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$0.06/1hr121h88.71%88.78%
- 2The Surge$0.09/1hr20h79.52%74.62%
- 3Souldiers$0.11/1hr28h81.63%69.22%
- 4Path of Exile 2$0.11/1hr265h75.00%74.53%
- 5Vampyr$0.14/1hr29h79.75%77.46%
- 6The Surge 2$0.16/1hr19h80.59%75.47%
- 7CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.44%83.12%
- 8Nothing$0.20/1hr5h89.77%94.14%
- 9Hollow Knight$0.21/1hr72h96.71%96.91%
- 10Curse of the Dead Gods$0.23/1hr17h84.52%83.50%
- 11Death's Door$0.26/1hr16h90.76%93.20%
- 12Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$0.26/1hr8h89.64%93.17%
- 13Hades II$0.27/1hr78h94.92%95.70%
- 14Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.29/1hr42h85.83%85.91%
- 15Titan Souls$0.32/1hr5h81.65%78.88%
- 16Monster Hunter Wilds$0.34/1hr87h50.04%48.95%
- 17Papa's Freezeria Deluxe$0.36/1hr17h93.28%99.25%
- 18Dead Cells$0.37/1hr34h96.44%97.04%
- 19ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN$0.38/1hr104h81.95%81.76%
- 20Absolver$0.41/1hr15h77.74%72.52%
- 21Nine Sols$0.43/1hr35h92.74%94.39%
- 22Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.50/1hr12h88.63%98.65%
- 23Prince of Persia The Lost Crown$0.50/1hr30h84.98%84.28%
- 24Exanima$0.52/1hr29h82.39%80.16%
- 25Another Crab's Treasure$0.56/1hr21h90.35%92.64%
- 26Sifu$0.58/1hr17h90.20%91.89%
- 27Pseudoregalia$0.66/1hr9h92.81%96.77%
- 28Afterimage$0.67/1hr37h81.35%77.33%
- 29DARK SOULS II: Scholar of the First Sin$0.71/1hr56h84.01%83.90%
- 30DARK SOULS: REMASTERED$0.73/1hr55h92.01%92.44%
- 31Last Command$0.73/1hr20h87.48%95.81%
- 32Windblown$0.74/1hr24h87.24%88.98%
- 33Rain World$0.74/1hr29h92.50%93.77%
- 34Dread Delusion$0.77/1hr26h87.11%90.31%
- 35Lunacid$0.77/1hr18h88.16%90.56%
- 36Juice Galaxy$0.79/1hr6h92.09%98.47%
- 37AI LIMIT$0.79/1hr31h90.55%91.95%
- 38Lonely Mountains: Downhill$0.81/1hr5h86.64%90.52%
- 39Lords of the Fallen$0.83/1hr36h70.51%67.77%
- 40DARK SOULS II$0.84/1hr48h87.66%88.14%
- 41SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER$0.84/1hr4h89.15%96.06%
- 42Death's Gambit: Afterlife$0.85/1hr24h83.92%81.17%
- 43Salt and Sanctuary$0.86/1hr21h88.14%89.37%
- 44Momodora: Moonlit Farewell$0.86/1hr12h87.05%92.04%
- 45Blasphemous 2$0.89/1hr34h88.98%90.70%
- 46Outward Definitive Edition$0.91/1hr44h75.78%72.68%
- 47Jump King$0.93/1hr14h87.97%89.87%
- 48Cuphead$0.93/1hr21h95.70%96.18%
- 49Asterigos: Curse of the Stars$0.94/1hr37h83.57%78.10%
- 50SCARLET NEXUS$1.00/1hr20h82.17%80.36%
- 51Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$1.00/1hr13h77.39%72.06%
- 52Blasphemous$1.01/1hr25h89.26%89.84%
- 53An alt girl for skoof$1.07/1hr5h84.40%83.39%
- 54ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist$1.08/1hr23h91.88%95.37%
- 55ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights$1.09/1hr23h92.26%93.77%
- 56No Rest for the Wicked$1.11/1hr36h80.88%80.31%
- 57GRIME$1.15/1hr22h85.21%84.84%
- 58Death Trash$1.24/1hr13h86.90%92.10%
- 59The Last Faith$1.28/1hr22h85.09%84.45%
- 60Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty$1.30/1hr31h58.93%49.83%
- 61Witchfire$1.32/1hr30h89.27%91.55%
- 62PICO PARK$1.40/1hr4h89.44%90.78%
- 63Ori and the Will of the Wisps$1.41/1hr21h95.79%96.50%
- 64FlyKnight$1.44/1hr4h91.08%96.35%
- 65Blue Fire$1.59/1hr13h84.52%81.49%
- 66Remnant: From the Ashes$1.60/1hr25h84.47%84.29%
- 67TUNIC$1.63/1hr18h89.25%91.34%
- 68STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order$1.71/1hr23h88.28%88.44%
- 69LIZARDS MUST DIE$1.72/1hr2h93.28%96.24%
- 70Going Under$1.73/1hr12h86.82%90.16%
- 71NEKOPARA Vol. 4$1.76/1hr6h90.93%97.15%
- 72Anomaly Agent$1.76/1hr7h90.14%94.93%
- 73To Be or Not to Be$1.77/1hr7h87.17%89.26%
- 74NEKOPARA Vol. 1$1.78/1hr6h92.51%95.09%
- 75BIOMUTANT$1.85/1hr22h72.58%66.19%
- 76Darksiders III$1.86/1hr22h79.42%75.94%
- 77Hunt Down The Freeman$1.87/1hr5h76.02%55.17%
- 78Tails of Iron$1.87/1hr13h86.87%87.82%
- 79Little Witch Nobeta$1.92/1hr13h84.87%84.29%
- 80Hyper Light Drifter$1.96/1hr10h90.39%92.99%
- 81Lords Of The Fallen 2014$2.05/1hr15h67.52%58.87%
- 82Thymesia$2.06/1hr12h83.93%82.39%
- 83Mortal Shell$2.21/1hr14h75.83%67.55%
- 84Trombone Champ$2.33/1hr6h92.01%97.90%
- 85Kena: Bridge of Spirits$2.55/1hr16h89.66%92.06%
- 86Minoria$2.86/1hr7h84.52%80.97%
- 87Bright Memory$2.90/1hr1h88.86%89.89%
- 88BLEACH Rebirth of Souls$2.90/1hr12h77.87%66.91%
- 89Neva$2.91/1hr7h89.57%93.55%
- 90Bright Memory: Infinite$3.17/1hr3h90.43%91.68%
- 91Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+$3.40/1hr12h91.95%94.73%
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.