Best Value Deckbuilding Games Under $20
The Deckbuilding 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.
- 1Esports Godfather$0.14/1hr143h87.12%90.66%
- 2Slay the Spire$0.14/1hr44h96.93%97.46%
- 3Marvel's Midnight Suns$0.16/1hr55h82.71%81.63%
- 4Across the Obelisk$0.21/1hr97h82.47%80.24%
- 5Matchmaking Inc.$0.31/1hr29h86.79%88.67%
- 6METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED$0.35/1hr28h83.07%69.39%
- 7Dungeon Clawler$0.39/1hr19h86.41%88.91%
- 8Potionomics$0.41/1hr37h87.56%90.48%
- 9Balatro$0.41/1hr37h97.24%97.84%
- 10Cardboard Town$0.41/1hr10h84.38%79.91%
- 11ROUNDS$0.42/1hr14h93.45%95.27%
- 12Loop Hero$0.44/1hr34h91.13%92.72%
- 13Magicraft$0.44/1hr36h90.03%92.78%
- 14Border Pioneer$0.46/1hr16h85.60%86.57%
- 15Luck be a Landlord$0.46/1hr22h89.60%93.23%
- 16Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution$0.46/1hr22h84.52%82.69%
- 17Nubby's Number Factory$0.49/1hr10h93.06%97.30%
- 18The Matchless Kungfu$0.53/1hr38h82.70%79.29%
- 19Backpack Hero$0.58/1hr28h85.87%86.40%
- 20Shogun Showdown$0.58/1hr26h89.45%95.19%
- 21Villages & Dungeons$0.58/1hr8h85.93%91.07%
- 22Heretic's Fork$0.59/1hr17h85.27%84.91%
- 23暖雪 Warm Snow$0.59/1hr31h91.39%92.94%
- 24Emberward$0.59/1hr34h88.62%96.96%
- 25Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers$0.60/1hr12h84.47%81.82%
- 26Wildfrost$0.62/1hr32h84.24%82.92%
- 27Office Life$0.64/1hr31h86.00%88.74%
- 28DICEOMANCER$0.64/1hr23h89.23%96.04%
- 29Cultist Simulator$0.68/1hr30h82.18%79.93%
- 30Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.69/1hr29h87.45%89.88%
- 31Moonstone Island$0.75/1hr26h84.81%83.62%
- 32Griftlands$0.79/1hr25h89.98%93.58%
- 33Gordian Quest$0.81/1hr25h86.64%88.68%
- 34Inscryption$0.82/1hr24h96.10%96.82%
- 35Hexarchy$0.85/1hr24h84.92%81.92%
- 36Ticket to Ride$0.86/1hr18h83.72%69.96%
- 37Cobalt Core$0.86/1hr23h88.65%96.05%
- 389 Kings$0.87/1hr23h90.36%92.49%
- 39Peglin$0.88/1hr23h84.26%83.65%
- 40Die in the Dungeon$0.89/1hr17h87.18%92.13%
- 41Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles$0.89/1hr14h87.33%91.57%
- 42TerraScape$0.92/1hr16h85.99%88.59%
- 43Menace from the Deep$1.21/1hr14h85.23%84.52%
- 44Spellmasons$1.38/1hr15h85.53%91.66%
- 45Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening$1.45/1hr12h85.46%85.64%
- 46Dicey Dungeons$1.54/1hr10h87.12%89.09%
- 47Kabuto Park$1.58/1hr3h89.81%99.50%
- 48Ratropolis$1.96/1hr9h86.28%87.84%
- 49Ballionaire$3.07/1hr4h85.28%84.76%
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.