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.
- 1Brotato$0.09/1hr57h95.15%96.02%
- 2Dragon Cliff$0.11/1hr92h86.61%88.66%
- 3Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.12/1hr25h86.92%87.98%
- 4Dying Light$0.13/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 5Titan Quest Anniversary Edition$0.14/1hr37h89.19%90.32%
- 6Path of Exile 2$0.14/1hr220h75.10%74.66%
- 7Alice: Madness Returns$0.14/1hr18h89.30%90.73%
- 8Grim Dawn$0.14/1hr180h92.79%93.52%
- 9Nioh: Complete Edition$0.15/1hr49h80.23%79.02%
- 10Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition$0.16/1hr27h80.61%78.62%
- 11Hero Siege$0.18/1hr45h70.28%67.15%
- 12Mount & Blade: Warband$0.18/1hr113h97.01%97.71%
- 13Death Must Die$0.19/1hr38h88.50%90.15%
- 14Going Under$0.19/1hr13h86.46%90.15%
- 15Darksiders Genesis$0.20/1hr23h83.11%81.77%
- 16Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning$0.21/1hr47h81.48%77.20%
- 17Myth of Empires$0.22/1hr137h73.86%67.53%
- 18Asterigos: Curse of the Stars$0.22/1hr40h83.00%78.12%
- 19Halls of Torment$0.24/1hr28h92.89%95.40%
- 20Skul: The Hero Slayer$0.24/1hr42h92.02%93.26%
- 21Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition$0.24/1hr83h87.04%87.45%
- 22Heroes of Hammerwatch II$0.25/1hr32h83.82%82.48%
- 23Darksiders III$0.25/1hr24h79.13%75.93%
- 24Chivalry 2$0.25/1hr32h80.13%79.31%
- 25The Vagrant$0.28/1hr14h87.22%89.59%
- 26鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.28/1hr70h56.81%55.56%
- 27FOR HONOR$0.28/1hr105h69.99%69.07%
- 28FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION$0.28/1hr49h83.44%83.18%
- 29Granblue Fantasy: Relink$0.30/1hr132h89.32%90.11%
- 30Monster Hunter: World$0.31/1hr97h88.71%88.78%
- 31RUINER$0.32/1hr6h87.22%89.05%
- 32STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order$0.33/1hr24h88.25%88.44%
- 33FINAL FANTASY XVI$0.33/1hr60h79.98%78.48%
- 34Soulstone Survivors$0.35/1hr42h89.54%91.37%
- 35Transistor$0.36/1hr11h91.76%93.94%
- 36Blasphemous 2$0.36/1hr31h88.73%90.68%
- 37Last Epoch$0.38/1hr92h77.19%76.53%
- 38MORDHAU$0.38/1hr79h80.34%79.93%
- 39Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos$0.39/1hr33h78.42%68.52%
- 40Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.39/1hr103h72.52%71.62%
- 41Hades II$0.39/1hr77h94.90%95.71%
- 42FATE$0.41/1hr19h88.15%95.37%
- 43NieR:Automata$0.42/1hr38h87.26%87.42%
- 44Sands of Salzaar$0.43/1hr35h82.66%81.67%
- 45BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.43/1hr28h92.23%94.27%
- 46WILD HEARTS$0.44/1hr32h63.27%46.85%
- 47Chronicon$0.45/1hr31h89.46%94.13%
- 48Lost Castle / 失落城堡$0.46/1hr21h85.96%86.50%
- 49Hyper Light Drifter$0.47/1hr11h90.12%92.97%
- 50V Rising$0.47/1hr74h88.68%88.96%
- 51BIOMUTANT$0.49/1hr20h72.41%66.19%
- 52NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...$0.50/1hr48h87.33%88.27%
- 53Warhammer: Vermintide 2$0.51/1hr59h85.02%85.03%
- 54Temtem: Swarm$0.52/1hr25h83.57%78.55%
- 55The Riftbreaker$0.53/1hr56h88.79%90.35%
- 56Wizard of Legend$0.55/1hr29h88.66%90.55%
- 57Trials of Mana$0.56/1hr27h87.09%91.29%
- 58Ravenswatch$0.59/1hr42h81.37%79.88%
- 59Hades$0.59/1hr42h97.60%98.01%
- 60Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty$0.60/1hr34h58.74%49.86%
- 61MADNESS: Project Nexus$0.60/1hr42h92.73%97.18%
- 62Thymesia$0.61/1hr10h83.48%82.27%
- 63Anomaly Agent$0.62/1hr6h89.89%94.90%
- 64Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.65/1hr46h85.73%85.90%
- 65No Rest for the Wicked$0.66/1hr42h80.81%80.30%
- 66The Surge$0.69/1hr22h79.28%74.63%
- 67Juice Galaxy$0.69/1hr7h91.86%98.47%
- 68Afterimage$0.71/1hr35h81.09%77.34%
- 69Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem$0.72/1hr28h59.64%55.91%
- 70Minecraft Dungeons$0.73/1hr28h88.59%90.56%
- 71STAR WARS Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy$0.73/1hr14h91.35%95.99%
- 72Ghostrunner$0.73/1hr10h90.39%91.21%
- 73Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.73/1hr41h87.84%88.44%
- 74Fate/Samurai Remnant$0.74/1hr35h87.12%90.61%
- 75Dark Messiah of Might & Magic$0.78/1hr13h88.16%90.89%
- 76Ghostrunner 2$0.79/1hr10h82.30%80.00%
- 77Torchlight$0.81/1hr19h87.33%90.58%
- 78The Slormancer$0.81/1hr25h83.49%81.53%
- 79Judgment$0.81/1hr49h89.89%94.02%
- 80Torchlight II$0.81/1hr25h91.22%92.60%
- 81Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor$0.81/1hr25h91.81%92.52%
- 82Tribes of Midgard$0.82/1hr24h78.89%76.39%
- 83Dust: An Elysian Tail$0.85/1hr18h91.64%95.15%
- 84DYNASTY WARRIORS 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition$0.86/1hr17h84.37%83.97%
- 85Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA$0.89/1hr45h87.30%90.33%
- 86Thronefall$0.89/1hr15h92.80%96.16%
- 87Astral Ascent$0.90/1hr28h89.39%94.63%
- 88Prince of Persia The Lost Crown$0.92/1hr32h84.67%84.29%
- 89Killing Floor 2$0.94/1hr32h88.04%88.28%
- 90Ember Knights$0.96/1hr21h88.47%93.91%
- 91Nunholy$0.97/1hr8h86.17%88.99%
- 92Wizard with a Gun$1.00/1hr25h83.65%80.37%
- 93Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale$1.04/1hr19h89.68%96.00%
- 94Like a Dragon: Ishin!$1.07/1hr38h83.29%80.71%
- 95Katana ZERO$1.15/1hr8h96.41%97.93%
- 96Dead Cells$1.17/1hr21h96.41%97.04%
- 97Nobody Saves the World$1.19/1hr21h87.26%91.02%
- 98AI LIMIT$1.23/1hr28h90.42%91.92%
- 99Devil May Cry HD Collection$1.23/1hr24h90.92%93.30%
- 100Death's Door$1.25/1hr16h90.61%93.20%
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.