Best Value Souls-like Games Under $40
The Souls-like 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.
- 1Outward Definitive Edition$0.04/1hr52h75.70%72.68%
- 2The Surge$0.07/1hr27h79.58%74.54%
- 3Monster Hunter: World$0.08/1hr92h88.80%88.81%
- 4Blasphemous$0.09/1hr28h89.24%89.85%
- 5Souldiers$0.09/1hr33h81.82%69.29%
- 6Death's Door$0.11/1hr17h90.85%93.14%
- 7Curse of the Dead Gods$0.13/1hr32h84.33%83.40%
- 8Ori and the Will of the Wisps$0.13/1hr22h95.78%96.50%
- 9Afterimage$0.14/1hr34h81.46%77.34%
- 10The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.53%75.35%
- 11Nioh: Complete Edition$0.15/1hr50h80.22%78.95%
- 12Nothing$0.16/1hr3h89.62%94.08%
- 13Vampyr$0.17/1hr24h79.82%77.46%
- 14CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.31%83.01%
- 15REMNANT II$0.20/1hr49h82.71%82.35%
- 16An alt girl for skoof$0.21/1hr7h84.51%83.31%
- 17Tails of Iron$0.21/1hr14h86.74%87.77%
- 18Clash: Artifacts of Chaos$0.21/1hr14h84.97%89.18%
- 19Going Under$0.22/1hr9h86.64%90.12%
- 20Salt and Sanctuary$0.22/1hr20h88.15%89.36%
- 21Blasphemous 2$0.23/1hr33h89.13%90.67%
- 22Hollow Knight$0.24/1hr63h96.76%96.91%
- 23Path of Exile 2$0.24/1hr123h75.62%75.06%
- 24ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN$0.25/1hr163h81.89%81.72%
- 25Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.25/1hr48h85.77%85.89%
- 26Absolver$0.26/1hr12h77.89%72.56%
- 27Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.26/1hr19h88.18%98.68%
- 28Remnant: From the Ashes$0.26/1hr23h84.38%84.25%
- 29Darksiders III$0.26/1hr23h79.29%75.92%
- 30Monster Hunter Wilds$0.27/1hr113h50.73%49.61%
- 31Papa's Freezeria Deluxe$0.27/1hr18h93.23%99.26%
- 32Jump King$0.27/1hr11h88.08%89.79%
- 33Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition$0.27/1hr73h87.03%87.39%
- 34WILD HEARTS$0.28/1hr25h63.62%46.86%
- 35STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor$0.28/1hr38h72.51%71.04%
- 36Hades II$0.29/1hr73h94.92%95.71%
- 37Vigil: The Longest Night$0.29/1hr30h85.41%86.04%
- 38Lonely Mountains: Downhill$0.30/1hr13h86.46%90.60%
- 39Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$0.30/1hr7h89.65%93.11%
- 40Titan Souls$0.31/1hr5h81.43%78.73%
- 41DARK SOULS II: Scholar of the First Sin$0.31/1hr65h83.98%83.89%
- 42Lords of the Fallen$0.31/1hr32h70.53%67.93%
- 43STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order$0.35/1hr23h88.40%88.41%
- 44Rain World$0.35/1hr32h92.44%93.70%
- 45LET IT DIE$0.35/1hr57h80.63%75.08%
- 46Prince of Persia The Lost Crown$0.35/1hr25h85.19%84.38%
- 47Blue Fire$0.36/1hr11h84.31%81.49%
- 48BIOMUTANT$0.38/1hr27h72.60%66.21%
- 49Dread Delusion$0.38/1hr26h87.28%90.14%
- 50Hyper Light Drifter$0.38/1hr13h90.26%92.91%
- 51Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.41/1hr16h75.75%69.72%
- 52DARK SOULS: REMASTERED$0.42/1hr48h92.01%92.45%
- 53GRIME$0.42/1hr24h85.37%84.78%
- 54Dead Cells$0.43/1hr29h96.56%97.02%
- 55Lords Of The Fallen 2014$0.43/1hr7h67.39%58.86%
- 56Nine Sols$0.44/1hr34h92.89%94.44%
- 57SCARLET NEXUS$0.47/1hr20h82.23%80.28%
- 58ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights$0.49/1hr21h92.23%93.76%
- 59Thymesia$0.49/1hr13h83.90%82.05%
- 60DARK SOULS III$0.49/1hr61h94.20%94.33%
- 61No Rest for the Wicked$0.50/1hr56h79.95%79.32%
- 62Pseudoregalia$0.50/1hr8h92.88%96.75%
- 63LIZARDS MUST DIE$0.52/1hr2h93.18%96.21%
- 64Exanima$0.53/1hr28h82.15%79.99%
- 65Death's Gambit: Afterlife$0.53/1hr21h83.72%81.10%
- 66Another Crab's Treasure$0.53/1hr23h90.38%92.47%
- 67Sifu$0.53/1hr19h90.14%91.86%
- 68Cuphead$0.54/1hr26h95.80%96.14%
- 69Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+$0.56/1hr28h92.12%94.79%
- 70The Last Faith$0.56/1hr25h85.34%84.57%
- 71Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition$0.58/1hr51h95.05%95.25%
- 72Anomaly Agent$0.60/1hr6h90.01%94.83%
- 73ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist$0.60/1hr23h92.03%95.36%
- 74Lunacid$0.66/1hr21h88.35%90.57%
- 75Lies of P$0.66/1hr45h90.90%91.59%
- 76Clair Obscur: Expedition 33$0.68/1hr59h94.89%95.23%
- 77God of War$0.70/1hr28h95.53%95.93%
- 78Trombone Champ$0.71/1hr6h92.08%97.91%
- 79Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.71/1hr51h93.14%93.96%
- 80Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty$0.71/1hr28h59.07%49.99%
- 81TUNIC$0.72/1hr21h88.99%91.04%
- 82Asterigos: Curse of the Stars$0.73/1hr12h83.73%77.91%
- 83The First Berserker: Khazan$0.75/1hr48h85.37%85.24%
- 84To Be or Not to Be$0.76/1hr8h87.02%89.25%
- 85DARK SOULS II$0.76/1hr52h87.63%88.16%
- 86NEKOPARA Vol. 1$0.80/1hr5h92.40%95.03%
- 87Juice Galaxy$0.81/1hr6h92.03%98.50%
- 88AI LIMIT$0.81/1hr28h90.37%91.78%
- 89Witchfire$0.83/1hr39h89.13%91.33%
- 90Momodora: Moonlit Farewell$0.92/1hr11h87.32%92.00%
- 91PICO PARK$0.99/1hr4h89.36%90.75%
- 92FlyKnight$1.02/1hr4h91.22%96.38%
- 93Returnal$1.04/1hr19h82.92%80.88%
- 94Kena: Bridge of Spirits$1.15/1hr17h89.64%91.99%
- 95Windblown$1.20/1hr15h87.00%88.75%
- 96VOIN$1.25/1hr10h86.92%93.97%
- 97Neva$1.41/1hr6h89.51%93.56%
- 98She Will Punish Them$1.47/1hr11h85.84%86.20%
- 99BLEACH Rebirth of Souls$1.57/1hr15h77.74%67.32%
- 100Bright Memory$1.90/1hr2h88.77%89.85%
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.