Best Value Adventure Games Under $40
The Adventure 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.
- 1Black Desert$0.01/1hr118h74.62%73.52%
- 2Crosshair X$0.03/1hr359h91.81%93.35%
- 3The Elder Scrolls Online$0.03/1hr154h81.14%80.90%
- 4Melvor Idle$0.04/1hr244h88.13%90.12%
- 5Chill Pulse$0.04/1hr115h88.38%95.55%
- 6Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition$0.05/1hr81h88.27%89.29%
- 7Rust$0.05/1hr394h86.78%86.80%
- 8ORION: Prelude$0.05/1hr18h77.92%75.45%
- 9Terraria$0.07/1hr148h97.30%97.38%
- 10Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands$0.07/1hr34h79.52%79.02%
- 11Beasts of Bermuda$0.07/1hr268h77.07%68.98%
- 12Graveyard Keeper$0.08/1hr52h85.31%85.38%
- 13Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.52%86.98%
- 14Cyberhunt$0.09/1hr5h84.92%84.85%
- 15Starbound$0.10/1hr157h89.60%89.97%
- 16Just Cause 3$0.10/1hr31h84.42%84.38%
- 17Drug Dealer Simulator$0.10/1hr21h85.79%86.19%
- 18Tricolour Lovestory$0.10/1hr20h82.26%81.30%
- 19Rogue Legacy$0.10/1hr15h89.71%92.39%
- 20Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition$0.10/1hr103h95.16%95.65%
- 21Just Cause 2$0.11/1hr14h89.65%90.56%
- 22Dragon Cliff$0.11/1hr92h86.61%88.66%
- 23DSX$0.11/1hr71h77.80%69.52%
- 24Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$0.11/1hr17h88.08%92.24%
- 25Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.12/1hr65h80.13%78.77%
- 26Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.12/1hr34h88.04%89.83%
- 27Dishonored$0.12/1hr21h96.33%97.63%
- 28Eco$0.12/1hr186h82.48%80.73%
- 29Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.12/1hr25h86.92%87.98%
- 30Assassin's Creed Odyssey$0.13/1hr96h88.54%88.73%
- 31Need for Speed Heat$0.13/1hr26h84.22%84.17%
- 32Path of Exile 2$0.14/1hr220h75.10%74.66%
- 33Streets of Rogue$0.14/1hr29h92.60%96.03%
- 34Alice: Madness Returns$0.14/1hr18h89.30%90.73%
- 35Grim Dawn$0.14/1hr180h92.79%93.52%
- 36Tales & Tactics$0.14/1hr37h83.70%78.06%
- 37Deadside$0.15/1hr69h77.38%75.51%
- 38ELEX$0.15/1hr51h77.93%74.35%
- 39Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr20h93.07%94.10%
- 40Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition$0.15/1hr132h83.77%83.50%
- 41The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome$0.15/1hr157h67.89%65.46%
- 42This Is the Police 2$0.15/1hr24h81.08%75.21%
- 43Monster Sanctuary$0.15/1hr32h88.34%91.24%
- 44Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.16/1hr19h85.14%85.27%
- 45STEINS;GATE$0.16/1hr37h93.75%97.07%
- 46LEGO Marvel Super Heroes$0.16/1hr24h93.00%95.63%
- 47Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition$0.16/1hr27h80.61%78.62%
- 48Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition$0.16/1hr122h79.25%77.63%
- 49Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced$0.17/1hr180h82.63%82.53%
- 50For The King$0.17/1hr24h87.22%87.74%
- 51Dragon Age Inquisition$0.17/1hr59h78.67%75.73%
- 52Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition$0.17/1hr82h88.55%88.65%
- 53Red Dead Online$0.17/1hr58h83.31%83.08%
- 54ARK: Survival Evolved$0.17/1hr87h83.35%83.33%
- 55Pathologic 2$0.17/1hr40h88.63%91.68%
- 56Need for Speed Payback$0.18/1hr17h85.33%85.45%
- 57Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok$0.18/1hr57h86.22%88.24%
- 58Hero Siege$0.18/1hr45h70.28%67.15%
- 59Elite Dangerous$0.18/1hr112h77.96%77.31%
- 60PEAK$0.18/1hr22h94.37%94.64%
- 61Prey$0.18/1hr33h89.90%90.82%
- 62Across the Obelisk$0.18/1hr110h82.38%80.42%
- 63SpaceCraft$0.18/1hr131h80.89%65.33%
- 64From the Depths$0.19/1hr134h87.36%89.25%
- 65The Long Dark$0.19/1hr103h88.64%88.94%
- 66Tales of the Neon Sea$0.20/1hr9h85.05%85.27%
- 67Dune: Awakening$0.20/1hr152h72.32%70.70%
- 68Murdered: Soul Suspect$0.20/1hr10h85.52%85.85%
- 69Darksiders Genesis$0.20/1hr23h83.11%81.77%
- 70The Isle$0.20/1hr100h80.52%80.14%
- 71Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 72Miscreated$0.21/1hr146h70.51%65.95%
- 73Amber Isle$0.21/1hr30h84.57%82.78%
- 74Nothing$0.21/1hr5h89.52%94.15%
- 75Punch Club 2: Fast Forward$0.21/1hr24h84.17%82.48%
- 76Hollow Knight$0.21/1hr71h96.70%96.91%
- 77Tales of Maj'Eyal$0.21/1hr33h89.01%94.50%
- 78Battlefield 2042$0.22/1hr27h48.27%47.14%
- 79Asterigos: Curse of the Stars$0.22/1hr40h83.00%78.12%
- 80Scrap Mechanic$0.22/1hr132h91.40%91.93%
- 81Card Survival: Fantasy Forest$0.22/1hr100h84.00%75.90%
- 82Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.22/1hr181h79.48%79.02%
- 83This Is the Police$0.22/1hr17h83.57%82.35%
- 84Satisfactory$0.22/1hr179h96.83%97.26%
- 85Sally Face - Episode One$0.22/1hr13h94.00%97.32%
- 86Street Fighter 6$0.23/1hr177h82.62%82.32%
- 87REMNANT II$0.23/1hr55h82.69%82.36%
- 88Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.23/1hr87h79.91%78.45%
- 89LEGO The Lord of the Rings$0.23/1hr17h88.13%90.12%
- 90STEINS;GATE 0$0.23/1hr31h89.98%96.06%
- 91Tales of the Black Forest$0.23/1hr5h92.52%97.60%
- 92Coral Island$0.23/1hr129h87.82%88.87%
- 93Sephiria$0.23/1hr38h88.96%93.67%
- 94Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition$0.24/1hr85h88.77%92.30%
- 95Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.04%95.26%
- 96Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion$0.24/1hr76h84.63%84.51%
- 97Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure$0.24/1hr7h86.48%91.78%
- 98Stoneshard$0.24/1hr68h76.91%74.63%
- 99Bear and Breakfast$0.24/1hr29h86.51%89.46%
- 100METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN$0.24/1hr82h91.20%91.79%
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.