Best Value Indie Games Under $20
The Indie 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.
- 1YoloMouse - Cursor Changer$0.01/1hr779h86.18%92.50%
- 2BidKing$0.01/1hr200h48.02%32.54%
- 3Ropuka's Idle Island$0.02/1hr153h88.03%95.19%
- 4Crosshair X$0.03/1hr309h91.89%93.36%
- 5SCUM$0.03/1hr526h74.83%74.01%
- 6The NOexistenceN of Lilith$0.03/1hr58h86.92%98.07%
- 7Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi$0.04/1hr140h87.71%96.90%
- 8GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.04/1hr50h88.16%94.90%
- 9Cookie Clicker$0.04/1hr123h95.33%96.41%
- 10Melvor Idle$0.04/1hr239h88.15%89.98%
- 11shapez$0.05/1hr21h91.78%95.91%
- 12Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.05/1hr94h92.62%97.58%
- 13SpiritVale$0.05/1hr290h72.56%50.35%
- 14Geometry Dash$0.05/1hr96h92.86%92.94%
- 15PlateUp!$0.06/1hr35h92.18%94.75%
- 16Rusty's Retirement$0.06/1hr72h91.97%96.70%
- 17Hero Siege$0.07/1hr122h70.26%67.14%
- 18Enter the Gungeon$0.07/1hr46h94.10%95.10%
- 19Darkest Dungeon$0.07/1hr53h91.43%91.64%
- 20Atomicrops$0.07/1hr41h87.85%92.05%
- 21People Playground$0.08/1hr130h97.19%97.47%
- 22ORION: Prelude$0.08/1hr12h78.01%75.47%
- 23My Time at Portia$0.08/1hr72h90.31%91.46%
- 24UnderRail$0.09/1hr176h85.03%86.08%
- 25Roguebook$0.09/1hr20h85.17%83.83%
- 26Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 27Terraria$0.09/1hr106h97.31%97.37%
- 28Don't Starve Together$0.10/1hr150h94.77%94.89%
- 29Orb of Creation$0.10/1hr118h84.86%84.48%
- 30Kenshi$0.10/1hr118h94.77%95.59%
- 31Tiny Pasture$0.10/1hr58h88.39%92.48%
- 32Mr. Prepper$0.10/1hr27h83.21%80.01%
- 33DSX$0.11/1hr57h77.31%69.45%
- 34Brotato$0.11/1hr47h95.09%95.92%
- 35Naval Action$0.11/1hr184h65.25%51.81%
- 36Chill Pulse$0.11/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 37UBERMOSH$0.11/1hr4h88.96%92.46%
- 38Noita$0.11/1hr72h94.12%95.12%
- 39Super Hexagon$0.11/1hr7h93.54%96.87%
- 40Space Haven$0.11/1hr89h85.49%85.76%
- 41The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos$0.12/1hr45h86.08%87.20%
- 42Vampire Survivors$0.12/1hr32h97.93%98.30%
- 43Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$0.12/1hr17h88.25%92.28%
- 44SpaceCraft$0.12/1hr165h79.86%63.87%
- 45Moonstone Island$0.12/1hr42h84.63%83.54%
- 46My Time at Sandrock$0.12/1hr100h87.39%88.14%
- 47The Last Spell$0.12/1hr52h88.78%91.40%
- 48Touhou Mystia's Izakaya$0.12/1hr49h95.44%98.56%
- 49Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga$0.12/1hr57h90.74%94.48%
- 50Deponia$0.13/1hr8h85.68%86.18%
- 51Warhammer: Vermintide 2$0.13/1hr36h85.05%85.04%
- 52Bloodshed$0.13/1hr12h85.10%84.67%
- 53Dragon Cliff$0.13/1hr78h86.73%88.61%
- 54Risk of Rain 2$0.13/1hr65h93.69%93.85%
- 55SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 56God Of Weapons$0.13/1hr46h84.78%84.02%
- 57Stardew Valley$0.13/1hr113h98.38%98.48%
- 58Super Meat Boy$0.13/1hr9h92.32%94.14%
- 59Feed the Cups$0.14/1hr88h79.42%70.60%
- 60Bean Battles$0.14/1hr7h89.53%93.83%
- 61Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 62Space Engineers$0.14/1hr145h88.56%88.81%
- 63Tales of Maj'Eyal$0.14/1hr51h89.16%94.49%
- 64Slay the Spire$0.14/1hr45h97.04%97.45%
- 65Hacknet$0.14/1hr11h91.22%93.53%
- 66Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number$0.14/1hr15h93.12%94.11%
- 67ScourgeBringer$0.15/1hr18h85.48%86.38%
- 68Mechabellum$0.15/1hr103h84.20%83.70%
- 69Beasts of Bermuda$0.15/1hr137h77.13%68.88%
- 70Halls of Torment$0.15/1hr34h92.90%95.33%
- 71Green Hell$0.15/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 72Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok$0.15/1hr65h86.35%88.20%
- 73Mirror$0.15/1hr5h95.17%96.36%
- 74Dyson Sphere Program$0.15/1hr129h96.21%97.42%
- 75Dungeon Defenders$0.16/1hr96h90.57%93.09%
- 76Phasmophobia$0.16/1hr89h94.28%94.35%
- 77Undertale$0.16/1hr16h96.27%96.51%
- 78Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 79Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion$0.16/1hr123h90.14%93.17%
- 80PEAK$0.16/1hr49h94.20%94.45%
- 81觅长生$0.16/1hr91h91.20%93.07%
- 82The Lost Village$0.17/1hr72h81.84%71.20%
- 83Monster Sanctuary$0.17/1hr45h88.56%91.22%
- 84Streamer Life Simulator$0.17/1hr12h81.14%76.04%
- 85Stoneshard$0.17/1hr101h76.97%74.67%
- 86Voidigo$0.17/1hr14h88.92%96.51%
- 87ARK: Survival Evolved$0.18/1hr85h83.40%83.34%
- 88Hotline Miami$0.18/1hr11h95.98%96.82%
- 89Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 90Celeste$0.18/1hr27h96.63%97.40%
- 91Party Club$0.18/1hr4h81.05%71.62%
- 92Core Keeper$0.18/1hr65h91.93%92.94%
- 93Supraland$0.18/1hr22h91.25%95.20%
- 94Elin$0.19/1hr108h89.11%93.36%
- 95Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 96Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition$0.19/1hr107h83.79%83.47%
- 97Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.19/1hr27h90.33%96.33%
- 98Fields of Mistria$0.19/1hr74h94.21%97.04%
- 99Internet Cafe Simulator$0.19/1hr5h78.33%72.61%
- 100Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
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.