Best Value Platformer Games Under $40
The Platformer 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.
- 1Geometry Dash$0.06/1hr79h92.88%93.00%
- 2Terraria$0.07/1hr152h97.30%97.38%
- 3Monster Sanctuary$0.10/1hr49h88.65%91.21%
- 4Crab Champions$0.19/1hr54h94.84%97.89%
- 5Laika: Aged Through Blood$0.20/1hr25h87.86%91.53%
- 6SteamWorld Dig$0.21/1hr7h89.67%93.55%
- 7Dungreed$0.24/1hr42h89.27%93.30%
- 8SteamWorld Dig 2$0.26/1hr12h90.22%95.50%
- 9F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch$0.26/1hr18h85.42%86.32%
- 10Rain World$0.27/1hr32h92.46%93.70%
- 11Hollow Knight$0.27/1hr55h96.71%96.92%
- 12Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$0.29/1hr7h89.61%93.13%
- 13Doloc Town$0.29/1hr69h87.94%94.54%
- 14Valfaris$0.30/1hr8h84.75%82.40%
- 15Trine Enchanted Edition$0.32/1hr9h91.65%95.60%
- 16GRIME$0.32/1hr23h85.15%84.76%
- 17Rusted Moss$0.34/1hr24h86.02%89.27%
- 18Axiom Verge$0.35/1hr14h87.29%90.14%
- 19Neon Abyss$0.35/1hr22h85.78%85.90%
- 20Spelunky 2$0.36/1hr56h90.30%92.81%
- 21Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition$0.36/1hr10h88.32%92.43%
- 22Hue$0.40/1hr8h89.21%92.55%
- 23Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince$0.41/1hr14h87.03%88.60%
- 24ROUNDS$0.42/1hr14h93.45%95.27%
- 25Downwell$0.43/1hr7h90.57%96.55%
- 26Clustertruck$0.46/1hr6h90.71%93.58%
- 27Spyro Reignited Trilogy$0.47/1hr30h90.82%93.52%
- 28Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night$0.47/1hr21h91.58%93.08%
- 29Skul: The Hero Slayer$0.48/1hr42h92.09%93.26%
- 30Dead Cells$0.49/1hr25h96.42%97.03%
- 31Trine 2: Complete Story$0.50/1hr8h92.19%95.26%
- 32Rabi-Ribi$0.50/1hr36h90.85%95.28%
- 33Seen$0.51/1hr2h87.93%91.08%
- 34Rogue Legacy 2$0.55/1hr45h88.72%90.84%
- 35Psychonauts$0.58/1hr17h91.46%94.93%
- 36Alice: Madness Returns$0.58/1hr17h89.43%90.73%
- 37Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy$0.60/1hr12h91.17%97.45%
- 38Phoenotopia: Awakening$0.60/1hr33h84.82%82.79%
- 39Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom$0.61/1hr16h86.06%88.53%
- 40BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.62/1hr32h92.26%94.31%
- 41The Final Station$0.63/1hr6h86.08%87.45%
- 42LEGO Marvel Super Heroes$0.63/1hr32h93.03%95.66%
- 43The End Is Nigh$0.64/1hr24h87.54%93.62%
- 44Souldiers$0.65/1hr31h81.56%69.29%
- 45Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.67/1hr12h82.62%82.29%
- 46Cuphead$0.67/1hr30h95.69%96.16%
- 47Sonic Adventure DX$0.68/1hr12h89.26%91.64%
- 48Gorilla Tag$0.68/1hr29h90.71%91.33%
- 49HAAK$0.70/1hr26h86.52%89.68%
- 50Duck Game$0.72/1hr18h94.28%96.57%
- 51Pseudoregalia$0.72/1hr8h92.87%96.75%
- 52Sonic Adventure 2$0.73/1hr14h88.09%89.25%
- 53Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered$0.74/1hr40h85.13%87.09%
- 54Death's Gambit: Afterlife$0.77/1hr26h83.86%81.08%
- 55Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition$0.77/1hr39h93.39%94.90%
- 56Chained Together$0.79/1hr6h89.10%89.68%
- 57Celeste$0.80/1hr25h96.64%97.40%
- 58Portal 2$0.81/1hr12h98.42%98.70%
- 59Pizza Tower$0.81/1hr25h96.71%98.27%
- 60Nine Sols$0.82/1hr37h92.80%94.43%
- 61Spelunky$0.83/1hr18h89.38%92.15%
- 62Move or Die$0.83/1hr5h87.85%89.17%
- 63Dust: An Elysian Tail$0.83/1hr18h91.80%95.14%
- 64Rivals of Aether II$0.84/1hr36h82.34%79.90%
- 65Vigil: The Longest Night$0.84/1hr26h85.57%86.00%
- 66UFO 50$0.85/1hr29h89.18%95.05%
- 67Afterimage$0.86/1hr29h81.30%77.35%
- 68Get To Work$0.86/1hr15h86.26%88.82%
- 69Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy$0.86/1hr14h89.99%92.01%
- 70Blasphemous$0.89/1hr28h89.25%89.83%
- 71Blasphemous 2$0.91/1hr33h88.99%90.65%
- 72Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time$0.91/1hr13h85.65%86.42%
- 73Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-$0.91/1hr10h88.64%92.99%
- 74Salt and Sanctuary$0.91/1hr20h88.11%89.34%
- 75Rogue Legacy$0.91/1hr16h89.97%92.34%
- 76A Webbing Journey$0.92/1hr9h86.95%98.83%
- 77TEVI$0.93/1hr32h86.42%88.92%
- 78Supraland$0.93/1hr22h91.38%95.19%
- 79Momodora: Moonlit Farewell$0.96/1hr11h87.05%92.08%
- 80Prince of Persia The Lost Crown$1.00/1hr30h84.99%84.41%
- 81FEZ$1.00/1hr10h89.88%92.63%
- 82SpeedRunners$1.02/1hr15h92.17%94.01%
- 83Risk of Rain (2013)$1.02/1hr10h91.12%93.05%
- 84Reventure$1.03/1hr12h90.12%94.89%
- 85Little Nightmares II$1.04/1hr9h91.86%92.98%
- 86A Hat in Time$1.06/1hr28h95.84%97.80%
- 87Astral Ascent$1.06/1hr24h89.66%94.63%
- 88Child of Light$1.08/1hr14h88.82%91.35%
- 89POPUCOM$1.10/1hr18h85.39%86.83%
- 90ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist$1.10/1hr23h91.90%95.36%
- 91Onirism$1.16/1hr15h84.95%82.25%
- 92SANABI$1.18/1hr13h95.08%97.24%
- 93Ultimate Chicken Horse$1.18/1hr13h94.12%95.76%
- 94The Last Faith$1.21/1hr23h85.11%84.57%
- 95LEGO The Lord of the Rings$1.23/1hr16h88.07%90.11%
- 96Iconoclasts$1.25/1hr16h85.68%86.23%
- 97Viewfinder$1.26/1hr6h90.55%94.48%
- 98The Messenger$1.27/1hr16h89.52%92.62%
- 99Jump King$1.28/1hr10h87.91%89.77%
- 100VVVVVV$1.28/1hr4h90.93%96.16%
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.