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.
- 1Path of Exile 2$0.14/1hr220h75.10%74.66%
- 2Outward Definitive Edition$0.14/1hr35h75.66%72.69%
- 3Nioh: Complete Edition$0.15/1hr49h80.23%79.02%
- 4Going Under$0.19/1hr13h86.46%90.15%
- 5Nothing$0.21/1hr5h89.52%94.15%
- 6Hollow Knight$0.21/1hr71h96.70%96.91%
- 7Asterigos: Curse of the Stars$0.22/1hr40h83.00%78.12%
- 8REMNANT II$0.23/1hr55h82.69%82.36%
- 9Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition$0.24/1hr83h87.04%87.45%
- 10Darksiders III$0.25/1hr24h79.13%75.93%
- 11Blasphemous$0.28/1hr31h89.19%89.83%
- 12Papa's Freezeria Deluxe$0.28/1hr21h92.97%99.25%
- 13Monster Hunter: World$0.31/1hr97h88.71%88.78%
- 14Monster Hunter Wilds$0.32/1hr125h50.07%49.00%
- 15STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order$0.33/1hr24h88.25%88.44%
- 16STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor$0.33/1hr32h72.42%70.95%
- 17Remnant: From the Ashes$0.34/1hr24h84.37%84.27%
- 18Blasphemous 2$0.36/1hr31h88.73%90.68%
- 19ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN$0.38/1hr106h81.90%81.74%
- 20Hades II$0.39/1hr77h94.90%95.71%
- 21WILD HEARTS$0.44/1hr32h63.27%46.85%
- 22ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights$0.45/1hr22h92.17%93.76%
- 23Death's Gambit: Afterlife$0.47/1hr24h83.49%81.16%
- 24Hyper Light Drifter$0.47/1hr11h90.12%92.97%
- 25An alt girl for skoof$0.48/1hr7h83.99%83.33%
- 26BIOMUTANT$0.49/1hr20h72.41%66.19%
- 27Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.49/1hr12h88.63%98.69%
- 28Exanima$0.52/1hr29h82.07%80.18%
- 29Pseudoregalia$0.54/1hr8h92.56%96.77%
- 30ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist$0.57/1hr24h91.71%95.36%
- 31Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty$0.60/1hr34h58.74%49.86%
- 32Thymesia$0.61/1hr10h83.48%82.27%
- 33Anomaly Agent$0.62/1hr6h89.89%94.90%
- 34Lies of P$0.64/1hr47h90.94%91.68%
- 35Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.65/1hr46h85.73%85.90%
- 36No Rest for the Wicked$0.66/1hr42h80.81%80.30%
- 37The Surge$0.69/1hr22h79.28%74.63%
- 38Juice Galaxy$0.69/1hr7h91.86%98.47%
- 39DARK SOULS II: Scholar of the First Sin$0.71/1hr56h83.97%83.90%
- 40Afterimage$0.71/1hr35h81.09%77.34%
- 41Souldiers$0.72/1hr28h81.05%69.30%
- 42Clair Obscur: Expedition 33$0.72/1hr55h94.93%95.29%
- 43DARK SOULS II$0.72/1hr55h87.58%88.14%
- 44Jump King$0.73/1hr18h87.74%89.84%
- 45Dread Delusion$0.74/1hr27h86.59%90.26%
- 46Lunacid$0.76/1hr18h87.93%90.55%
- 47Cuphead$0.77/1hr26h95.67%96.16%
- 48Salt and Sanctuary$0.77/1hr23h88.04%89.36%
- 49DARK SOULS: REMASTERED$0.81/1hr49h91.98%92.44%
- 50Nine Sols$0.86/1hr35h92.67%94.41%
- 51Prince of Persia The Lost Crown$0.92/1hr32h84.67%84.29%
- 52GRIME$0.95/1hr26h84.90%84.84%
- 53PICO PARK$0.96/1hr4h89.31%90.77%
- 54Rain World$0.97/1hr26h92.41%93.74%
- 55Lords of the Fallen$1.06/1hr28h70.41%67.76%
- 56Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$1.15/1hr11h76.55%71.08%
- 57The Last Faith$1.16/1hr24h84.61%84.49%
- 58Dead Cells$1.17/1hr21h96.41%97.04%
- 59Witchfire$1.21/1hr26h89.09%91.51%
- 60AI LIMIT$1.23/1hr28h90.42%91.92%
- 61Death's Door$1.25/1hr16h90.61%93.20%
- 62NEKOPARA Vol. 4$1.29/1hr8h90.78%97.14%
- 63Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$1.30/1hr8h89.51%93.16%
- 64Vigil: The Longest Night$1.31/1hr17h85.21%85.97%
- 65Another Crab's Treasure$1.33/1hr22h90.18%92.61%
- 66Ori and the Will of the Wisps$1.34/1hr22h95.76%96.51%
- 67Vampyr$1.39/1hr29h79.66%77.47%
- 68Windblown$1.40/1hr18h86.95%88.90%
- 69Momodora: Moonlit Farewell$1.41/1hr12h86.66%91.98%
- 70FlyKnight$1.44/1hr4h91.07%96.34%
- 71Neva$1.55/1hr6h89.22%93.57%
- 72LIZARDS MUST DIE$1.55/1hr3h93.07%96.24%
- 73The Surge 2$1.57/1hr19h80.29%75.41%
- 74Lords Of The Fallen 2014$1.67/1hr18h67.28%58.90%
- 75To Be or Not to Be$1.79/1hr7h86.89%89.27%
- 76Tails of Iron$1.79/1hr14h86.57%87.83%
- 77Little Witch Nobeta$1.81/1hr14h84.61%84.28%
- 78Curse of the Dead Gods$1.81/1hr11h84.11%83.48%
- 79TUNIC$1.93/1hr16h88.99%91.21%
- 80Death Trash$1.95/1hr10h86.87%92.06%
- 81NEKOPARA Vol. 1$2.06/1hr5h92.36%95.06%
- 82Kena: Bridge of Spirits$2.08/1hr19h89.37%92.06%
- 83Trombone Champ$2.09/1hr7h91.65%97.90%
- 84Mortal Shell$2.23/1hr13h75.45%67.53%
- 85Sifu$2.34/1hr15h90.06%91.87%
- 86Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+$2.68/1hr15h91.75%94.77%
- 87Lonely Mountains: Downhill$3.78/1hr5h86.25%90.52%
- 88Titan Souls$4.16/1hr4h81.39%78.81%
- 89Bright Memory: Infinite$5.88/1hr3h90.32%91.67%
- 90Bright Memory$7.26/1hr1h88.73%89.88%
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.