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$0.11/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 2Moonstone Island$0.12/1hr42h84.63%83.54%
- 3My Time at Sandrock$0.12/1hr100h87.39%88.14%
- 4Stardew Valley$0.13/1hr113h98.38%98.48%
- 5Bean Battles$0.14/1hr7h89.53%93.83%
- 6Mirror$0.15/1hr5h95.17%96.36%
- 7Undertale$0.16/1hr16h96.27%96.51%
- 8Fields of Mistria$0.19/1hr74h94.21%97.04%
- 9The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome$0.19/1hr155h67.82%65.35%
- 10Persona 4 Golden$0.24/1hr83h95.83%97.04%
- 11河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon)$0.24/1hr74h83.61%81.65%
- 12Coral Island$0.25/1hr122h87.96%88.96%
- 13鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.29/1hr70h57.03%55.65%
- 14Legend of Mortal$0.29/1hr62h78.38%76.59%
- 15Matchmaking Inc.$0.31/1hr29h87.00%88.67%
- 16Tricolour Lovestory$0.33/1hr6h82.22%81.16%
- 17Wylde Flowers$0.34/1hr72h87.32%95.88%
- 18VillageRhapsody$0.36/1hr8h92.34%96.87%
- 19Chinese Parents$0.39/1hr14h89.64%91.29%
- 20Roots of Pacha$0.39/1hr64h87.65%93.59%
- 21Monster Hunter Wilds$0.40/1hr100h50.86%49.75%
- 22Sun Haven$0.41/1hr61h81.81%80.49%
- 23Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.42/1hr26h90.44%94.23%
- 24School Days$0.45/1hr25h81.84%76.90%
- 25HuniePop$0.52/1hr19h93.08%95.57%
- 26Rune Factory 4 Special$0.53/1hr56h85.59%88.31%
- 27Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.53/1hr38h93.31%95.77%
- 28Volcano Princess$0.55/1hr20h95.66%97.79%
- 29Neon White$0.56/1hr18h93.77%97.88%
- 30Tales of Seikyu$0.60/1hr42h84.30%84.43%
- 31The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.61/1hr66h88.67%94.54%
- 32Otaku's Adventure$0.61/1hr11h89.80%94.87%
- 33Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.62/1hr48h85.77%85.89%
- 34Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.64/1hr16h82.90%78.87%
- 35LoveChoice$0.64/1hr2h90.66%92.15%
- 36I Was a Teenage Exocolonist$0.71/1hr35h89.21%96.31%
- 37Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.78/1hr9h86.31%87.49%
- 38Knowledge, or know Lady$0.78/1hr9h89.93%95.21%
- 39ATRI -My Dear Moments-$0.79/1hr11h94.44%98.38%
- 40STEINS;GATE$0.79/1hr38h93.62%97.07%
- 41Potionomics$0.80/1hr31h87.77%90.46%
- 42Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.82/1hr16h75.75%69.72%
- 43Raging Loop$0.87/1hr34h91.02%95.66%
- 44Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.88/1hr45h83.52%82.81%
- 45Love Is All Around$0.88/1hr11h91.79%93.23%
- 46Potion Permit$1.01/1hr20h82.51%79.30%
- 47AI2U: With You 'Til The End$1.04/1hr14h84.94%87.84%
- 48The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$1.06/1hr9h93.10%94.42%
- 49inZOI$1.09/1hr37h79.18%77.36%
- 50SENRAN KAGURA ESTIVAL VERSUS$1.11/1hr27h88.34%94.07%
- 51Gaokao.Love.100Days$1.14/1hr9h87.25%89.74%
- 52Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$1.18/1hr12h88.24%95.36%
- 53Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$1.20/1hr12h94.20%96.97%
- 54Scarlet Hollow$1.22/1hr25h89.00%97.93%
- 55Senren＊Banka$1.35/1hr26h95.65%98.47%
- 56TOGETHER BnB$1.36/1hr13h72.42%58.78%
- 57魔女的夜宴$1.38/1hr25h92.38%98.47%
- 58Winter Memories$1.39/1hr14h91.69%97.49%
- 59Growing Up$1.52/1hr10h85.18%87.63%
- 60Florence$1.54/1hr1h90.19%93.24%
- 61Monster Prom$1.58/1hr8h89.79%93.01%
- 62Project Wingman$1.59/1hr16h91.14%93.80%
- 63STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town$1.63/1hr24h87.60%93.37%
- 64NEKOPARA Vol. 0$1.91/1hr2h90.64%93.71%
- 65NEKOPARA Vol. 2$1.95/1hr5h91.77%96.89%
- 66NEKOPARA Vol. 1$2.01/1hr5h92.40%95.03%
- 67Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition$2.10/1hr10h79.69%74.45%
- 68Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut$2.54/1hr7h94.15%96.67%
- 691 to 1 humanoid edible toys$2.71/1hr3h86.45%92.48%
- 70港詭實錄ParanormalHK$3.00/1hr4h87.98%89.35%
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.