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.
- 1Geometry Dash$0.06/1hr86h92.92%93.05%
- 2FTL: Faster Than Light$0.06/1hr54h93.96%95.11%
- 3Styx: Master of Shadows$0.07/1hr28h84.03%83.21%
- 4Wall World$0.07/1hr14h88.17%90.73%
- 5Monster Hunter: World$0.07/1hr106h88.70%88.77%
- 6Soccer Online: Ball 3D$0.07/1hr7h84.68%84.39%
- 7Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.53%86.94%
- 8Bean Battles$0.09/1hr6h89.42%93.80%
- 9Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.09/1hr52h87.85%88.44%
- 10The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos$0.10/1hr53h85.96%87.17%
- 11Valheim$0.10/1hr96h93.83%93.99%
- 12Death Road to Canada$0.10/1hr21h88.93%92.73%
- 13The Surge$0.10/1hr18h79.31%74.62%
- 14Souldiers$0.11/1hr28h81.27%69.22%
- 15UBERMOSH$0.11/1hr5h88.35%92.26%
- 16Timberman$0.12/1hr8h89.26%93.09%
- 17Hacknet$0.13/1hr12h91.16%93.54%
- 18Iratus: Lord of the Dead$0.13/1hr23h85.23%85.54%
- 19Slay the Spire$0.14/1hr44h96.94%97.49%
- 20Enter the Gungeon$0.15/1hr31h94.12%95.14%
- 21The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.35%75.46%
- 22Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.15/1hr26h93.74%96.02%
- 23Lost Castle / 失落城堡$0.16/1hr19h86.06%86.51%
- 24Planes, Bullets and Vodka$0.18/1hr6h84.99%85.02%
- 25Hades$0.19/1hr40h97.61%98.02%
- 26SKYHILL$0.19/1hr5h82.52%78.23%
- 27FlatOut$0.20/1hr8h87.44%91.18%
- 28CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.38%83.12%
- 29Frostpunk$0.21/1hr22h92.20%92.73%
- 30Muse Dash$0.21/1hr14h91.02%91.51%
- 31Voidigo$0.21/1hr12h88.76%96.53%
- 32Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr23h93.27%94.12%
- 33Hero Siege$0.22/1hr36h70.29%67.16%
- 34Tales of Maj'Eyal$0.22/1hr32h89.05%94.56%
- 35Celeste$0.22/1hr22h96.60%97.40%
- 36Insurgency: Sandstorm$0.23/1hr33h84.85%84.85%
- 37Curse of the Dead Gods$0.23/1hr17h84.27%83.50%
- 38Endzone - A World Apart$0.23/1hr11h80.88%76.75%
- 39Laika: Aged Through Blood$0.24/1hr21h87.59%91.57%
- 40Far Cry$0.25/1hr12h83.27%81.81%
- 41Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.30%
- 42Tiny Rogues$0.26/1hr38h90.76%96.18%
- 43Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$0.27/1hr7h89.42%93.17%
- 44Titan Souls$0.29/1hr5h81.45%78.89%
- 45Shogun Showdown$0.29/1hr26h89.15%95.19%
- 46Nothing$0.30/1hr3h89.53%94.14%
- 47Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr17h81.81%80.16%
- 48EVERSPACE$0.30/1hr7h81.41%78.29%
- 49Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager$0.30/1hr13h82.67%78.54%
- 50A Dance of Fire and Ice$0.30/1hr20h93.09%94.07%
- 51Game Dev Tycoon$0.31/1hr13h93.33%95.19%
- 52Rocksmith 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY$0.34/1hr30h87.12%87.97%
- 53Guacamelee! 2$0.34/1hr15h86.54%91.19%
- 54Trials Rising$0.34/1hr12h79.58%62.30%
- 55LONESTAR$0.35/1hr17h86.16%91.03%
- 56Bloons TD 5$0.35/1hr28h90.25%94.66%
- 57Resident Evil 2$0.36/1hr23h96.52%97.05%
- 58Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition$0.36/1hr11h88.04%92.38%
- 59Axiom Verge$0.37/1hr14h87.04%90.19%
- 60ScourgeBringer$0.38/1hr7h85.29%86.25%
- 61Dungreed$0.38/1hr26h89.05%93.30%
- 62Absolver$0.39/1hr16h77.55%72.52%
- 63The Binding of Isaac$0.42/1hr12h93.32%94.65%
- 64Ultra Street Fighter IV$0.43/1hr9h88.46%90.51%
- 65Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.44/1hr23h91.58%94.23%
- 66PAYDAY The Heist$0.46/1hr7h91.69%93.33%
- 67Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.47/1hr21h91.02%96.72%
- 68Castlevania Anniversary Collection$0.47/1hr17h84.36%81.61%
- 69Rusted Moss$0.48/1hr17h85.61%89.39%
- 70Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense$0.49/1hr20h92.69%97.26%
- 71Don't Starve$0.51/1hr20h95.61%96.55%
- 72Amnesia: The Bunker$0.52/1hr10h89.57%93.35%
- 73Downwell$0.54/1hr6h90.33%96.57%
- 74Session: Skate Sim$0.54/1hr18h83.83%83.09%
- 75Sifu$0.56/1hr18h90.08%91.89%
- 76Quake Live$0.57/1hr18h85.91%86.50%
- 77Hearts of Iron III$0.58/1hr17h81.63%76.10%
- 78Changed$0.60/1hr8h85.90%86.40%
- 79Super Hexagon$0.61/1hr5h93.48%96.88%
- 80DRAGON BALL FighterZ$0.64/1hr15h89.81%90.44%
- 81Reigns$0.65/1hr5h85.85%86.93%
- 82Cat Goes Fishing$0.67/1hr10h90.69%94.18%
- 8360 Seconds! Reatomized$0.68/1hr7h91.24%94.47%
- 84Counter-Strike: Source$0.68/1hr15h95.73%96.29%
- 85100% Orange Juice$0.70/1hr10h89.54%91.06%
- 86Half-Life$0.71/1hr14h95.84%96.50%
- 87Furi$0.73/1hr8h87.88%89.96%
- 88Papers, Please$0.75/1hr13h95.92%97.29%
- 89Mini Metro$0.75/1hr9h91.88%96.03%
- 90Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon$0.75/1hr7h87.87%94.27%
- 91DEVOUR$0.76/1hr13h89.94%90.50%
- 92The Chef's Shift$0.79/1hr12h87.06%97.78%
- 93Lonely Mountains: Downhill$0.81/1hr5h86.28%90.52%
- 94Serious Sam II$0.81/1hr12h87.84%89.87%
- 95Hitman: Blood Money$0.82/1hr12h90.57%94.07%
- 96Post Void$0.82/1hr2h91.53%96.84%
- 97Kindergarten$0.83/1hr6h91.04%96.81%
- 98SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER$0.84/1hr4h88.85%96.06%
- 99Peggle Deluxe$0.85/1hr6h92.39%97.63%
- 100Magicka$0.86/1hr12h85.25%85.34%
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.