Best Value Difficult Games Under $5
The Difficult games on Steam games under $5 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%
- 5Soccer Online: Ball 3D$0.07/1hr7h84.68%84.39%
- 6Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.53%86.94%
- 7Bean Battles$0.09/1hr6h89.42%93.80%
- 8Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.09/1hr52h87.85%88.44%
- 9Death Road to Canada$0.10/1hr21h88.93%92.73%
- 10The Surge$0.10/1hr18h79.31%74.62%
- 11Souldiers$0.11/1hr28h81.27%69.22%
- 12UBERMOSH$0.11/1hr5h88.35%92.26%
- 13Timberman$0.12/1hr8h89.26%93.09%
- 14Hacknet$0.13/1hr12h91.16%93.54%
- 15Iratus: Lord of the Dead$0.13/1hr23h85.23%85.54%
- 16Enter the Gungeon$0.15/1hr31h94.12%95.14%
- 17The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.35%75.46%
- 18Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.15/1hr26h93.74%96.02%
- 19Lost Castle / 失落城堡$0.16/1hr19h86.06%86.51%
- 20Planes, Bullets and Vodka$0.18/1hr6h84.99%85.02%
- 21SKYHILL$0.19/1hr5h82.52%78.23%
- 22FlatOut$0.20/1hr8h87.44%91.18%
- 23Frostpunk$0.21/1hr22h92.20%92.73%
- 24Muse Dash$0.21/1hr14h91.02%91.51%
- 25Voidigo$0.21/1hr12h88.76%96.53%
- 26Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr23h93.27%94.12%
- 27Celeste$0.22/1hr22h96.60%97.40%
- 28Curse of the Dead Gods$0.23/1hr17h84.27%83.50%
- 29Endzone - A World Apart$0.23/1hr11h80.88%76.75%
- 30Laika: Aged Through Blood$0.24/1hr21h87.59%91.57%
- 31Far Cry$0.25/1hr12h83.27%81.81%
- 32Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.30%
- 33Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$0.27/1hr7h89.42%93.17%
- 34Titan Souls$0.29/1hr5h81.45%78.89%
- 35Nothing$0.30/1hr3h89.53%94.14%
- 36Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr17h81.81%80.16%
- 37EVERSPACE$0.30/1hr7h81.41%78.29%
- 38Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager$0.30/1hr13h82.67%78.54%
- 39Game Dev Tycoon$0.31/1hr13h93.33%95.19%
- 40Guacamelee! 2$0.34/1hr15h86.54%91.19%
- 41Trials Rising$0.34/1hr12h79.58%62.30%
- 42Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition$0.36/1hr11h88.04%92.38%
- 43Axiom Verge$0.37/1hr14h87.04%90.19%
- 44ScourgeBringer$0.38/1hr7h85.29%86.25%
- 45The Binding of Isaac$0.42/1hr12h93.32%94.65%
- 46Ultra Street Fighter IV$0.43/1hr9h88.46%90.51%
- 47PAYDAY The Heist$0.46/1hr7h91.69%93.33%
- 48Amnesia: The Bunker$0.52/1hr10h89.57%93.35%
- 49Downwell$0.54/1hr6h90.33%96.57%
- 50Changed$0.60/1hr8h85.90%86.40%
- 51Super Hexagon$0.61/1hr5h93.48%96.88%
- 52Reigns$0.65/1hr5h85.85%86.93%
- 5360 Seconds! Reatomized$0.68/1hr7h91.24%94.47%
- 54Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon$0.75/1hr7h87.87%94.27%
- 55Lonely Mountains: Downhill$0.81/1hr5h86.28%90.52%
- 56Post Void$0.82/1hr2h91.53%96.84%
- 57Kindergarten$0.83/1hr6h91.04%96.81%
- 58SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER$0.84/1hr4h88.85%96.06%
- 59Peggle Deluxe$0.85/1hr6h92.39%97.63%
- 60Wolfenstein 3D$0.90/1hr6h87.49%93.31%
- 61Zup! S$0.92/1hr2h92.26%96.79%
- 62Insaniquarium Deluxe$0.98/1hr5h89.76%96.84%
- 63Hand Simulator$0.98/1hr3h84.03%83.77%
- 64VVVVVV$1.15/1hr4h90.73%96.19%
- 65Five Nights at Freddy's$1.25/1hr4h92.52%93.81%
- 66PICO PARK$1.41/1hr4h89.32%90.78%
- 67I Am Sakuya: Touhou FPS Game$1.42/1hr1h85.41%91.24%
- 68LIZARDS MUST DIE$1.65/1hr2h93.15%96.24%
- 69Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.92/1hr3h85.01%85.07%
- 70DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION$2.39/1hr1h90.33%94.21%
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.