Best Value Relaxing Games Under $5
The Relaxing 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.
- 1Ropuka's Idle Island$0.02/1hr153h88.03%95.19%
- 2Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi$0.04/1hr140h87.71%96.90%
- 3RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.05/1hr33h89.33%94.31%
- 4Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.05/1hr94h92.62%97.58%
- 5Rusty's Retirement$0.06/1hr72h91.97%96.70%
- 6Chillquarium$0.09/1hr29h88.14%92.04%
- 7Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.11/1hr9h93.47%97.57%
- 8Chill Pulse$0.11/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 9Moonstone Island$0.12/1hr42h84.63%83.54%
- 10Cats Organized Neatly$0.22/1hr4h88.48%97.19%
- 11Outpath$0.23/1hr17h86.78%92.65%
- 12Russian Life Simulator$0.23/1hr2h86.57%88.52%
- 13Niche - a genetics survival game$0.26/1hr14h84.91%86.14%
- 14Animal Shelter$0.31/1hr10h85.26%87.66%
- 15My Dream Setup$0.33/1hr7h87.22%91.47%
- 16Insect Swarm$0.33/1hr7h84.96%84.15%
- 17Draw & Guess$0.38/1hr13h84.20%83.92%
- 18Arctico$0.43/1hr2h81.41%70.22%
- 19Sticky Business$0.47/1hr11h88.86%93.61%
- 20Superflight$0.49/1hr6h91.19%96.37%
- 21RUSSIAPHOBIA$0.57/1hr1h78.14%68.75%
- 22Plantera 2: Golden Acorn$0.59/1hr8h86.07%94.19%
- 23Nodebuster$0.61/1hr5h92.18%97.39%
- 24Cooking Simulator$0.63/1hr8h84.83%84.65%
- 25Peggle Deluxe$0.65/1hr8h92.71%97.66%
- 26Townscaper$0.70/1hr3h92.09%95.28%
- 27Ravenous Devils$0.71/1hr7h88.86%92.56%
- 28Travellin Cats in China$0.79/1hr1h85.59%98.03%
- 29Travellin Cats Around the World$0.80/1hr2h85.29%97.30%
- 30Juice Galaxy$0.81/1hr6h92.03%98.50%
- 31Insaniquarium Deluxe$0.83/1hr6h90.26%96.80%
- 32Gourdlets$0.96/1hr5h85.72%92.33%
- 33inbento$0.97/1hr5h87.11%96.70%
- 34Retrowave$0.99/1hr3h91.23%95.15%
- 35Hidden Cats in Paris$1.05/1hr2h84.95%96.88%
- 36Digseum$1.07/1hr3h90.67%97.68%
- 37Zup! S$1.09/1hr2h92.03%96.83%
- 38Donut County$1.22/1hr3h88.59%92.15%
- 39Ballionaire$1.26/1hr4h85.04%84.49%
- 40Journey$1.33/1hr3h92.24%94.07%
- 41Minami Lane$1.34/1hr4h90.09%97.35%
- 42Kabuto Park$1.42/1hr4h89.10%99.50%
- 43Chushpan Simulator$1.51/1hr2h84.55%85.54%
- 44Drift86$1.51/1hr1h86.08%87.29%
- 45SUMMERHOUSE$1.56/1hr3h86.46%92.98%
- 46Miss Neko 3$1.56/1hr2h87.01%92.74%
- 47A Castle Full of Cats$1.60/1hr3h89.95%99.18%
- 48A Building Full of Cats$1.72/1hr2h89.26%98.84%
- 49Initial 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.