 82Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend$0.68/1hr44h87.03%92.87%
- 83Yakuza 4 Remastered$0.68/1hr29h87.71%90.29%
- 84EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair$0.71/1hr28h89.76%94.98%
- 85FINAL FANTASY$0.72/1hr17h89.70%95.13%
- 86Afterimage$0.73/1hr34h81.46%77.34%
- 87Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.75/1hr27h93.88%95.96%
- 88Tales of the Black Forest$0.76/1hr5h92.72%97.59%
- 89FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster$0.76/1hr40h87.05%87.84%
- 90ATRI -My Dear Moments-$0.79/1hr11h94.44%98.38%
- 91STEINS;GATE$0.79/1hr38h93.62%97.07%
- 92Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA$0.80/1hr50h87.16%90.30%
- 93Potionomics$0.80/1hr31h87.77%90.46%
- 94OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition$0.80/1hr12h90.38%96.11%
- 95GIRLS MADE PUDDING$0.81/1hr6h86.60%95.47%
- 96AI LIMIT$0.81/1hr28h90.37%91.78%
- 97WitchSpring R$0.82/1hr43h89.97%95.80%
- 98Nunholy$0.82/1hr7h86.46%88.82%
- 99Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.82/1hr16h75.75%69.72%
- 100NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 3 Full Burst HD$0.83/1hr24h87.87%89.74%
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.