Best Value Dating Sim Games Under $40
The Dating Sim 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.
- 1Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr47h88.62%95.43%
- 2Stardew Valley$0.11/1hr139h98.35%98.48%
- 3My Time at Sandrock$0.11/1hr110h87.43%88.15%
- 4Bean Battles$0.12/1hr9h89.69%93.82%
- 5Rune Factory 4 Special$0.16/1hr55h85.90%88.29%
- 6The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome$0.16/1hr183h67.85%65.36%
- 7鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.17/1hr78h56.87%55.60%
- 8Fields of Mistria$0.18/1hr79h94.43%97.04%
- 9Undertale$0.18/1hr14h96.18%96.50%
- 10Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.22/1hr23h82.33%78.91%
- 11Coral Island$0.23/1hr128h88.00%88.96%
- 12Persona 4 Golden$0.24/1hr83h95.84%97.04%
- 13河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon)$0.25/1hr73h83.39%81.64%
- 14Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.25/1hr48h83.59%82.81%
- 15Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.25/1hr40h93.35%95.77%
- 16SENRAN KAGURA ESTIVAL VERSUS$0.26/1hr34h88.53%94.08%
- 17Mirror$0.27/1hr7h95.19%96.36%
- 18Monster Prom$0.28/1hr9h89.63%93.02%
- 19Volcano Princess$0.28/1hr25h95.68%97.79%
- 20The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.28/1hr70h88.81%94.55%
- 21Matchmaking Inc.$0.31/1hr29h86.79%88.67%
- 22Legend of Mortal$0.31/1hr64h78.38%76.55%
- 23Tricolour Lovestory$0.33/1hr6h82.27%81.18%
- 24Monster Hunter Wilds$0.34/1hr87h50.35%49.29%
- 25Wylde Flowers$0.35/1hr71h87.62%95.88%
- 26VillageRhapsody$0.36/1hr8h92.48%96.87%
- 27Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.37/1hr17h76.00%69.96%
- 28Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.38/1hr29h90.27%94.26%
- 29Potionomics$0.41/1hr37h87.56%90.48%
- 30Roots of Pacha$0.42/1hr60h87.92%93.59%
- 31STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town$0.42/1hr24h88.27%93.36%
- 32Sun Haven$0.43/1hr58h81.87%80.51%
- 33School Days$0.47/1hr24h81.59%76.87%
- 34HuniePop$0.56/1hr18h93.11%95.57%
- 35Tales of Seikyu$0.58/1hr43h84.68%84.31%
- 36NEKOPARA Vol. 2$0.61/1hr7h91.86%96.88%
- 37Otaku's Adventure$0.61/1hr11h89.58%94.87%
- 38Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.62/1hr49h85.80%85.89%
- 39Chinese Parents$0.62/1hr16h89.68%91.28%
- 40Office Life$0.64/1hr31h86.00%88.74%
- 41NEKOPARA Vol. 0$0.64/1hr2h90.68%93.69%
- 42NEKOPARA Vol. 1$0.70/1hr6h92.44%95.03%
- 43Vampires' Melody$0.70/1hr6h89.75%97.45%
- 44Moonstone Island$0.75/1hr26h84.81%83.62%
- 45inZOI$0.77/1hr42h79.18%77.31%
- 46STEINS;GATE$0.78/1hr38h93.75%97.07%
- 47I Was a Teenage Exocolonist$0.79/1hr32h88.97%96.32%
- 48Knowledge, or know Lady$0.79/1hr9h90.05%95.21%
- 49LoveChoice$0.84/1hr2h90.70%92.16%
- 50Raging Loop$0.88/1hr34h90.53%95.65%
- 51Love Is All Around$0.89/1hr11h91.82%93.23%
- 52Potion Permit$0.89/1hr22h83.23%79.35%
- 53Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.95/1hr7h86.01%87.48%
- 54The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.95/1hr11h93.12%94.42%
- 55Winter Memories$0.97/1hr14h91.64%97.50%
- 56Scarlet Hollow$1.08/1hr22h89.69%97.93%
- 57Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$1.13/1hr12h87.91%95.37%
- 58Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$1.16/1hr13h94.23%96.98%
- 59Senren＊Banka$1.24/1hr28h95.69%98.48%
- 60Gaokao.Love.100Days$1.28/1hr8h87.02%89.74%
- 61Project Wingman$1.34/1hr19h91.00%93.80%
- 62Growing Up$1.41/1hr11h85.96%87.65%
- 63Neon White$1.42/1hr18h93.63%97.88%
- 64魔女的夜宴$1.45/1hr24h92.19%98.47%
- 65Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening$1.45/1hr12h85.46%85.64%
- 66AI2U: With You 'Til The End$1.46/1hr10h85.38%88.04%
- 67TOGETHER BnB$1.71/1hr11h72.22%58.78%
- 68Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-$1.72/1hr6h89.76%95.03%
- 69ATRI -My Dear Moments-$2.04/1hr10h94.49%98.38%
- 70Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut$2.09/1hr9h94.18%96.73%
- 71Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition$2.11/1hr9h79.96%74.45%
- 72港詭實錄ParanormalHK$3.12/1hr4h88.06%89.35%
- 731 to 1 humanoid edible toys$3.20/1hr3h86.76%92.47%
- 74Mahou Arms$5.08/1hr8h84.07%73.45%
- 75Florence$5.99/1hr1h90.25%93.23%
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.