Best Value JRPG Games Under $40
The JRPG 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.
- 1FINAL FANTASY XIV Online$0.06/1hr324h86.39%86.53%
- 2Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr47h87.87%88.42%
- 3Touhou Mystia's Izakaya$0.12/1hr49h95.44%98.56%
- 4Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga$0.12/1hr57h90.74%94.48%
- 5Dragon Cliff$0.13/1hr78h86.73%88.61%
- 6Mirror$0.15/1hr5h95.17%96.36%
- 7FINAL FANTASY VIII$0.16/1hr73h86.52%88.17%
- 8Monster Sanctuary$0.17/1hr45h88.56%91.22%
- 9Elin$0.19/1hr108h89.11%93.36%
- 10Coromon$0.19/1hr26h84.72%84.44%
- 11Persona 4 Golden$0.24/1hr83h95.83%97.04%
- 12Granblue Fantasy: Relink$0.25/1hr98h89.27%90.00%
- 13Monster Hunter: World$0.26/1hr115h88.80%88.81%
- 14FINAL FANTASY XIII$0.31/1hr52h78.08%74.98%
- 15Yakuza: Like a Dragon$0.31/1hr64h92.13%93.98%
- 16CrossCode$0.33/1hr61h89.73%92.37%
- 17TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children$0.33/1hr75h89.27%93.42%
- 18Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling$0.35/1hr57h90.03%97.06%
- 19ASTLIBRA Revision$0.37/1hr67h92.83%95.04%
- 20Finding Paradise$0.37/1hr5h93.52%97.77%
- 21Okami HD$0.37/1hr27h88.70%91.97%
- 22Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1$0.38/1hr40h90.36%94.10%
- 23Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising$0.38/1hr66h84.35%83.17%
- 24The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky$0.39/1hr51h89.69%94.03%
- 25Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.42/1hr26h90.44%94.23%
- 26Banner of the Maid$0.44/1hr39h85.73%86.40%
- 27FINAL FANTASY IX$0.46/1hr45h90.95%95.13%
- 28Epic Battle Fantasy 5$0.47/1hr54h90.13%98.57%
- 29Yakuza 5 Remastered$0.48/1hr42h86.48%88.55%
- 30Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy$0.53/1hr13h91.37%97.46%
- 31Rune Factory 4 Special$0.53/1hr56h85.59%88.31%
- 32Super Robot Wars 30$0.54/1hr47h85.88%86.04%
- 33Valkyria Chronicles$0.55/1hr36h87.89%89.93%
- 34Volcano Princess$0.55/1hr20h95.66%97.79%
- 35Impostor Factory$0.55/1hr5h91.15%95.80%
- 36MONSTER HUNTER RISE$0.57/1hr70h83.60%83.47%
- 37Hylics$0.58/1hr5h91.23%98.13%
- 38Cassette Beasts$0.59/1hr34h89.73%94.03%
- 39Phoenotopia: Awakening$0.59/1hr34h85.10%82.76%
- 40Tales of Seikyu$0.60/1hr42h84.30%84.43%
- 41DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT$0.60/1hr33h91.99%93.16%
- 42OMORI$0.61/1hr33h95.87%97.07%
- 43The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.61/1hr66h88.67%94.54%
- 44KINGDOM HEARTS -HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX-$0.61/1hr66h86.11%86.85%
- 45Haven$0.61/1hr16h85.80%88.32%
- 46CHRONO TRIGGER$0.62/1hr24h86.92%88.21%
- 47DRAGON QUEST XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition$0.63/1hr64h89.21%92.72%
- 48FINAL FANTASY XIII-2$0.63/1hr31h74.74%58.57%
- 49Chained Echoes$0.65/1hr38h86.71%88.59%
- 50Yakuza 6: The Song of Life$0.66/1hr30h88.47%92.69%
- 51Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend$0.68/1hr44h87.03%92.87%
- 52Yakuza 4 Remastered$0.68/1hr29h87.71%90.29%
- 53FINAL FANTASY$0.72/1hr17h89.70%95.13%
- 54DELTARUNE$0.74/1hr34h97.19%98.07%
- 55Tales of the Black Forest$0.76/1hr5h92.72%97.59%
- 56FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster$0.76/1hr40h87.05%87.84%
- 57Ruined King: A League of Legends Story$0.79/1hr38h87.13%88.86%
- 58Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA$0.80/1hr50h87.16%90.30%
- 59OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition$0.80/1hr12h90.38%96.11%
- 60WitchSpring R$0.82/1hr43h89.97%95.80%
- 61Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.82/1hr16h75.75%69.72%
- 62Fate/Samurai Remnant$0.86/1hr30h87.40%90.54%
- 63Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin$0.87/1hr46h83.21%82.60%
- 64Attack on Titan 2 - A.O.T.2$0.90/1hr45h89.08%93.30%
- 65FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION$0.94/1hr37h83.46%83.17%
- 66Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition$0.94/1hr37h86.83%88.49%
- 67LISA: The Painful$0.95/1hr21h91.36%95.42%
- 68SCARLET NEXUS$0.99/1hr20h82.23%80.28%
- 69Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus$1.00/1hr30h83.57%80.60%
- 70Potion Permit$1.01/1hr20h82.51%79.30%
- 71Eastward$1.07/1hr23h84.29%83.89%
- 72FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE$1.07/1hr37h86.39%86.62%
- 73SENRAN KAGURA ESTIVAL VERSUS$1.11/1hr27h88.34%94.07%
- 74NieR:Automata$1.14/1hr35h87.29%87.43%
- 75KINGDOM HEARTS III + Re Mind (DLC)$1.17/1hr34h86.61%90.17%
- 76SD GUNDAM G GENERATION CROSS RAYS$1.18/1hr34h83.78%82.08%
- 77Tales of Graces f Remastered$1.30/1hr31h84.61%87.94%
- 78Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale$1.32/1hr15h89.84%96.03%
- 79Like a Dragon: Ishin!$1.39/1hr29h82.84%80.62%
- 80Winter Memories$1.39/1hr14h91.69%97.49%
- 81South Park: The Stick of Truth$1.39/1hr22h96.09%97.57%
- 82Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty$1.42/1hr28h59.07%49.99%
- 83Bloomtown: A Different Story$1.67/1hr15h85.72%85.39%
- 84Summer Memories$2.01/1hr10h90.43%92.65%
- 85Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 1$2.80/1hr14h86.02%87.60%
- 86Word Game$3.75/1hr9h88.72%93.30%
- 87One Piece Pirate Warriors 3$3.75/1hr11h81.35%77.84%
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.