Best Value Puzzle Games Under $40
The Puzzle 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.
- 1shapez$0.03/1hr35h91.67%95.94%
- 2Deponia$0.11/1hr9h85.89%86.53%
- 3Orb of Creation$0.15/1hr80h85.05%85.38%
- 4Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.15/1hr26h93.74%96.02%
- 5Unity of Command II$0.18/1hr25h84.04%79.72%
- 6The Room Three$0.19/1hr8h90.98%95.48%
- 7The Last Campfire$0.19/1hr8h93.36%97.53%
- 8Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr26h96.92%97.70%
- 9Into the Breach$0.21/1hr24h91.35%94.23%
- 10Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$0.22/1hr45h95.25%97.56%
- 11Sally Face - Episode One$0.23/1hr13h93.99%97.30%
- 12The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles$0.24/1hr68h89.49%94.31%
- 13The Talos Principle 2$0.24/1hr37h90.67%94.96%
- 14HITMAN World of Assassination$0.25/1hr24h86.90%87.19%
- 15Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.30%
- 16Adorables$0.27/1hr9h83.99%76.73%
- 17Mirror$0.28/1hr7h95.16%96.37%
- 18The Room Two$0.28/1hr4h93.58%97.55%
- 19A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr14h92.22%93.25%
- 20Titan Souls$0.29/1hr5h81.45%78.89%
- 21The Room$0.29/1hr3h94.68%97.75%
- 22Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr17h81.81%80.16%
- 23Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution$0.31/1hr32h84.22%82.64%
- 24Draw & Guess$0.31/1hr16h84.13%83.88%
- 25Hardspace: Shipbreaker$0.31/1hr34h87.97%89.31%
- 26Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$0.31/1hr16h89.80%94.95%
- 27CrossCode$0.33/1hr61h89.83%92.48%
- 28Little Witch in the Woods$0.34/1hr58h87.24%89.00%
- 29Seen$0.35/1hr3h88.06%91.15%
- 30Trine Enchanted Edition$0.35/1hr9h91.51%95.61%
- 31Resident Evil 2$0.36/1hr23h96.52%97.05%
- 32Fate Seeker II$0.36/1hr62h87.32%89.02%
- 33FAR: Lone Sails$0.37/1hr4h92.42%95.26%
- 34Supraland Six Inches Under$0.38/1hr16h88.28%96.10%
- 35Trine 2: Complete Story$0.38/1hr10h92.04%95.25%
- 36ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.39/1hr38h84.88%84.78%
- 37Progressbar95$0.40/1hr13h87.94%96.15%
- 38Half-Life 2$0.40/1hr25h97.16%97.60%
- 39The Room 4: Old Sins$0.41/1hr5h93.68%98.47%
- 40Inside the Backrooms$0.41/1hr17h80.85%79.96%
- 41Shadows of Doubt$0.42/1hr24h83.21%82.20%
- 42Nubby's Number Factory$0.44/1hr11h93.14%97.42%
- 43Dorfromantik$0.45/1hr20h93.47%96.35%
- 44LEGO Bricktales$0.46/1hr13h84.65%83.06%
- 45Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince$0.50/1hr12h87.15%88.67%
- 46GRIS$0.51/1hr6h95.01%96.06%
- 47Legend of Grimrock$0.51/1hr29h88.39%93.47%
- 48Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.52/1hr38h93.23%95.80%
- 49Beholder: Conductor$0.53/1hr8h87.00%91.17%
- 50ISLANDERS$0.53/1hr9h90.90%94.43%
- 51Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.54/1hr51h85.12%85.42%
- 52Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator$0.55/1hr14h87.91%93.19%
- 53Atomic Heart$0.56/1hr27h81.49%80.79%
- 54We Were Here Too$0.56/1hr4h81.44%78.26%
- 55shapez 2 - Factory$0.56/1hr32h92.25%97.14%
- 56Sudocats$0.57/1hr3h87.05%98.61%
- 57Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.58/1hr14h94.53%95.30%
- 58Zodiacats$0.58/1hr3h86.59%98.58%
- 59SOMA$0.58/1hr10h94.11%95.87%
- 60Batman: Arkham Knight$0.59/1hr34h89.35%89.63%
- 61Rusty Lake Hotel$0.59/1hr3h90.65%96.10%
- 62Little Nightmares$0.59/1hr8h93.98%94.76%
- 63We Were Here Forever$0.60/1hr12h88.66%90.64%
- 64Changed$0.60/1hr8h85.90%86.40%
- 65That's not my Neighbor$0.60/1hr5h86.18%88.80%
- 66Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.60/1hr33h88.08%89.87%
- 67Murders on the Yangtze River$0.61/1hr15h93.12%97.01%
- 68LOCKDOWN Protocol$0.61/1hr16h85.73%86.12%
- 69Sticky Business$0.61/1hr8h88.77%93.75%
- 70Super Hexagon$0.61/1hr5h93.48%96.88%
- 71Mini Motorways$0.63/1hr16h92.97%96.27%
- 72FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster$0.65/1hr46h87.18%88.13%
- 73Zup!$0.65/1hr3h89.30%94.14%
- 74Fly Corp$0.65/1hr14h84.97%84.94%
- 75Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.66/1hr31h93.71%96.01%
- 76West of Loathing$0.66/1hr17h91.40%97.68%
- 77The Farmer Was Replaced$0.66/1hr15h89.99%95.62%
- 78Cat Goes Fishing$0.67/1hr10h90.69%94.18%
- 79Legend of Grimrock 2$0.69/1hr35h86.60%90.60%
- 80Car Mechanic Simulator 2021$0.71/1hr35h93.47%95.70%
- 81Machinarium$0.72/1hr6h91.92%95.32%
- 82Buckshot Roulette$0.72/1hr4h94.45%95.22%
- 83Portal 2$0.72/1hr14h98.42%98.70%
- 84Chinese Parents$0.75/1hr13h89.60%91.33%
- 85Papers, Please$0.75/1hr13h95.92%97.29%
- 86HuniePop$0.75/1hr13h93.04%95.58%
- 87Mini Metro$0.75/1hr9h91.88%96.03%
- 88DEVOUR$0.76/1hr13h89.94%90.50%
- 89Cats Organized Neatly$0.76/1hr4h88.94%97.19%
- 90Assassin’s Creed Rogue$0.77/1hr26h85.95%86.39%
- 91Half-Life: Opposing Force$0.78/1hr6h92.67%95.34%
- 92Otaku's Adventure$0.78/1hr9h89.67%94.85%
- 93L.A. Noire$0.79/1hr25h85.67%85.86%
- 94The Coffin of Andy and Leyley$0.79/1hr15h93.68%95.93%
- 95FEZ$0.79/1hr13h89.74%92.68%
- 96Outer Wilds$0.79/1hr32h94.69%95.61%
- 97Tales of the Black Forest$0.79/1hr5h92.62%97.60%
- 98Blue Prince$0.80/1hr38h85.95%86.46%
- 99Ghost Watchers$0.81/1hr18h85.53%85.86%
- 100Hitman: Blood Money$0.82/1hr12h90.57%94.07%
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.