Best Value MMORPG Games Under $40

The MMORPG games on Steam games under $40 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.

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.
  1. 1Black Desert$0.01/1hr
  2. 2The Elder Scrolls Online$0.03/1hr
  3. 3FINAL FANTASY XIV Online$0.07/1hr
  4. 4Fallout 76$0.08/1hr
  5. 5Path of Exile 2$0.14/1hr
  6. 6The Quinfall$0.15/1hr
  7. 7Red Dead Online$0.17/1hr
  8. 8Mortal Online 2$0.18/1hr
  9. 9Naval Action$0.18/1hr
  10. 10Myth of Empires$0.22/1hr
  11. 11Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet$0.28/1hr
  12. 12Pax Dei$0.28/1hr
  13. 13Monster Hunter: World$0.31/1hr
  14. 14Last Epoch$0.38/1hr
  15. 15Gray Zone Warfare$0.45/1hr
  16. 16Day of Dragons$0.54/1hr
  17. 17DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2$0.57/1hr
  18. 18Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.81/1hr
  19. 19NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER$0.93/1hr
  20. 20ATLAS$1.63/1hr
  21. 21Initial Drift Online$3.65/1hr

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.