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.
- 1Ropuka's Idle Island$0.02/1hr230h88.11%95.60%
- 2Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi$0.02/1hr129h88.00%96.80%
- 3Cornerpond$0.03/1hr91h87.57%97.15%
- 4Starbound$0.04/1hr120h89.63%90.00%
- 5Razortron 2000$0.05/1hr19h85.28%86.20%
- 6Tiny Pasture$0.07/1hr60h88.43%92.49%
- 7Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr65h88.41%95.54%
- 8My Time at Portia$0.10/1hr62h90.31%91.51%
- 9Rusty's Retirement$0.11/1hr66h91.98%96.74%
- 10theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.11/1hr37h88.88%89.07%
- 11Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition$0.11/1hr41h93.37%94.96%
- 12Stardew Valley$0.11/1hr133h98.35%98.48%
- 13Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.16/1hr13h93.40%97.59%
- 14Sun Haven$0.16/1hr53h81.82%80.57%
- 15Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.17/1hr70h92.85%97.64%
- 16Ithya: Magic Studies$0.19/1hr59h87.23%97.88%
- 17The Last Campfire$0.19/1hr8h93.36%97.53%
- 18Paleo Pines$0.20/1hr31h84.49%82.63%
- 19Fields of Mistria$0.20/1hr70h94.42%97.68%
- 20Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator$0.22/1hr21h84.71%83.74%
- 21Let's School$0.22/1hr32h88.27%92.73%
- 22Cassette Beasts$0.22/1hr31h89.74%94.08%
- 23Farm Together 2$0.23/1hr113h88.00%93.66%
- 24Chillquarium$0.24/1hr25h88.28%92.27%
- 25Outpath$0.25/1hr18h86.85%92.90%
- 26Call of the Wild: The Angler$0.26/1hr34h75.87%63.82%
- 27Farming Simulator 19$0.26/1hr69h93.37%94.47%
- 28Crab Champions$0.27/1hr37h94.73%97.88%
- 29Euro Truck Simulator 2$0.27/1hr74h97.32%97.45%
- 30Train Simulator Classic$0.27/1hr22h75.02%71.62%
- 31Swords & Souls: Neverseen$0.28/1hr19h88.17%93.17%
- 32My Dream Setup$0.28/1hr9h87.57%91.38%
- 33RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.28/1hr21h89.19%94.31%
- 34Core Keeper$0.29/1hr48h91.89%92.95%
- 35Coral Island$0.31/1hr98h87.80%88.84%
- 36Draw & Guess$0.31/1hr16h84.13%83.88%
- 37Hardspace: Shipbreaker$0.31/1hr34h87.97%89.31%
- 38Wylde Flowers$0.32/1hr79h87.32%95.90%
- 39Little Witch in the Woods$0.34/1hr58h87.24%89.00%
- 40American Truck Simulator$0.35/1hr58h96.34%96.92%
- 41Bloons TD 5$0.35/1hr28h90.25%94.66%
- 42Fae Farm$0.35/1hr29h83.63%79.84%
- 43Motor Town: Behind The Wheel$0.35/1hr57h89.24%93.76%
- 44Mon Bazou$0.36/1hr45h93.15%97.14%
- 45Kingdoms and Castles$0.36/1hr28h91.47%93.55%
- 46Immortal Life$0.36/1hr47h83.38%79.67%
- 47Supraland Six Inches Under$0.38/1hr16h88.28%96.10%
- 48Farming Simulator 25$0.38/1hr79h86.67%86.97%
- 49DAVE THE DIVER$0.38/1hr52h95.86%96.54%
- 50Disney Dreamlight Valley$0.39/1hr103h90.10%92.19%
- 51No Place Like Home$0.40/1hr20h83.04%78.31%
- 52Balatro$0.40/1hr38h97.22%97.85%
- 53Rising World$0.40/1hr25h85.26%85.72%
- 54gogh: Focus with Your Avatar$0.40/1hr30h87.03%90.91%
- 55ContractVille$0.41/1hr24h83.46%80.96%
- 56Chushpan Simulator$0.41/1hr2h85.07%85.38%
- 57Crashlands 2$0.41/1hr36h85.57%88.01%
- 58Cash Cleaner Simulator$0.41/1hr48h88.23%92.41%
- 59Banished$0.42/1hr48h89.40%90.42%
- 60Roots of Pacha$0.42/1hr59h87.67%93.62%
- 61Turmoil$0.43/1hr10h89.89%92.95%
- 62Fabledom$0.44/1hr19h85.05%85.15%
- 63Doloc Town$0.44/1hr45h87.16%95.96%
- 64Dorfromantik$0.45/1hr20h93.47%96.35%
- 65LEGO Bricktales$0.46/1hr13h84.65%83.06%
- 66GoreBox$0.47/1hr19h84.38%84.13%
- 67Farming Simulator 15$0.47/1hr28h89.58%92.49%
- 68TCG Card Shop Simulator$0.47/1hr42h94.59%96.56%
- 69Gourdlets$0.47/1hr6h86.32%92.48%
- 70Dinkum$0.48/1hr42h90.09%91.85%
- 71Out of Ore$0.48/1hr52h85.22%85.80%
- 72Foundation$0.49/1hr48h86.07%86.53%
- 73Burgie's Cozy Kitchen$0.50/1hr14h86.15%97.17%
- 74Farm Together$0.50/1hr40h91.24%94.08%
- 75The Gunk$0.50/1hr7h85.55%86.51%
- 76GRIS$0.51/1hr6h95.01%96.06%
- 77Eastward$0.52/1hr24h84.33%83.94%
- 78Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel$0.52/1hr19h85.55%88.81%
- 79Farmer's Life$0.52/1hr36h85.79%88.73%
- 80ISLANDERS$0.53/1hr9h90.90%94.43%
- 81Sailwind$0.55/1hr37h85.68%88.73%
- 82Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game$0.55/1hr14h86.20%88.01%
- 83shapez 2 - Factory$0.56/1hr32h92.25%97.14%
- 84Slime Rancher 2$0.57/1hr32h92.91%94.53%
- 85Sudocats$0.57/1hr3h87.05%98.61%
- 86Zodiacats$0.58/1hr3h86.59%98.58%
- 87Garden Galaxy$0.58/1hr17h87.60%97.53%
- 88Kynseed$0.58/1hr43h84.41%82.93%
- 89OMSI 2: Steam Edition$0.59/1hr51h85.34%85.58%
- 90Two Point Museum$0.60/1hr50h90.82%95.34%
- 91Sticky Business$0.61/1hr8h88.77%93.75%
- 92Mini Motorways$0.63/1hr16h92.97%96.27%
- 93Chef RPG$0.63/1hr32h85.59%87.85%
- 94PowerWash Simulator$0.65/1hr39h94.73%96.40%
- 95Zup!$0.65/1hr3h89.30%94.14%
- 96Moonstone Island$0.66/1hr30h84.59%83.80%
- 97Cat Goes Fishing$0.67/1hr10h90.69%94.18%
- 98Lightyear Frontier$0.67/1hr22h84.63%83.86%
- 99WorldBox - God Simulator$0.68/1hr29h93.73%95.31%
- 100I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.68/1hr29h84.90%84.73%
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.