Best Value Difficult Games Under $20
The Difficult 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.
- 1Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.03/1hr393h74.12%73.71%
- 2GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.03/1hr64h88.32%94.92%
- 3FTL: Faster Than Light$0.04/1hr46h93.99%95.09%
- 4Monster Hunter: World$0.06/1hr124h88.73%88.80%
- 5Geometry Dash$0.06/1hr79h92.88%93.00%
- 6Hero Siege$0.07/1hr116h70.29%67.14%
- 7Dead by Daylight$0.07/1hr274h78.38%78.31%
- 8The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth$0.07/1hr203h96.60%96.85%
- 9Wall World$0.08/1hr14h88.28%90.56%
- 10Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.10/1hr5h85.89%87.11%
- 11Monster Sanctuary$0.10/1hr49h88.65%91.21%
- 12Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr46h87.90%88.42%
- 13Elite Dangerous$0.11/1hr185h77.97%77.28%
- 14UBERMOSH$0.11/1hr5h88.78%92.49%
- 15UnderRail$0.11/1hr130h85.33%86.10%
- 16Bean Battles$0.12/1hr9h89.69%93.82%
- 17Soccer Online: Ball 3D$0.12/1hr4h84.94%84.40%
- 18Curse of the Dead Gods$0.12/1hr32h84.14%83.45%
- 19Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)$0.14/1hr11h88.07%92.74%
- 20Subsistence$0.14/1hr99h77.65%72.08%
- 21Slay the Spire$0.14/1hr44h96.93%97.46%
- 22FlatOut$0.14/1hr11h87.66%91.13%
- 23Tales of Maj'Eyal$0.14/1hr49h89.27%94.47%
- 24Nioh: Complete Edition$0.15/1hr52h80.27%78.97%
- 25Bloons TD 6$0.16/1hr87h96.89%97.18%
- 26Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.19/1hr27h93.37%94.18%
- 27100% Orange Juice$0.19/1hr9h89.61%91.03%
- 28Planes, Bullets and Vodka$0.20/1hr5h85.34%85.12%
- 29Laika: Aged Through Blood$0.20/1hr25h87.86%91.53%
- 30Elin$0.20/1hr99h89.22%93.36%
- 31Across the Obelisk$0.21/1hr97h82.47%80.24%
- 32Don't Starve Together$0.21/1hr73h94.74%94.91%
- 33Muse Dash$0.21/1hr14h91.03%91.50%
- 34Frostpunk$0.21/1hr29h92.24%92.74%
- 35Insurgency: Sandstorm$0.22/1hr28h84.81%84.77%
- 36Party Hard$0.22/1hr9h87.78%90.15%
- 37Motorsport Manager$0.23/1hr86h89.06%91.68%
- 38Tiny Rogues$0.23/1hr43h90.94%96.09%
- 39X-Morph: Defense$0.24/1hr8h87.16%91.31%
- 40Dungreed$0.24/1hr42h89.27%93.30%
- 41Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.25/1hr81h90.38%94.30%
- 42Ostranauts$0.25/1hr80h83.35%77.27%
- 43Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.32%
- 44Rain World$0.27/1hr32h92.46%93.70%
- 45Hollow Knight$0.27/1hr55h96.71%96.92%
- 46The Binding of Isaac$0.28/1hr18h93.34%94.62%
- 47XCOM: Enemy Unknown$0.28/1hr53h92.06%93.20%
- 48Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$0.29/1hr7h89.61%93.13%
- 49The Long Dark$0.29/1hr69h88.63%88.90%
- 50Valfaris$0.30/1hr8h84.75%82.40%
- 51RUINER$0.30/1hr7h87.42%88.98%
- 52Gothic II: Gold Edition$0.31/1hr64h90.60%93.85%
- 53Barotrauma$0.32/1hr55h93.14%94.01%
- 54A Dance of Fire and Ice$0.32/1hr19h93.17%94.10%
- 55Noita$0.32/1hr63h94.14%95.13%
- 56GRIME$0.32/1hr23h85.15%84.76%
- 57Assetto Corsa Competizione$0.33/1hr31h91.42%92.68%
- 58Resident Evil 0$0.33/1hr15h81.67%80.09%
- 59CrossCode$0.33/1hr60h89.70%92.38%
- 60Voidigo$0.34/1hr15h89.08%96.52%
- 61Rocksmith 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY$0.34/1hr30h87.22%87.96%
- 62Rusted Moss$0.34/1hr24h86.02%89.27%
- 63LET IT DIE$0.34/1hr58h80.92%74.99%
- 64STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor$0.35/1hr30h72.51%71.02%
- 65Enter the Gungeon$0.35/1hr43h94.12%95.10%
- 66Axiom Verge$0.35/1hr14h87.29%90.14%
- 67FINAL FANTASY XIII$0.36/1hr45h78.44%74.98%
- 68Spelunky 2$0.36/1hr56h90.30%92.81%
- 69Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition$0.36/1hr10h88.32%92.43%
- 70My Summer Car$0.37/1hr41h94.17%94.92%
- 71Counter-Strike: Source$0.37/1hr27h95.75%96.29%
- 72Risen$0.39/1hr39h86.89%88.84%
- 73Banished$0.39/1hr52h89.48%90.43%
- 74Nothing$0.40/1hr3h89.70%94.09%
- 75Nuclear Throne$0.40/1hr30h92.45%96.02%
- 76Balatro$0.41/1hr37h97.24%97.84%
- 77Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.42/1hr24h91.27%96.68%
- 78IXION$0.42/1hr25h81.18%78.79%
- 79Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.42/1hr24h91.56%94.25%
- 80Exanima$0.43/1hr35h82.27%80.03%
- 81Terraforming Mars$0.43/1hr46h78.80%70.56%
- 82Resident Evil 2$0.43/1hr18h96.54%97.04%
- 83Downwell$0.43/1hr7h90.57%96.55%
- 84TEKKEN 7$0.44/1hr14h83.75%83.58%
- 85DRAGON BALL FighterZ$0.46/1hr32h89.85%90.44%
- 86Super Hexagon$0.46/1hr6h93.60%96.87%
- 87Clustertruck$0.46/1hr6h90.71%93.58%
- 88Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night$0.47/1hr21h91.58%93.08%
- 89Skul: The Hero Slayer$0.48/1hr42h92.09%93.26%
- 90DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT$0.48/1hr42h92.01%93.16%
- 91Bloons TD 5$0.48/1hr21h90.46%94.68%
- 92Dead Cells$0.49/1hr25h96.42%97.03%
- 93LIZARDS MUST DIE$0.49/1hr2h93.28%96.21%
- 94Don't Starve$0.50/1hr20h95.63%96.54%
- 95Rabi-Ribi$0.50/1hr36h90.85%95.28%
- 96Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense$0.50/1hr20h92.90%97.25%
- 97Opus Magnum$0.51/1hr20h90.43%97.25%
- 98Cat Goes Fishing$0.52/1hr13h90.83%94.16%
- 99The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition$0.52/1hr38h89.46%89.91%
- 100Gothic 1$0.53/1hr38h89.80%92.54%
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.