Best Value Open World Games Under $5
The Open World 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.
- 1The Quinfall$0.03/1hr29h66.03%50.99%
- 2shapez$0.05/1hr21h91.82%95.90%
- 3Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition$0.06/1hr72h88.31%89.21%
- 4Transport Fever 2$0.07/1hr60h89.15%90.32%
- 5theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.09/1hr34h88.91%89.08%
- 6Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr46h87.90%88.42%
- 7Borderlands 2$0.11/1hr47h89.40%89.53%
- 8DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2$0.11/1hr45h89.23%89.89%
- 9ORION: Prelude$0.12/1hr8h78.05%75.47%
- 10Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 11Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.67%84.61%
- 12Generation Zero$0.15/1hr33h74.58%72.03%
- 13Streamer Life Simulator$0.16/1hr12h81.27%76.03%
- 14Internet Cafe Simulator$0.18/1hr6h78.62%72.66%
- 15Shadow Warrior 2$0.22/1hr14h86.63%87.07%
- 16Slime Rancher$0.22/1hr23h97.25%98.01%
- 17Assetto Corsa$0.23/1hr22h92.45%92.86%
- 18Sniper Elite 5$0.23/1hr22h84.15%83.76%
- 19Outpath$0.23/1hr16h87.09%92.70%
- 20TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer$0.25/1hr20h84.49%79.11%
- 21Sniper Elite 3$0.26/1hr15h82.93%82.06%
- 22Welcome to ParadiZe$0.28/1hr11h82.72%67.24%
- 23The Bureau: XCOM Declassified$0.29/1hr14h76.77%70.15%
- 24RUINER$0.30/1hr7h87.42%88.98%
- 25Cat Quest$0.31/1hr10h90.14%94.62%
- 26Cat Quest II$0.32/1hr12h89.48%95.22%
- 27Sherlock Holmes The Awakened$0.35/1hr11h84.19%82.23%
- 28Street Racing Syndicate$0.44/1hr7h85.06%84.43%
- 29LIZARDS MUST DIE$0.49/1hr2h93.28%96.21%
- 30WRC 10 FIA World Rally Championship$0.50/1hr10h81.73%72.61%
- 31112 Operator$0.53/1hr9h86.82%88.73%
- 32Choo-Choo Charles$0.59/1hr3h88.81%90.77%
- 33Superflight$0.67/1hr4h91.26%96.37%
- 34RUSSIAPHOBIA$0.74/1hr1h77.92%68.78%
- 35Chushpan Simulator$1.23/1hr2h85.37%85.50%
- 36VVVVVV$1.28/1hr4h90.93%96.16%
- 37Hand Simulator$1.36/1hr2h84.09%83.75%
- 38Dystopika$1.39/1hr3h88.05%95.80%
- 39Hunting Simulator 2$1.49/1hr1h83.21%68.65%
- 40Bright Memory$1.86/1hr2h88.80%89.85%
- 41Initial Drift Online$4.47/1hr1h76.79%62.10%
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.