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.
- 1Chill Pulse$0.04/1hr115h88.38%95.55%
- 2Tricolour Lovestory$0.10/1hr20h82.26%81.30%
- 3Stardew Valley$0.11/1hr135h98.35%98.48%
- 4The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome$0.15/1hr157h67.89%65.46%
- 5STEINS;GATE$0.16/1hr37h93.75%97.07%
- 6Bean Battles$0.20/1hr5h89.41%93.83%
- 7Coral Island$0.23/1hr129h87.82%88.87%
- 8Potion Permit$0.25/1hr28h83.00%79.39%
- 9Mirror$0.25/1hr8h95.15%96.37%
- 10Persona 4 Golden$0.25/1hr80h95.79%97.04%
- 11河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon)$0.28/1hr65h83.31%81.64%
- 12鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.28/1hr70h56.81%55.56%
- 13Legend of Mortal$0.30/1hr68h78.07%76.23%
- 14Monster Hunter Wilds$0.32/1hr125h50.07%49.00%
- 15Wylde Flowers$0.34/1hr73h87.47%95.88%
- 16Fields of Mistria$0.35/1hr36h94.38%97.45%
- 17Matchmaking Inc.$0.35/1hr25h86.48%88.61%
- 18VillageRhapsody$0.35/1hr8h92.33%96.87%
- 19My Time at Sandrock$0.36/1hr111h87.34%88.18%
- 20Sun Haven$0.36/1hr69h81.81%80.57%
- 21Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.37/1hr30h90.44%94.29%
- 22Roots of Pacha$0.38/1hr66h87.80%93.61%
- 23Rune Factory 4 Special$0.46/1hr65h85.45%88.27%
- 24Volcano Princess$0.47/1hr23h95.61%97.80%
- 25Moonstone Island$0.48/1hr41h84.55%83.77%
- 26The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.49/1hr82h88.50%94.53%
- 27School Days$0.49/1hr30h81.24%76.52%
- 28Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.58/1hr35h93.23%95.79%
- 29Undertale$0.63/1hr16h96.16%96.49%
- 30Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.65/1hr46h85.73%85.90%
- 31HuniePop$0.67/1hr15h93.02%95.58%
- 32Potionomics$0.69/1hr36h87.27%90.44%
- 33Tales of Seikyu$0.69/1hr36h84.88%84.65%
- 34Knowledge, or know Lady$0.74/1hr9h89.79%95.22%
- 35Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$0.76/1hr15h94.09%96.96%
- 36Scarlet Hollow$0.77/1hr24h89.35%97.97%
- 37Otaku's Adventure$0.78/1hr9h89.65%94.85%
- 38Growing Up$0.79/1hr19h85.73%87.88%
- 39Path Of Wuxia$0.79/1hr44h79.93%78.29%
- 40Chinese Parents$0.81/1hr12h89.59%91.32%
- 41Raging Loop$0.83/1hr36h90.43%95.65%
- 42Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.90/1hr8h85.78%87.61%
- 43I Was a Teenage Exocolonist$0.93/1hr27h88.60%96.32%
- 44Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.93/1hr43h83.49%82.87%
- 45STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town$0.95/1hr42h88.15%93.35%
- 46LoveChoice$0.96/1hr2h90.65%92.21%
- 47The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.98/1hr10h93.07%94.44%
- 48Love Is All Around$1.01/1hr10h91.75%93.24%
- 49Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate$1.06/1hr13h87.70%95.30%
- 50To Pixelia$1.08/1hr14h83.73%74.30%
- 51NEKOPARA Vol. 0$1.12/1hr3h90.55%93.71%
- 52Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$1.15/1hr11h76.55%71.08%
- 53inZOI$1.22/1hr33h78.99%77.14%
- 54魔女的夜宴$1.24/1hr28h92.24%98.51%
- 55Senren＊Banka$1.25/1hr28h95.59%98.49%
- 56Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut$1.28/1hr8h94.04%96.71%
- 57NEKOPARA Vol. 4$1.29/1hr8h90.78%97.14%
- 58Project Wingman$1.30/1hr19h91.02%93.77%
- 59Neon White$1.32/1hr19h93.67%97.92%
- 60TOGETHER BnB$1.32/1hr14h72.32%58.81%
- 61NEKOPARA Vol. 3$1.36/1hr7h91.45%96.87%
- 62Winter Memories$1.58/1hr13h91.37%97.46%
- 63Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-$1.59/1hr6h89.50%95.03%
- 64Monster Prom$1.71/1hr7h89.69%93.02%
- 65NEKOPARA Vol. 2$1.74/1hr6h91.65%96.88%
- 66ATRI -My Dear Moments-$1.86/1hr11h94.34%98.40%
- 67NEKOPARA Vol. 1$2.06/1hr5h92.36%95.06%
- 681 to 1 humanoid edible toys$2.23/1hr4h86.24%92.56%
- 69Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition$2.60/1hr8h80.06%74.46%
- 70港詭實錄ParanormalHK$2.85/1hr5h87.92%89.38%
- 71Florence$5.99/1hr1h90.06%93.20%
- 72Mahou Arms$10.96/1hr4h84.31%74.49%
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.