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.
- 1Fallout 4$0.04/1hr137h81.34%81.19%
- 2The Quinfall$0.04/1hr26h65.85%50.96%
- 3Outward Definitive Edition$0.04/1hr52h75.70%72.68%
- 4Fallout: New Vegas$0.04/1hr57h95.68%95.97%
- 5RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.05/1hr33h89.33%94.31%
- 6shapez$0.05/1hr21h91.78%95.91%
- 7Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.07/1hr36h90.39%93.89%
- 8Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 9The Surge$0.07/1hr27h79.58%74.54%
- 10Atomicrops$0.07/1hr41h87.85%92.05%
- 11ORION: Prelude$0.08/1hr12h78.01%75.47%
- 12HITMAN World of Assassination$0.08/1hr36h87.04%87.31%
- 13Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 14Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 15Batman: Arkham Knight$0.10/1hr42h89.45%89.72%
- 16Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.10/1hr24h91.42%94.25%
- 17Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr47h87.87%88.42%
- 18LEGO City Undercover$0.12/1hr25h88.05%91.34%
- 19Middle-earth: Shadow of War$0.13/1hr40h88.64%88.94%
- 20LEGO Marvel Super Heroes$0.13/1hr31h93.29%95.68%
- 21GreedFall$0.14/1hr25h79.06%76.01%
- 22The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.53%75.35%
- 23Green Hell$0.15/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 24Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition$0.16/1hr25h94.95%96.19%
- 25LEGO The Hobbit$0.16/1hr25h82.37%80.60%
- 26Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 27Scribblenauts Unlimited$0.16/1hr12h89.64%93.97%
- 28LEGO Worlds$0.16/1hr18h80.62%78.29%
- 29Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor$0.16/1hr24h91.83%92.52%
- 30Streamer Life Simulator$0.17/1hr12h81.14%76.04%
- 31Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition$0.18/1hr17h95.22%96.37%
- 32Supraland$0.18/1hr22h91.25%95.20%
- 33Internet Cafe Simulator$0.19/1hr5h78.33%72.61%
- 34Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 35Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 36NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER$0.19/1hr26h83.85%83.61%
- 37Bus Simulator 18$0.20/1hr15h82.35%80.95%
- 38The Survivalists$0.20/1hr25h80.20%76.18%
- 39Batman: Arkham Origins$0.21/1hr19h89.23%89.84%
- 40LEGO Batman: The Videogame$0.21/1hr14h87.50%89.46%
- 41Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.22/1hr23h82.19%81.66%
- 42Outpath$0.23/1hr17h86.78%92.65%
- 43LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2$0.23/1hr17h84.89%85.51%
- 44VVVVVV$0.24/1hr5h90.82%96.16%
- 45MudRunner$0.24/1hr16h90.42%91.60%
- 46Gato Roboto$0.24/1hr5h88.69%94.24%
- 47LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham$0.24/1hr20h86.36%88.35%
- 48Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 49LEGO The Lord of the Rings$0.25/1hr16h88.10%90.11%
- 50LEGO Jurassic World$0.25/1hr16h88.70%92.58%
- 51TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer$0.25/1hr20h84.34%79.02%
- 52Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League$0.26/1hr14h69.40%61.19%
- 53Fallout 3$0.26/1hr9h82.34%81.48%
- 54Mafia$0.28/1hr18h86.28%87.52%
- 55Slime Rancher$0.30/1hr17h97.24%98.01%
- 56Lonely Mountains: Downhill$0.30/1hr13h86.46%90.60%
- 57Yoku's Island Express$0.35/1hr11h89.24%95.72%
- 58Sherlock Holmes The Awakened$0.35/1hr11h83.79%82.23%
- 59Witch It$0.36/1hr8h87.61%88.84%
- 60Cat Quest II$0.36/1hr10h88.86%95.21%
- 61Cat Quest$0.37/1hr9h89.62%94.61%
- 62Arctico$0.43/1hr2h81.41%70.22%
- 63Amnesia: The Bunker$0.45/1hr11h89.70%93.28%
- 64Superflight$0.49/1hr6h91.19%96.37%
- 65Street Racing Syndicate$0.51/1hr6h84.96%84.45%
- 66LIZARDS MUST DIE$0.52/1hr2h93.10%96.19%
- 67The Forgotten City$0.54/1hr9h90.97%95.85%
- 68RUSSIAPHOBIA$0.57/1hr1h78.14%68.75%
- 69Townscaper$0.70/1hr3h92.09%95.28%
- 70Gourdlets$0.96/1hr5h85.72%92.33%
- 71Arctic Eggs$1.17/1hr3h88.58%95.56%
- 72Hand Simulator$1.40/1hr2h84.06%83.75%
- 73Chushpan Simulator$1.51/1hr2h84.55%85.54%
- 74Initial Drift Online$7.13/1hr1h76.67%62.06%
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.