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

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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.
  1. 1GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.03/1hr
  2. 2shapez$0.05/1hr
  3. 3Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr
  4. 4Orb of Creation$0.09/1hr
  5. 5Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.16/1hr
  6. 6AI: The Somnium Files$0.16/1hr
  7. 7The Last Campfire$0.20/1hr
  8. 8Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.20/1hr
  9. 9Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$0.20/1hr
  10. 10L.A. Noire$0.21/1hr
  11. 11Into the Breach$0.21/1hr
  12. 12ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.23/1hr
  13. 13Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.25/1hr
  14. 14Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.25/1hr
  15. 15The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles$0.25/1hr
  16. 16Resident Evil$0.26/1hr
  17. 17Mirror$0.27/1hr
  18. 18Hardspace: Shipbreaker$0.28/1hr
  19. 19Sally Face - Episode One$0.28/1hr
  20. 20Trine Enchanted Edition$0.32/1hr
  21. 21Resident Evil 0$0.33/1hr
  22. 22CrossCode$0.33/1hr
  23. 23Draw & Guess$0.36/1hr
  24. 24Hue$0.40/1hr
  25. 25Little Witch in the Woods$0.41/1hr
  26. 26Unheard - Voices of Crime$0.41/1hr
  27. 27Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$0.41/1hr
  28. 28Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince$0.41/1hr
  29. 29Half-Life 2$0.42/1hr
  30. 30Resident Evil 2$0.43/1hr
  31. 31Poly Bridge 3$0.45/1hr
  32. 32Super Hexagon$0.46/1hr
  33. 33Progressbar95$0.46/1hr
  34. 34Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution$0.46/1hr
  35. 35Nubby's Number Factory$0.49/1hr
  36. 36Human Fall Flat$0.50/1hr
  37. 37Trine 2: Complete Story$0.50/1hr
  38. 38Seen$0.51/1hr
  39. 39Opus Magnum$0.51/1hr
  40. 40Cat Goes Fishing$0.52/1hr
  41. 41Murders on the Yangtze River$0.54/1hr
  42. 42Dorfromantik$0.55/1hr
  43. 43West of Loathing$0.56/1hr
  44. 44Assassin’s Creed Rogue$0.56/1hr
  45. 45FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster$0.56/1hr
  46. 46HuniePop$0.56/1hr
  47. 47Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator$0.56/1hr
  48. 48Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.57/1hr
  49. 49We Were Here Too$0.57/1hr
  50. 50We Were Here Forever$0.58/1hr
  51. 51That's not my Neighbor$0.59/1hr
  52. 52LOCKDOWN Protocol$0.60/1hr
  53. 53Changed$0.60/1hr
  54. 54Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.61/1hr
  55. 55Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom$0.61/1hr
  56. 56Otaku's Adventure$0.61/1hr
  57. 57Batman: Arkham Knight$0.62/1hr
  58. 58The House of Da Vinci$0.62/1hr
  59. 59Chinese Parents$0.62/1hr
  60. 60Miss Neko 3$0.62/1hr
  61. 61Inside the Backrooms$0.63/1hr
  62. 62LEGO Marvel Super Heroes$0.63/1hr
  63. 63Car Mechanic Simulator 2021$0.63/1hr
  64. 64Rusty Lake Hotel$0.65/1hr
  65. 65Legend of Grimrock$0.66/1hr
  66. 66House Party$0.66/1hr
  67. 67Mini Motorways$0.66/1hr
  68. 68Cats Organized Neatly$0.67/1hr
  69. 69OneShot$0.68/1hr
  70. 70Buckshot Roulette$0.69/1hr
  71. 71Half-Life: Opposing Force$0.70/1hr
  72. 72A Little to the Left$0.71/1hr
  73. 73Baba Is You$0.72/1hr
  74. 74Zup! F$0.73/1hr
  75. 75Peggle Deluxe$0.74/1hr
  76. 76Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered$0.74/1hr
  77. 77Turing Complete$0.75/1hr
  78. 78The Room Three$0.75/1hr
  79. 79Papers, Please$0.75/1hr
  80. 80Hitman: Blood Money$0.75/1hr
  81. 81shapez 2 - Factory$0.77/1hr
  82. 82Outer Wilds$0.78/1hr
  83. 83Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs$0.79/1hr
  84. 84Mini Metro$0.79/1hr
  85. 85The Coffin of Andy and Leyley$0.79/1hr
  86. 86The Farmer Was Replaced$0.80/1hr
  87. 87Portal 2$0.81/1hr
  88. 88Kindergarten$0.81/1hr
  89. 89LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham$0.81/1hr
  90. 90DEVOUR$0.81/1hr
  91. 91Inscryption$0.82/1hr
  92. 92The Talos Principle 2$0.83/1hr
  93. 93Tales of the Black Forest$0.83/1hr
  94. 94LoveChoice$0.84/1hr
  95. 95UFO 50$0.85/1hr
  96. 96Cyber Manhunt$0.86/1hr
  97. 97Summon$0.86/1hr
  98. 98Chants of Sennaar$0.89/1hr
  99. 99Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.89/1hr
  100. 100HITMAN World of Assassination$0.91/1hr

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.