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$0.06/1hr86h92.92%93.05%
- 2The Vagrant$0.06/1hr12h87.12%89.60%
- 3Terraria$0.09/1hr107h97.30%97.38%
- 4Souldiers$0.11/1hr28h81.27%69.22%
- 5Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition$0.11/1hr41h93.37%94.96%
- 6ROUNDS$0.20/1hr15h93.34%95.25%
- 7Hollow Knight$0.21/1hr72h96.70%96.91%
- 8Celeste$0.22/1hr22h96.60%97.40%
- 9Laika: Aged Through Blood$0.24/1hr21h87.59%91.57%
- 10F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch$0.27/1hr18h85.58%86.41%
- 11Crab Champions$0.27/1hr37h94.73%97.88%
- 12Adorables$0.27/1hr9h83.99%76.73%
- 13Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$0.27/1hr7h89.42%93.17%
- 14SteamWorld Dig$0.28/1hr7h89.47%93.58%
- 15Guacamelee! 2$0.34/1hr15h86.54%91.19%
- 16Trials Rising$0.34/1hr12h79.58%62.30%
- 17Seen$0.35/1hr3h88.06%91.15%
- 18Trine Enchanted Edition$0.35/1hr9h91.51%95.61%
- 19Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition$0.36/1hr11h88.04%92.38%
- 20SteamWorld Dig 2$0.36/1hr11h89.97%95.48%
- 21FAR: Lone Sails$0.37/1hr4h92.42%95.26%
- 22Dead Cells$0.37/1hr34h96.41%97.04%
- 23Axiom Verge$0.37/1hr14h87.04%90.19%
- 24Child of Light$0.37/1hr12h88.66%91.39%
- 25Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy$0.37/1hr13h90.90%97.46%
- 26Rain World$0.37/1hr30h92.43%93.77%
- 27ScourgeBringer$0.38/1hr7h85.29%86.25%
- 28Dungreed$0.38/1hr26h89.05%93.30%
- 29Trine 2: Complete Story$0.38/1hr10h92.04%95.25%
- 30Nine Sols$0.43/1hr35h92.64%94.38%
- 31Doloc Town$0.44/1hr45h87.16%95.96%
- 32Castlevania Anniversary Collection$0.47/1hr17h84.36%81.61%
- 33Rusted Moss$0.48/1hr17h85.61%89.39%
- 34HUNTDOWN$0.50/1hr8h87.96%94.78%
- 35ALTF4$0.50/1hr6h82.19%79.61%
- 36Skul: The Hero Slayer$0.50/1hr40h92.03%93.26%
- 37Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince$0.50/1hr12h87.15%88.67%
- 38Spelunky$0.51/1hr30h89.45%92.13%
- 39GRIS$0.51/1hr6h95.01%96.06%
- 40Prince of Persia The Lost Crown$0.51/1hr29h84.70%84.28%
- 41GRIME$0.52/1hr22h84.93%84.84%
- 42Psychonauts$0.53/1hr19h91.54%94.97%
- 43Sonic Adventure DX$0.54/1hr15h89.33%91.68%
- 44Downwell$0.54/1hr6h90.33%96.57%
- 45Monster Sanctuary$0.57/1hr35h88.46%91.23%
- 46Little Nightmares$0.59/1hr8h93.98%94.76%
- 47Spelunky 2$0.62/1hr32h90.33%92.79%
- 48Alice: Madness Returns$0.62/1hr16h89.27%90.69%
- 49Duck Game$0.64/1hr20h94.21%96.58%
- 50Phoenotopia: Awakening$0.64/1hr31h84.48%82.74%
- 51TEVI$0.65/1hr46h86.14%89.06%
- 52Gorilla Tag$0.66/1hr30h90.66%91.33%
- 53Afterimage$0.67/1hr37h81.11%77.31%
- 54Pseudoregalia$0.67/1hr9h92.65%96.77%
- 55Rogue Legacy$0.68/1hr22h89.86%92.47%
- 56Move or Die$0.70/1hr5h87.95%89.22%
- 57BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.71/1hr28h92.23%94.27%
- 58HAAK$0.72/1hr25h86.22%89.83%
- 59Portal 2$0.72/1hr14h98.42%98.70%
- 60Rabi-Ribi$0.73/1hr25h90.65%95.28%
- 61Chained Together$0.74/1hr7h89.19%89.86%
- 62Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon$0.75/1hr7h87.87%94.27%
- 63Gravity Circuit$0.79/1hr9h87.36%91.44%
- 64FEZ$0.79/1hr13h89.74%92.68%
- 65Sonic Adventure 2$0.81/1hr12h88.13%89.25%
- 66Rogue Legacy 2$0.81/1hr31h88.51%90.84%
- 67Astral Ascent$0.81/1hr31h89.39%94.61%
- 68LEGO Marvel Super Heroes$0.82/1hr24h92.98%95.61%
- 69Cuphead$0.83/1hr24h95.68%96.18%
- 70Death's Gambit: Afterlife$0.83/1hr24h83.62%81.17%
- 71SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER$0.84/1hr4h88.85%96.06%
- 72Momodora: Moonlit Farewell$0.85/1hr12h86.69%92.04%
- 73Salt and Sanctuary$0.88/1hr20h87.99%89.37%
- 74Blasphemous 2$0.89/1hr34h88.82%90.69%
- 75Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.89/1hr9h82.57%82.28%
- 76A Webbing Journey$0.90/1hr9h86.56%98.84%
- 77INMOST$0.93/1hr5h87.46%90.84%
- 78Dust: An Elysian Tail$0.94/1hr16h91.64%95.15%
- 79Pizza Tower$0.98/1hr20h96.67%98.29%
- 80Risk of Rain (2013)$0.98/1hr10h91.02%93.05%
- 81Blasphemous$1.01/1hr25h89.20%89.84%
- 82Jump King$1.04/1hr13h87.77%89.87%
- 83Supraland$1.04/1hr19h91.14%95.21%
- 84Reventure$1.05/1hr12h89.89%94.87%
- 85Neon Abyss$1.07/1hr19h85.63%85.91%
- 86LEGO The Lord of the Rings$1.10/1hr18h88.14%90.12%
- 87ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist$1.10/1hr23h91.72%95.38%
- 88The Messenger$1.13/1hr18h89.36%92.71%
- 89VVVVVV$1.15/1hr4h90.73%96.19%
- 90Haste$1.16/1hr10h89.16%92.21%
- 91SANABI$1.19/1hr13h95.00%97.26%
- 92Rivals of Aether II$1.20/1hr25h82.44%79.83%
- 93The End Is Nigh$1.20/1hr13h87.22%93.67%
- 94Broforce$1.21/1hr12h95.24%96.92%
- 95Mega Man X Legacy Collection$1.22/1hr16h82.85%78.50%
- 96Webbed$1.25/1hr8h92.59%97.59%
- 97The Last Faith$1.27/1hr22h84.80%84.47%
- 98Neon White$1.27/1hr20h93.68%97.94%
- 99Ultimate Chicken Horse$1.29/1hr12h94.06%95.78%
- 100Tomb Raider Game of the Year$1.30/1hr15h95.63%96.03%
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.