Best Value Action Games Under $5
The Action 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.
- 1YoloMouse - Cursor Changer$0.01/1hr835h86.64%92.40%
- 2Black Desert$0.01/1hr118h74.62%73.52%
- 3The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut$0.03/1hr47h88.99%89.45%
- 4The Elder Scrolls Online$0.03/1hr154h81.14%80.90%
- 5ORION: Prelude$0.05/1hr18h77.92%75.45%
- 6Geometry Dash$0.05/1hr92h92.91%93.04%
- 7Fallout: New Vegas$0.05/1hr91h95.58%95.98%
- 8Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands$0.07/1hr34h79.52%79.02%
- 9Gothic II: Gold Edition$0.08/1hr62h90.63%93.84%
- 10Brotato$0.09/1hr57h95.15%96.02%
- 11Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.52%86.98%
- 12Planes, Bullets and Vodka$0.09/1hr6h84.98%85.13%
- 13Cyberhunt$0.09/1hr5h84.92%84.85%
- 14Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut$0.09/1hr32h90.19%91.95%
- 15Just Cause 3$0.10/1hr31h84.42%84.38%
- 16Drug Dealer Simulator$0.10/1hr21h85.79%86.19%
- 17Rogue Legacy$0.10/1hr15h89.71%92.39%
- 18Vampire Survivors$0.10/1hr50h97.84%98.32%
- 19LEGO City Undercover$0.10/1hr29h88.32%91.29%
- 20Just Cause 2$0.11/1hr14h89.65%90.56%
- 21Cruelty Squad$0.11/1hr18h92.84%96.04%
- 22Borderlands 2$0.11/1hr45h89.38%89.52%
- 23Painkiller: Black Edition$0.12/1hr17h85.72%89.06%
- 24Dishonored$0.12/1hr21h96.33%97.63%
- 25Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.12/1hr25h86.92%87.98%
- 26Dying Light$0.13/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 27Need for Speed Heat$0.13/1hr26h84.22%84.17%
- 28Gothic 3$0.13/1hr37h83.08%81.58%
- 29Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel$0.13/1hr30h80.06%78.93%
- 30Titan Quest Anniversary Edition$0.14/1hr37h89.19%90.32%
- 31Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition$0.14/1hr26h90.95%94.81%
- 32Streets of Rogue$0.14/1hr29h92.60%96.03%
- 33Alice: Madness Returns$0.14/1hr18h89.30%90.73%
- 34Deus Ex: Mankind Divided$0.14/1hr31h78.06%76.43%
- 35Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr20h93.07%94.10%
- 36Battlefield 1$0.15/1hr27h86.42%86.49%
- 37SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising$0.15/1hr32h90.00%93.87%
- 38Monster Sanctuary$0.15/1hr32h88.34%91.24%
- 39Gothic 1$0.15/1hr32h89.83%92.52%
- 40ANEURISM IV$0.16/1hr31h81.59%76.20%
- 41LEGO Marvel Super Heroes$0.16/1hr24h93.00%95.63%
- 42Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition$0.16/1hr27h80.61%78.62%
- 43Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions$0.17/1hr28h79.72%71.90%
- 44Need for Speed Payback$0.18/1hr17h85.33%85.45%
- 45PEAK$0.18/1hr22h94.37%94.64%
- 46SpeedRunners$0.18/1hr17h92.08%94.00%
- 47PlateUp!$0.18/1hr27h92.07%94.72%
- 48Town of Salem$0.19/1hr27h87.24%87.88%
- 49Going Under$0.19/1hr13h86.46%90.15%
- 50Murdered: Soul Suspect$0.20/1hr10h85.52%85.85%
- 51Friends vs Friends$0.20/1hr13h83.62%82.72%
- 52Darksiders Genesis$0.20/1hr23h83.11%81.77%
- 53Bean Battles$0.20/1hr5h89.41%93.83%
- 54Nothing$0.21/1hr5h89.52%94.15%
- 55Quake Live$0.21/1hr14h85.90%86.51%
- 56Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.23/1hr22h94.36%96.49%
- 57Crypt of the NecroDancer$0.23/1hr13h92.54%95.51%
- 58LEGO The Lord of the Rings$0.23/1hr17h88.13%90.12%
- 59Picayune Dreams$0.23/1hr22h89.14%98.90%
- 60Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.04%95.26%
- 61Party Hard$0.24/1hr8h87.85%90.16%
- 62LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2$0.24/1hr17h85.25%85.55%
- 63LIMBO$0.25/1hr5h91.21%92.22%
- 64DOOM 64$0.25/1hr8h88.46%92.79%
- 6520 Minutes Till Dawn$0.26/1hr19h89.08%90.51%
- 66Battlefield V$0.26/1hr19h71.15%70.64%
- 67Dead Space 3$0.26/1hr15h77.49%72.47%
- 68LEGO Jurassic World$0.27/1hr15h89.00%92.59%
- 69The Evil Within$0.27/1hr18h85.14%85.20%
- 70RoboCop: Rogue City$0.27/1hr15h86.68%87.16%
- 71LEGO The Hobbit$0.28/1hr14h82.72%80.64%
- 72DOOM$0.28/1hr14h95.06%95.52%
- 73The Vagrant$0.28/1hr14h87.22%89.59%
- 74LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham$0.28/1hr18h86.68%88.34%
- 75Voidigo$0.28/1hr18h88.75%96.54%
- 76Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint$0.29/1hr10h75.62%73.51%
- 77LEGO Batman: The Videogame$0.29/1hr10h87.76%89.49%
- 78Binary Domain$0.29/1hr10h85.31%85.76%
- 79Need for Speed Unbound$0.29/1hr17h63.79%60.23%
- 80The Bureau: XCOM Declassified$0.29/1hr14h76.84%70.14%
- 81Seen$0.30/1hr3h88.03%91.12%
- 82RAGE$0.30/1hr13h80.35%77.84%
- 83Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered$0.31/1hr10h82.61%81.01%
- 84Quake II$0.31/1hr13h90.08%95.33%
- 85RUINER$0.32/1hr6h87.22%89.05%
- 86DOOM 3$0.32/1hr12h85.62%86.18%
- 87Need for Speed Rivals$0.32/1hr6h80.14%75.51%
- 88Dead Space 2$0.32/1hr12h91.69%93.97%
- 89Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer$0.32/1hr12h85.42%85.68%
- 90Muse Dash$0.32/1hr9h91.00%91.50%
- 91DOOM + DOOM II$0.34/1hr12h93.55%96.63%
- 92Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 (2003 re-release)$0.35/1hr6h88.59%93.18%
- 93Transistor$0.36/1hr11h91.76%93.94%
- 94Quake$0.36/1hr11h91.91%96.46%
- 95Gears 5$0.37/1hr12h74.76%70.65%
- 96Battlefield 4$0.37/1hr11h84.85%84.84%
- 97Need for Speed$0.39/1hr8h73.26%69.23%
- 98Wolfenstein: The New Order$0.40/1hr13h90.78%91.72%
- 99The Binding of Isaac$0.41/1hr12h93.30%94.64%
- 100E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy$0.41/1hr12h84.72%84.45%
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.