Best Value Dating Sim Games Under $40
The Dating Sim 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.
- 1Bean Battles$0.07/1hr7h89.53%93.83%
- 2Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 3Stardew Valley$0.08/1hr127h98.38%98.48%
- 4HuniePop$0.10/1hr19h93.08%95.57%
- 5Tricolour Lovestory$0.11/1hr6h82.22%81.16%
- 6Moonstone Island$0.12/1hr42h84.63%83.54%
- 7My Time at Sandrock$0.12/1hr100h87.39%88.14%
- 8Persona 4 Golden$0.12/1hr83h95.83%97.04%
- 9河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon)$0.12/1hr74h83.61%81.65%
- 10Persona 5 Royal$0.14/1hr130h95.61%96.36%
- 11鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.14/1hr84h57.02%55.63%
- 12Sun Haven$0.14/1hr61h81.81%80.49%
- 13Coral Island$0.15/1hr122h87.96%88.96%
- 14Fields of Mistria$0.15/1hr74h94.21%97.04%
- 15Mirror$0.15/1hr5h95.17%96.36%
- 16The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome$0.16/1hr155h67.82%65.35%
- 17Undertale$0.16/1hr16h96.27%96.51%
- 18Rune Factory 4 Special$0.16/1hr56h85.59%88.31%
- 19Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.18/1hr45h83.52%82.81%
- 20Matchmaking Inc.$0.20/1hr29h87.00%88.67%
- 21Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition$0.21/1hr10h79.69%74.45%
- 22Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.21/1hr38h93.31%95.77%
- 23Wylde Flowers$0.22/1hr72h87.32%95.88%
- 24Persona 3 Reload$0.23/1hr79h93.11%94.35%
- 25Roots of Pacha$0.24/1hr64h87.65%93.59%
- 26STEINS;GATE$0.24/1hr38h93.62%97.07%
- 27Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.25/1hr48h85.77%85.89%
- 28Monster Hunter Wilds$0.27/1hr113h50.73%49.61%
- 29Legend of Mortal$0.29/1hr62h78.38%76.59%
- 30Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.29/1hr26h90.44%94.23%
- 31The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.30/1hr66h88.67%94.54%
- 32Otaku's Adventure$0.31/1hr11h89.80%94.87%
- 33Monster Prom$0.32/1hr8h89.79%93.01%
- 34Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll$0.32/1hr16h82.90%78.87%
- 35SENRAN KAGURA ESTIVAL VERSUS$0.33/1hr27h88.34%94.07%
- 36Potion Permit$0.33/1hr20h82.51%79.30%
- 37Raging Loop$0.35/1hr34h91.02%95.66%
- 38I Was a Teenage Exocolonist$0.35/1hr35h89.21%96.31%
- 39Volcano Princess$0.36/1hr20h95.66%97.79%
- 40VillageRhapsody$0.36/1hr8h92.34%96.87%
- 41CLANNAD$0.38/1hr41h92.41%98.43%
- 42Chinese Parents$0.39/1hr14h89.64%91.29%
- 43Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.39/1hr9h86.31%87.49%
- 44STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town$0.41/1hr24h87.60%93.37%
- 45Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.41/1hr16h75.75%69.72%
- 46Tales of Seikyu$0.42/1hr42h84.30%84.43%
- 47School Days$0.45/1hr25h81.84%76.90%
- 48Potionomics$0.48/1hr31h87.77%90.46%
- 49Knowledge, or know Lady$0.55/1hr9h89.93%95.21%
- 50Neon White$0.56/1hr18h93.77%97.88%
- 51Love Is All Around$0.62/1hr11h91.79%93.23%
- 52LoveChoice$0.64/1hr2h90.66%92.15%
- 53Gaokao.Love.100Days$0.65/1hr9h87.25%89.74%
- 54AI2U: With You 'Til The End$0.67/1hr14h84.94%87.84%
- 55Growing Up$0.69/1hr10h85.18%87.63%
- 56Senren＊Banka$0.70/1hr26h95.65%98.47%
- 57The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.74/1hr9h93.10%94.42%
- 58NEKOPARA Vol. 0$0.76/1hr2h90.64%93.71%
- 59NEKOPARA Vol. 2$0.78/1hr5h91.77%96.89%
- 60ATRI -My Dear Moments-$0.79/1hr11h94.44%98.38%
- 61Project Wingman$0.79/1hr16h91.14%93.80%
- 62魔女的夜宴$0.80/1hr25h92.38%98.47%
- 63NEKOPARA Vol. 1$0.80/1hr5h92.40%95.03%
- 64inZOI$0.87/1hr37h79.18%77.36%
- 65Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$0.90/1hr12h94.20%96.97%
- 66Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$0.94/1hr12h88.24%95.36%
- 67TOGETHER BnB$0.95/1hr13h72.42%58.78%
- 68Winter Memories$0.97/1hr14h91.69%97.49%
- 69Scarlet Hollow$0.98/1hr25h89.00%97.93%
- 70Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut$1.27/1hr7h94.15%96.67%
- 711 to 1 humanoid edible toys$1.35/1hr3h86.45%92.48%
- 72港詭實錄ParanormalHK$1.50/1hr4h87.98%89.35%
- 73Florence$1.54/1hr1h90.19%93.24%
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.