Best Value Adventure Games Under $20
The Adventure 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.
- 1Crosshair X$0.03/1hr309h91.89%93.36%
- 2SCUM$0.03/1hr526h74.83%74.01%
- 3Elite Dangerous$0.04/1hr146h77.96%77.29%
- 4Melvor Idle$0.04/1hr239h88.15%89.98%
- 5The Elder Scrolls Online$0.06/1hr313h81.29%80.87%
- 6Hero Siege$0.07/1hr122h70.26%67.14%
- 7Enter the Gungeon$0.07/1hr46h94.10%95.10%
- 8Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 9Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.07/1hr141h72.53%71.62%
- 10ORION: Prelude$0.08/1hr12h78.01%75.47%
- 11My Time at Portia$0.08/1hr72h90.31%91.46%
- 12HITMAN World of Assassination$0.08/1hr36h87.04%87.31%
- 13Roguebook$0.09/1hr20h85.17%83.83%
- 14Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.72%87.07%
- 15Souldiers$0.09/1hr33h81.82%69.29%
- 16Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 17Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 18Terraria$0.09/1hr106h97.31%97.37%
- 19Batman: Arkham Knight$0.10/1hr42h89.45%89.72%
- 20Don't Starve Together$0.10/1hr150h94.77%94.89%
- 21Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr47h87.87%88.42%
- 22Mr. Prepper$0.10/1hr27h83.21%80.01%
- 23DSX$0.11/1hr57h77.31%69.45%
- 24Chill Pulse$0.11/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 25Noita$0.11/1hr72h94.12%95.12%
- 26The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos$0.12/1hr45h86.08%87.20%
- 27Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$0.12/1hr17h88.25%92.28%
- 28Hogwarts Legacy$0.12/1hr50h89.67%89.71%
- 29SpaceCraft$0.12/1hr165h79.86%63.87%
- 30Moonstone Island$0.12/1hr42h84.63%83.54%
- 31My Time at Sandrock$0.12/1hr100h87.39%88.14%
- 32Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga$0.12/1hr57h90.74%94.48%
- 33Middle-earth: Shadow of War$0.13/1hr40h88.64%88.94%
- 34Deponia$0.13/1hr8h85.68%86.18%
- 35LEGO Marvel Super Heroes$0.13/1hr31h93.29%95.68%
- 36Bloodshed$0.13/1hr12h85.10%84.67%
- 37Dragon Cliff$0.13/1hr78h86.73%88.61%
- 38SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 39Tales of Maj'Eyal$0.14/1hr51h89.16%94.49%
- 40Red Dead Redemption 2$0.14/1hr105h92.48%92.53%
- 41ScourgeBringer$0.15/1hr18h85.48%86.38%
- 42Beasts of Bermuda$0.15/1hr137h77.13%68.88%
- 43Green Hell$0.15/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 44Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok$0.15/1hr65h86.35%88.20%
- 45Mirror$0.15/1hr5h95.17%96.36%
- 46Mafia III: Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr39h61.18%57.45%
- 47SnowRunner$0.16/1hr76h89.34%90.07%
- 48Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition$0.16/1hr25h94.95%96.19%
- 49LEGO The Hobbit$0.16/1hr25h82.37%80.60%
- 50Black Desert$0.16/1hr62h74.62%73.50%
- 51Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 52Scribblenauts Unlimited$0.16/1hr12h89.64%93.97%
- 53LEGO Worlds$0.16/1hr18h80.62%78.29%
- 54PEAK$0.16/1hr49h94.20%94.45%
- 55The Lost Village$0.17/1hr72h81.84%71.20%
- 56Monster Sanctuary$0.17/1hr45h88.56%91.22%
- 57Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 58Streamer Life Simulator$0.17/1hr12h81.14%76.04%
- 59Stoneshard$0.17/1hr101h76.97%74.67%
- 60Voidigo$0.17/1hr14h88.92%96.51%
- 61ARK: Survival Evolved$0.18/1hr85h83.40%83.34%
- 62Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition$0.18/1hr17h95.22%96.37%
- 63Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2$0.18/1hr83h84.19%84.02%
- 64Celeste$0.18/1hr27h96.63%97.40%
- 65Core Keeper$0.18/1hr65h91.93%92.94%
- 66Supraland$0.18/1hr22h91.25%95.20%
- 67Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition$0.19/1hr107h83.79%83.47%
- 68Internet Cafe Simulator$0.19/1hr5h78.33%72.61%
- 69Coromon$0.19/1hr26h84.72%84.44%
- 70Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.19/1hr103h79.91%78.37%
- 71Crab Champions$0.20/1hr50h94.81%97.90%
- 72The Survivalists$0.20/1hr25h80.20%76.18%
- 73Quasimorph$0.20/1hr81h83.55%82.68%
- 74Smalland: Survive the Wilds$0.20/1hr35h83.35%81.61%
- 75DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition$0.20/1hr3h89.24%93.09%
- 76Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr24h93.36%94.19%
- 77The Escapists$0.21/1hr13h88.29%90.21%
- 78Batman: Arkham Origins$0.21/1hr19h89.23%89.84%
- 79Blood and Bacon$0.21/1hr5h93.11%95.28%
- 80LEGO Batman: The Videogame$0.21/1hr14h87.50%89.46%
- 81Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 82Neon Abyss$0.22/1hr23h85.68%85.89%
- 83Travellers Rest$0.22/1hr60h86.92%87.88%
- 84CONTROL Ultimate Edition$0.22/1hr27h85.93%86.05%
- 85Outpath$0.23/1hr17h86.78%92.65%
- 86Dome Keeper$0.23/1hr20h90.14%92.35%
- 87Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion$0.23/1hr78h84.70%84.50%
- 88Blasphemous 2$0.23/1hr33h89.13%90.67%
- 89Bendy and the Dark Revival$0.23/1hr9h88.98%91.87%
- 90Hollow Knight$0.23/1hr64h96.76%96.91%
- 91Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr42h85.24%85.25%
- 92Hollow Knight: Silksong$0.24/1hr84h89.36%89.48%
- 93Street Fighter 6$0.24/1hr67h82.36%82.01%
- 94The Battle of Polytopia$0.24/1hr19h88.85%93.96%
- 95Across the Obelisk$0.24/1hr83h82.34%80.17%
- 96河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon)$0.24/1hr74h83.61%81.65%
- 97Gato Roboto$0.24/1hr5h88.69%94.24%
- 98LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham$0.24/1hr20h86.36%88.35%
- 99Doloc Town$0.25/1hr81h87.19%94.52%
- 100The Long Dark$0.25/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
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.