Best Value Puzzle Games Under $5
The Puzzle 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.
- 1GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.04/1hr50h88.16%94.90%
- 2shapez$0.05/1hr21h91.78%95.91%
- 3HITMAN World of Assassination$0.08/1hr36h87.04%87.31%
- 4Batman: Arkham Knight$0.10/1hr42h89.45%89.72%
- 5Super Hexagon$0.11/1hr7h93.54%96.87%
- 6Deponia$0.13/1hr8h85.68%86.18%
- 7LEGO Marvel Super Heroes$0.13/1hr31h93.29%95.68%
- 8Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 9Mirror$0.15/1hr5h95.17%96.36%
- 10Crazy Machines 3$0.15/1hr6h89.33%94.35%
- 11LEGO The Hobbit$0.16/1hr25h82.37%80.60%
- 12Scribblenauts Unlimited$0.16/1hr12h89.64%93.97%
- 13Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition$0.18/1hr17h95.22%96.37%
- 14Supraland$0.18/1hr22h91.25%95.20%
- 15DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition$0.20/1hr3h89.24%93.09%
- 16The Escapists$0.21/1hr13h88.29%90.21%
- 17LEGO Batman: The Videogame$0.21/1hr14h87.50%89.46%
- 18Cats Organized Neatly$0.22/1hr4h88.48%97.19%
- 19Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 20LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2$0.23/1hr17h84.89%85.51%
- 21Bendy and the Dark Revival$0.23/1hr9h88.98%91.87%
- 22VVVVVV$0.24/1hr5h90.82%96.16%
- 23LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham$0.24/1hr20h86.36%88.35%
- 24LEGO The Lord of the Rings$0.25/1hr16h88.10%90.11%
- 25LEGO Jurassic World$0.25/1hr16h88.70%92.58%
- 26Niche - a genetics survival game$0.26/1hr14h84.91%86.14%
- 27Sally Face - Episode One$0.26/1hr11h94.18%97.33%
- 28Seen$0.27/1hr2h87.97%91.09%
- 29Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter$0.27/1hr11h81.59%79.75%
- 30Resident Evil$0.31/1hr16h90.71%92.31%
- 31Trine 2: Complete Story$0.32/1hr13h92.12%95.27%
- 32Resident Evil 0$0.34/1hr14h81.47%80.05%
- 33Buckshot Roulette$0.38/1hr4h94.36%95.09%
- 34Draw & Guess$0.38/1hr13h84.20%83.92%
- 35Amnesia: The Dark Descent$0.38/1hr11h92.53%94.58%
- 36Trine Enchanted Edition$0.38/1hr8h91.59%95.60%
- 37Nubby's Number Factory$0.40/1hr13h93.21%97.31%
- 38Progressbar95$0.47/1hr11h88.12%96.14%
- 39Sticky Business$0.47/1hr11h88.86%93.61%
- 40Layers of Fear (2016)$0.50/1hr4h87.53%88.38%
- 41That's not my Neighbor$0.53/1hr6h86.36%88.83%
- 42Rusty Lake Hotel$0.60/1hr3h90.31%96.00%
- 43Changed$0.63/1hr8h85.80%86.30%
- 44LoveChoice$0.64/1hr2h90.66%92.15%
- 45Peggle Deluxe$0.65/1hr8h92.71%97.66%
- 46Half-Life: Opposing Force$0.71/1hr7h92.90%95.36%
- 47We Were Here Too$0.73/1hr4h80.94%78.00%
- 48Tales of the Black Forest$0.76/1hr5h92.72%97.59%
- 49Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion$0.79/1hr4h90.61%94.64%
- 50Travellin Cats in China$0.79/1hr1h85.59%98.03%
- 51Kindergarten$0.80/1hr6h90.72%96.78%
- 52Travellin Cats Around the World$0.80/1hr2h85.29%97.30%
- 53Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs$0.82/1hr5h76.25%69.66%
- 54Summon$0.94/1hr1h86.42%92.45%
- 55inbento$0.97/1hr5h87.11%96.70%
- 56Zup! S$1.09/1hr2h92.03%96.83%
- 57The Room Two$1.15/1hr4h93.36%97.53%
- 58We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip$1.19/1hr3h88.60%90.01%
- 59Donut County$1.22/1hr3h88.59%92.15%
- 60Half-Life: Blue Shift$1.25/1hr4h90.12%92.59%
- 61The Room$1.36/1hr4h94.73%97.74%
- 62Pony Island$1.39/1hr4h91.48%94.95%
- 63PICO PARK$1.41/1hr4h89.36%90.75%
- 64Miss Neko 3$1.56/1hr2h87.01%92.74%
- 65A Castle Full of Cats$1.60/1hr3h89.95%99.18%
- 66Gorogoa$1.61/1hr2h93.47%97.45%
- 67Venba$1.66/1hr2h87.62%92.49%
- 68A Building Full of Cats$1.72/1hr2h89.26%98.84%
- 69RATSHAKER$1.78/1hr2h87.27%92.72%
- 70What Remains of Edith Finch$1.80/1hr3h93.94%95.59%
- 71Insomnia: Theater in the Head$2.53/1hr1h87.99%97.18%
- 72The Exit 8$3.15/1hr1h89.38%92.99%
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.