Best Value Steam Games Under $5
The Steam games 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.
- 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%
- 4The NOexistenceN of Lilith$0.03/1hr58h86.92%98.07%
- 5XCOM 2$0.03/1hr87h84.73%84.69%
- 6Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi$0.04/1hr140h87.71%96.90%
- 7Fallout 4$0.04/1hr137h81.34%81.19%
- 8Soundpad$0.04/1hr136h95.02%95.96%
- 9The Quinfall$0.04/1hr26h65.85%50.96%
- 10Outward Definitive Edition$0.04/1hr52h75.70%72.68%
- 11GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.04/1hr50h88.16%94.90%
- 12Cookie Clicker$0.04/1hr123h95.33%96.41%
- 13Fallout: New Vegas$0.04/1hr57h95.68%95.97%
- 14RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.05/1hr33h89.33%94.31%
- 15shapez$0.05/1hr21h91.78%95.91%
- 16Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.05/1hr94h92.62%97.58%
- 17Geometry Dash$0.05/1hr96h92.86%92.94%
- 18PlateUp!$0.06/1hr35h92.18%94.75%
- 19Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr34h93.72%97.48%
- 20Rusty's Retirement$0.06/1hr72h91.97%96.70%
- 21Old World$0.06/1hr62h84.44%82.51%
- 22Enter the Gungeon$0.07/1hr46h94.10%95.10%
- 23Pro Soccer Online$0.07/1hr75h82.61%81.76%
- 24Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.07/1hr36h90.39%93.89%
- 25Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 26Darkest Dungeon$0.07/1hr53h91.43%91.64%
- 27The Surge$0.07/1hr27h79.58%74.54%
- 28Atomicrops$0.07/1hr41h87.85%92.05%
- 29ORION: Prelude$0.08/1hr12h78.01%75.47%
- 30WRC 4 FIA World Rally Championship$0.08/1hr12h83.41%77.12%
- 31HITMAN World of Assassination$0.08/1hr36h87.04%87.31%
- 32Little LUMI Model$0.08/1hr47h85.10%98.70%
- 33Roguebook$0.09/1hr20h85.17%83.83%
- 34Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.72%87.07%
- 35Souldiers$0.09/1hr33h81.82%69.29%
- 36Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 37Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 38Chillquarium$0.09/1hr29h88.14%92.04%
- 39Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 40Batman: Arkham Knight$0.10/1hr42h89.45%89.72%
- 41最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect$0.10/1hr41h83.56%52.93%
- 42Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.10/1hr24h91.42%94.25%
- 43Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr47h87.87%88.42%
- 44Mr. Prepper$0.10/1hr27h83.21%80.01%
- 45Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete$0.10/1hr48h87.07%89.49%
- 46Town of Salem$0.10/1hr48h87.28%87.86%
- 47Brotato$0.11/1hr47h95.09%95.92%
- 48Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.11/1hr9h93.47%97.57%
- 49IDLE_DIRECTIVE$0.11/1hr46h84.35%86.11%
- 50MyDockFinder$0.11/1hr46h79.57%73.28%
- 51Chill Pulse$0.11/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 52UBERMOSH$0.11/1hr4h88.96%92.46%
- 53Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2$0.11/1hr36h79.47%74.30%
- 54Among Us$0.11/1hr27h91.98%92.03%
- 55Super Hexagon$0.11/1hr7h93.54%96.87%
- 56Soccer Online: Ball 3D$0.11/1hr4h84.67%84.42%
- 57Vampire Survivors$0.12/1hr32h97.93%98.30%
- 58Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$0.12/1hr17h88.25%92.28%
- 59Moonstone Island$0.12/1hr42h84.63%83.54%
- 60LEGO City Undercover$0.12/1hr25h88.05%91.34%
- 61Middle-earth: Shadow of War$0.13/1hr40h88.64%88.94%
- 62Deponia$0.13/1hr8h85.68%86.18%
- 63Warhammer: Vermintide 2$0.13/1hr36h85.05%85.04%
- 64LEGO Marvel Super Heroes$0.13/1hr31h93.29%95.68%
- 65Bloodshed$0.13/1hr12h85.10%84.67%
- 66PAYDAY 2$0.13/1hr39h89.34%89.36%
- 67SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 68Super Meat Boy$0.13/1hr9h92.32%94.14%
- 69Picayune Dreams$0.13/1hr19h89.94%98.88%
- 70Bean Battles$0.14/1hr7h89.53%93.83%
- 71Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 72GreedFall$0.14/1hr25h79.06%76.01%
- 73Hacknet$0.14/1hr11h91.22%93.53%
- 74Tropico 4$0.14/1hr32h88.83%91.69%
- 75FlatOut 2$0.14/1hr14h92.59%95.92%
- 76Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number$0.14/1hr15h93.12%94.11%
- 77ScourgeBringer$0.15/1hr18h85.48%86.38%
- 78FlatOut$0.15/1hr10h87.55%91.08%
- 79Halls of Torment$0.15/1hr34h92.90%95.33%
- 80The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.53%75.35%
- 81Green Hell$0.15/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 82Mirror$0.15/1hr5h95.17%96.36%
- 83Crazy Machines 3$0.15/1hr6h89.33%94.35%
- 84Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition$0.16/1hr25h94.95%96.19%
- 85Undertale$0.16/1hr16h96.27%96.51%
- 86LEGO The Hobbit$0.16/1hr25h82.37%80.60%
- 87Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 88Scribblenauts Unlimited$0.16/1hr12h89.64%93.97%
- 89LEGO Worlds$0.16/1hr18h80.62%78.29%
- 90XCOM: Chimera Squad$0.16/1hr18h75.35%71.17%
- 91RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack$0.16/1hr15h86.83%89.64%
- 92Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor$0.16/1hr24h91.83%92.52%
- 93Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 94Streamer Life Simulator$0.17/1hr12h81.14%76.04%
- 95Voidigo$0.17/1hr14h88.92%96.51%
- 96Hotline Miami$0.18/1hr11h95.98%96.82%
- 97Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition$0.18/1hr17h95.22%96.37%
- 98Celeste$0.18/1hr27h96.63%97.40%
- 99Party Club$0.18/1hr4h81.05%71.62%
- 100Backpack Dungeon$0.18/1hr17h84.55%88.56%
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.