Best Value Open World Games Under $20
The Open World 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.
- 1The Quinfall$0.02/1hr56h66.28%51.31%
- 2shapez$0.03/1hr35h91.86%95.94%
- 3Starbound$0.04/1hr120h89.66%90.00%
- 4Monster Hunter: World$0.06/1hr121h88.71%88.78%
- 5Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.07/1hr176h74.11%73.70%
- 6Styx: Master of Shadows$0.07/1hr28h84.03%83.21%
- 7Arma 3$0.08/1hr109h90.25%90.41%
- 8FINAL FANTASY XIV Online$0.08/1hr237h86.42%86.53%
- 9Beasts of Bermuda$0.09/1hr226h77.34%68.97%
- 10Kenshi$0.09/1hr127h94.76%95.56%
- 11My Time at Portia$0.09/1hr63h90.40%91.51%
- 12The Surge$0.09/1hr20h79.52%74.62%
- 13Terraria$0.10/1hr105h97.30%97.38%
- 14Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr47h87.93%88.44%
- 15Elite Dangerous$0.11/1hr185h77.99%77.30%
- 16The Elder Scrolls Online$0.11/1hr184h81.18%80.92%
- 17GreedFall$0.11/1hr31h79.01%76.07%
- 18Trailmakers$0.11/1hr44h90.70%92.09%
- 19Tales of Zestiria$0.12/1hr43h82.69%79.71%
- 20Stardew Valley$0.12/1hr125h98.35%98.48%
- 21Pax Dei$0.12/1hr124h70.20%56.56%
- 22Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced$0.12/1hr123h82.56%82.42%
- 23MONSTER HUNTER RISE$0.12/1hr65h83.51%83.35%
- 24theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.13/1hr31h88.90%89.07%
- 25河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon)$0.13/1hr68h83.22%81.63%
- 26My Time at Sandrock$0.13/1hr104h87.48%88.19%
- 27Vampyr$0.14/1hr29h79.75%77.46%
- 28ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr110h83.36%83.33%
- 29Sid Meier's Pirates!$0.14/1hr18h89.30%94.42%
- 30Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr69h95.60%95.99%
- 31TerraTech$0.15/1hr42h89.55%91.39%
- 32Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.15/1hr43h85.87%86.82%
- 33Internet Cafe Simulator$0.16/1hr6h78.73%72.67%
- 34Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition$0.16/1hr123h83.88%83.52%
- 35The Surge 2$0.16/1hr19h80.59%75.47%
- 36DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE$0.16/1hr25h88.54%89.94%
- 37觅长生$0.17/1hr90h91.26%93.09%
- 38Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.17/1hr35h72.24%70.87%
- 39Age of History II$0.17/1hr35h89.10%89.83%
- 40The Guild II Renaissance$0.18/1hr55h84.88%83.50%
- 41WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship$0.18/1hr11h83.52%82.28%
- 42SnowRunner$0.18/1hr66h89.41%90.13%
- 43Crashlands$0.19/1hr28h86.80%89.50%
- 44Insurgency: Sandstorm$0.19/1hr40h84.88%84.84%
- 45The Planet Crafter$0.19/1hr63h94.75%96.04%
- 46Generation Zero$0.19/1hr26h74.61%72.03%
- 47Green Hell$0.19/1hr19h84.79%84.72%
- 48Paleo Pines$0.20/1hr31h84.49%82.63%
- 49Fallout 4$0.20/1hr101h81.29%81.19%
- 50The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim$0.20/1hr100h94.51%94.79%
- 51Tales of Maj'Eyal$0.20/1hr35h89.33%94.56%
- 52Black Desert$0.20/1hr50h74.69%73.54%
- 53Fields of Mistria$0.20/1hr70h94.42%97.68%
- 54Project Zomboid$0.20/1hr99h93.82%94.00%
- 55Naval Action$0.20/1hr98h65.67%52.22%
- 56Dyson Sphere Program$0.21/1hr77h96.28%97.47%
- 57Hollow Knight$0.21/1hr72h96.71%96.91%
- 58Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition$0.21/1hr95h79.36%77.62%
- 59EVERSPACE 2$0.21/1hr48h85.54%85.97%
- 60The Isle$0.21/1hr95h80.57%80.16%
- 61UnderRail$0.21/1hr71h85.46%86.12%
- 62Wandering Sword$0.21/1hr82h93.11%94.86%
- 63Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire$0.22/1hr93h87.01%88.03%
- 64Mount & Blade: Warband$0.22/1hr93h97.04%97.72%
- 65South Park: The Fractured But Whole$0.22/1hr28h85.18%85.10%
- 66Railroads Online$0.22/1hr68h81.42%74.69%
- 67Cassette Beasts$0.22/1hr31h89.74%94.08%
- 68Elin$0.22/1hr90h88.99%93.43%
- 69Let's School$0.22/1hr31h88.54%92.73%
- 70Space Engineers$0.23/1hr89h88.62%88.85%
- 71My Garage$0.23/1hr88h86.93%90.48%
- 72Slime Rancher$0.23/1hr22h97.24%98.00%
- 73Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion$0.23/1hr78h84.78%84.51%
- 74The Long Dark$0.23/1hr85h88.70%88.96%
- 75One Piece Pirate Warriors 3$0.23/1hr17h81.58%78.03%
- 76The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut$0.24/1hr42h89.04%89.46%
- 77Ratopia$0.24/1hr54h86.21%87.80%
- 78Train Simulator Classic$0.24/1hr25h75.14%71.63%
- 79Streamer Life Simulator$0.24/1hr8h81.33%76.10%
- 80Outpath$0.25/1hr18h86.85%92.90%
- 81Subsistence$0.25/1hr42h77.44%71.95%
- 82Far Cry$0.25/1hr12h83.27%81.81%
- 83Call of the Wild: The Angler$0.26/1hr35h76.14%63.81%
- 84Planetbase$0.26/1hr58h82.54%79.73%
- 85The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition$0.26/1hr58h92.59%95.27%
- 86Farming Simulator 22$0.26/1hr77h91.98%92.69%
- 87HITMAN World of Assassination$0.26/1hr23h86.97%87.19%
- 88MudRunner$0.27/1hr15h90.43%91.57%
- 89Car Dealer Simulator$0.27/1hr55h87.01%89.05%
- 90FINAL FANTASY VIII$0.27/1hr45h86.56%88.23%
- 91STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic$0.27/1hr37h89.80%91.09%
- 92Street Fighter 6$0.27/1hr74h82.94%82.62%
- 93Euro Truck Simulator 2$0.27/1hr74h97.32%97.45%
- 94Space Haven$0.27/1hr55h85.64%85.81%
- 95Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.28/1hr36h90.65%93.93%
- 96Farming Simulator 19$0.28/1hr64h93.42%94.47%
- 97Noita$0.28/1hr71h94.17%95.16%
- 98Gujian3(古剑奇谭三)$0.29/1hr42h85.83%85.91%
- 99METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN$0.29/1hr61h91.26%91.80%
- 100Medieval Dynasty$0.30/1hr58h89.60%90.40%
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.