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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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.
  1. 1GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.03/1hr
  2. 2shapez$0.05/1hr
  3. 3Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr
  4. 4AI: The Somnium Files$0.16/1hr
  5. 5The Last Campfire$0.20/1hr
  6. 6Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.20/1hr
  7. 7Into the Breach$0.21/1hr
  8. 8Resident Evil$0.26/1hr
  9. 9Mirror$0.27/1hr
  10. 10Sally Face - Episode One$0.28/1hr
  11. 11Trine Enchanted Edition$0.32/1hr
  12. 12Resident Evil 0$0.33/1hr
  13. 13Draw & Guess$0.36/1hr
  14. 14Hue$0.40/1hr
  15. 15Unheard - Voices of Crime$0.41/1hr
  16. 16Super Hexagon$0.46/1hr
  17. 17Progressbar95$0.46/1hr
  18. 18Nubby's Number Factory$0.49/1hr
  19. 19Trine 2: Complete Story$0.50/1hr
  20. 20Seen$0.51/1hr
  21. 21We Were Here Too$0.57/1hr
  22. 22That's not my Neighbor$0.59/1hr
  23. 23Changed$0.60/1hr
  24. 24The House of Da Vinci$0.62/1hr
  25. 25Miss Neko 3$0.62/1hr
  26. 26Rusty Lake Hotel$0.65/1hr
  27. 27Cats Organized Neatly$0.67/1hr
  28. 28Buckshot Roulette$0.69/1hr
  29. 29Half-Life: Opposing Force$0.70/1hr
  30. 30Zup! F$0.73/1hr
  31. 31Peggle Deluxe$0.74/1hr
  32. 32Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs$0.79/1hr
  33. 33Kindergarten$0.81/1hr
  34. 34Tales of the Black Forest$0.83/1hr
  35. 35LoveChoice$0.84/1hr
  36. 36Summon$0.86/1hr
  37. 37Operation: Tango$0.99/1hr
  38. 38Travellin Cats in China$1.08/1hr
  39. 39inbento$1.09/1hr
  40. 40The Room Two$1.18/1hr
  41. 41We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip$1.19/1hr
  42. 42Zup! S$1.19/1hr
  43. 43Half-Life: Blue Shift$1.24/1hr
  44. 44VVVVVV$1.28/1hr
  45. 45Pony Island$1.29/1hr
  46. 46The Room$1.37/1hr
  47. 47PICO PARK$1.38/1hr
  48. 48A Castle Full of Cats$1.55/1hr
  49. 49DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition$1.75/1hr
  50. 50A Building Full of Cats$1.91/1hr
  51. 51RATSHAKER$1.91/1hr
  52. 52The Exit 8$1.92/1hr
  53. 53Travellin Cats Around the World$2.14/1hr
  54. 54Insomnia: Theater in the Head$2.62/1hr
  55. 55Zup!$2.91/1hr
  56. 56Travellin Cats in Italy$3.13/1hr

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.