Best Value Puzzle Games Under $20
The Puzzle 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.
- 1shapez$0.03/1hr35h91.86%95.94%
- 2Deponia$0.11/1hr9h86.09%86.54%
- 3Poly Bridge$0.13/1hr7h89.08%91.03%
- 4Orb of Creation$0.15/1hr80h85.05%85.38%
- 5Unity of Command II$0.15/1hr30h84.43%79.72%
- 6Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.15/1hr26h93.84%96.02%
- 7Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr27h96.95%97.70%
- 8The Room Three$0.19/1hr8h90.98%95.48%
- 9The Last Campfire$0.19/1hr8h93.36%97.53%
- 10Into the Breach$0.21/1hr24h91.50%94.23%
- 11Sally Face - Episode One$0.23/1hr13h94.12%97.30%
- 12Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy$0.23/1hr43h95.33%97.56%
- 13The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles$0.24/1hr67h89.73%94.30%
- 14The Talos Principle 2$0.24/1hr37h90.67%94.96%
- 15Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.81%92.30%
- 16HITMAN World of Assassination$0.26/1hr23h86.97%87.19%
- 17Mirror$0.27/1hr7h95.21%96.37%
- 18Adorables$0.27/1hr9h83.99%76.73%
- 19The Room Two$0.28/1hr4h93.73%97.55%
- 20A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr14h92.28%93.25%
- 21Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr17h81.81%80.16%
- 22Draw & Guess$0.30/1hr16h84.23%83.88%
- 23The Room$0.31/1hr3h94.79%97.75%
- 24Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution$0.31/1hr32h84.22%82.64%
- 25Hardspace: Shipbreaker$0.31/1hr34h87.97%89.31%
- 26Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$0.31/1hr16h89.80%94.95%
- 27Titan Souls$0.32/1hr5h81.65%78.88%
- 28CrossCode$0.34/1hr59h89.99%92.47%
- 29Seen$0.35/1hr3h88.30%91.15%
- 30Little Witch in the Woods$0.36/1hr56h87.45%89.00%
- 31Resident Evil 2$0.36/1hr23h96.54%97.05%
- 32Trine Enchanted Edition$0.37/1hr8h91.69%95.61%
- 33FAR: Lone Sails$0.37/1hr4h92.55%95.26%
- 34Trine 2: Complete Story$0.37/1hr11h92.19%95.25%
- 35Supraland Six Inches Under$0.37/1hr16h88.61%96.11%
- 36ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.39/1hr38h84.88%84.78%
- 37Inside the Backrooms$0.40/1hr17h80.92%79.95%
- 38Progressbar95$0.42/1hr12h88.29%96.15%
- 39Half-Life 2$0.42/1hr24h97.18%97.60%
- 40The Room 4: Old Sins$0.42/1hr5h93.85%98.47%
- 41Shadows of Doubt$0.42/1hr24h83.21%82.20%
- 42Nubby's Number Factory$0.43/1hr12h93.30%97.42%
- 43Inscryption$0.45/1hr18h96.10%96.82%
- 44Dorfromantik$0.45/1hr20h93.59%96.35%
- 45ISLANDERS$0.45/1hr11h91.08%94.43%
- 46Legend of Grimrock$0.51/1hr29h88.39%93.47%
- 47Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince$0.52/1hr12h87.34%88.66%
- 48GRIS$0.52/1hr6h95.05%96.06%
- 49Beholder: Conductor$0.53/1hr8h87.00%91.17%
- 50Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.54/1hr15h94.57%95.31%
- 51Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.54/1hr37h93.35%95.80%
- 52Batman: Arkham Knight$0.54/1hr37h89.38%89.63%
- 53Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator$0.55/1hr14h87.91%93.19%
- 54LOCKDOWN Protocol$0.55/1hr18h85.89%86.12%
- 55Atomic Heart$0.56/1hr27h81.56%80.78%
- 56We Were Here Too$0.56/1hr4h81.44%78.26%
- 57Sudocats$0.57/1hr3h87.05%98.61%
- 58Zodiacats$0.58/1hr3h86.59%98.58%
- 59Rusty Lake Hotel$0.59/1hr3h90.65%96.10%
- 60We Were Here Forever$0.59/1hr12h88.82%90.64%
- 61Changed$0.59/1hr8h86.07%86.40%
- 62Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.60/1hr34h88.25%89.87%
- 63shapez 2 - Factory$0.60/1hr30h92.44%97.12%
- 64Murders on the Yangtze River$0.60/1hr15h93.28%97.01%
- 65That's not my Neighbor$0.60/1hr5h86.18%88.80%
- 66Fly Corp$0.60/1hr15h85.32%84.94%
- 67Sticky Business$0.61/1hr8h89.04%93.76%
- 68Cat Goes Fishing$0.61/1hr11h90.87%94.18%
- 69Super Hexagon$0.61/1hr5h93.62%96.88%
- 70Mini Motorways$0.63/1hr16h93.11%96.27%
- 71Little Nightmares$0.63/1hr8h94.02%94.75%
- 72Zup!$0.65/1hr3h89.30%94.14%
- 73West of Loathing$0.66/1hr17h91.64%97.68%
- 74The Farmer Was Replaced$0.66/1hr15h89.99%95.62%
- 75Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.69/1hr29h93.81%96.01%
- 76Buckshot Roulette$0.70/1hr4h94.48%95.22%
- 77DEVOUR$0.73/1hr14h89.98%90.50%
- 78HuniePop$0.73/1hr14h93.15%95.58%
- 79Portal 2$0.73/1hr14h98.43%98.70%
- 80Chinese Parents$0.74/1hr14h89.73%91.33%
- 81Machinarium$0.74/1hr5h92.08%95.32%
- 82Zup! F$0.75/1hr3h90.65%96.89%
- 83Mini Metro$0.75/1hr9h91.88%96.03%
- 84Cats Organized Neatly$0.76/1hr4h88.94%97.19%
- 85Papers, Please$0.77/1hr13h95.97%97.29%
- 86Assassin’s Creed Rogue$0.77/1hr26h86.10%86.39%
- 87L.A. Noire$0.77/1hr26h85.77%85.86%
- 88Half-Life: Opposing Force$0.78/1hr6h92.79%95.35%
- 89Depersonalization$0.78/1hr26h88.52%93.04%
- 90Otaku's Adventure$0.79/1hr9h89.92%94.85%
- 91FEZ$0.80/1hr13h89.92%92.68%
- 92Tales of the Black Forest$0.80/1hr5h92.81%97.60%
- 93The Coffin of Andy and Leyley$0.80/1hr15h93.78%95.94%
- 94Ghost Watchers$0.81/1hr18h85.53%85.86%
- 95Hitman: Blood Money$0.82/1hr12h90.75%94.07%
- 96LEGO Marvel Super Heroes$0.82/1hr24h93.10%95.61%
- 97Fruit Mountain$0.82/1hr11h85.72%98.60%
- 98AI: The Somnium Files$0.82/1hr24h88.40%91.55%
- 99Click Mage$0.82/1hr6h86.36%91.76%
- 100Kindergarten$0.83/1hr6h91.04%96.81%
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.