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.
- 1Warhammer: Vermintide 2$0.06/1hr51h85.02%85.02%
- 2The Vagrant$0.06/1hr12h87.12%89.60%
- 3FOR HONOR$0.07/1hr69h70.03%69.11%
- 4Monster Hunter: World$0.07/1hr106h88.70%88.77%
- 5Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.09/1hr52h87.85%88.44%
- 6Brotato$0.10/1hr31h95.18%96.06%
- 7The Surge$0.10/1hr18h79.31%74.62%
- 8Warhammer: Chaosbane$0.11/1hr14h74.59%58.26%
- 9Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.11/1hr88h72.46%71.54%
- 10Path of Exile 2$0.11/1hr263h74.97%74.53%
- 11Dragon Cliff$0.14/1hr73h86.63%88.66%
- 12The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.35%75.46%
- 13Lost Castle / 失落城堡$0.16/1hr19h86.06%86.51%
- 14Children of Morta$0.18/1hr18h87.40%88.45%
- 15Hades$0.19/1hr40h97.61%98.02%
- 16V Rising$0.19/1hr81h88.68%88.95%
- 17CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.38%83.12%
- 18Moonlighter$0.20/1hr15h83.04%82.16%
- 19Shadow Warrior$0.21/1hr14h90.03%91.92%
- 20鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.22/1hr60h56.80%55.54%
- 21Hero Siege$0.22/1hr36h70.29%67.16%
- 22Grim Dawn$0.22/1hr112h92.94%93.68%
- 23Halls of Torment$0.23/1hr22h92.91%95.41%
- 24Mount & Blade: Warband$0.23/1hr86h97.02%97.72%
- 25One Piece Pirate Warriors 3$0.23/1hr17h81.35%78.02%
- 26Death's Door$0.26/1hr16h90.61%93.20%
- 27Death Must Die$0.26/1hr27h88.53%90.18%
- 28Dungeon Siege$0.27/1hr26h84.08%81.94%
- 29Hades II$0.29/1hr73h94.88%95.70%
- 30Granblue Fantasy: Relink$0.29/1hr139h89.30%90.09%
- 31Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.29/1hr42h85.75%85.91%
- 32Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide$0.30/1hr10h81.54%79.94%
- 33Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition$0.31/1hr20h82.88%80.85%
- 34Shadow Warrior 2$0.31/1hr10h86.55%87.11%
- 35Soulstone Survivors$0.32/1hr32h89.62%91.37%
- 36Sands of Salzaar$0.33/1hr46h82.68%81.68%
- 37Cat Quest$0.34/1hr10h89.96%94.64%
- 38Cat Quest II$0.34/1hr11h89.27%95.25%
- 39Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos$0.34/1hr31h78.60%68.48%
- 40Nobody Saves the World$0.36/1hr21h87.42%90.98%
- 41Fate Seeker II$0.36/1hr62h87.32%89.02%
- 42Dead Cells$0.37/1hr34h96.41%97.04%
- 43FATE$0.38/1hr21h88.25%95.36%
- 44Myth of Empires$0.40/1hr75h73.87%67.51%
- 45Chronicon$0.40/1hr35h89.48%94.12%
- 46Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom$0.42/1hr29h84.21%83.52%
- 47Heroes of Hammerwatch$0.47/1hr32h86.19%87.46%
- 48Skul: The Hero Slayer$0.50/1hr40h92.03%93.26%
- 49Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2$0.50/1hr16h84.90%84.79%
- 50Prince of Persia The Lost Crown$0.51/1hr29h84.70%84.28%
- 51Secrets of Grindea$0.51/1hr29h86.89%89.11%
- 52Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot$0.52/1hr10h84.24%79.83%
- 53The Riftbreaker$0.55/1hr52h88.81%90.38%
- 54Titan Quest Anniversary Edition$0.55/1hr36h89.20%90.32%
- 55Temtem: Swarm$0.56/1hr23h83.59%78.51%
- 56Sifu$0.56/1hr18h90.08%91.89%
- 57Last Epoch$0.57/1hr61h77.19%76.53%
- 58Minecraft Dungeons$0.57/1hr35h88.61%90.57%
- 59下一站江湖Ⅱ$0.59/1hr42h78.71%71.96%
- 60Alice: Madness Returns$0.62/1hr16h89.27%90.69%
- 61Heroes of Hammerwatch II$0.63/1hr32h84.06%82.60%
- 62MADNESS: Project Nexus$0.64/1hr39h92.72%97.16%
- 63Dying Light$0.66/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 64Killing Floor 2$0.66/1hr46h88.05%88.29%
- 65Afterimage$0.67/1hr37h81.11%77.31%
- 66The Slormancer$0.68/1hr29h83.51%81.50%
- 67MORDHAU$0.68/1hr44h80.34%79.93%
- 68FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION$0.70/1hr50h83.45%83.18%
- 69BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.71/1hr28h92.23%94.27%
- 70Ravenswatch$0.71/1hr28h81.44%79.86%
- 71Evil West$0.73/1hr14h78.60%73.80%
- 72Furi$0.73/1hr8h87.88%89.96%
- 73Ys Origin$0.73/1hr27h87.09%93.07%
- 74Windblown$0.74/1hr24h87.00%88.98%
- 75Wizard of Legend$0.76/1hr21h88.75%90.54%
- 76AI LIMIT$0.78/1hr31h90.45%91.95%
- 77Juice Galaxy$0.78/1hr6h91.86%98.46%
- 78STAR WARS Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy$0.81/1hr12h91.37%96.00%
- 79Astral Ascent$0.81/1hr31h89.39%94.61%
- 80SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure$0.82/1hr9h84.07%69.81%
- 81Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor$0.84/1hr24h91.80%92.51%
- 82Judgment$0.87/1hr46h89.90%94.00%
- 83Blasphemous 2$0.89/1hr34h88.82%90.69%
- 84Dark Messiah of Might & Magic$0.91/1hr11h88.17%90.88%
- 85Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA$0.91/1hr44h87.18%90.32%
- 86Thronefall$0.91/1hr14h92.83%96.18%
- 87Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.93/1hr22h86.92%87.96%
- 88Asterigos: Curse of the Stars$0.94/1hr37h83.22%78.10%
- 89Dust: An Elysian Tail$0.94/1hr16h91.64%95.15%
- 90Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning$0.96/1hr42h81.50%77.20%
- 91SCARLET NEXUS$0.98/1hr20h82.01%80.37%
- 92Tribes of Midgard$1.01/1hr20h79.00%76.43%
- 93Torchlight$1.03/1hr15h87.35%90.58%
- 94Castle Crashers$1.04/1hr14h95.43%96.18%
- 95No Rest for the Wicked$1.05/1hr38h80.83%80.31%
- 96NieR:Automata$1.06/1hr38h87.26%87.41%
- 97Torchlight II$1.07/1hr19h91.23%92.61%
- 98Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition$1.12/1hr27h80.70%78.61%
- 99Ember Knights$1.13/1hr18h88.63%93.89%
- 100Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition$1.13/1hr9h90.12%91.67%
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.