Best Value Action Games Under $5
The Action games on Steam games under $5 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%
- 2GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.03/1hr64h88.32%94.92%
- 3Geometry Dash$0.06/1hr79h92.88%93.00%
- 4Brotato$0.07/1hr42h95.11%95.93%
- 5Wall World$0.08/1hr14h88.28%90.56%
- 6Vampire Survivors$0.09/1hr57h97.84%98.32%
- 7Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.09/1hr28h86.79%87.04%
- 8Cyberhunt$0.10/1hr5h85.31%84.98%
- 9Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.10/1hr5h85.89%87.11%
- 10Monster Sanctuary$0.10/1hr49h88.65%91.21%
- 11Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr46h87.90%88.42%
- 12Borderlands 2$0.11/1hr47h89.40%89.53%
- 13UBERMOSH$0.11/1hr5h88.78%92.49%
- 14DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2$0.11/1hr45h89.23%89.89%
- 15Town of Salem$0.11/1hr44h87.32%87.87%
- 16Bean Battles$0.12/1hr9h89.69%93.82%
- 17Crime Boss: Rockay City$0.12/1hr17h76.67%68.36%
- 18ORION: Prelude$0.12/1hr8h78.05%75.47%
- 19Curse of the Dead Gods$0.12/1hr32h84.14%83.45%
- 20Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 21Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.67%84.61%
- 22Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)$0.14/1hr11h88.07%92.74%
- 23FlatOut$0.14/1hr11h87.66%91.13%
- 24House Flipper$0.15/1hr17h93.27%93.97%
- 25Portal Knights$0.15/1hr20h84.00%83.37%
- 26Generation Zero$0.15/1hr33h74.58%72.03%
- 27Army of Ruin$0.16/1hr25h85.99%88.05%
- 28Streamer Life Simulator$0.16/1hr12h81.27%76.03%
- 2920 Minutes Till Dawn$0.16/1hr15h89.04%90.31%
- 30Halls of Torment$0.17/1hr29h92.94%95.33%
- 31Children of Morta$0.18/1hr12h87.55%88.42%
- 32Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.19/1hr27h93.37%94.18%
- 33Planes, Bullets and Vodka$0.20/1hr5h85.34%85.12%
- 34Blood and Bacon$0.20/1hr5h93.14%95.27%
- 35Laika: Aged Through Blood$0.20/1hr25h87.86%91.53%
- 36Warpips$0.21/1hr12h86.00%87.13%
- 37Muse Dash$0.21/1hr14h91.03%91.50%
- 38SteamWorld Dig$0.21/1hr7h89.67%93.55%
- 39Resident Evil 6$0.21/1hr23h78.18%77.18%
- 40Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.22/1hr23h94.48%96.50%
- 41Party Hard$0.22/1hr9h87.78%90.15%
- 42Shadow Warrior 2$0.22/1hr14h86.63%87.07%
- 43Slime Rancher$0.22/1hr23h97.25%98.01%
- 44Friends vs Friends$0.22/1hr11h83.78%82.68%
- 45Sniper Elite 5$0.23/1hr22h84.15%83.76%
- 46Shadow Warrior$0.23/1hr13h90.14%91.91%
- 47X-Morph: Defense$0.24/1hr8h87.16%91.31%
- 48SteamWorld Dig 2$0.26/1hr12h90.22%95.50%
- 49Sniper Elite 3$0.26/1hr15h82.93%82.06%
- 50F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch$0.26/1hr18h85.42%86.32%
- 51Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.32%
- 52Boneraiser Minions$0.27/1hr19h89.22%96.14%
- 53Picayune Dreams$0.27/1hr18h89.67%98.88%
- 54The Binding of Isaac$0.28/1hr18h93.34%94.62%
- 55Welcome to ParadiZe$0.28/1hr11h82.72%67.24%
- 56Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$0.29/1hr7h89.61%93.13%
- 57The Bureau: XCOM Declassified$0.29/1hr14h76.77%70.15%
- 58Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.77%86.98%
- 59Valfaris$0.30/1hr8h84.75%82.40%
- 60RUINER$0.30/1hr7h87.42%88.98%
- 61Cat Quest$0.31/1hr10h90.14%94.62%
- 62Trine Enchanted Edition$0.32/1hr9h91.65%95.60%
- 63Cat Quest II$0.32/1hr12h89.48%95.22%
- 64Resident Evil 0$0.33/1hr15h81.67%80.09%
- 65Dead Space 2$0.33/1hr12h91.80%93.97%
- 66Voidigo$0.34/1hr15h89.08%96.52%
- 67Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr15h79.99%78.32%
- 68Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition$0.35/1hr9h78.22%72.21%
- 69Axiom Verge$0.35/1hr14h87.29%90.14%
- 70Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition$0.36/1hr10h88.32%92.43%
- 71Mortal Kombat 11$0.37/1hr14h87.87%88.09%
- 72RV There Yet?$0.39/1hr12h89.67%90.18%
- 73Nothing$0.40/1hr3h89.70%94.09%
- 74Call of Juarez: Gunslinger$0.41/1hr7h93.18%94.95%
- 75The Darkness II$0.42/1hr7h89.39%91.58%
- 76Bloodshed$0.42/1hr8h85.19%84.46%
- 77Downwell$0.43/1hr7h90.57%96.55%
- 78The Gunk$0.45/1hr6h85.78%86.39%
- 79Resident Evil Revelations$0.45/1hr11h82.69%81.26%
- 80Drunken Wrestlers 2$0.46/1hr9h86.18%86.64%
- 81Super Hexagon$0.46/1hr6h93.60%96.87%
- 82Clustertruck$0.46/1hr6h90.71%93.58%
- 83BOKURA$0.47/1hr6h88.81%91.48%
- 84LIZARDS MUST DIE$0.49/1hr2h93.28%96.21%
- 85Trine 2: Complete Story$0.50/1hr8h92.19%95.26%
- 86Seen$0.51/1hr2h87.93%91.08%
- 87Choo-Choo Charles$0.59/1hr3h88.81%90.77%
- 88Windowkill$0.60/1hr8h88.25%95.87%
- 89DOOM 64$0.61/1hr8h88.87%92.72%
- 90House of Detention$0.61/1hr2h87.78%90.60%
- 91The Final Station$0.63/1hr6h86.08%87.45%
- 92Wolfenstein 3D$0.64/1hr8h87.40%93.40%
- 93Wedding Witch$0.65/1hr8h86.76%89.62%
- 94Halo: Spartan Assault$0.66/1hr5h82.52%77.95%
- 95Superflight$0.67/1hr4h91.26%96.37%
- 96Karate Survivor$0.68/1hr7h85.35%85.15%
- 97SPRAWL$0.68/1hr5h85.74%86.69%
- 98Buckshot Roulette$0.69/1hr4h94.39%95.11%
- 99Kill The Crows$0.69/1hr7h87.78%95.07%
- 100Half-Life: Opposing Force$0.70/1hr7h92.64%95.35%
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.