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.
- 1Myth of Empires$0.03/1hr224h73.97%67.60%
- 2Hero Siege$0.07/1hr122h70.26%67.14%
- 3Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.07/1hr141h72.53%71.62%
- 4The Surge$0.07/1hr27h79.58%74.54%
- 5Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr47h87.87%88.42%
- 6Brotato$0.11/1hr47h95.09%95.92%
- 7Middle-earth: Shadow of War$0.13/1hr40h88.64%88.94%
- 8Warhammer: Vermintide 2$0.13/1hr36h85.05%85.04%
- 9Dragon Cliff$0.13/1hr78h86.73%88.61%
- 10Halls of Torment$0.15/1hr34h92.90%95.33%
- 11The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.53%75.35%
- 12Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor$0.16/1hr24h91.83%92.52%
- 13Death Must Die$0.21/1hr34h88.56%90.12%
- 14Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 15Path of Exile 2$0.22/1hr137h75.65%75.11%
- 16Blasphemous 2$0.23/1hr33h89.13%90.67%
- 17Granblue Fantasy: Relink$0.25/1hr98h89.27%90.00%
- 18Monster Hunter: World$0.26/1hr115h88.80%88.81%
- 19鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.29/1hr70h57.03%55.65%
- 20Chronicon$0.29/1hr49h89.58%94.10%
- 21Grim Dawn$0.29/1hr86h92.75%93.44%
- 22Soulstone Survivors$0.30/1hr35h89.65%91.32%
- 23Mount & Blade: Warband$0.31/1hr64h97.18%97.71%
- 24Ravenswatch$0.31/1hr40h81.56%79.97%
- 25Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide$0.33/1hr9h81.63%79.98%
- 26Insect Swarm$0.33/1hr7h84.96%84.15%
- 27LET IT DIE$0.35/1hr57h80.63%75.08%
- 28Cat Quest II$0.36/1hr10h88.86%95.21%
- 29Blue Fire$0.36/1hr11h84.31%81.49%
- 30Cat Quest$0.37/1hr9h89.62%94.61%
- 31Ember Knights$0.38/1hr18h88.77%93.86%
- 32Chivalry: Medieval Warfare$0.38/1hr13h82.93%82.58%
- 33Craftopia$0.40/1hr37h78.98%75.91%
- 34Dying Light$0.41/1hr42h95.09%95.23%
- 35Hades II$0.41/1hr73h94.92%95.71%
- 36Titan Quest Anniversary Edition$0.42/1hr48h89.21%90.27%
- 37Going Under$0.45/1hr9h86.64%90.12%
- 38Last Epoch$0.45/1hr77h77.21%76.54%
- 39Gauntlet Slayer Edition$0.46/1hr7h83.63%82.13%
- 40Skul: The Hero Slayer$0.46/1hr44h92.07%93.26%
- 41Army of Ruin$0.46/1hr17h85.81%88.06%
- 42Dead Cells$0.47/1hr27h96.55%97.01%
- 43Sands of Salzaar$0.47/1hr32h82.70%81.62%
- 44V Rising$0.48/1hr73h88.70%88.96%
- 45No Rest for the Wicked$0.50/1hr56h79.95%79.32%
- 46LIZARDS MUST DIE$0.52/1hr2h93.10%96.19%
- 47The Riftbreaker$0.53/1hr57h88.87%90.34%
- 48Temtem: Swarm$0.56/1hr23h83.75%78.58%
- 49Alice: Madness Returns$0.56/1hr18h89.40%90.77%
- 50Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem$0.56/1hr36h59.62%55.86%
- 51Remember Me$0.59/1hr10h83.92%83.18%
- 52BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.60/1hr33h92.34%94.30%
- 53KINGDOM HEARTS -HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX-$0.61/1hr66h86.11%86.85%
- 54Lost Castle / 失落城堡$0.61/1hr16h86.08%86.46%
- 55Hades$0.61/1hr41h97.68%97.99%
- 56Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.62/1hr48h85.77%85.89%
- 57Minecraft Dungeons$0.66/1hr30h88.60%90.33%
- 58Heroes of Hammerwatch II$0.67/1hr30h83.99%82.17%
- 59FATE$0.67/1hr12h88.33%95.36%
- 60FOR HONOR$0.67/1hr45h69.77%68.67%
- 61Torchlight II$0.71/1hr28h91.22%92.54%
- 62下一站江湖Ⅱ$0.71/1hr35h78.85%72.17%
- 63Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos$0.71/1hr18h78.79%68.82%
- 64Afterimage$0.73/1hr34h81.46%77.34%
- 65Thronefall$0.77/1hr17h92.88%96.13%
- 66Torchlight$0.78/1hr19h87.45%90.51%
- 67Heroes of Hammerwatch$0.79/1hr19h86.28%87.44%
- 68Lost Judgment$0.80/1hr50h88.87%93.60%
- 69Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA$0.80/1hr50h87.16%90.30%
- 70Juice Galaxy$0.81/1hr6h92.03%98.50%
- 71AI LIMIT$0.81/1hr28h90.37%91.78%
- 72Nunholy$0.82/1hr7h86.46%88.82%
- 73Furi$0.83/1hr7h87.95%89.92%
- 74Evil West$0.84/1hr12h78.17%73.69%
- 75Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.85/1hr23h87.26%88.05%
- 76Fate/Samurai Remnant$0.86/1hr30h87.40%90.54%
- 77Dark Messiah of Might & Magic$0.87/1hr12h88.24%90.83%
- 78STAR WARS Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy$0.87/1hr12h91.46%96.00%
- 79Dust: An Elysian Tail$0.87/1hr17h91.92%95.14%
- 80Attack on Titan 2 - A.O.T.2$0.90/1hr45h89.08%93.30%
- 81Astral Ascent$0.93/1hr27h89.53%94.60%
- 82FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION$0.94/1hr37h83.46%83.17%
- 83Judgment$0.96/1hr42h89.56%93.88%
- 84SCARLET NEXUS$0.99/1hr20h82.23%80.28%
- 85MADNESS: Project Nexus$1.02/1hr24h92.83%97.18%
- 86Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning$1.03/1hr39h81.50%77.29%
- 87Devil May Cry HD Collection$1.03/1hr29h91.08%93.37%
- 88Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition$1.11/1hr9h90.19%91.68%
- 89SENRAN KAGURA ESTIVAL VERSUS$1.11/1hr27h88.34%94.07%
- 90Killing Floor 2$1.11/1hr27h88.04%88.26%
- 91Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition$1.12/1hr27h80.79%78.67%
- 92NieR:Automata$1.14/1hr35h87.29%87.43%
- 93Death's Door$1.15/1hr17h90.85%93.14%
- 94Castle Crashers$1.15/1hr13h95.45%96.18%
- 95KINGDOM HEARTS III + Re Mind (DLC)$1.17/1hr34h86.61%90.17%
- 96Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate$1.18/1hr26h84.46%83.59%
- 97Prince of Persia The Lost Crown$1.18/1hr25h85.19%84.38%
- 98Nobody Saves the World$1.23/1hr20h87.56%90.99%
- 99Chivalry 2$1.24/1hr32h80.18%79.33%
- 100Moonlighter$1.25/1hr16h82.48%81.38%
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.