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$0.01/1hr779h86.18%92.50%
- 2GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.04/1hr50h88.16%94.90%
- 3Fallout: New Vegas$0.04/1hr57h95.68%95.97%
- 4Geometry Dash$0.05/1hr96h92.86%92.94%
- 5PlateUp!$0.06/1hr35h92.18%94.75%
- 6Enter the Gungeon$0.07/1hr46h94.10%95.10%
- 7Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 8The Surge$0.07/1hr27h79.58%74.54%
- 9Atomicrops$0.07/1hr41h87.85%92.05%
- 10ORION: Prelude$0.08/1hr12h78.01%75.47%
- 11HITMAN World of Assassination$0.08/1hr36h87.04%87.31%
- 12Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.72%87.07%
- 13Souldiers$0.09/1hr33h81.82%69.29%
- 14Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 15Batman: Arkham Knight$0.10/1hr42h89.45%89.72%
- 16Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr47h87.87%88.42%
- 17Mr. Prepper$0.10/1hr27h83.21%80.01%
- 18Town of Salem$0.10/1hr48h87.28%87.86%
- 19Brotato$0.11/1hr47h95.09%95.92%
- 20UBERMOSH$0.11/1hr4h88.96%92.46%
- 21Super Hexagon$0.11/1hr7h93.54%96.87%
- 22Vampire Survivors$0.12/1hr32h97.93%98.30%
- 23LEGO City Undercover$0.12/1hr25h88.05%91.34%
- 24Middle-earth: Shadow of War$0.13/1hr40h88.64%88.94%
- 25Warhammer: Vermintide 2$0.13/1hr36h85.05%85.04%
- 26LEGO Marvel Super Heroes$0.13/1hr31h93.29%95.68%
- 27Bloodshed$0.13/1hr12h85.10%84.67%
- 28PAYDAY 2$0.13/1hr39h89.34%89.36%
- 29Picayune Dreams$0.13/1hr19h89.94%98.88%
- 30Bean Battles$0.14/1hr7h89.53%93.83%
- 31Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number$0.14/1hr15h93.12%94.11%
- 32ScourgeBringer$0.15/1hr18h85.48%86.38%
- 33FlatOut$0.15/1hr10h87.55%91.08%
- 34Halls of Torment$0.15/1hr34h92.90%95.33%
- 35The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.53%75.35%
- 36Green Hell$0.15/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 37Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition$0.16/1hr25h94.95%96.19%
- 38LEGO The Hobbit$0.16/1hr25h82.37%80.60%
- 39Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 40Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 41Streamer Life Simulator$0.17/1hr12h81.14%76.04%
- 42Voidigo$0.17/1hr14h88.92%96.51%
- 43Hotline Miami$0.18/1hr11h95.98%96.82%
- 44Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition$0.18/1hr17h95.22%96.37%
- 45Celeste$0.18/1hr27h96.63%97.40%
- 46Party Club$0.18/1hr4h81.05%71.62%
- 47Supraland$0.18/1hr22h91.25%95.20%
- 48NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER$0.19/1hr26h83.85%83.61%
- 49Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.20/1hr10h82.59%82.28%
- 50Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions$0.20/1hr24h79.78%72.20%
- 51The Survivalists$0.20/1hr25h80.20%76.18%
- 52Warpips$0.20/1hr13h85.84%87.11%
- 53Risk of Rain (2013)$0.21/1hr10h91.08%93.05%
- 54Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr24h93.36%94.19%
- 55The Escapists$0.21/1hr13h88.29%90.21%
- 56Batman: Arkham Origins$0.21/1hr19h89.23%89.84%
- 57Muse Dash$0.21/1hr14h91.02%91.49%
- 58Blood and Bacon$0.21/1hr5h93.11%95.28%
- 59LEGO Batman: The Videogame$0.21/1hr14h87.50%89.46%
- 60ROUNDS$0.21/1hr14h93.42%95.26%
- 61F.E.A.R.$0.21/1hr9h90.48%93.65%
- 62Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 63Neon Abyss$0.22/1hr23h85.68%85.89%
- 64BioShock 2 Remastered$0.22/1hr13h75.38%72.15%
- 65The Messenger$0.22/1hr18h89.68%92.62%
- 66Russian Life Simulator$0.23/1hr2h86.57%88.52%
- 67Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball$0.23/1hr13h87.05%92.43%
- 68Dome Keeper$0.23/1hr20h90.14%92.35%
- 69LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2$0.23/1hr17h84.89%85.51%
- 70Bendy and the Dark Revival$0.23/1hr9h88.98%91.87%
- 71The Battle of Polytopia$0.24/1hr19h88.85%93.96%
- 72VVVVVV$0.24/1hr5h90.82%96.16%
- 73Gato Roboto$0.24/1hr5h88.69%94.24%
- 74LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham$0.24/1hr20h86.36%88.35%
- 75Dead Estate$0.24/1hr20h88.94%94.59%
- 76Resident Evil 6$0.25/1hr20h78.13%77.15%
- 77BioShock 2$0.25/1hr12h86.91%88.68%
- 78LEGO The Lord of the Rings$0.25/1hr16h88.10%90.11%
- 79LEGO Jurassic World$0.25/1hr16h88.70%92.58%
- 80Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition$0.25/1hr15h88.39%92.45%
- 81Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League$0.26/1hr14h69.40%61.19%
- 82The Binding of Isaac$0.26/1hr19h93.32%94.61%
- 83Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr11h89.94%93.26%
- 84Seen$0.27/1hr2h87.97%91.09%
- 85Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.27/1hr19h94.47%96.51%
- 86Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter$0.27/1hr11h81.59%79.75%
- 87RoboCop: Rogue City$0.28/1hr16h86.44%87.02%
- 88Mafia$0.28/1hr18h86.28%87.52%
- 89Alan Wake's American Nightmare$0.28/1hr5h79.16%74.45%
- 90Mortal Kombat 11$0.29/1hr17h87.86%88.09%
- 91Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.74%86.97%
- 92Slime Rancher$0.30/1hr17h97.24%98.01%
- 93Lonely Mountains: Downhill$0.30/1hr13h86.46%90.60%
- 94Mortal Kombat X$0.30/1hr13h86.19%86.35%
- 95Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition$0.30/1hr10h78.00%72.27%
- 96Resident Evil$0.31/1hr16h90.71%92.31%
- 97PAYDAY The Heist$0.31/1hr11h91.73%93.33%
- 98Boneraiser Minions$0.31/1hr16h89.01%96.14%
- 99Trine 2: Complete Story$0.32/1hr13h92.12%95.27%
- 100Nothing$0.32/1hr3h89.62%94.08%
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.