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.
- 1Monster Hunter: World$0.07/1hr106h88.70%88.77%
- 2FINAL FANTASY XIV Online$0.08/1hr237h86.37%86.54%
- 3Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.09/1hr52h87.85%88.44%
- 4MONSTER HUNTER RISE$0.11/1hr71h83.47%83.35%
- 5Dragon Cliff$0.14/1hr73h86.63%88.66%
- 6Touhou Mystia's Izakaya$0.17/1hr36h95.35%98.56%
- 7Super Robot Wars 30$0.18/1hr83h85.41%86.07%
- 8CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.38%83.12%
- 9Cassette Beasts$0.22/1hr31h89.74%94.08%
- 10Elin$0.22/1hr90h88.99%93.43%
- 11One Piece Pirate Warriors 3$0.23/1hr17h81.35%78.02%
- 12Persona 4 Golden$0.25/1hr80h95.79%97.04%
- 13FINAL FANTASY VIII$0.27/1hr45h86.56%88.23%
- 14Mirror$0.28/1hr7h95.16%96.37%
- 15TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children$0.28/1hr90h89.19%93.49%
- 16Volcano Princess$0.28/1hr26h95.61%97.80%
- 17Granblue Fantasy: Relink$0.29/1hr139h89.30%90.09%
- 18Yakuza: Like a Dragon$0.30/1hr67h92.11%94.03%
- 19ASTLIBRA Revision$0.30/1hr58h92.66%95.11%
- 20CrossCode$0.33/1hr61h89.83%92.48%
- 21DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT$0.33/1hr46h91.97%93.18%
- 22Yakuza 5 Remastered$0.33/1hr60h86.54%88.69%
- 23Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy$0.37/1hr13h90.90%97.46%
- 24FINAL FANTASY XIII$0.38/1hr42h78.40%75.06%
- 25Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.40/1hr28h90.35%94.29%
- 26Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga$0.40/1hr50h90.65%94.51%
- 27Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1$0.41/1hr36h90.03%94.15%
- 28Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom$0.42/1hr29h84.21%83.52%
- 29Banner of the Maid$0.46/1hr37h85.63%86.42%
- 30Rune Factory 4 Special$0.46/1hr65h85.60%88.28%
- 31Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling$0.46/1hr44h89.48%97.00%
- 32The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky$0.47/1hr42h89.56%94.00%
- 33Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition$0.48/1hr36h87.27%88.79%
- 34RPG Maker MV$0.48/1hr33h87.65%90.65%
- 35Chained Echoes$0.50/1hr50h86.62%88.66%
- 36Secrets of Grindea$0.51/1hr29h86.89%89.11%
- 37Eastward$0.52/1hr24h84.33%83.94%
- 38The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.52/1hr77h88.52%94.53%
- 39FINAL FANTASY IX$0.54/1hr39h90.91%95.11%
- 40Hylics$0.56/1hr5h91.20%98.18%
- 41Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars$0.56/1hr44h86.96%94.81%
- 42Monster Sanctuary$0.57/1hr35h88.46%91.23%
- 43DRAGON QUEST XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition$0.58/1hr69h89.23%92.79%
- 44Okami HD$0.61/1hr33h88.60%91.99%
- 45Rogue Voltage$0.62/1hr19h85.44%92.74%
- 46Valkyria Chronicles$0.62/1hr32h87.81%89.95%
- 47Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet$0.63/1hr32h80.93%78.86%
- 48Phoenotopia: Awakening$0.64/1hr31h84.48%82.74%
- 49CHRONO TRIGGER$0.64/1hr23h86.84%88.24%
- 50FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster$0.65/1hr46h87.18%88.13%
- 51Yakuza 6: The Song of Life$0.67/1hr30h88.47%92.72%
- 52OMORI$0.68/1hr30h95.85%97.09%
- 53ONE PIECE World Seeker$0.69/1hr13h81.92%77.02%
- 54FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION$0.70/1hr50h83.45%83.18%
- 55DELTARUNE$0.70/1hr36h97.16%98.13%
- 56Tales of Seikyu$0.70/1hr36h84.94%84.79%
- 57Potion Permit$0.72/1hr28h83.03%79.38%
- 58FINAL FANTASY XIII-2$0.72/1hr28h74.68%58.48%
- 59Epic Battle Fantasy 5$0.73/1hr34h90.12%98.58%
- 60Ys Origin$0.73/1hr27h87.09%93.07%
- 61Yakuza 4 Remastered$0.77/1hr26h87.32%90.49%
- 62FINAL FANTASY$0.77/1hr16h89.63%95.07%
- 63Tales of the Black Forest$0.79/1hr5h92.62%97.60%
- 64Coromon$0.80/1hr25h84.80%84.57%
- 65Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin$0.86/1hr47h83.47%82.59%
- 66Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA$0.91/1hr44h87.18%90.32%
- 67Ruined King: A League of Legends Story$0.91/1hr33h87.05%88.89%
- 68LISA: The Painful$0.93/1hr22h91.30%95.48%
- 69WitchSpring R$0.94/1hr37h89.87%95.89%
- 70SCARLET NEXUS$0.98/1hr20h82.01%80.37%
- 71Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.99/1hr13h77.31%72.25%
- 72NieR:Automata$1.06/1hr38h87.26%87.41%
- 73FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE$1.06/1hr38h86.78%87.13%
- 74Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend$1.16/1hr26h86.37%93.02%
- 75Attack on Titan 2 - A.O.T.2$1.19/1hr34h88.61%93.26%
- 76Bloomtown: A Different Story$1.20/1hr21h85.06%85.60%
- 77Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty$1.30/1hr31h58.81%49.83%
- 78Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening$1.32/1hr14h85.13%85.65%
- 79Fate/Samurai Remnant$1.37/1hr29h87.30%90.61%
- 80Like a Dragon: Ishin!$1.37/1hr29h83.33%80.73%
- 81Winter Memories$1.58/1hr13h91.37%97.46%
- 82SD GUNDAM G GENERATION CROSS RAYS$1.61/1hr25h83.75%82.24%
- 83Haven$1.68/1hr15h86.28%88.41%
- 84Finding Paradise$1.75/1hr6h93.55%97.78%
- 85South Park: The Stick of Truth$1.76/1hr17h96.05%97.56%
- 86Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale$1.89/1hr11h89.70%96.00%
- 87Summer Memories$1.93/1hr10h90.47%92.67%
- 88Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town$1.97/1hr15h85.89%95.85%
- 89Little Witch Nobeta$2.10/1hr12h84.63%84.29%
- 90OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition$2.26/1hr11h90.39%96.17%
- 91Impostor Factory$2.39/1hr4h91.05%95.80%
- 92The Test$3.85/1hr1h92.82%96.72%
- 93Word Game$4.89/1hr7h88.26%93.39%
- 94Azur Lane Crosswave$6.07/1hr7h78.17%69.00%
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.