Best Value Anime Games Under $5

The Anime games on Steam games under $5 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.

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Median reviewer playtime divided by price. 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.
  1. 1Banner of the Maid14 h/$
  2. 2Mirror12 h/$
  3. 3Chill Pulse12 h/$
  4. 4DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE5.3 h/$
  5. 5Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet5.1 h/$
  6. 6Wallpaper Engine4.8 h/$
  7. 7Muse Dash4.7 h/$
  8. 8Dust: An Elysian Tail4.5 h/$
  9. 9The Vagrant4.3 h/$
  10. 10Your Only Move Is HUSTLE3.7 h/$
  11. 11Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy3.4 h/$
  12. 12Ultra Street Fighter IV2.8 h/$
  13. 13Mirror 2: Project X2.8 h/$
  14. 14VillageRhapsody2.6 h/$
  15. 15One Piece Pirate Warriors 32.4 h/$
  16. 16Resident Evil Revelations2.3 h/$
  17. 17GRIS1.7 h/$
  18. 18Wedding Witch1.7 h/$
  19. 19Snezhinka:Sentinel Girls21.2 h/$
  20. 20Tales of the Black Forest1.2 h/$
  21. 21Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon1.1 h/$
  22. 22An alt girl for skoof0.9 h/$
  23. 23LoveChoice0.9 h/$
  24. 24Mirage Feathers0.9 h/$
  25. 25Miss Neko 30.6 h/$
  26. 26NEKOPARA Vol. 00.6 h/$
  27. 27Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk0.3 h/$
  28. 28Initial Drift Online0.1 h/$

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.