Best Value Clicker Games Under $5

The Clicker games on Steam games under $5 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current 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. 1Ropuka's Idle Island$0.02/1hr
  2. 2Cookie Clicker$0.02/1hr
  3. 3Dragon Cliff$0.03/1hr
  4. 4Touhou Mystia's Izakaya$0.06/1hr
  5. 5Tiny Pasture$0.07/1hr
  6. 6最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect$0.10/1hr
  7. 7Chillquarium$0.10/1hr
  8. 8(the) Gnorp Apologue$0.14/1hr
  9. 9Insaniquarium Deluxe$0.16/1hr
  10. 10Plantera 2: Golden Acorn$0.23/1hr
  11. 11Russian Life Simulator$0.36/1hr
  12. 12Nodebuster$0.40/1hr
  13. 13Gourdlets$0.48/1hr
  14. 14Ravenous Devils$0.50/1hr
  15. 15That's not my Neighbor$0.53/1hr
  16. 16Doors: Paradox$0.54/1hr
  17. 17JudgeSim$0.56/1hr
  18. 18Digseum$0.70/1hr
  19. 19A Building Full of Cats$0.86/1hr
  20. 20Achievement Clicker$1.22/1hr
  21. 21RATSHAKER$1.24/1hr
  22. 221 to 1 humanoid edible toys$1.35/1hr
  23. 23Insomnia: Theater in the Head$1.64/1hr

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.