Best Value JRPG Games Under $40
The JRPG 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.
- 1TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children$0.06/1hr100h89.17%93.48%
- 2FINAL FANTASY XIV Online$0.07/1hr280h86.36%86.52%
- 3Dragon Cliff$0.11/1hr92h86.61%88.66%
- 4Touhou Mystia's Izakaya$0.13/1hr44h95.35%98.56%
- 5FINAL FANTASY IX$0.15/1hr43h91.00%95.12%
- 6FINAL FANTASY XIII$0.15/1hr43h78.27%75.03%
- 7Nioh: Complete Edition$0.15/1hr49h80.23%79.02%
- 8Monster Sanctuary$0.15/1hr32h88.34%91.24%
- 9FINAL FANTASY VIII$0.16/1hr31h86.41%88.24%
- 10Tales of the Black Forest$0.23/1hr5h92.52%97.60%
- 11Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition$0.24/1hr83h87.04%87.45%
- 12FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE$0.24/1hr62h86.89%88.95%
- 13Elin$0.24/1hr82h88.96%93.39%
- 14FINAL FANTASY XIII-2$0.25/1hr32h74.65%58.51%
- 15Potion Permit$0.25/1hr28h83.00%79.39%
- 16Mirror$0.25/1hr8h95.15%96.37%
- 17Persona 4 Golden$0.25/1hr80h95.79%97.04%
- 18DRAGON QUEST XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition$0.26/1hr77h89.10%92.77%
- 19Yakuza: Like a Dragon$0.27/1hr73h92.10%94.02%
- 20Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet$0.28/1hr36h80.86%78.85%
- 21FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH$0.28/1hr71h77.43%75.23%
- 22FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION$0.28/1hr49h83.44%83.18%
- 23FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster$0.29/1hr42h87.11%88.03%
- 24Granblue Fantasy: Relink$0.30/1hr132h89.32%90.11%
- 25Monster Hunter: World$0.31/1hr97h88.71%88.78%
- 26CrossCode$0.32/1hr62h89.77%92.39%
- 27CHRONO TRIGGER$0.32/1hr23h86.71%88.23%
- 28FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE$0.33/1hr43h86.68%87.02%
- 29FINAL FANTASY XVI$0.33/1hr60h79.98%78.48%
- 30Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.37/1hr30h90.44%94.29%
- 31ASTLIBRA Revision$0.37/1hr68h92.64%95.09%
- 32Yakuza 5 Remastered$0.39/1hr51h86.38%88.69%
- 33Banner of the Maid$0.39/1hr44h85.62%86.45%
- 34OCTOPATH TRAVELER$0.41/1hr44h85.36%85.60%
- 35NieR:Automata$0.42/1hr38h87.26%87.42%
- 36The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky$0.42/1hr47h89.54%93.99%
- 37Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga$0.43/1hr46h90.63%94.50%
- 38Chained Echoes$0.44/1hr56h86.45%88.65%
- 39Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling$0.45/1hr44h89.47%97.02%
- 40Rune Factory 4 Special$0.46/1hr65h85.45%88.27%
- 41Okami HD$0.47/1hr43h88.51%91.99%
- 42Volcano Princess$0.47/1hr23h95.61%97.80%
- 43Bloomtown: A Different Story$0.48/1hr21h85.05%85.72%
- 44FINAL FANTASY$0.48/1hr15h89.64%95.11%
- 45The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel$0.49/1hr82h88.50%94.53%
- 46DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2$0.50/1hr50h88.38%92.37%
- 47NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...$0.50/1hr48h87.33%88.27%
- 48MONSTER HUNTER RISE$0.50/1hr80h83.50%83.39%
- 49OCTOPATH TRAVELER II$0.51/1hr47h90.22%93.31%
- 50DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT$0.54/1hr37h91.96%93.17%
- 51Trials of Mana$0.56/1hr27h87.09%91.29%
- 52Hylics$0.58/1hr5h91.32%98.18%
- 53Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy$0.58/1hr12h90.77%97.47%
- 54OMORI$0.59/1hr34h95.85%97.09%
- 55Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty$0.60/1hr34h58.74%49.86%
- 56LISA: The Painful$0.61/1hr20h91.29%95.48%
- 57SD GUNDAM G GENERATION CROSS RAYS$0.63/1hr64h83.71%82.21%
- 58Valkyria Chronicles$0.65/1hr31h87.80%89.95%
- 59Cassette Beasts$0.65/1hr31h89.82%94.06%
- 60DELTARUNE$0.66/1hr38h97.18%98.13%
- 61Tales of Seikyu$0.69/1hr36h84.88%84.65%
- 62Epic Battle Fantasy 5$0.70/1hr36h89.94%98.57%
- 63Yakuza 6: The Song of Life$0.70/1hr28h88.46%92.72%
- 64Clair Obscur: Expedition 33$0.72/1hr55h94.93%95.29%
- 65Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.73/1hr41h87.84%88.44%
- 66CRISIS CORE –FINAL FANTASY VII– REUNION$0.74/1hr24h86.93%89.45%
- 67Fate/Samurai Remnant$0.74/1hr35h87.12%90.61%
- 68Haven$0.74/1hr13h86.22%88.33%
- 69Ruined King: A League of Legends Story$0.75/1hr40h87.14%88.89%
- 70Coromon$0.78/1hr26h84.62%84.54%
- 71Yakuza 4 Remastered$0.83/1hr24h87.30%90.49%
- 72Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin$0.84/1hr48h83.36%82.59%
- 73Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition$0.85/1hr41h87.33%88.75%
- 74DYNASTY WARRIORS 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition$0.86/1hr17h84.37%83.97%
- 75Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA$0.89/1hr45h87.30%90.33%
- 76WitchSpring R$0.90/1hr39h89.85%95.89%
- 77OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition$0.93/1hr11h90.37%96.15%
- 78Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale$1.04/1hr19h89.68%96.00%
- 79Like a Dragon: Ishin!$1.07/1hr38h83.29%80.71%
- 80Eastward$1.10/1hr23h84.30%83.92%
- 81Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$1.15/1hr11h76.55%71.08%
- 82South Park: The Stick of Truth$1.45/1hr21h96.05%97.56%
- 83Winter Memories$1.58/1hr13h91.37%97.46%
- 84Attack on Titan 2 - A.O.T.2$1.73/1hr23h88.44%93.26%
- 85Finding Paradise$1.74/1hr6h93.49%97.78%
- 86Little Witch Nobeta$1.81/1hr14h84.61%84.28%
- 87Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town$2.01/1hr15h85.86%95.81%
- 88Summer Memories$2.06/1hr10h90.45%92.66%
- 89One Piece Pirate Warriors 3$2.39/1hr17h81.30%77.97%
- 90Impostor Factory$2.41/1hr4h90.92%95.80%
- 91The Test$3.73/1hr1h92.81%96.72%
- 92Word Game$4.16/1hr8h88.05%93.31%
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.