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.
- 1GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.03/1hr64h88.32%94.92%
- 2FTL: Faster Than Light$0.04/1hr46h93.99%95.09%
- 3Geometry Dash$0.06/1hr79h92.88%93.00%
- 4Wall World$0.08/1hr14h88.28%90.56%
- 5Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.10/1hr5h85.89%87.11%
- 6Monster Sanctuary$0.10/1hr49h88.65%91.21%
- 7Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr46h87.90%88.42%
- 8UBERMOSH$0.11/1hr5h88.78%92.49%
- 9Bean Battles$0.12/1hr9h89.69%93.82%
- 10Soccer Online: Ball 3D$0.12/1hr4h84.94%84.40%
- 11Curse of the Dead Gods$0.12/1hr32h84.14%83.45%
- 12Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)$0.14/1hr11h88.07%92.74%
- 13FlatOut$0.14/1hr11h87.66%91.13%
- 14Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.19/1hr27h93.37%94.18%
- 15100% Orange Juice$0.19/1hr9h89.61%91.03%
- 16Planes, Bullets and Vodka$0.20/1hr5h85.34%85.12%
- 17Laika: Aged Through Blood$0.20/1hr25h87.86%91.53%
- 18Muse Dash$0.21/1hr14h91.03%91.50%
- 19Party Hard$0.22/1hr9h87.78%90.15%
- 20X-Morph: Defense$0.24/1hr8h87.16%91.31%
- 21Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.32%
- 22The Binding of Isaac$0.28/1hr18h93.34%94.62%
- 23Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight$0.29/1hr7h89.61%93.13%
- 24Valfaris$0.30/1hr8h84.75%82.40%
- 25RUINER$0.30/1hr7h87.42%88.98%
- 26Resident Evil 0$0.33/1hr15h81.67%80.09%
- 27Voidigo$0.34/1hr15h89.08%96.52%
- 28Axiom Verge$0.35/1hr14h87.29%90.14%
- 29Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition$0.36/1hr10h88.32%92.43%
- 30Nothing$0.40/1hr3h89.70%94.09%
- 31Downwell$0.43/1hr7h90.57%96.55%
- 32Super Hexagon$0.46/1hr6h93.60%96.87%
- 33Clustertruck$0.46/1hr6h90.71%93.58%
- 34LIZARDS MUST DIE$0.49/1hr2h93.28%96.21%
- 35Changed$0.60/1hr8h85.74%86.27%
- 36Wolfenstein 3D$0.64/1hr8h87.40%93.40%
- 37Superflight$0.67/1hr4h91.26%96.37%
- 38Reigns$0.68/1hr4h86.02%86.87%
- 39Peggle Deluxe$0.74/1hr7h92.66%97.66%
- 40Monstrum$0.80/1hr4h86.91%90.61%
- 41Kindergarten$0.81/1hr6h90.96%96.77%
- 42Insaniquarium Deluxe$0.96/1hr5h90.00%96.81%
- 43Zup! S$1.19/1hr2h92.42%96.80%
- 44Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.24/1hr4h85.31%85.09%
- 45VVVVVV$1.28/1hr4h90.93%96.16%
- 46Post Void$1.34/1hr2h91.42%96.78%
- 47Hand Simulator$1.36/1hr2h84.09%83.75%
- 48PICO PARK$1.38/1hr4h89.40%90.75%
- 49Five Nights at Freddy's$1.58/1hr3h92.60%93.82%
- 50DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION$2.02/1hr1h90.24%94.20%
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.