Best Value Relaxing Games Under $40
The Relaxing 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.
- 1Cornerpond$0.02/1hr158h87.87%97.12%
- 2Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi$0.02/1hr147h88.46%96.88%
- 3Ropuka's Idle Island$0.03/1hr124h88.29%95.18%
- 4Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr47h88.62%95.43%
- 5theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.09/1hr34h88.91%89.08%
- 6Rusty's Retirement$0.10/1hr72h92.12%96.69%
- 7Tiny Pasture$0.11/1hr57h88.64%92.48%
- 8Stardew Valley$0.11/1hr139h98.35%98.48%
- 9House Flipper$0.15/1hr17h93.27%93.97%
- 10Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.15/1hr78h93.02%97.60%
- 11RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.16/1hr38h89.41%94.31%
- 12Fields of Mistria$0.18/1hr79h94.43%97.04%
- 13DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.18/1hr56h91.34%92.22%
- 14Razortron 2000$0.18/1hr6h85.58%86.34%
- 15Ithya: Magic Studies$0.18/1hr61h87.59%97.86%
- 16Starbound$0.18/1hr82h89.59%89.94%
- 17Crab Champions$0.19/1hr54h94.84%97.89%
- 18Chillquarium$0.19/1hr31h88.40%92.06%
- 19The Last Campfire$0.20/1hr7h93.51%97.49%
- 20Euro Truck Simulator 2$0.22/1hr90h97.31%97.44%
- 21gogh: Focus with Your Avatar$0.23/1hr53h87.38%91.14%
- 22American Truck Simulator$0.23/1hr87h96.35%96.91%
- 23Outpath$0.23/1hr16h87.09%92.70%
- 24Coral Island$0.23/1hr128h88.00%88.96%
- 25Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.25/1hr8h93.52%97.57%
- 26Parkitect$0.25/1hr47h89.36%94.20%
- 27Farming Simulator 25$0.26/1hr116h86.99%87.28%
- 28Hardspace: Shipbreaker$0.28/1hr38h88.10%89.30%
- 29Motor Town: Behind The Wheel$0.28/1hr71h89.52%93.84%
- 30Doloc Town$0.29/1hr69h87.94%94.54%
- 31Farming Simulator 19$0.31/1hr58h93.43%94.49%
- 32Disney Dreamlight Valley$0.31/1hr128h90.20%92.17%
- 33Immortal Life$0.31/1hr55h83.56%79.48%
- 34I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h85.05%84.45%
- 35Swords & Souls: Neverseen$0.32/1hr17h88.42%93.21%
- 36Mon Bazou$0.34/1hr47h93.29%97.11%
- 37Rising World$0.34/1hr33h85.13%85.71%
- 38Core Keeper$0.35/1hr57h91.95%92.94%
- 39Wylde Flowers$0.35/1hr71h87.62%95.88%
- 40Draw & Guess$0.36/1hr14h84.25%83.94%
- 41Cash Cleaner Simulator$0.37/1hr55h88.47%92.38%
- 42Farm Together 2$0.37/1hr59h88.31%93.77%
- 43Dinkum$0.38/1hr53h90.15%91.80%
- 44Banished$0.39/1hr52h89.48%90.43%
- 45Call of the Wild: The Angler$0.39/1hr23h76.20%63.95%
- 46Kynseed$0.40/1hr62h84.70%83.08%
- 47Little Witch in the Woods$0.41/1hr49h87.49%89.07%
- 48GoreBox$0.41/1hr22h84.56%84.25%
- 49Balatro$0.41/1hr37h97.24%97.84%
- 50Roots of Pacha$0.42/1hr60h87.92%93.59%
- 51Out of Ore$0.42/1hr59h85.36%85.43%
- 52STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town$0.42/1hr24h88.27%93.36%
- 53Burgie's Cozy Kitchen$0.43/1hr16h86.26%96.10%
- 54Sun Haven$0.43/1hr58h81.87%80.51%
- 55My Time at Portia$0.43/1hr69h90.34%91.47%
- 56Farming Simulator 15$0.44/1hr29h89.73%92.51%
- 57The Gunk$0.45/1hr6h85.78%86.39%
- 58OMSI 2: Steam Edition$0.45/1hr66h85.46%85.55%
- 59Cozy Grove$0.46/1hr33h87.26%89.52%
- 60Sailwind$0.46/1hr43h85.99%88.78%
- 61PowerWash Simulator$0.48/1hr52h94.78%96.39%
- 62Bloons TD 5$0.48/1hr21h90.46%94.68%
- 63Farlands$0.49/1hr24h86.00%89.79%
- 64Star Trucker$0.50/1hr15h82.52%78.29%
- 65CarX Drift Racing Online$0.51/1hr33h94.11%95.09%
- 66Cat Goes Fishing$0.52/1hr13h90.83%94.16%
- 67Farmer's Life$0.54/1hr36h86.07%88.73%
- 68Farm Together$0.54/1hr37h91.35%94.07%
- 69Dorfromantik$0.55/1hr17h93.55%96.33%
- 70Slime Rancher 2$0.55/1hr33h92.96%94.49%
- 71DAVE THE DIVER$0.55/1hr36h95.84%96.49%
- 72ContractVille$0.56/1hr18h83.62%80.88%
- 73Wingspan$0.57/1hr35h89.95%94.27%
- 74Lightyear Frontier$0.58/1hr43h84.84%83.80%
- 75Kingdoms and Castles$0.58/1hr35h91.58%93.57%
- 76Foundation$0.58/1hr61h86.27%86.65%
- 77Plantera 2: Golden Acorn$0.58/1hr8h86.41%94.19%
- 78Cassette Beasts$0.59/1hr34h89.91%94.02%
- 79WorldBox - God Simulator$0.59/1hr34h93.83%95.33%
- 80Chef RPG$0.59/1hr34h85.88%87.83%
- 81TCG Card Shop Simulator$0.60/1hr33h94.62%96.49%
- 82Miss Neko 3$0.62/1hr2h87.36%92.76%
- 83Office Life$0.64/1hr31h86.00%88.74%
- 84Nodebuster$0.64/1hr5h92.38%97.39%
- 85Critter Cove$0.65/1hr39h86.86%94.70%
- 86Fae Farm$0.65/1hr46h83.92%79.98%
- 87Grocery Store Simulator$0.65/1hr23h87.39%90.70%
- 88Ravenous Devils$0.66/1hr8h88.93%92.56%
- 89House Flipper 2$0.66/1hr57h86.68%87.34%
- 90Mini Motorways$0.66/1hr15h93.09%96.27%
- 91Superflight$0.67/1hr4h91.26%96.37%
- 92Cats Organized Neatly$0.67/1hr4h89.20%97.19%
- 93Two Point Museum$0.68/1hr44h91.11%95.41%
- 94City Bus Manager$0.69/1hr44h86.12%90.80%
- 95Star Valor$0.69/1hr36h85.66%88.17%
- 96Vampires' Melody$0.70/1hr6h89.75%97.45%
- 97A Little to the Left$0.71/1hr8h89.43%91.57%
- 98Gold Mining Simulator$0.71/1hr28h77.36%72.51%
- 99Space Engineers 2$0.72/1hr42h81.72%75.22%
- 100Zup! F$0.73/1hr3h90.65%96.87%
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.