Best Value Story Rich Games Under $5
The Story Rich 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.
- 1Fallout 4$0.04/1hr137h81.34%81.19%
- 2Fallout: New Vegas$0.04/1hr57h95.68%95.97%
- 3Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.07/1hr36h90.39%93.89%
- 4Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 5The Surge$0.07/1hr27h79.58%74.54%
- 6Batman: Arkham Knight$0.10/1hr42h89.45%89.72%
- 7Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr47h87.87%88.42%
- 8Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$0.12/1hr17h88.25%92.28%
- 9Middle-earth: Shadow of War$0.13/1hr40h88.64%88.94%
- 10Deponia$0.13/1hr8h85.68%86.18%
- 11Bean Battles$0.14/1hr7h89.53%93.83%
- 12GreedFall$0.14/1hr25h79.06%76.01%
- 13Hacknet$0.14/1hr11h91.22%93.53%
- 14The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.53%75.35%
- 15Mirror$0.15/1hr5h95.17%96.36%
- 16Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition$0.16/1hr25h94.95%96.19%
- 17Undertale$0.16/1hr16h96.27%96.51%
- 18Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor$0.16/1hr24h91.83%92.52%
- 19Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 20Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition$0.18/1hr17h95.22%96.37%
- 21Celeste$0.18/1hr27h96.63%97.40%
- 22Coromon$0.19/1hr26h84.72%84.44%
- 23Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.20/1hr10h82.59%82.28%
- 24Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions$0.20/1hr24h79.78%72.20%
- 25DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition$0.20/1hr3h89.24%93.09%
- 26Batman: Arkham Origins$0.21/1hr19h89.23%89.84%
- 27F.E.A.R.$0.21/1hr9h90.48%93.65%
- 28Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.22/1hr23h82.19%81.66%
- 29BioShock 2 Remastered$0.22/1hr13h75.38%72.15%
- 30Russian Life Simulator$0.23/1hr2h86.57%88.52%
- 31LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2$0.23/1hr17h84.89%85.51%
- 32Bendy and the Dark Revival$0.23/1hr9h88.98%91.87%
- 33BioShock 2$0.25/1hr12h86.91%88.68%
- 34Sally Face - Episode One$0.26/1hr11h94.18%97.33%
- 35Fallout 3$0.26/1hr9h82.34%81.48%
- 36Seen$0.27/1hr2h87.97%91.09%
- 37Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter$0.27/1hr11h81.59%79.75%
- 38RoboCop: Rogue City$0.28/1hr16h86.44%87.02%
- 39Mafia$0.28/1hr18h86.28%87.52%
- 40Shadowrun Returns$0.28/1hr11h86.62%87.66%
- 41Alan Wake's American Nightmare$0.28/1hr5h79.16%74.45%
- 42Mortal Kombat 11$0.29/1hr17h87.86%88.09%
- 43Resident Evil$0.31/1hr16h90.71%92.31%
- 44To the Moon$0.31/1hr5h94.99%96.12%
- 45Nothing$0.32/1hr3h89.62%94.08%
- 46Tricolour Lovestory$0.33/1hr6h82.22%81.16%
- 47Resident Evil 0$0.34/1hr14h81.47%80.05%
- 48Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.35/1hr14h79.73%78.33%
- 49BioShock Remastered$0.35/1hr14h83.45%83.18%
- 50Sherlock Holmes The Awakened$0.35/1hr11h83.79%82.23%
- 51VillageRhapsody$0.36/1hr8h92.34%96.87%
- 52BioShock$0.37/1hr14h91.88%93.96%
- 53Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne$0.37/1hr7h90.27%94.35%
- 54Finding Paradise$0.37/1hr5h93.52%97.77%
- 55Amnesia: The Dark Descent$0.38/1hr11h92.53%94.58%
- 56Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak$0.39/1hr13h82.40%79.28%
- 57Axiom Verge$0.40/1hr13h87.51%90.12%
- 58Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$0.40/1hr6h88.25%90.23%
- 59Resident Evil Revelations$0.44/1hr11h82.32%81.28%
- 60The Darkness II$0.44/1hr7h89.23%91.58%
- 61Going Under$0.45/1hr9h86.64%90.12%
- 62Max Payne$0.45/1hr8h87.03%88.77%
- 63Call of Juarez: Gunslinger$0.45/1hr7h93.15%94.95%
- 64Amnesia: The Bunker$0.45/1hr11h89.70%93.28%
- 65Neo Cab$0.45/1hr5h83.02%78.73%
- 66Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.46/1hr1h87.02%91.57%
- 67Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition$0.46/1hr6h85.94%86.31%
- 68Kingdom Eighties$0.49/1hr7h82.72%75.34%
- 69Layers of Fear (2016)$0.50/1hr4h87.53%88.38%
- 70Injustice 2$0.51/1hr10h86.01%86.26%
- 71The Forgotten City$0.54/1hr9h90.97%95.85%
- 72Impostor Factory$0.55/1hr5h91.15%95.80%
- 73RUSSIAPHOBIA$0.57/1hr1h78.14%68.75%
- 74A Bird Story$0.57/1hr1h84.67%85.04%
- 75Rusty Lake Hotel$0.60/1hr3h90.31%96.00%
- 76Changed$0.63/1hr8h85.80%86.30%
- 77LoveChoice$0.64/1hr2h90.66%92.15%
- 78Half-Life: Opposing Force$0.71/1hr7h92.90%95.36%
- 79F.E.A.R. 3$0.73/1hr5h76.39%70.63%
- 80Tales of the Black Forest$0.76/1hr5h92.72%97.59%
- 81Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion$0.79/1hr4h90.61%94.64%
- 82Kindergarten$0.80/1hr6h90.72%96.78%
- 83Juice Galaxy$0.81/1hr6h92.03%98.50%
- 84Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs$0.82/1hr5h76.25%69.66%
- 85The Room Two$1.15/1hr4h93.36%97.53%
- 86Arctic Eggs$1.17/1hr3h88.58%95.56%
- 87We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip$1.19/1hr3h88.60%90.01%
- 88Donut County$1.22/1hr3h88.59%92.15%
- 89Half-Life: Blue Shift$1.25/1hr4h90.12%92.59%
- 90Journey$1.33/1hr3h92.24%94.07%
- 91The Room$1.36/1hr4h94.73%97.74%
- 92Pony Island$1.39/1hr4h91.48%94.95%
- 93Chushpan Simulator$1.51/1hr2h84.55%85.54%
- 94Florence$1.54/1hr1h90.19%93.24%
- 95Gorogoa$1.61/1hr2h93.47%97.45%
- 96Venba$1.66/1hr2h87.62%92.49%
- 97BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT$1.72/1hr3h91.06%97.68%
- 98RATSHAKER$1.78/1hr2h87.27%92.72%
- 99What Remains of Edith Finch$1.80/1hr3h93.94%95.59%
- 100Kiosk$1.83/1hr2h85.05%87.78%
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.