Best Value Hack and Slash Games Under $40
The Hack and Slash 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.
- 1Monster Hunter: World$0.06/1hr124h88.73%88.80%
- 2Hero Siege$0.07/1hr116h70.29%67.14%
- 3Brotato$0.07/1hr42h95.11%95.93%
- 4Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr46h87.90%88.42%
- 5Dragon Cliff$0.11/1hr92h86.85%88.61%
- 6Myth of Empires$0.12/1hr248h74.04%67.57%
- 7Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 8Nioh: Complete Edition$0.15/1hr52h80.27%78.97%
- 9Army of Ruin$0.16/1hr25h85.99%88.05%
- 10Mount & Blade: Warband$0.16/1hr127h97.04%97.72%
- 11鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.17/1hr78h56.87%55.60%
- 12Halls of Torment$0.17/1hr29h92.94%95.33%
- 13Children of Morta$0.18/1hr12h87.55%88.42%
- 14Chivalry 2$0.19/1hr43h80.18%79.31%
- 15Soulstone Survivors$0.21/1hr51h89.55%91.33%
- 16Death Must Die$0.21/1hr33h88.61%90.11%
- 17Shadow Warrior 2$0.22/1hr14h86.63%87.07%
- 18Path of Exile 2$0.22/1hr135h75.39%74.95%
- 19Shadow Warrior$0.23/1hr13h90.14%91.91%
- 20Dungeon Siege$0.24/1hr29h84.39%82.01%
- 21SENRAN KAGURA ESTIVAL VERSUS$0.26/1hr34h88.53%94.08%
- 22MORDHAU$0.27/1hr22h80.34%79.90%
- 23Welcome to ParadiZe$0.28/1hr11h82.72%67.24%
- 24Chronicon$0.28/1hr49h89.37%94.10%
- 25RUINER$0.30/1hr7h87.42%88.98%
- 26GOD EATER 3$0.30/1hr20h82.38%79.33%
- 27Cat Quest$0.31/1hr10h90.14%94.62%
- 28Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.31/1hr127h72.69%71.78%
- 29Cat Quest II$0.32/1hr12h89.48%95.22%
- 30LET IT DIE$0.34/1hr58h80.92%74.99%
- 31Grim Dawn$0.35/1hr72h92.79%93.47%
- 32Granblue Fantasy: Relink$0.36/1hr112h89.30%90.01%
- 33Diablo IV$0.37/1hr34h67.51%65.15%
- 34ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS 4$0.39/1hr21h89.70%91.65%
- 35Tales of ARISE$0.40/1hr50h86.29%86.54%
- 36One Piece Pirate Warriors 3$0.40/1hr13h81.17%77.87%
- 37Maneater$0.40/1hr15h86.77%87.29%
- 38Sands of Salzaar$0.40/1hr37h82.75%81.62%
- 39Hades II$0.43/1hr70h94.94%95.71%
- 40FOR HONOR$0.45/1hr67h69.75%68.80%
- 41Titan Quest Anniversary Edition$0.46/1hr44h89.25%90.28%
- 42Skul: The Hero Slayer$0.48/1hr42h92.09%93.26%
- 43FATE$0.48/1hr17h88.48%95.35%
- 44V Rising$0.48/1hr73h88.71%88.96%
- 45Dead Cells$0.49/1hr25h96.42%97.03%
- 46Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos$0.49/1hr21h78.90%68.69%
- 47LIZARDS MUST DIE$0.49/1hr2h93.28%96.21%
- 48下一站江湖Ⅱ$0.50/1hr40h78.93%72.17%
- 49Hades$0.50/1hr50h97.61%98.01%
- 50Asterigos: Curse of the Stars$0.51/1hr17h83.47%77.93%
- 51Prototype$0.51/1hr12h82.24%80.46%
- 52Last Epoch$0.54/1hr65h77.22%76.54%
- 53Alice: Madness Returns$0.58/1hr17h89.43%90.73%
- 54The Surge$0.59/1hr26h79.45%74.59%
- 55Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.62/1hr49h85.80%85.89%
- 56BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.62/1hr32h92.26%94.31%
- 57Temtem: Swarm$0.62/1hr21h83.98%78.59%
- 58The Riftbreaker$0.63/1hr43h88.93%90.35%
- 59Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem$0.64/1hr31h59.64%55.87%
- 60Ravenswatch$0.65/1hr39h81.42%79.94%
- 61Ghostrunner$0.66/1hr11h90.44%91.21%
- 62The Slormancer$0.66/1hr30h83.73%81.45%
- 63Ghostrunner 2$0.67/1hr12h82.53%79.98%
- 64Heroes of Hammerwatch$0.67/1hr22h86.39%87.44%
- 65Lost Castle / 失落城堡$0.69/1hr14h85.97%86.47%
- 66Torchlight$0.70/1hr21h87.57%90.51%
- 67No Rest for the Wicked$0.76/1hr53h80.04%79.39%
- 68Lost Judgment$0.78/1hr51h89.14%93.63%
- 69Wizard of Legend$0.79/1hr20h88.87%90.52%
- 70STAR WARS Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy$0.80/1hr13h91.55%96.00%
- 71Warhammer: Vermintide 2$0.80/1hr37h85.06%85.04%
- 72Craftopia$0.81/1hr31h79.06%75.92%
- 73Torchlight II$0.82/1hr24h91.30%92.60%
- 74Heroes of Hammerwatch II$0.83/1hr24h84.17%82.27%
- 75Dust: An Elysian Tail$0.83/1hr18h91.80%95.14%
- 76AI LIMIT$0.84/1hr27h90.45%91.82%
- 77Afterimage$0.86/1hr29h81.30%77.35%
- 78Dark Messiah of Might & Magic$0.86/1hr12h88.37%90.87%
- 79Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor$0.87/1hr23h91.85%92.51%
- 80Evil West$0.89/1hr11h78.41%73.71%
- 81Juice Galaxy$0.89/1hr6h92.13%98.50%
- 82Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.89/1hr22h87.14%88.05%
- 83Attack on Titan 2 - A.O.T.2$0.90/1hr45h88.83%93.29%
- 84FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION$0.90/1hr39h83.49%83.17%
- 85Prototype 2$0.90/1hr13h80.13%76.80%
- 86Blasphemous 2$0.91/1hr33h88.99%90.65%
- 87MADNESS: Project Nexus$0.91/1hr27h92.90%97.17%
- 88Devil May Cry HD Collection$0.93/1hr32h91.13%93.36%
- 89Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA$0.94/1hr43h87.39%90.30%
- 90Thronefall$0.95/1hr14h92.92%96.13%
- 91Insect Swarm$0.96/1hr7h85.19%84.15%
- 92Judgment$0.96/1hr42h89.79%93.90%
- 93Windblown$0.97/1hr18h86.85%88.84%
- 94Minecraft Dungeons$0.99/1hr20h88.68%90.36%
- 95Prince of Persia The Lost Crown$1.00/1hr30h84.99%84.41%
- 96Ember Knights$1.01/1hr20h88.95%93.83%
- 97Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning$1.01/1hr39h81.77%77.24%
- 98Astral Ascent$1.06/1hr24h89.66%94.63%
- 99Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition$1.07/1hr28h80.86%78.67%
- 100NieR:Automata$1.08/1hr37h87.30%87.43%
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.