Best Value Immersive Sim Games Under $40
The Immersive 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.
- 1HITMAN World of Assassination$0.08/1hr36h87.04%87.31%
- 2Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.11/1hr9h93.47%97.57%
- 3Chill Pulse$0.11/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 4Feed the Cups$0.14/1hr88h79.42%70.60%
- 5Eco$0.15/1hr204h82.55%80.69%
- 6Cyberpunk 2077$0.15/1hr121h87.02%87.01%
- 7SnowRunner$0.16/1hr76h89.34%90.07%
- 8Streamer Life Simulator$0.17/1hr12h81.14%76.04%
- 9Disney Dreamlight Valley$0.20/1hr201h90.16%92.16%
- 10Farming Simulator 25$0.21/1hr146h87.02%87.33%
- 11Ostranauts$0.22/1hr91h82.51%77.13%
- 12BioShock 2 Remastered$0.22/1hr13h75.38%72.15%
- 13Travellers Rest$0.22/1hr60h86.92%87.88%
- 14ANEURISM IV$0.23/1hr44h80.74%75.15%
- 15Farming Simulator 22$0.23/1hr87h92.00%92.73%
- 16Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition$0.26/1hr27h91.09%94.86%
- 17Farmer's Life$0.26/1hr35h85.78%88.74%
- 18Heroes' Vow: Three Kingdoms$0.26/1hr76h86.65%88.43%
- 19The Planet Crafter$0.27/1hr54h94.74%96.03%
- 20Medieval Dynasty$0.28/1hr63h89.51%90.33%
- 21Cash Cleaner Simulator$0.28/1hr54h87.87%92.36%
- 22Barro$0.29/1hr2h82.90%78.73%
- 23Euro Truck Simulator 2$0.30/1hr68h97.34%97.44%
- 24Motor Town: Behind The Wheel$0.30/1hr66h89.46%93.85%
- 25Animal Shelter$0.31/1hr10h85.26%87.66%
- 26Easy Red 2$0.32/1hr28h88.32%90.40%
- 27Railroads Online$0.32/1hr89h81.19%74.57%
- 28Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.33/1hr77h89.75%90.51%
- 29My Dream Setup$0.33/1hr7h87.22%91.47%
- 30BioShock Remastered$0.35/1hr14h83.45%83.18%
- 31Dishonored$0.35/1hr28h96.37%97.63%
- 32Supermarket Simulator$0.39/1hr51h91.31%92.04%
- 33Roots of Pacha$0.39/1hr64h87.65%93.59%
- 34Car Dealer Simulator$0.42/1hr48h86.55%88.73%
- 35Abiotic Factor$0.42/1hr84h94.25%95.78%
- 36TCG Card Shop Simulator$0.42/1hr48h94.52%96.39%
- 37Star Trucker$0.42/1hr18h82.16%78.27%
- 38House Flipper 2$0.43/1hr56h86.65%87.39%
- 39PowerWash Simulator$0.43/1hr59h94.75%96.38%
- 40School Days$0.45/1hr25h81.84%76.90%
- 41Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.45/1hr62h84.61%85.37%
- 42American Truck Simulator$0.45/1hr44h96.49%96.91%
- 43Amnesia: The Bunker$0.45/1hr11h89.70%93.28%
- 44Sailwind$0.46/1hr44h85.13%88.79%
- 45Sticky Business$0.47/1hr11h88.86%93.61%
- 46Ghosts of Tabor$0.47/1hr53h77.79%70.75%
- 47Little Witch in the Woods$0.48/1hr42h87.40%89.08%
- 48GoreBox$0.48/1hr19h84.55%84.30%
- 49Barony$0.48/1hr27h88.71%90.65%
- 50RoadCraft$0.49/1hr41h78.64%74.65%
- 51Shadows of Doubt$0.49/1hr25h83.18%82.06%
- 52No Rest for the Wicked$0.50/1hr56h79.95%79.32%
- 53Airport CEO$0.50/1hr50h84.21%83.05%
- 54ContractVille$0.51/1hr19h82.94%80.85%
- 55My Garage$0.52/1hr38h86.68%90.18%
- 56Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator$0.53/1hr57h84.16%83.77%
- 57Chef RPG$0.53/1hr38h85.05%87.83%
- 58Havendock$0.53/1hr11h84.02%79.26%
- 59Day of Dragons$0.55/1hr37h76.30%65.07%
- 60Internet Cafe Simulator 2$0.57/1hr10h78.45%73.36%
- 61Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon$0.57/1hr56h87.13%87.67%
- 62WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition$0.58/1hr52h92.23%97.51%
- 63Streets of Rogue$0.58/1hr34h92.75%96.03%
- 64Big Ambitions$0.60/1hr44h89.26%92.03%
- 65SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition$0.60/1hr33h83.72%82.25%
- 66theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.62/1hr32h89.02%89.07%
- 67Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI with Power Up Kit$0.62/1hr64h87.30%92.46%
- 68Old Market Simulator$0.63/1hr15h85.44%87.63%
- 69MX Bikes$0.64/1hr54h92.36%94.28%
- 70Infection Free Zone$0.64/1hr39h82.25%80.67%
- 71Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut$0.65/1hr31h90.26%91.95%
- 72Far Cry 2$0.65/1hr15h78.98%75.67%
- 73Grocery Store Simulator$0.66/1hr23h86.73%90.71%
- 74Sons Of The Forest$0.69/1hr44h88.49%88.50%
- 75Le Mans Ultimate$0.69/1hr58h80.89%78.77%
- 76Squad$0.69/1hr58h81.40%81.13%
- 77Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days$0.70/1hr36h86.74%89.26%
- 78Uncrashed : FPV Drone Simulator$0.71/1hr21h89.65%95.26%
- 79Finnish Cottage Simulator$0.73/1hr21h86.84%93.83%
- 80Car Mechanic Simulator 2021$0.73/1hr33h93.56%95.72%
- 81Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator$0.75/1hr24h84.35%83.32%
- 82Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora$0.77/1hr39h80.82%78.09%
- 83Cyber Manhunt$0.77/1hr13h89.54%92.31%
- 84Streamer Life Simulator 2$0.77/1hr12h82.98%81.16%
- 85Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.78/1hr9h86.31%87.49%
- 86Knowledge, or know Lady$0.78/1hr9h89.93%95.21%
- 87Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.81/1hr31h86.77%87.04%
- 88Juice Galaxy$0.81/1hr6h92.03%98.50%
- 89Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game$0.82/1hr37h90.75%93.84%
- 90Farthest Frontier$0.82/1hr43h85.79%86.02%
- 91Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm$0.82/1hr24h91.05%92.59%
- 92Derail Valley$0.82/1hr49h90.86%96.64%
- 93Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm$0.83/1hr30h80.11%79.07%
- 94Dark Messiah of Might & Magic$0.87/1hr12h88.24%90.83%
- 95Love Is All Around$0.88/1hr11h91.79%93.23%
- 96Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop$0.89/1hr10h79.10%70.04%
- 97Deus Ex: Mankind Divided$0.89/1hr34h78.13%76.47%
- 98Depersonalization$0.91/1hr22h88.38%93.04%
- 99Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator$0.91/1hr12h76.27%62.37%
- 100Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition$0.94/1hr32h87.45%91.72%
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.