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$0.08/1hr65h88.41%95.54%
- 2Bean Battles$0.09/1hr6h89.42%93.80%
- 3Stardew Valley$0.11/1hr133h98.35%98.48%
- 4河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon)$0.13/1hr68h83.22%81.63%
- 5My Time at Sandrock$0.13/1hr104h87.36%88.19%
- 6Tricolour Lovestory$0.15/1hr13h82.27%81.30%
- 7Sun Haven$0.16/1hr53h81.82%80.57%
- 8Undertale$0.17/1hr15h96.16%96.50%
- 9Fields of Mistria$0.20/1hr70h94.42%97.68%
- 10鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.22/1hr60h56.80%55.54%
- 11Legend of Mortal$0.24/1hr76h77.88%75.95%
- 12Persona 4 Golden$0.25/1hr80h95.79%97.04%
- 13The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome$0.26/1hr114h67.95%65.51%
- 14Mirror$0.28/1hr7h95.16%96.37%
- 15Volcano Princess$0.28/1hr26h95.61%97.80%
- 16Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.29/1hr42h85.75%85.91%
- 17Coral Island$0.31/1hr98h87.80%88.84%
- 18Wylde Flowers$0.32/1hr79h87.32%95.90%
- 19VillageRhapsody$0.32/1hr9h92.33%96.85%
- 20Path Of Wuxia$0.33/1hr53h79.95%78.29%
- 21Fate Seeker II$0.36/1hr62h87.32%89.02%
- 22Monster Prom$0.37/1hr7h89.72%93.03%
- 23Monster Hunter Wilds$0.37/1hr80h50.02%48.95%
- 24Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.40/1hr28h90.35%94.29%
- 25School Days$0.41/1hr28h81.21%76.36%
- 26HunieCam Studio$0.41/1hr17h86.06%87.70%
- 27Roots of Pacha$0.42/1hr59h87.67%93.62%
- 28Matchmaking Inc.$0.42/1hr21h86.49%88.58%
- 29Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.43/1hr23h82.48%78.98%
- 30CLANNAD$0.45/1hr35h91.96%98.43%
- 31Rune Factory 4 Special$0.46/1hr65h85.60%88.28%
- 32Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-$0.49/1hr6h89.51%95.02%
- 33The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.52/1hr77h88.52%94.53%
- 34Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.52/1hr38h93.23%95.80%
- 35Moonstone Island$0.66/1hr30h84.59%83.80%
- 36Tales of Seikyu$0.70/1hr36h84.94%84.79%
- 37Office Life$0.70/1hr28h85.63%88.76%
- 38Potion Permit$0.72/1hr28h83.03%79.38%
- 39Chinese Parents$0.75/1hr13h89.60%91.33%
- 40HuniePop$0.75/1hr13h93.04%95.58%
- 41Knowledge, or know Lady$0.77/1hr9h89.81%95.22%
- 42Otaku's Adventure$0.78/1hr9h89.67%94.85%
- 43The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.79/1hr9h93.09%94.45%
- 44STEINS;GATE$0.79/1hr38h93.76%97.08%
- 45Growing Up$0.82/1hr18h85.75%87.83%
- 46I Was a Teenage Exocolonist$0.83/1hr30h88.62%96.31%
- 47Potionomics$0.90/1hr28h87.29%90.44%
- 48Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.91/1hr8h85.81%87.63%
- 49Raging Loop$0.92/1hr33h90.42%95.62%
- 50Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.92/1hr43h83.53%82.90%
- 51inZOI$0.98/1hr41h78.97%77.10%
- 52Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.99/1hr13h77.31%72.25%
- 53LoveChoice$1.00/1hr2h90.68%92.25%
- 54Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$1.04/1hr14h94.08%96.96%
- 55To Pixelia$1.06/1hr14h83.78%74.37%
- 56Love Is All Around$1.11/1hr9h91.78%93.26%
- 57TOGETHER BnB$1.13/1hr16h72.35%58.82%
- 58Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$1.18/1hr12h87.54%95.29%
- 59STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town$1.22/1hr33h88.02%93.34%
- 60魔女的夜宴$1.26/1hr28h92.23%98.53%
- 61Neon White$1.27/1hr20h93.68%97.94%
- 62Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening$1.32/1hr14h85.13%85.65%
- 63Scarlet Hollow$1.33/1hr19h89.31%97.96%
- 64Project Wingman$1.39/1hr18h91.01%93.76%
- 65NEKOPARA Vol. 0$1.39/1hr2h90.58%93.72%
- 66NEKOPARA Vol. 3$1.42/1hr7h91.48%96.89%
- 67Senren＊Banka$1.52/1hr23h95.59%98.49%
- 68Winter Memories$1.58/1hr13h91.37%97.46%
- 69NEKOPARA Vol. 4$1.76/1hr6h90.68%97.15%
- 70NEKOPARA Vol. 1$1.79/1hr6h92.38%95.09%
- 71NEKOPARA Vol. 2$1.83/1hr5h91.68%96.90%
- 72ATRI -My Dear Moments-$1.90/1hr11h94.33%98.39%
- 731 to 1 humanoid edible toys$2.14/1hr4h86.48%92.60%
- 74Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut$2.67/1hr7h94.01%96.74%
- 75港詭實錄ParanormalHK$3.02/1hr4h87.95%89.41%
- 76Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition$3.65/1hr5h80.08%74.45%
- 77Florence$6.20/1hr1h90.07%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.