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$0.01/1hr899h86.68%92.45%
- 2Starbound$0.04/1hr120h89.63%90.00%
- 3Geometry Dash$0.06/1hr86h92.92%93.05%
- 4Warhammer: Vermintide 2$0.06/1hr51h85.02%85.02%
- 5The Vagrant$0.06/1hr12h87.12%89.60%
- 6FOR HONOR$0.07/1hr69h70.03%69.11%
- 7Styx: Master of Shadows$0.07/1hr28h84.03%83.21%
- 8Wall World$0.07/1hr14h88.17%90.73%
- 9Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.53%86.94%
- 10Bean Battles$0.09/1hr6h89.42%93.80%
- 11Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.09/1hr52h87.85%88.44%
- 12Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.10/1hr26h86.72%87.02%
- 13Cyberhunt$0.10/1hr5h84.97%84.95%
- 14Brotato$0.10/1hr31h95.18%96.06%
- 15Death Road to Canada$0.10/1hr21h88.93%92.73%
- 16The Surge$0.10/1hr18h79.31%74.62%
- 17Souldiers$0.11/1hr28h81.27%69.22%
- 18UBERMOSH$0.11/1hr5h88.35%92.26%
- 19Warhammer: Chaosbane$0.11/1hr14h74.59%58.26%
- 20Vampire Survivors$0.12/1hr35h97.84%98.33%
- 21Company of Heroes$0.12/1hr34h91.03%94.28%
- 22Karate Survivor$0.12/1hr14h85.06%85.30%
- 23Timberman$0.12/1hr8h89.26%93.09%
- 24Trailmakers$0.12/1hr40h90.61%92.09%
- 25PAYDAY 2$0.13/1hr38h89.28%89.34%
- 26DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE$0.14/1hr28h88.40%89.94%
- 27Vampyr$0.14/1hr28h79.61%77.46%
- 28Enter the Gungeon$0.15/1hr31h94.12%95.14%
- 29The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.35%75.46%
- 30Lost Castle / 失落城堡$0.16/1hr19h86.06%86.51%
- 31Natural Selection 2$0.16/1hr30h85.06%85.13%
- 32Children of Morta$0.18/1hr18h87.40%88.45%
- 33Planes, Bullets and Vodka$0.18/1hr6h84.99%85.02%
- 34Warpips$0.19/1hr13h85.75%87.24%
- 35Green Hell$0.20/1hr19h84.75%84.72%
- 36Generation Zero$0.20/1hr25h74.52%72.03%
- 37FlatOut$0.20/1hr8h87.44%91.18%
- 38Moonlighter$0.20/1hr15h83.04%82.16%
- 39Easy Red 2$0.20/1hr22h88.03%90.22%
- 40ROUNDS$0.20/1hr15h93.34%95.25%
- 41Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.21/1hr19h87.23%89.95%
- 42Muse Dash$0.21/1hr14h91.02%91.51%
- 43Shadow Warrior$0.21/1hr14h90.03%91.92%
- 44Town of Salem$0.21/1hr24h87.26%87.88%
- 45Voidigo$0.21/1hr12h88.76%96.53%
- 46Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr23h93.27%94.12%
- 47Slime Rancher$0.21/1hr23h97.21%98.00%
- 48Call of Juarez: Gunslinger$0.22/1hr7h93.12%94.97%
- 49Celeste$0.22/1hr22h96.60%97.40%
- 50The Battle of Polytopia$0.23/1hr20h88.32%93.95%
- 51Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour$0.23/1hr9h84.75%84.40%
- 52Halls of Torment$0.23/1hr22h92.91%95.41%
- 53Curse of the Dead Gods$0.23/1hr17h84.27%83.50%
- 54One Piece Pirate Warriors 3$0.23/1hr17h81.35%78.02%
- 55Resident Evil 6$0.24/1hr21h78.27%77.31%
- 56Laika: Aged Through Blood$0.24/1hr21h87.59%91.57%
- 57Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.24/1hr21h94.35%96.48%
- 5820 Minutes Till Dawn$0.24/1hr12h89.16%90.61%
- 59Streamer Life Simulator$0.24/1hr8h81.07%76.11%
- 60God Of Weapons$0.25/1hr11h84.69%84.13%
- 61Far Cry$0.25/1hr12h83.27%81.81%
- 62Blood and Bacon$0.25/1hr4h93.04%95.25%
- 63Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.30%
- 64Death's Door$0.26/1hr16h90.61%93.20%
- 65Picayune Dreams$0.26/1hr19h89.32%98.92%
- 66F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch$0.27/1hr18h85.58%86.41%
- 67Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$0.27/1hr7h89.42%93.17%
- 68Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.28/1hr11h89.81%93.24%
- 69A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr14h92.22%93.25%
- 70Mortal Kombat 11$0.28/1hr18h87.82%88.06%
- 71SteamWorld Dig$0.28/1hr7h89.47%93.58%
- 72Titan Souls$0.29/1hr5h81.45%78.89%
- 73Stick Fight: The Game$0.29/1hr7h92.85%93.48%
- 74Nothing$0.30/1hr3h89.53%94.14%
- 75Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr17h81.81%80.16%
- 76Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide$0.30/1hr10h81.54%79.94%
- 77EVERSPACE$0.30/1hr7h81.41%78.29%
- 78Bloodshed$0.31/1hr10h84.93%84.69%
- 79Mortal Kombat X$0.31/1hr13h86.08%86.26%
- 80Shadow Warrior 2$0.31/1hr10h86.55%87.11%
- 81Resident Evil 5$0.32/1hr15h86.70%86.96%
- 82Cat Quest$0.34/1hr10h89.96%94.64%
- 83Cat Quest II$0.34/1hr11h89.27%95.25%
- 84Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr15h79.88%78.27%
- 85Guacamelee! 2$0.34/1hr15h86.54%91.19%
- 86Seen$0.35/1hr3h88.06%91.15%
- 87Trine Enchanted Edition$0.35/1hr9h91.51%95.61%
- 88Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition$0.36/1hr11h88.04%92.38%
- 89SteamWorld Dig 2$0.36/1hr11h89.97%95.48%
- 90FAR: Lone Sails$0.37/1hr4h92.42%95.26%
- 91Axiom Verge$0.37/1hr14h87.04%90.19%
- 92Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy$0.37/1hr13h90.90%97.46%
- 93Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition$0.38/1hr8h78.33%72.19%
- 94Nine Parchments$0.38/1hr11h82.47%77.15%
- 95ScourgeBringer$0.38/1hr7h85.29%86.25%
- 96Nuclear Nightmare$0.38/1hr7h82.48%81.15%
- 97Trine 2: Complete Story$0.38/1hr10h92.04%95.25%
- 98The Darkness II$0.39/1hr8h89.46%91.59%
- 99Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition$0.39/1hr13h81.87%80.63%
- 100Chushpan Simulator$0.41/1hr2h85.07%85.38%
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.