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$0.02/1hr153h88.03%95.19%
- 2Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi$0.04/1hr140h87.71%96.90%
- 3RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.05/1hr33h89.33%94.31%
- 4Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.05/1hr94h92.62%97.58%
- 5Rusty's Retirement$0.06/1hr72h91.97%96.70%
- 6My Time at Portia$0.08/1hr72h90.31%91.46%
- 7Chillquarium$0.09/1hr29h88.14%92.04%
- 8Tiny Pasture$0.10/1hr58h88.39%92.48%
- 9Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.11/1hr9h93.47%97.57%
- 10Chill Pulse$0.11/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 11Moonstone Island$0.12/1hr42h84.63%83.54%
- 12Stardew Valley$0.13/1hr113h98.38%98.48%
- 13Ithya: Magic Studies$0.16/1hr67h86.71%97.82%
- 14Core Keeper$0.18/1hr65h91.93%92.94%
- 15Fields of Mistria$0.19/1hr74h94.21%97.04%
- 16Disney Dreamlight Valley$0.20/1hr201h90.16%92.16%
- 17Crab Champions$0.20/1hr50h94.81%97.90%
- 18Farming Simulator 25$0.21/1hr146h87.02%87.33%
- 19Cats Organized Neatly$0.22/1hr4h88.48%97.19%
- 20Outpath$0.23/1hr17h86.78%92.65%
- 21Russian Life Simulator$0.23/1hr2h86.57%88.52%
- 22gogh: Focus with Your Avatar$0.23/1hr53h86.71%91.19%
- 23Star Valor$0.23/1hr44h85.29%88.22%
- 24Coral Island$0.25/1hr122h87.96%88.96%
- 25Doloc Town$0.25/1hr81h87.19%94.52%
- 26Starbound$0.25/1hr59h89.78%89.92%
- 27Niche - a genetics survival game$0.26/1hr14h84.91%86.14%
- 28Farmer's Life$0.26/1hr35h85.78%88.74%
- 29Hardspace: Shipbreaker$0.27/1hr39h88.02%89.29%
- 30Cash Cleaner Simulator$0.28/1hr54h87.87%92.36%
- 31Euro Truck Simulator 2$0.30/1hr68h97.34%97.44%
- 32Motor Town: Behind The Wheel$0.30/1hr66h89.46%93.85%
- 33Balatro$0.30/1hr49h97.37%97.83%
- 34Restaurant Empire II$0.31/1hr65h84.00%77.53%
- 35Animal Shelter$0.31/1hr10h85.26%87.66%
- 36My Dream Setup$0.33/1hr7h87.22%91.47%
- 37Farming Simulator 19$0.33/1hr54h93.41%94.49%
- 38Insect Swarm$0.33/1hr7h84.96%84.15%
- 39Mon Bazou$0.34/1hr47h93.25%97.12%
- 40Wylde Flowers$0.34/1hr72h87.32%95.88%
- 41Dinkum$0.36/1hr56h90.09%91.78%
- 42Kynseed$0.37/1hr67h84.60%83.10%
- 43Draw & Guess$0.38/1hr13h84.20%83.92%
- 44Immortal Life$0.39/1hr44h83.84%79.39%
- 45Fabledom$0.39/1hr19h85.18%85.17%
- 46Roots of Pacha$0.39/1hr64h87.65%93.59%
- 47Rising World$0.40/1hr37h84.82%85.75%
- 48Farm Together 2$0.41/1hr64h88.07%93.81%
- 49Sun Haven$0.41/1hr61h81.81%80.49%
- 50TCG Card Shop Simulator$0.42/1hr48h94.52%96.39%
- 51Star Trucker$0.42/1hr18h82.16%78.27%
- 52House Flipper 2$0.43/1hr56h86.65%87.39%
- 53PowerWash Simulator$0.43/1hr59h94.75%96.38%
- 54Arctico$0.43/1hr2h81.41%70.22%
- 55Banished$0.44/1hr46h89.45%90.43%
- 56American Truck Simulator$0.45/1hr44h96.49%96.91%
- 57Farlands$0.45/1hr26h86.38%89.87%
- 58Amber Isle$0.45/1hr15h85.19%82.39%
- 59Sailwind$0.46/1hr44h85.13%88.79%
- 60Out of Ore$0.46/1hr54h85.09%85.41%
- 61Sticky Business$0.47/1hr11h88.86%93.61%
- 62Burgie's Cozy Kitchen$0.47/1hr15h85.84%96.10%
- 63Supraland Six Inches Under$0.48/1hr14h88.90%96.16%
- 64Little Witch in the Woods$0.48/1hr42h87.40%89.08%
- 65City Bus Manager$0.48/1hr62h86.89%90.77%
- 66GoreBox$0.48/1hr19h84.55%84.30%
- 67Superflight$0.49/1hr6h91.19%96.37%
- 68CarX Drift Racing Online$0.50/1hr34h94.09%95.09%
- 69Kingdoms and Castles$0.50/1hr40h91.54%93.57%
- 70ContractVille$0.51/1hr19h82.94%80.85%
- 71Farming Simulator 15$0.51/1hr25h89.68%92.51%
- 72Cozy Grove$0.51/1hr29h86.68%89.51%
- 73Mini Motorways$0.52/1hr19h93.05%96.26%
- 74Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator$0.53/1hr57h84.16%83.77%
- 75Chef RPG$0.53/1hr38h85.05%87.83%
- 76Havendock$0.53/1hr11h84.02%79.26%
- 77Slime Rancher 2$0.54/1hr33h92.96%94.50%
- 78OMSI 2: Steam Edition$0.54/1hr56h85.41%85.56%
- 79DAVE THE DIVER$0.54/1hr37h95.83%96.48%
- 80Cat Goes Fishing$0.55/1hr13h90.78%94.16%
- 81Crime Scene Cleaner$0.56/1hr39h95.33%98.10%
- 82RUSSIAPHOBIA$0.57/1hr1h78.14%68.75%
- 83Two Point Museum$0.57/1hr53h91.04%95.38%
- 84Bloons TD 5$0.57/1hr18h90.63%94.68%
- 85TerraScape$0.57/1hr13h86.30%88.61%
- 86The Wandering Village$0.58/1hr26h88.62%91.97%
- 87Farm Together$0.58/1hr34h91.30%94.07%
- 88Foundation$0.59/1hr60h86.23%86.66%
- 89Cassette Beasts$0.59/1hr34h89.73%94.03%
- 90Plantera 2: Golden Acorn$0.59/1hr8h86.07%94.19%
- 91Nodebuster$0.61/1hr5h92.18%97.39%
- 92theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.62/1hr32h89.02%89.07%
- 93Gold Mining Simulator$0.62/1hr32h76.95%72.50%
- 94WorldBox - God Simulator$0.62/1hr32h93.82%95.33%
- 95Wingspan$0.62/1hr32h90.15%94.29%
- 96Cooking Simulator$0.63/1hr8h84.83%84.65%
- 97Critter Cove$0.64/1hr39h86.54%94.70%
- 98Peggle Deluxe$0.65/1hr8h92.71%97.66%
- 99Grocery Store Simulator$0.66/1hr23h86.73%90.71%
- 100Let's School$0.68/1hr29h88.40%92.70%
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.