Best Value Souls-like Games Under $40
The Souls-like 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.
- 1Monster Hunter: World$0.06/1hr124h88.73%88.80%
- 2Curse of the Dead Gods$0.12/1hr32h84.14%83.45%
- 3Nioh: Complete Edition$0.15/1hr52h80.27%78.97%
- 4ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN$0.22/1hr184h81.89%81.71%
- 5Path of Exile 2$0.22/1hr135h75.39%74.95%
- 6Rain World$0.27/1hr32h92.46%93.70%
- 7Hollow Knight$0.27/1hr55h96.71%96.92%
- 8Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$0.29/1hr7h89.61%93.13%
- 9An alt girl for skoof$0.29/1hr8h84.36%83.36%
- 10GRIME$0.32/1hr23h85.15%84.76%
- 11Monster Hunter Wilds$0.34/1hr87h50.35%49.29%
- 12LET IT DIE$0.34/1hr58h80.92%74.99%
- 13STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor$0.35/1hr30h72.51%71.02%
- 14Papa's Freezeria Deluxe$0.35/1hr17h93.36%99.26%
- 15Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.37/1hr17h76.00%69.96%
- 16Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.40/1hr15h88.95%98.68%
- 17Nothing$0.40/1hr3h89.70%94.09%
- 18Hades II$0.43/1hr70h94.94%95.71%
- 19Exanima$0.43/1hr35h82.27%80.03%
- 20Dead Cells$0.49/1hr25h96.42%97.03%
- 21LIZARDS MUST DIE$0.49/1hr2h93.28%96.21%
- 22Asterigos: Curse of the Stars$0.51/1hr17h83.47%77.93%
- 23Another Crab's Treasure$0.55/1hr22h90.32%92.51%
- 24DARK SOULS II: Scholar of the First Sin$0.56/1hr71h83.99%83.89%
- 25Lunacid$0.58/1hr24h88.22%90.57%
- 26The Surge$0.59/1hr26h79.45%74.59%
- 27Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.62/1hr49h85.80%85.89%
- 28Souldiers$0.65/1hr31h81.56%69.29%
- 29Cuphead$0.67/1hr30h95.69%96.16%
- 30Lies of P$0.70/1hr43h90.95%91.63%
- 31NEKOPARA Vol. 1$0.70/1hr6h92.44%95.03%
- 32Dread Delusion$0.70/1hr28h87.06%90.19%
- 33Pseudoregalia$0.72/1hr8h92.87%96.75%
- 34DARK SOULS: REMASTERED$0.72/1hr56h92.03%92.46%
- 35No Rest for the Wicked$0.76/1hr53h80.04%79.39%
- 36Death's Gambit: Afterlife$0.77/1hr26h83.86%81.08%
- 37DARK SOULS II$0.78/1hr51h87.66%88.16%
- 38Nine Sols$0.82/1hr37h92.80%94.43%
- 39Vigil: The Longest Night$0.84/1hr26h85.57%86.00%
- 40AI LIMIT$0.84/1hr27h90.45%91.82%
- 41Afterimage$0.86/1hr29h81.30%77.35%
- 42Juice Galaxy$0.89/1hr6h92.13%98.50%
- 43Blasphemous$0.89/1hr28h89.25%89.83%
- 44Blasphemous 2$0.91/1hr33h88.99%90.65%
- 45Salt and Sanctuary$0.91/1hr20h88.11%89.34%
- 46Outward Definitive Edition$0.91/1hr44h75.74%72.68%
- 47Momodora: Moonlit Farewell$0.96/1hr11h87.05%92.08%
- 48Windblown$0.97/1hr18h86.85%88.84%
- 49Lords of the Fallen$1.00/1hr30h70.54%67.91%
- 50Prince of Persia The Lost Crown$1.00/1hr30h84.99%84.41%
- 51ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist$1.10/1hr23h91.90%95.36%
- 52The Surge 2$1.15/1hr26h80.50%75.38%
- 53The Last Faith$1.21/1hr23h85.11%84.57%
- 54ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights$1.24/1hr20h92.25%93.76%
- 55Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty$1.24/1hr32h58.96%49.95%
- 56Death's Door$1.26/1hr16h90.74%93.14%
- 57BLEACH Rebirth of Souls$1.27/1hr19h77.93%67.22%
- 58Jump King$1.28/1hr10h87.91%89.77%
- 59Witchfire$1.32/1hr30h88.97%91.33%
- 60PICO PARK$1.38/1hr4h89.40%90.75%
- 61Ori and the Will of the Wisps$1.39/1hr22h95.78%96.50%
- 62FlyKnight$1.40/1hr4h91.32%96.38%
- 63Vampyr$1.48/1hr27h79.75%77.47%
- 64Blue Fire$1.53/1hr13h84.48%81.48%
- 65Remnant: From the Ashes$1.56/1hr26h84.42%84.26%
- 66Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+$1.59/1hr25h92.01%94.79%
- 67STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order$1.59/1hr25h88.26%88.43%
- 68Lonely Mountains: Downhill$1.61/1hr12h86.57%90.59%
- 69TUNIC$1.63/1hr18h89.09%91.07%
- 70Hyper Light Drifter$1.69/1hr12h90.35%92.93%
- 71Tails of Iron$1.74/1hr14h86.83%87.77%
- 72To Be or Not to Be$1.80/1hr7h86.80%89.24%
- 73Bright Memory$1.86/1hr2h88.80%89.85%
- 74Darksiders III$1.86/1hr21h79.38%75.93%
- 75Anomaly Agent$1.91/1hr6h90.18%94.84%
- 76BIOMUTANT$2.05/1hr20h72.56%66.19%
- 77Thymesia$2.11/1hr12h83.76%82.12%
- 78Absolver$2.18/1hr14h77.78%72.55%
- 79Kena: Bridge of Spirits$2.22/1hr18h89.61%92.00%
- 80Clash: Artifacts of Chaos$2.24/1hr13h85.41%89.20%
- 81Trombone Champ$2.33/1hr6h92.03%97.91%
- 82Going Under$2.34/1hr9h86.87%90.13%
- 83Sifu$2.39/1hr17h90.19%91.85%
- 84Mortal Shell$2.40/1hr13h75.27%67.34%
- 85Minoria$2.84/1hr7h84.46%80.89%
- 86Neva$3.24/1hr6h89.61%93.56%
- 87Bright Memory: Infinite$3.28/1hr3h90.38%91.65%
- 88Titan Souls$4.59/1hr3h81.28%78.75%
- 89Lords Of The Fallen 2014$5.96/1hr5h67.48%58.87%
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.