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.
- 1Outward Definitive Edition$0.04/1hr52h75.70%72.68%
- 2The Surge$0.07/1hr27h79.58%74.54%
- 3Souldiers$0.09/1hr33h81.82%69.29%
- 4The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.53%75.35%
- 5Path of Exile 2$0.22/1hr137h75.65%75.11%
- 6Blasphemous 2$0.23/1hr33h89.13%90.67%
- 7Hollow Knight$0.23/1hr64h96.76%96.91%
- 8ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN$0.25/1hr163h81.89%81.72%
- 9Monster Hunter: World$0.26/1hr115h88.80%88.81%
- 10Lonely Mountains: Downhill$0.30/1hr13h86.46%90.60%
- 11Blasphemous$0.31/1hr28h89.24%89.85%
- 12Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.32/1hr19h88.18%98.68%
- 13Nothing$0.32/1hr3h89.62%94.08%
- 14Vigil: The Longest Night$0.33/1hr30h85.41%86.04%
- 15Papa's Freezeria Deluxe$0.34/1hr18h93.23%99.26%
- 16Rain World$0.35/1hr32h92.44%93.70%
- 17LET IT DIE$0.35/1hr57h80.63%75.08%
- 18Blue Fire$0.36/1hr11h84.31%81.49%
- 19Monster Hunter Wilds$0.40/1hr100h50.86%49.75%
- 20Hades II$0.41/1hr73h94.92%95.71%
- 21GRIME$0.42/1hr24h85.37%84.78%
- 22Going Under$0.45/1hr9h86.64%90.12%
- 23Dead Cells$0.47/1hr27h96.55%97.01%
- 24No Rest for the Wicked$0.50/1hr56h79.95%79.32%
- 25LIZARDS MUST DIE$0.52/1hr2h93.10%96.19%
- 26Exanima$0.53/1hr28h82.15%79.99%
- 27Another Crab's Treasure$0.53/1hr23h90.38%92.47%
- 28DARK SOULS II: Scholar of the First Sin$0.61/1hr65h83.98%83.89%
- 29Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.62/1hr48h85.77%85.89%
- 30Curse of the Dead Gods$0.63/1hr32h84.33%83.40%
- 31Lunacid$0.66/1hr21h88.35%90.57%
- 32Pseudoregalia$0.72/1hr8h92.88%96.75%
- 33Afterimage$0.73/1hr34h81.46%77.34%
- 34Dread Delusion$0.76/1hr26h87.28%90.14%
- 35DARK SOULS II$0.76/1hr52h87.63%88.16%
- 36Cuphead$0.81/1hr25h95.79%96.14%
- 37Juice Galaxy$0.81/1hr6h92.03%98.50%
- 38AI LIMIT$0.81/1hr28h90.37%91.78%
- 39Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.82/1hr16h75.75%69.72%
- 40DARK SOULS: REMASTERED$0.84/1hr48h92.01%92.45%
- 41Nine Sols$0.88/1hr34h92.89%94.44%
- 42An alt girl for skoof$0.89/1hr7h84.51%83.31%
- 43Salt and Sanctuary$0.90/1hr20h88.15%89.36%
- 44Lords of the Fallen$0.94/1hr32h70.53%67.93%
- 45Death's Gambit: Afterlife$0.97/1hr21h83.72%81.10%
- 46SCARLET NEXUS$0.99/1hr20h82.23%80.28%
- 47Witchfire$1.04/1hr39h89.13%91.33%
- 48ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist$1.10/1hr23h92.03%95.36%
- 49The Last Faith$1.12/1hr25h85.34%84.57%
- 50Jump King$1.14/1hr11h88.08%89.79%
- 51Death's Door$1.15/1hr17h90.85%93.14%
- 52Prince of Persia The Lost Crown$1.18/1hr25h85.19%84.38%
- 53ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights$1.21/1hr21h92.23%93.76%
- 54Ori and the Will of the Wisps$1.34/1hr22h95.78%96.50%
- 55Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+$1.39/1hr28h92.12%94.79%
- 56Clash: Artifacts of Chaos$1.41/1hr14h84.97%89.18%
- 57PICO PARK$1.41/1hr4h89.36%90.75%
- 58Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty$1.42/1hr28h59.07%49.99%
- 59TUNIC$1.44/1hr21h88.99%91.04%
- 60FlyKnight$1.46/1hr4h91.22%96.38%
- 61She Will Punish Them$1.47/1hr11h85.84%86.20%
- 62BIOMUTANT$1.51/1hr27h72.60%66.21%
- 63Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$1.53/1hr7h89.65%93.11%
- 64Momodora: Moonlit Farewell$1.53/1hr11h87.32%92.00%
- 65Hyper Light Drifter$1.54/1hr13h90.26%92.91%
- 66Vampyr$1.67/1hr24h79.82%77.46%
- 67To Be or Not to Be$1.68/1hr8h87.02%89.25%
- 68Windblown$1.72/1hr15h87.00%88.75%
- 69STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order$1.73/1hr23h88.39%88.41%
- 70Tails of Iron$1.74/1hr14h86.74%87.77%
- 71Remnant: From the Ashes$1.75/1hr23h84.38%84.25%
- 72Darksiders III$1.75/1hr23h79.29%75.92%
- 73Sifu$1.87/1hr19h90.14%91.86%
- 74VOIN$1.93/1hr10h86.92%93.97%
- 75Thymesia$1.96/1hr13h83.90%82.05%
- 76Anomaly Agent$1.99/1hr6h90.01%94.83%
- 77NEKOPARA Vol. 1$2.01/1hr5h92.40%95.03%
- 78Mortal Shell$2.29/1hr13h75.43%67.33%
- 79Kena: Bridge of Spirits$2.29/1hr17h89.64%91.99%
- 80Trombone Champ$2.36/1hr6h92.08%97.91%
- 81Absolver$2.56/1hr12h77.89%72.56%
- 82Asterigos: Curse of the Stars$2.91/1hr12h83.73%77.91%
- 83Titan Souls$3.08/1hr5h81.43%78.73%
- 84Neva$3.52/1hr6h89.51%93.56%
- 85Lords Of The Fallen 2014$4.35/1hr7h67.39%58.86%
- 86Bright Memory$4.75/1hr2h88.77%89.85%
- 87Bright Memory: Infinite$6.28/1hr3h90.35%91.64%
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.