Best Value Difficult Games Under $10
The Difficult games on Steam games under $10 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.
- 1GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.03/1hr64h88.32%94.92%
- 2FTL: Faster Than Light$0.04/1hr46h93.99%95.09%
- 3Monster Hunter: World$0.06/1hr124h88.73%88.80%
- 4Geometry Dash$0.06/1hr79h92.88%93.00%
- 5Hero Siege$0.07/1hr116h70.29%67.14%
- 6Wall World$0.08/1hr14h88.28%90.56%
- 7Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.10/1hr5h85.89%87.11%
- 8Monster Sanctuary$0.10/1hr49h88.65%91.21%
- 9Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr46h87.90%88.42%
- 10UBERMOSH$0.11/1hr5h88.78%92.49%
- 11Bean Battles$0.12/1hr9h89.69%93.82%
- 12Soccer Online: Ball 3D$0.12/1hr4h84.94%84.40%
- 13Curse of the Dead Gods$0.12/1hr32h84.14%83.45%
- 14Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)$0.14/1hr11h88.07%92.74%
- 15Slay the Spire$0.14/1hr44h96.93%97.46%
- 16FlatOut$0.14/1hr11h87.66%91.13%
- 17Tales of Maj'Eyal$0.14/1hr49h89.27%94.47%
- 18Nioh: Complete Edition$0.15/1hr52h80.27%78.97%
- 19Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.19/1hr27h93.37%94.18%
- 20100% Orange Juice$0.19/1hr9h89.61%91.03%
- 21Planes, Bullets and Vodka$0.20/1hr5h85.34%85.12%
- 22Laika: Aged Through Blood$0.20/1hr25h87.86%91.53%
- 23Muse Dash$0.21/1hr14h91.03%91.50%
- 24Frostpunk$0.21/1hr29h92.24%92.74%
- 25Insurgency: Sandstorm$0.22/1hr28h84.81%84.77%
- 26Party Hard$0.22/1hr9h87.78%90.15%
- 27Tiny Rogues$0.23/1hr43h90.94%96.09%
- 28X-Morph: Defense$0.24/1hr8h87.16%91.31%
- 29Dungreed$0.24/1hr42h89.27%93.30%
- 30Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.32%
- 31Rain World$0.27/1hr32h92.46%93.70%
- 32The Binding of Isaac$0.28/1hr18h93.34%94.62%
- 33Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$0.29/1hr7h89.61%93.13%
- 34Valfaris$0.30/1hr8h84.75%82.40%
- 35RUINER$0.30/1hr7h87.42%88.98%
- 36A Dance of Fire and Ice$0.32/1hr19h93.17%94.10%
- 37GRIME$0.32/1hr23h85.15%84.76%
- 38Assetto Corsa Competizione$0.33/1hr31h91.42%92.68%
- 39Resident Evil 0$0.33/1hr15h81.67%80.09%
- 40Voidigo$0.34/1hr15h89.08%96.52%
- 41Rocksmith 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY$0.34/1hr30h87.22%87.96%
- 42Rusted Moss$0.34/1hr24h86.02%89.27%
- 43Axiom Verge$0.35/1hr14h87.29%90.14%
- 44Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition$0.36/1hr10h88.32%92.43%
- 45Counter-Strike: Source$0.37/1hr27h95.75%96.29%
- 46Nothing$0.40/1hr3h89.70%94.09%
- 47Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.42/1hr24h91.27%96.68%
- 48Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.42/1hr24h91.56%94.25%
- 49Resident Evil 2$0.43/1hr18h96.54%97.04%
- 50Downwell$0.43/1hr7h90.57%96.55%
- 51TEKKEN 7$0.44/1hr14h83.75%83.58%
- 52Super Hexagon$0.46/1hr6h93.60%96.87%
- 53Clustertruck$0.46/1hr6h90.71%93.58%
- 54Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night$0.47/1hr21h91.58%93.08%
- 55Bloons TD 5$0.48/1hr21h90.46%94.68%
- 56LIZARDS MUST DIE$0.49/1hr2h93.28%96.21%
- 57Don't Starve$0.50/1hr20h95.63%96.54%
- 58Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense$0.50/1hr20h92.90%97.25%
- 59Opus Magnum$0.51/1hr20h90.43%97.25%
- 60Cat Goes Fishing$0.52/1hr13h90.83%94.16%
- 61Changed$0.60/1hr8h85.74%86.27%
- 62Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers$0.60/1hr12h84.47%81.82%
- 63Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom$0.61/1hr16h86.06%88.53%
- 64DOOM + DOOM II$0.61/1hr16h93.60%96.63%
- 65Wolfenstein 3D$0.64/1hr8h87.40%93.40%
- 66Paint the Town Red$0.65/1hr15h93.53%95.99%
- 67Ghostrunner$0.66/1hr11h90.44%91.21%
- 68Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.67/1hr12h82.62%82.29%
- 69Superflight$0.67/1hr4h91.26%96.37%
- 70Ghostrunner 2$0.67/1hr12h82.53%79.98%
- 71Reigns$0.68/1hr4h86.02%86.87%
- 72Lost Castle / 失落城堡$0.69/1hr14h85.97%86.47%
- 73Golf It!$0.70/1hr13h89.18%90.41%
- 74Game Dev Tycoon$0.74/1hr14h93.40%95.19%
- 75Half-Life$0.74/1hr13h95.85%96.50%
- 76Peggle Deluxe$0.74/1hr7h92.66%97.66%
- 77Hotline Miami$0.75/1hr13h95.99%96.82%
- 78Papers, Please$0.75/1hr13h95.97%97.30%
- 79Hitman: Blood Money$0.75/1hr13h90.50%94.06%
- 80Mini Metro$0.79/1hr13h92.02%96.00%
- 81Monstrum$0.80/1hr4h86.91%90.61%
- 82Kindergarten$0.81/1hr6h90.96%96.77%
- 83DEVOUR$0.81/1hr12h89.96%90.48%
- 84Magicka$0.82/1hr12h85.28%85.26%
- 85Far Cry$0.84/1hr12h83.16%81.78%
- 86Resident Evil 3$0.85/1hr9h83.57%83.43%
- 87Quake Live$0.88/1hr11h85.87%86.56%
- 88Chants of Sennaar$0.89/1hr11h95.21%98.25%
- 89Hacknet$0.92/1hr11h91.10%93.52%
- 90Insaniquarium Deluxe$0.96/1hr5h90.00%96.81%
- 91Serious Sam II$0.96/1hr10h88.09%89.93%
- 92Serious Sam Classics: Revolution$0.99/1hr10h86.68%89.86%
- 93Trepang2$1.00/1hr10h90.30%92.78%
- 94Risk of Rain (2013)$1.02/1hr10h91.12%93.05%
- 95PAYDAY The Heist$1.07/1hr9h91.76%93.33%
- 96Hatred$1.12/1hr5h84.70%84.44%
- 97Zup! S$1.19/1hr2h92.42%96.80%
- 98Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.24/1hr4h85.31%85.09%
- 99Surgeon Simulator$1.25/1hr8h83.23%81.95%
- 100VVVVVV$1.28/1hr4h90.93%96.16%
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.