Best Value Hack and Slash Games Under $40
The Hack and Slash 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.
- 1Dragon Cliff$0.03/1hr78h86.73%88.61%
- 2Myth of Empires$0.03/1hr224h73.97%67.60%
- 3FOR HONOR$0.04/1hr80h69.80%68.69%
- 4Grim Dawn$0.04/1hr86h92.75%93.44%
- 5Mount & Blade: Warband$0.05/1hr95h97.19%97.71%
- 6Brotato$0.06/1hr47h95.09%95.92%
- 7Hero Siege$0.07/1hr122h70.26%67.14%
- 8Dying Light$0.07/1hr36h95.09%95.23%
- 9Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.07/1hr141h72.53%71.62%
- 10The Surge$0.07/1hr27h79.58%74.54%
- 11Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem$0.08/1hr36h59.62%55.86%
- 12Warhammer: Vermintide 2$0.08/1hr36h85.05%85.04%
- 13Monster Hunter: World$0.08/1hr92h88.80%88.81%
- 14Warhammer: Chaosbane$0.09/1hr16h74.63%58.41%
- 15Chronicon$0.10/1hr49h89.58%94.10%
- 16Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr47h87.87%88.42%
- 17Titan Quest Anniversary Edition$0.10/1hr48h89.21%90.27%
- 18Killing Floor 2$0.11/1hr27h88.04%88.26%
- 19Death's Door$0.11/1hr17h90.85%93.14%
- 20Moonlighter$0.12/1hr16h82.48%81.38%
- 21Middle-earth: Shadow of War$0.13/1hr40h88.64%88.94%
- 22Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.13/1hr23h87.26%88.05%
- 23Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr$0.13/1hr37h78.85%76.01%
- 24Alice: Madness Returns$0.14/1hr18h89.40%90.77%
- 25Torchlight II$0.14/1hr28h91.22%92.54%
- 26鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.14/1hr84h57.02%55.63%
- 27Afterimage$0.14/1hr34h81.46%77.34%
- 28Halls of Torment$0.15/1hr34h92.90%95.33%
- 29The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.53%75.35%
- 30Nioh: Complete Edition$0.15/1hr50h80.22%78.95%
- 31MORDHAU$0.15/1hr20h80.32%79.89%
- 32Torchlight$0.16/1hr19h87.45%90.51%
- 33Heroes of Hammerwatch$0.16/1hr19h86.28%87.44%
- 34The Riftbreaker$0.16/1hr57h88.87%90.34%
- 35Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor$0.16/1hr24h91.83%92.52%
- 36Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition$0.17/1hr27h80.79%78.67%
- 37Dead Island 2$0.17/1hr29h79.43%77.49%
- 38Dust: An Elysian Tail$0.17/1hr17h91.92%95.14%
- 39Army of Ruin$0.18/1hr17h85.81%88.06%
- 40Lost Castle / 失落城堡$0.19/1hr16h86.08%86.46%
- 41Sands of Salzaar$0.19/1hr32h82.70%81.62%
- 42CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.31%83.01%
- 43Death Must Die$0.21/1hr34h88.56%90.12%
- 44Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition$0.21/1hr10h79.69%74.45%
- 45Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 46V Rising$0.22/1hr73h88.70%88.96%
- 47Dark Messiah of Might & Magic$0.22/1hr12h88.24%90.83%
- 48Shadow Warrior$0.22/1hr14h90.07%91.90%
- 49Shadow Warrior 2$0.22/1hr13h86.56%87.05%
- 50Going Under$0.22/1hr9h86.64%90.12%
- 51GOD EATER 3$0.23/1hr27h82.24%79.29%
- 52KINGDOM HEARTS -HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX-$0.23/1hr66h86.11%86.85%
- 53Skul: The Hero Slayer$0.23/1hr44h92.07%93.26%
- 54Blasphemous 2$0.23/1hr33h89.13%90.67%
- 55Lost Judgment$0.24/1hr50h88.87%93.60%
- 56Judgment$0.24/1hr42h89.56%93.88%
- 57Path of Exile 2$0.24/1hr123h75.62%75.06%
- 58Chivalry 2$0.25/1hr32h80.18%79.33%
- 59Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.25/1hr48h85.77%85.89%
- 60Darksiders Genesis$0.25/1hr18h83.19%81.75%
- 61Hades$0.25/1hr25h97.69%98.00%
- 62HELLDIVERS Dive Harder Edition$0.25/1hr16h89.19%90.39%
- 63Soulstone Survivors$0.25/1hr35h89.65%91.32%
- 64Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning$0.26/1hr39h81.50%77.29%
- 65Darksiders III$0.26/1hr23h79.29%75.92%
- 66Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale$0.26/1hr15h89.84%96.03%
- 67Heroes of Hammerwatch II$0.27/1hr30h83.99%82.17%
- 68Brutal Legend$0.27/1hr11h90.54%93.16%
- 69Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition$0.27/1hr73h87.03%87.39%
- 70WILD HEARTS$0.28/1hr25h63.62%46.86%
- 71Children of Morta$0.28/1hr12h87.42%88.38%
- 72FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION$0.28/1hr37h83.46%83.17%
- 73Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition$0.29/1hr21h83.01%80.91%
- 74Hades II$0.29/1hr73h94.92%95.71%
- 75Bastion$0.29/1hr10h93.18%95.27%
- 76Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate$0.29/1hr26h84.46%83.59%
- 77Hob$0.30/1hr14h86.26%88.18%
- 78RUINER$0.31/1hr6h87.53%88.93%
- 79Ravenswatch$0.31/1hr40h81.56%79.97%
- 80Last Epoch$0.32/1hr77h77.21%76.54%
- 81Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide$0.33/1hr9h81.63%79.98%
- 82SENRAN KAGURA ESTIVAL VERSUS$0.33/1hr27h88.34%94.07%
- 83Minecraft Dungeons$0.33/1hr30h88.60%90.33%
- 84Insect Swarm$0.33/1hr7h84.96%84.15%
- 85Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii$0.33/1hr45h86.04%87.81%
- 86FATE$0.34/1hr12h88.33%95.36%
- 87Castle Crashers$0.34/1hr13h95.45%96.18%
- 88Devil May Cry HD Collection$0.34/1hr29h91.08%93.37%
- 89Wizard with a Gun$0.34/1hr15h83.81%80.37%
- 90STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order$0.35/1hr23h88.40%88.41%
- 91Like a Dragon: Ishin!$0.35/1hr29h82.84%80.62%
- 92LET IT DIE$0.35/1hr57h80.63%75.08%
- 93Prince of Persia The Lost Crown$0.35/1hr25h85.19%84.38%
- 94ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS 4$0.35/1hr23h89.61%91.63%
- 95BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.36/1hr33h92.34%94.30%
- 96Cat Quest II$0.36/1hr10h88.86%95.21%
- 97Blue Fire$0.36/1hr11h84.31%81.49%
- 98Cat Quest$0.37/1hr9h89.62%94.61%
- 99Nobody Saves the World$0.37/1hr20h87.56%90.99%
- 100Astral Ascent$0.37/1hr27h89.53%94.60%
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.