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$0.06/1hr124h88.73%88.80%
- 2TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children$0.06/1hr99h89.07%93.43%
- 3MONSTER HUNTER RISE$0.08/1hr102h83.59%83.45%
- 4FINAL FANTASY XIV Online$0.08/1hr238h86.40%86.52%
- 5Monster Sanctuary$0.10/1hr49h88.65%91.21%
- 6Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr46h87.90%88.42%
- 7Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$0.11/1hr47h87.57%89.67%
- 8Dragon Cliff$0.11/1hr92h86.85%88.61%
- 9Nioh: Complete Edition$0.15/1hr52h80.27%78.97%
- 10Touhou Mystia's Izakaya$0.15/1hr41h95.47%98.56%
- 11Rune Factory 4 Special$0.16/1hr55h85.90%88.29%
- 12Epic Battle Fantasy 5$0.18/1hr56h90.36%98.56%
- 13Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1$0.20/1hr34h89.92%94.12%
- 14Elin$0.20/1hr99h89.22%93.36%
- 15Persona 4 Golden$0.24/1hr83h95.84%97.04%
- 16FINAL FANTASY VIII$0.26/1hr46h86.72%88.17%
- 17ASTLIBRA Revision$0.26/1hr66h92.74%95.05%
- 18SENRAN KAGURA ESTIVAL VERSUS$0.26/1hr34h88.53%94.08%
- 19Mirror$0.27/1hr7h95.19%96.36%
- 20Volcano Princess$0.28/1hr25h95.68%97.79%
- 21The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.28/1hr70h88.81%94.55%
- 22Yakuza: Like a Dragon$0.30/1hr68h92.17%93.98%
- 23GOD EATER 3$0.30/1hr20h82.38%79.33%
- 24Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin$0.31/1hr48h83.62%82.62%
- 25CrossCode$0.33/1hr60h89.70%92.38%
- 26FINAL FANTASY XIII$0.36/1hr45h78.44%74.98%
- 27Granblue Fantasy: Relink$0.36/1hr112h89.30%90.01%
- 28Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.37/1hr17h76.00%69.96%
- 29Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga$0.38/1hr53h90.58%94.50%
- 30The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky$0.38/1hr52h89.48%94.02%
- 31Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.38/1hr29h90.27%94.26%
- 32ONE PIECE World Seeker$0.39/1hr15h81.74%76.90%
- 33Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling$0.39/1hr51h89.75%97.05%
- 34Tales of ARISE$0.40/1hr50h86.29%86.54%
- 35One Piece Pirate Warriors 3$0.40/1hr13h81.17%77.87%
- 36FINAL FANTASY IX$0.46/1hr46h91.10%95.12%
- 37Chained Echoes$0.47/1hr53h86.80%88.61%
- 38DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT$0.48/1hr42h92.01%93.16%
- 39Banner of the Maid$0.50/1hr34h85.51%86.40%
- 40Yakuza 5 Remastered$0.50/1hr40h86.70%88.55%
- 41Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus$0.51/1hr30h83.97%80.44%
- 42Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars$0.51/1hr49h86.86%94.86%
- 43CHRONO TRIGGER$0.54/1hr28h87.01%88.24%
- 44Valkyria Chronicles$0.54/1hr37h87.72%89.94%
- 45FINAL FANTASY XIII-2$0.56/1hr36h74.86%58.58%
- 46FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster$0.56/1hr54h86.97%87.90%
- 47Tales of Seikyu$0.58/1hr43h84.68%84.31%
- 48Cassette Beasts$0.59/1hr34h89.91%94.02%
- 49Hylics$0.59/1hr5h91.43%98.13%
- 50Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy$0.60/1hr12h91.17%97.45%
- 51Phoenotopia: Awakening$0.60/1hr33h84.82%82.79%
- 52DRAGON QUEST XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition$0.63/1hr64h89.39%92.74%
- 53Okami HD$0.66/1hr30h88.77%91.97%
- 54OMORI$0.66/1hr30h95.89%97.08%
- 55Yakuza 6: The Song of Life$0.66/1hr30h88.68%92.68%
- 56Vampires' Melody$0.70/1hr6h89.75%97.45%
- 57FINAL FANTASY$0.71/1hr17h89.90%95.13%
- 58Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend$0.72/1hr42h86.74%93.00%
- 59Coromon$0.75/1hr26h84.93%84.43%
- 60Yakuza 4 Remastered$0.76/1hr26h87.47%90.32%
- 61DELTARUNE$0.81/1hr31h97.20%98.07%
- 62Ruined King: A League of Legends Story$0.82/1hr37h87.30%88.87%
- 63Tales of the Black Forest$0.83/1hr5h92.56%97.59%
- 64Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition$0.88/1hr40h87.27%88.52%
- 65Potion Permit$0.89/1hr22h83.23%79.35%
- 66Attack on Titan 2 - A.O.T.2$0.90/1hr45h88.83%93.29%
- 67FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION$0.90/1hr39h83.49%83.17%
- 68Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA$0.94/1hr43h87.39%90.30%
- 69WitchSpring R$0.95/1hr37h90.09%95.80%
- 70Winter Memories$0.97/1hr14h91.64%97.50%
- 71LISA: The Painful$1.03/1hr19h91.20%95.43%
- 72NieR:Automata$1.08/1hr37h87.30%87.43%
- 73FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE$1.10/1hr36h86.48%86.70%
- 74Eastward$1.11/1hr22h84.44%83.90%
- 75Fate/Samurai Remnant$1.16/1hr34h87.48%90.53%
- 76Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty$1.24/1hr32h58.96%49.95%
- 77Like a Dragon: Ishin!$1.38/1hr29h83.50%80.65%
- 78Bloomtown: A Different Story$1.41/1hr18h85.37%85.55%
- 79South Park: The Stick of Truth$1.43/1hr21h96.10%97.57%
- 80Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening$1.45/1hr12h85.46%85.64%
- 81Haven$1.68/1hr15h86.13%88.34%
- 82Finding Paradise$1.84/1hr5h93.70%97.77%
- 83Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet$1.98/1hr10h80.85%78.84%
- 84Summer Memories$2.01/1hr10h90.60%92.66%
- 85OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition$2.17/1hr12h90.29%96.11%
- 86Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town$2.28/1hr13h86.24%95.69%
- 87Impostor Factory$2.35/1hr4h90.98%95.80%
- 88Word Game$3.76/1hr9h88.46%93.32%
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.