Best Value Adventure Games Under $20
The Adventure games on Steam games under $20 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.
- 1Black Desert$0.01/1hr118h74.62%73.52%
- 2Crosshair X$0.03/1hr359h91.81%93.35%
- 3The Elder Scrolls Online$0.03/1hr154h81.14%80.90%
- 4Melvor Idle$0.04/1hr244h88.13%90.12%
- 5Chill Pulse$0.04/1hr115h88.38%95.55%
- 6Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition$0.05/1hr81h88.27%89.29%
- 7Rust$0.05/1hr394h86.78%86.80%
- 8ORION: Prelude$0.05/1hr18h77.92%75.45%
- 9Terraria$0.07/1hr148h97.30%97.38%
- 10Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands$0.07/1hr34h79.52%79.02%
- 11Beasts of Bermuda$0.07/1hr268h77.07%68.98%
- 12Graveyard Keeper$0.08/1hr52h85.31%85.38%
- 13Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.52%86.98%
- 14Cyberhunt$0.09/1hr5h84.92%84.85%
- 15Starbound$0.10/1hr157h89.60%89.97%
- 16Just Cause 3$0.10/1hr31h84.42%84.38%
- 17Drug Dealer Simulator$0.10/1hr21h85.79%86.19%
- 18Tricolour Lovestory$0.10/1hr20h82.26%81.30%
- 19Rogue Legacy$0.10/1hr15h89.71%92.39%
- 20Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition$0.10/1hr103h95.16%95.65%
- 21Just Cause 2$0.11/1hr14h89.65%90.56%
- 22Dragon Cliff$0.11/1hr92h86.61%88.66%
- 23DSX$0.11/1hr71h77.80%69.52%
- 24Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$0.11/1hr17h88.08%92.24%
- 25Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.12/1hr65h80.13%78.77%
- 26Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.12/1hr34h88.04%89.83%
- 27Dishonored$0.12/1hr21h96.33%97.63%
- 28Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.12/1hr25h86.92%87.98%
- 29Assassin's Creed Odyssey$0.13/1hr96h88.54%88.73%
- 30Need for Speed Heat$0.13/1hr26h84.22%84.17%
- 31Streets of Rogue$0.14/1hr29h92.60%96.03%
- 32Alice: Madness Returns$0.14/1hr18h89.30%90.73%
- 33Tales & Tactics$0.14/1hr37h83.70%78.06%
- 34Deadside$0.15/1hr69h77.38%75.51%
- 35ELEX$0.15/1hr51h77.93%74.35%
- 36Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr20h93.07%94.10%
- 37Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition$0.15/1hr132h83.77%83.50%
- 38This Is the Police 2$0.15/1hr24h81.08%75.21%
- 39Monster Sanctuary$0.15/1hr32h88.34%91.24%
- 40Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.16/1hr19h85.14%85.27%
- 41STEINS;GATE$0.16/1hr37h93.75%97.07%
- 42LEGO Marvel Super Heroes$0.16/1hr24h93.00%95.63%
- 43Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition$0.16/1hr27h80.61%78.62%
- 44Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition$0.16/1hr122h79.25%77.63%
- 45For The King$0.17/1hr24h87.22%87.74%
- 46Dragon Age Inquisition$0.17/1hr59h78.67%75.73%
- 47Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition$0.17/1hr82h88.55%88.65%
- 48Red Dead Online$0.17/1hr58h83.31%83.08%
- 49ARK: Survival Evolved$0.17/1hr87h83.35%83.33%
- 50Pathologic 2$0.17/1hr40h88.63%91.68%
- 51Need for Speed Payback$0.18/1hr17h85.33%85.45%
- 52Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok$0.18/1hr57h86.22%88.24%
- 53Hero Siege$0.18/1hr45h70.28%67.15%
- 54Elite Dangerous$0.18/1hr112h77.96%77.31%
- 55PEAK$0.18/1hr22h94.37%94.64%
- 56Prey$0.18/1hr33h89.90%90.82%
- 57Across the Obelisk$0.18/1hr110h82.38%80.42%
- 58The Long Dark$0.19/1hr103h88.64%88.94%
- 59Tales of the Neon Sea$0.20/1hr9h85.05%85.27%
- 60Murdered: Soul Suspect$0.20/1hr10h85.52%85.85%
- 61Darksiders Genesis$0.20/1hr23h83.11%81.77%
- 62The Isle$0.20/1hr100h80.52%80.14%
- 63Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 64Amber Isle$0.21/1hr30h84.57%82.78%
- 65Nothing$0.21/1hr5h89.52%94.15%
- 66Punch Club 2: Fast Forward$0.21/1hr24h84.17%82.48%
- 67Hollow Knight$0.21/1hr71h96.70%96.91%
- 68Tales of Maj'Eyal$0.21/1hr33h89.01%94.50%
- 69Battlefield 2042$0.22/1hr27h48.27%47.14%
- 70Asterigos: Curse of the Stars$0.22/1hr40h83.00%78.12%
- 71This Is the Police$0.22/1hr17h83.57%82.35%
- 72Sally Face - Episode One$0.22/1hr13h94.00%97.32%
- 73REMNANT II$0.23/1hr55h82.69%82.36%
- 74Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.23/1hr87h79.91%78.45%
- 75LEGO The Lord of the Rings$0.23/1hr17h88.13%90.12%
- 76STEINS;GATE 0$0.23/1hr31h89.98%96.06%
- 77Tales of the Black Forest$0.23/1hr5h92.52%97.60%
- 78Sephiria$0.23/1hr38h88.96%93.67%
- 79Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition$0.24/1hr85h88.77%92.30%
- 80Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.04%95.26%
- 81Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion$0.24/1hr76h84.63%84.51%
- 82Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure$0.24/1hr7h86.48%91.78%
- 83Stoneshard$0.24/1hr68h76.91%74.63%
- 84Bear and Breakfast$0.24/1hr29h86.51%89.46%
- 85METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN$0.24/1hr82h91.20%91.79%
- 86LIMBO$0.25/1hr5h91.21%92.22%
- 87Darksiders III$0.25/1hr24h79.13%75.93%
- 88Potion Permit$0.25/1hr28h83.00%79.39%
- 89Mirror$0.25/1hr8h95.15%96.37%
- 90Shadowrun Returns$0.26/1hr15h86.90%88.33%
- 91Lethal Company$0.26/1hr39h96.74%96.97%
- 9220 Minutes Till Dawn$0.26/1hr19h89.08%90.51%
- 93DRAGON QUEST XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition$0.26/1hr77h89.10%92.77%
- 94Hollow Knight: Silksong$0.27/1hr75h89.29%89.40%
- 95LEGO Jurassic World$0.27/1hr15h89.00%92.59%
- 96Noita$0.27/1hr75h94.11%95.15%
- 97Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.27/1hr63h85.11%85.50%
- 98OUTRIDERS$0.27/1hr30h69.49%66.96%
- 99Motor Town: Behind The Wheel$0.27/1hr74h89.25%93.78%
- 100Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.27/1hr44h79.07%78.80%
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.