Best Value Action Games Under $20
The Action games on Steam games under $20 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.
- 1YoloMouse - Cursor Changer$0.01/1hr610h86.57%92.52%
- 2Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.03/1hr393h74.12%73.71%
- 3GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.03/1hr64h88.32%94.92%
- 4Crosshair X$0.03/1hr296h91.92%93.37%
- 5Rust$0.05/1hr392h86.72%86.73%
- 6Black Desert$0.05/1hr187h74.64%73.51%
- 7Monster Hunter: World$0.06/1hr124h88.73%88.80%
- 8Geometry Dash$0.06/1hr79h92.88%93.00%
- 9X4: Foundations$0.06/1hr156h81.29%79.94%
- 10Terraria$0.07/1hr152h97.30%97.38%
- 11Hero Siege$0.07/1hr116h70.29%67.14%
- 12SpiritVale$0.07/1hr217h73.26%50.93%
- 13Deep Rock Galactic$0.07/1hr129h96.81%97.11%
- 14Space Engineers$0.07/1hr142h88.57%88.81%
- 15Brotato$0.07/1hr42h95.11%95.93%
- 16Dead by Daylight$0.07/1hr274h78.38%78.31%
- 17The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth$0.07/1hr203h96.60%96.85%
- 18Wall World$0.08/1hr14h88.28%90.56%
- 19MONSTER HUNTER RISE$0.08/1hr102h83.59%83.45%
- 20Vampire Survivors$0.09/1hr57h97.84%98.32%
- 21Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.09/1hr28h86.79%87.04%
- 22Cyberhunt$0.10/1hr5h85.31%84.98%
- 23Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.10/1hr5h85.89%87.11%
- 24Monster Sanctuary$0.10/1hr49h88.65%91.21%
- 25The Elder Scrolls Online$0.10/1hr195h81.15%80.89%
- 26Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr46h87.90%88.42%
- 27Borderlands 2$0.11/1hr47h89.40%89.53%
- 28Elite Dangerous$0.11/1hr185h77.97%77.28%
- 29UBERMOSH$0.11/1hr5h88.78%92.49%
- 30Mechabellum$0.11/1hr136h84.36%83.81%
- 31DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2$0.11/1hr45h89.23%89.89%
- 32Town of Salem$0.11/1hr44h87.32%87.87%
- 33Bean Battles$0.12/1hr9h89.69%93.82%
- 34Crime Boss: Rockay City$0.12/1hr17h76.67%68.36%
- 35ORION: Prelude$0.12/1hr8h78.05%75.47%
- 36DSX$0.12/1hr67h77.59%69.43%
- 37Left 4 Dead 2$0.12/1hr82h97.41%97.52%
- 38ICARUS$0.12/1hr72h76.03%74.67%
- 39R.E.P.O.$0.12/1hr53h95.76%96.00%
- 40Borderlands 3$0.12/1hr48h81.28%81.04%
- 41Curse of the Dead Gods$0.12/1hr32h84.14%83.45%
- 42Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 43Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.67%84.61%
- 44Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition$0.13/1hr145h83.83%83.49%
- 45Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)$0.14/1hr11h88.07%92.74%
- 46ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr108h83.36%83.33%
- 47Subsistence$0.14/1hr99h77.65%72.08%
- 48FlatOut$0.14/1hr11h87.66%91.13%
- 49Nioh: Complete Edition$0.15/1hr52h80.27%78.97%
- 50House Flipper$0.15/1hr17h93.27%93.97%
- 51Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr67h95.59%95.98%
- 52Portal Knights$0.15/1hr20h84.00%83.37%
- 53Generation Zero$0.15/1hr33h74.58%72.03%
- 54Dungeon Defenders$0.16/1hr95h90.44%93.09%
- 55Army of Ruin$0.16/1hr25h85.99%88.05%
- 56Mount & Blade: Warband$0.16/1hr127h97.04%97.72%
- 57Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.16/1hr62h84.98%85.44%
- 58Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok$0.16/1hr61h86.50%88.21%
- 59Streamer Life Simulator$0.16/1hr12h81.27%76.03%
- 6020 Minutes Till Dawn$0.16/1hr15h89.04%90.31%
- 61鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal$0.17/1hr78h56.87%55.60%
- 62Halls of Torment$0.17/1hr29h92.94%95.33%
- 63God Of Weapons$0.18/1hr33h84.94%84.03%
- 64DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.18/1hr56h91.34%92.22%
- 65Children of Morta$0.18/1hr12h87.55%88.42%
- 66Starbound$0.18/1hr82h89.59%89.94%
- 67Crab Champions$0.19/1hr54h94.84%97.89%
- 68Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.19/1hr27h93.37%94.18%
- 69Chivalry 2$0.19/1hr43h80.18%79.31%
- 70KovaaK's$0.19/1hr50h91.49%92.97%
- 71PEAK$0.19/1hr42h94.21%94.45%
- 72Planes, Bullets and Vodka$0.20/1hr5h85.34%85.12%
- 73Blood and Bacon$0.20/1hr5h93.14%95.27%
- 74Laika: Aged Through Blood$0.20/1hr25h87.86%91.53%
- 75Soulstone Survivors$0.21/1hr51h89.55%91.33%
- 76Warpips$0.21/1hr12h86.00%87.13%
- 77Don't Starve Together$0.21/1hr73h94.74%94.91%
- 78Muse Dash$0.21/1hr14h91.03%91.50%
- 79SteamWorld Dig$0.21/1hr7h89.67%93.55%
- 80Resident Evil 6$0.21/1hr23h78.18%77.18%
- 81People Playground$0.21/1hr47h98.04%98.44%
- 82Death Must Die$0.21/1hr33h88.61%90.11%
- 83Insurgency: Sandstorm$0.22/1hr28h84.81%84.77%
- 84The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut$0.22/1hr46h89.01%89.43%
- 85Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.22/1hr23h94.48%96.50%
- 86Party Hard$0.22/1hr9h87.78%90.15%
- 87Shadow Warrior 2$0.22/1hr14h86.63%87.07%
- 88Slime Rancher$0.22/1hr23h97.25%98.01%
- 89Friends vs Friends$0.22/1hr11h83.78%82.68%
- 90DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE$0.23/1hr29h88.34%89.94%
- 91Sniper Elite 5$0.23/1hr22h84.15%83.76%
- 92Shadow Warrior$0.23/1hr13h90.14%91.91%
- 93Tiny Rogues$0.23/1hr43h90.94%96.09%
- 94Hollow Knight: Silksong$0.23/1hr85h89.35%89.46%
- 95X-Morph: Defense$0.24/1hr8h87.16%91.31%
- 96Dungreed$0.24/1hr42h89.27%93.30%
- 97EVERSPACE 2$0.24/1hr41h85.44%85.94%
- 98The Isle$0.25/1hr82h80.57%80.17%
- 99Company of Heroes$0.25/1hr60h91.17%94.25%
- 100SteamWorld Dig 2$0.26/1hr12h90.22%95.50%
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.