Best Value PvP Games Under $40
The PvP 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.
- 1Black Desert$0.02/1hr62h74.62%73.50%
- 2Crosshair X$0.02/1hr309h91.89%93.36%
- 3Naval Action$0.02/1hr184h65.25%51.81%
- 4The Elder Scrolls Online$0.03/1hr183h81.30%80.88%
- 5Pro Soccer Online$0.03/1hr76h82.72%81.82%
- 6Total War: WARHAMMER III$0.03/1hr271h72.54%71.69%
- 7SCUM$0.03/1hr526h74.83%74.01%
- 8Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.04/1hr321h74.20%73.70%
- 9FOR HONOR$0.04/1hr80h69.80%68.69%
- 10The Quinfall$0.04/1hr26h65.85%50.96%
- 11Mortal Online 2$0.05/1hr315h70.42%59.82%
- 12Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.06/1hr103h79.91%78.37%
- 13Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.06/1hr50h80.06%78.65%
- 14Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense$0.06/1hr120h85.84%86.28%
- 15Mindustry$0.06/1hr62h92.97%95.73%
- 16Rust$0.06/1hr311h86.70%86.69%
- 17Dying Light$0.07/1hr36h95.09%95.23%
- 18Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront$0.08/1hr116h85.21%85.22%
- 19WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship$0.08/1hr13h83.47%82.38%
- 20Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.08/1hr31h86.77%87.04%
- 21ORION: Prelude$0.08/1hr12h78.01%75.47%
- 22Spelunky 2$0.08/1hr84h90.42%92.81%
- 23Counter-Strike: Source$0.08/1hr24h95.89%96.29%
- 24Mechabellum$0.09/1hr103h84.20%83.70%
- 25Garry's Mod$0.10/1hr50h96.81%96.88%
- 26Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition$0.10/1hr103h95.29%95.63%
- 27Terraforming Mars$0.11/1hr57h79.04%70.57%
- 28Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$0.11/1hr45h87.69%89.58%
- 29Foxhole$0.11/1hr171h80.37%79.46%
- 30Monster Sanctuary$0.11/1hr45h88.56%91.22%
- 31ANEURISM IV$0.11/1hr44h80.74%75.15%
- 32Counter-Strike$0.12/1hr17h97.06%97.40%
- 33Among Us$0.12/1hr25h91.98%92.03%
- 34Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.13/1hr155h79.53%79.05%
- 35Temtem$0.13/1hr70h82.11%81.32%
- 36Battlefield 1$0.14/1hr28h86.57%86.50%
- 37Deadside$0.14/1hr69h77.44%75.53%
- 38DayZ$0.14/1hr173h78.10%77.89%
- 39FlatOut$0.15/1hr10h87.55%91.08%
- 40Beasts of Bermuda$0.15/1hr137h77.13%68.88%
- 41Command & Conquer Remastered Collection$0.15/1hr27h89.44%90.66%
- 42MORDHAU$0.15/1hr20h80.32%79.89%
- 43Pax Dei$0.15/1hr99h69.99%56.63%
- 44TerraTech$0.15/1hr40h89.33%91.35%
- 45Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.16/1hr77h89.75%90.51%
- 46Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts$0.16/1hr18h77.63%72.64%
- 47Hell Let Loose$0.16/1hr76h81.98%81.77%
- 48GUILTY GEAR XX ACCENT CORE PLUS R$0.17/1hr23h90.00%96.23%
- 49Night of the Dead$0.17/1hr35h80.67%76.88%
- 50Iron Harvest$0.17/1hr26h77.43%72.59%
- 51Talisman: Digital Classic Edition$0.17/1hr10h81.71%78.24%
- 52Cassette Beasts$0.18/1hr34h89.73%94.03%
- 53Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions$0.18/1hr27h79.90%72.10%
- 54Half-Life$0.18/1hr11h96.02%96.49%
- 55ATLYSS$0.18/1hr28h93.29%96.80%
- 56Soccer Online: Ball 3D$0.18/1hr3h84.79%84.42%
- 57Lost Castle / 失落城堡$0.19/1hr16h86.08%86.46%
- 58Red Dead Online$0.19/1hr53h83.33%83.06%
- 59Coromon$0.19/1hr26h84.72%84.44%
- 60NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER$0.19/1hr26h83.85%83.61%
- 61ARK: Survival Ascended$0.20/1hr56h61.89%59.92%
- 62Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator$0.21/1hr132h86.03%90.80%
- 63Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition$0.21/1hr131h85.64%85.68%
- 64ROUNDS$0.21/1hr14h93.42%95.26%
- 65V Rising$0.22/1hr73h88.70%88.96%
- 66Monster Train$0.22/1hr23h92.61%95.84%
- 67For The King II$0.22/1hr39h76.35%70.90%
- 68Company of Heroes 3$0.22/1hr109h62.35%56.68%
- 69RIDE 4$0.22/1hr27h83.72%82.54%
- 70Draw & Guess$0.23/1hr13h84.20%83.92%
- 71DUCKSIDE$0.23/1hr26h81.40%72.16%
- 72Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr42h85.24%85.25%
- 73Conquest of Elysium 5$0.24/1hr50h86.00%90.12%
- 74Street Fighter 6$0.24/1hr67h82.36%82.01%
- 75Age of Mythology: Retold$0.24/1hr62h88.89%90.47%
- 76Blazing Sails$0.24/1hr15h85.20%86.06%
- 77Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands$0.25/1hr40h78.77%78.21%
- 78Chivalry 2$0.25/1hr32h80.18%79.33%
- 79Ticket to Ride$0.25/1hr18h82.76%69.95%
- 80Wingspan$0.25/1hr32h90.15%94.29%
- 81Soulmask$0.25/1hr78h79.52%77.00%
- 82Cossacks 3$0.25/1hr27h83.39%82.28%
- 83Kingdoms Reborn$0.25/1hr63h87.75%90.38%
- 84Absolver$0.26/1hr12h77.89%72.56%
- 85Need for Speed Heat$0.26/1hr27h84.29%84.23%
- 86LOCKDOWN Protocol$0.26/1hr23h85.72%86.00%
- 87Armello$0.27/1hr37h83.12%81.84%
- 88HumanitZ$0.27/1hr45h78.37%74.26%
- 89Airships: Conquer the Skies$0.28/1hr36h89.46%95.92%
- 90Longvinter$0.28/1hr29h77.31%67.11%
- 91TEKKEN 8$0.28/1hr85h60.11%56.67%
- 92Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition$0.29/1hr31h89.18%89.97%
- 93Barro$0.29/1hr2h82.90%78.73%
- 94Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition$0.29/1hr48h88.58%88.60%
- 95Friends vs Friends$0.29/1hr9h83.71%82.71%
- 96Battlefield V$0.29/1hr17h71.23%70.61%
- 97Battlefield 4$0.29/1hr14h84.87%84.84%
- 98STAR WARS Battlefront II$0.30/1hr33h88.02%88.31%
- 99Ghosts of Tabor$0.30/1hr53h77.79%70.75%
- 100Monster Train 2$0.30/1hr58h90.59%95.32%
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.