Best Value Anime Games Under $40
The Anime 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.
- 1Chill Pulse$0.04/1hr115h88.38%95.55%
- 2TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children$0.06/1hr100h89.17%93.48%
- 3Tricolour Lovestory$0.10/1hr20h82.26%81.30%
- 4Wallpaper Engine$0.10/1hr50h97.45%97.57%
- 5Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.13/1hr91h92.84%97.63%
- 6Touhou Mystia's Izakaya$0.13/1hr44h95.35%98.56%
- 7觅长生$0.14/1hr89h91.14%93.09%
- 8FINAL FANTASY IX$0.15/1hr43h91.00%95.12%
- 9The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome$0.15/1hr157h67.89%65.46%
- 10STEINS;GATE$0.16/1hr37h93.75%97.07%
- 11Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions$0.17/1hr28h79.72%71.90%
- 12A Dance of Fire and Ice$0.18/1hr33h93.09%94.07%
- 13Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.23/1hr22h94.36%96.49%
- 14Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.23/1hr110h85.34%85.61%
- 15Street Fighter 6$0.23/1hr177h82.62%82.32%
- 16STEINS;GATE 0$0.23/1hr31h89.98%96.06%
- 17Tales of the Black Forest$0.23/1hr5h92.52%97.60%
- 18Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion$0.24/1hr76h84.63%84.51%
- 19FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE$0.24/1hr62h86.89%88.95%
- 20FINAL FANTASY XIII-2$0.25/1hr32h74.65%58.51%
- 21Mirror$0.25/1hr8h95.15%96.37%
- 22Persona 4 Golden$0.25/1hr80h95.79%97.04%
- 23DRAGON QUEST XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition$0.26/1hr77h89.10%92.77%
- 24Yakuza: Like a Dragon$0.27/1hr73h92.10%94.02%
- 25河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon)$0.28/1hr65h83.31%81.64%
- 26Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet$0.28/1hr36h80.86%78.85%
- 27FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH$0.28/1hr71h77.43%75.23%
- 28The Vagrant$0.28/1hr14h87.22%89.59%
- 29FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION$0.28/1hr49h83.44%83.18%
- 30FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster$0.29/1hr42h87.11%88.03%
- 31Need for Speed Unbound$0.29/1hr17h63.79%60.23%
- 32Sailing Era$0.30/1hr83h82.78%78.47%
- 33Granblue Fantasy: Relink$0.30/1hr132h89.32%90.11%
- 34Palworld$0.30/1hr99h94.29%94.49%
- 35CrossCode$0.32/1hr62h89.77%92.39%
- 36Muse Dash$0.32/1hr9h91.00%91.50%
- 37CHRONO TRIGGER$0.32/1hr23h86.71%88.23%
- 38gogh: Focus with Your Avatar$0.34/1hr35h87.05%91.00%
- 39Library Of Ruina$0.34/1hr87h92.72%94.47%
- 40Fields of Mistria$0.35/1hr36h94.38%97.45%
- 41VillageRhapsody$0.35/1hr8h92.33%96.87%
- 42Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.37/1hr30h90.44%94.29%
- 43Yakuza 5 Remastered$0.39/1hr51h86.38%88.69%
- 44Banner of the Maid$0.39/1hr44h85.62%86.45%
- 45TEKKEN 8$0.41/1hr99h59.79%56.29%
- 46OCTOPATH TRAVELER$0.41/1hr44h85.36%85.60%
- 47NieR:Automata$0.42/1hr38h87.26%87.42%
- 48The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky$0.42/1hr47h89.54%93.99%
- 49Sands of Salzaar$0.43/1hr35h82.66%81.67%
- 50BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.43/1hr28h92.23%94.27%
- 51Chained Echoes$0.44/1hr56h86.45%88.65%
- 52ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights$0.45/1hr22h92.17%93.76%
- 53Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.46/1hr54h92.83%94.23%
- 54Rune Factory 4 Special$0.46/1hr65h85.45%88.27%
- 55Okami HD$0.47/1hr43h88.51%91.99%
- 56Volcano Princess$0.47/1hr23h95.61%97.80%
- 57Calico$0.47/1hr8h85.49%86.59%
- 58An alt girl for skoof$0.48/1hr7h83.99%83.33%
- 59FINAL FANTASY$0.48/1hr15h89.64%95.11%
- 60The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.49/1hr82h88.50%94.53%
- 61School Days$0.49/1hr30h81.24%76.52%
- 62Depersonalization$0.49/1hr30h88.23%93.07%
- 63Tiny Bunny$0.50/1hr15h83.48%83.00%
- 64DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2$0.50/1hr50h88.38%92.37%
- 65NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...$0.50/1hr48h87.33%88.27%
- 66MONSTER HUNTER RISE$0.50/1hr80h83.50%83.39%
- 67Chrono Ark$0.51/1hr49h88.22%90.61%
- 68OCTOPATH TRAVELER II$0.51/1hr47h90.22%93.31%
- 69Far Away$0.53/1hr25h89.35%94.74%
- 70DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT$0.54/1hr37h91.96%93.17%
- 71Trials of Mana$0.56/1hr27h87.09%91.29%
- 72ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist$0.57/1hr24h91.71%95.36%
- 73DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2$0.57/1hr35h89.15%89.86%
- 74DRAMAtical Murder$0.57/1hr21h88.77%96.62%
- 75Rabbit and Steel$0.58/1hr26h91.28%97.04%
- 76Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy$0.58/1hr12h90.77%97.47%
- 77Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.58/1hr35h93.23%95.79%
- 78The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles$0.59/1hr68h89.48%94.32%
- 79OMORI$0.59/1hr34h95.85%97.09%
- 80Rabi-Ribi$0.60/1hr30h90.52%95.28%
- 81Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$0.61/1hr49h95.25%97.56%
- 82SD GUNDAM G GENERATION CROSS RAYS$0.63/1hr64h83.71%82.21%
- 83Valkyria Chronicles$0.65/1hr31h87.80%89.95%
- 84Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.65/1hr46h85.73%85.90%
- 85TEVI$0.66/1hr44h85.94%89.06%
- 86Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.66/1hr30h84.39%82.20%
- 87Wedding Witch$0.66/1hr8h86.24%89.56%
- 88HuniePop$0.67/1hr15h93.02%95.58%
- 89Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.68/1hr29h93.70%96.00%
- 90OneShot$0.68/1hr9h96.46%98.25%
- 91Potionomics$0.69/1hr36h87.27%90.44%
- 92Tales of Seikyu$0.69/1hr36h84.88%84.65%
- 93Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin$0.70/1hr43h87.35%92.01%
- 94Epic Battle Fantasy 5$0.70/1hr36h89.94%98.57%
- 95Yakuza 6: The Song of Life$0.70/1hr28h88.46%92.72%
- 96Beyond Citadel$0.71/1hr16h88.28%96.24%
- 97Aeruta$0.71/1hr21h86.83%94.54%
- 98Afterimage$0.71/1hr35h81.09%77.34%
- 99Fate/Samurai Remnant$0.74/1hr35h87.12%90.61%
- 100Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$0.76/1hr15h94.09%96.96%
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.