Best Value Adventure Games Under $5

The Adventure 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

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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. 1Black Desert$0.01/1hr
  2. 2The Elder Scrolls Online$0.03/1hr
  3. 3Chill Pulse$0.04/1hr
  4. 4Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition$0.05/1hr
  5. 5ORION: Prelude$0.05/1hr
  6. 6Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands$0.07/1hr
  7. 7Graveyard Keeper$0.08/1hr
  8. 8Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr
  9. 9Cyberhunt$0.09/1hr
  10. 10Just Cause 3$0.10/1hr
  11. 11Drug Dealer Simulator$0.10/1hr
  12. 12Tricolour Lovestory$0.10/1hr
  13. 13Rogue Legacy$0.10/1hr
  14. 14Just Cause 2$0.11/1hr
  15. 15Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$0.11/1hr
  16. 16Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.12/1hr
  17. 17Dishonored$0.12/1hr
  18. 18Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.12/1hr
  19. 19Need for Speed Heat$0.13/1hr
  20. 20Streets of Rogue$0.14/1hr
  21. 21Alice: Madness Returns$0.14/1hr
  22. 22Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr
  23. 23This Is the Police 2$0.15/1hr
  24. 24Monster Sanctuary$0.15/1hr
  25. 25Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.16/1hr
  26. 26LEGO Marvel Super Heroes$0.16/1hr
  27. 27Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition$0.16/1hr
  28. 28For The King$0.17/1hr
  29. 29Need for Speed Payback$0.18/1hr
  30. 30PEAK$0.18/1hr
  31. 31Tales of the Neon Sea$0.20/1hr
  32. 32Murdered: Soul Suspect$0.20/1hr
  33. 33Darksiders Genesis$0.20/1hr
  34. 34Nothing$0.21/1hr
  35. 35Punch Club 2: Fast Forward$0.21/1hr
  36. 36This Is the Police$0.22/1hr
  37. 37Sally Face - Episode One$0.22/1hr
  38. 38LEGO The Lord of the Rings$0.23/1hr
  39. 39Tales of the Black Forest$0.23/1hr
  40. 40Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr
  41. 41Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure$0.24/1hr
  42. 42LIMBO$0.25/1hr
  43. 43Mirror$0.25/1hr
  44. 44Shadowrun Returns$0.26/1hr
  45. 4520 Minutes Till Dawn$0.26/1hr
  46. 46LEGO Jurassic World$0.27/1hr
  47. 47RoboCop: Rogue City$0.27/1hr
  48. 48LEGO The Hobbit$0.28/1hr
  49. 49The Vagrant$0.28/1hr
  50. 50LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham$0.28/1hr
  51. 51Voidigo$0.28/1hr
  52. 52TOEM: A Photo Adventure$0.29/1hr
  53. 53Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint$0.29/1hr
  54. 54LEGO Batman: The Videogame$0.29/1hr
  55. 55Seen$0.30/1hr
  56. 56Need for Speed Rivals$0.32/1hr
  57. 57Dead Space 2$0.32/1hr
  58. 58Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer$0.32/1hr
  59. 59Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 (2003 re-release)$0.35/1hr
  60. 60Gears 5$0.37/1hr
  61. 61Need for Speed$0.39/1hr
  62. 62Aces & Adventures$0.40/1hr
  63. 63The Binding of Isaac$0.41/1hr
  64. 64Hue$0.41/1hr
  65. 65Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$0.45/1hr
  66. 66Burnout Paradise Remastered$0.46/1hr
  67. 67Need for Speed Most Wanted$0.46/1hr
  68. 68Hyper Light Drifter$0.47/1hr
  69. 69Summon$0.48/1hr
  70. 70That's not my Neighbor$0.49/1hr
  71. 71INSIDE$0.49/1hr
  72. 72Lunch Lady$0.51/1hr
  73. 73Pseudoregalia$0.54/1hr
  74. 74Nobody Wants to Die$0.54/1hr
  75. 75Necroking$0.55/1hr
  76. 76Downwell$0.57/1hr
  77. 77LEGO Worlds$0.57/1hr
  78. 78The Red Strings Club$0.59/1hr
  79. 79Rusty Lake Hotel$0.59/1hr
  80. 80Changed$0.61/1hr
  81. 81Pikuniku$0.61/1hr
  82. 82The Final Station$0.62/1hr
  83. 83Anomaly Agent$0.62/1hr
  84. 84A Story About My Uncle$0.72/1hr
  85. 85Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs$0.74/1hr
  86. 86ALTF4$0.75/1hr
  87. 87Chained Together$0.75/1hr
  88. 88House of Detention$0.76/1hr
  89. 89Kindergarten$0.81/1hr
  90. 90A Castle Full of Cats$0.85/1hr
  91. 91A Tower Full of Cats$0.87/1hr
  92. 92Mirror 2: Project X$0.88/1hr
  93. 93Alba: A Wildlife Adventure$0.88/1hr
  94. 94LoveChoice$0.96/1hr
  95. 95Jazzpunk: Director's Cut$0.97/1hr
  96. 96Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.99/1hr
  97. 97Operation: Tango$1.00/1hr
  98. 98We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip$1.15/1hr
  99. 99A Game About Digging A Hole$1.22/1hr
  100. 100Pacify$1.24/1hr

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.