Best Value Souls-like Games Under $20
The Souls-like games on Steam games under $20 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.
- 1Monster Hunter: World$0.07/1hr106h88.70%88.77%
- 2The Surge$0.10/1hr18h79.31%74.62%
- 3Souldiers$0.11/1hr28h81.27%69.22%
- 4Vampyr$0.14/1hr28h79.61%77.46%
- 5The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.35%75.46%
- 6CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.38%83.12%
- 7Hollow Knight$0.21/1hr72h96.70%96.91%
- 8Curse of the Dead Gods$0.23/1hr17h84.27%83.50%
- 9Death's Door$0.26/1hr16h90.61%93.20%
- 10Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$0.27/1hr7h89.42%93.17%
- 11Titan Souls$0.29/1hr5h81.45%78.89%
- 12Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.29/1hr42h85.75%85.91%
- 13Nothing$0.30/1hr3h89.53%94.14%
- 14Papa's Freezeria Deluxe$0.35/1hr17h93.08%99.25%
- 15Dead Cells$0.37/1hr34h96.41%97.04%
- 16Rain World$0.37/1hr30h92.43%93.77%
- 17Absolver$0.39/1hr16h77.55%72.52%
- 18Nine Sols$0.43/1hr35h92.64%94.38%
- 19Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.50/1hr12h88.63%98.65%
- 20Prince of Persia The Lost Crown$0.51/1hr29h84.70%84.28%
- 21GRIME$0.52/1hr22h84.93%84.84%
- 22Exanima$0.53/1hr28h82.18%80.15%
- 23Another Crab's Treasure$0.55/1hr22h90.20%92.64%
- 24Sifu$0.56/1hr18h90.08%91.89%
- 25Pseudoregalia$0.67/1hr9h92.65%96.77%
- 26Last Command$0.72/1hr21h87.10%95.81%
- 27Windblown$0.74/1hr24h87.00%88.98%
- 28Dread Delusion$0.77/1hr26h86.79%90.31%
- 29Lunacid$0.77/1hr18h87.94%90.56%
- 30Juice Galaxy$0.78/1hr6h91.86%98.46%
- 31Lonely Mountains: Downhill$0.81/1hr5h86.28%90.52%
- 32Cuphead$0.83/1hr24h95.68%96.18%
- 33Death's Gambit: Afterlife$0.83/1hr24h83.62%81.17%
- 34SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER$0.84/1hr4h88.85%96.06%
- 35Momodora: Moonlit Farewell$0.85/1hr12h86.69%92.04%
- 36Salt and Sanctuary$0.88/1hr20h87.99%89.37%
- 37SCARLET NEXUS$0.98/1hr20h82.01%80.37%
- 38Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.99/1hr13h77.31%72.25%
- 39Jump King$1.04/1hr13h87.77%89.87%
- 40An alt girl for skoof$1.07/1hr5h84.17%83.39%
- 41Death Trash$1.24/1hr13h86.90%92.10%
- 42PICO PARK$1.41/1hr4h89.32%90.78%
- 43FlyKnight$1.44/1hr4h91.08%96.35%
- 44Going Under$1.53/1hr13h86.49%90.16%
- 45Blue Fire$1.56/1hr13h84.16%81.50%
- 46LIZARDS MUST DIE$1.65/1hr2h93.15%96.24%
- 47To Be or Not to Be$1.75/1hr7h86.91%89.26%
- 48NEKOPARA Vol. 4$1.76/1hr6h90.68%97.15%
- 49Hunt Down The Freeman$1.78/1hr6h75.69%55.16%
- 50NEKOPARA Vol. 1$1.79/1hr6h92.38%95.09%
- 51Anomaly Agent$1.83/1hr7h89.91%94.93%
- 52Hyper Light Drifter$1.96/1hr10h90.23%92.99%
- 53Trombone Champ$2.33/1hr6h91.78%97.90%
- 54Neva$2.88/1hr7h89.34%93.54%
- 55Bright Memory$2.90/1hr1h88.75%89.90%
- 56Bright Memory: Infinite$3.17/1hr3h90.34%91.68%
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.