Best Value Difficult Games Under $10
The Difficult games on Steam games under $10 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.
- 1Geometry Dash$0.05/1hr92h92.91%93.04%
- 2Gothic II: Gold Edition$0.08/1hr62h90.63%93.84%
- 3The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition$0.09/1hr35h89.42%89.92%
- 4Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.52%86.98%
- 5Planes, Bullets and Vodka$0.09/1hr6h84.98%85.13%
- 6Risen$0.10/1hr39h86.94%88.80%
- 7Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.12/1hr25h86.92%87.98%
- 8Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.12/1hr20h91.59%94.24%
- 9Outward Definitive Edition$0.14/1hr35h75.66%72.69%
- 10ELEX$0.15/1hr51h77.93%74.35%
- 11FINAL FANTASY XIII$0.15/1hr43h78.27%75.03%
- 12Nioh: Complete Edition$0.15/1hr49h80.23%79.02%
- 13SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising$0.15/1hr32h90.00%93.87%
- 14Monster Sanctuary$0.15/1hr32h88.34%91.24%
- 15Gothic 1$0.15/1hr32h89.83%92.52%
- 16Bomber Crew$0.16/1hr15h86.54%87.57%
- 17Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.16/1hr19h85.14%85.27%
- 18Soccer Online: Ball 3D$0.17/1hr6h84.66%84.41%
- 19FTL: Faster Than Light$0.17/1hr59h93.96%95.11%
- 20Terraforming Mars$0.17/1hr41h78.90%70.54%
- 21Peggle Deluxe$0.17/1hr6h92.41%97.65%
- 22Pathologic 2$0.17/1hr40h88.63%91.68%
- 23Hero Siege$0.18/1hr45h70.28%67.15%
- 24A Dance of Fire and Ice$0.18/1hr33h93.09%94.07%
- 25Going Under$0.19/1hr13h86.46%90.15%
- 26Bean Battles$0.20/1hr5h89.41%93.83%
- 27Kerbal Space Program$0.21/1hr48h94.89%95.57%
- 28Nothing$0.21/1hr5h89.52%94.15%
- 29Quake Live$0.21/1hr14h85.90%86.51%
- 30Tales of Maj'Eyal$0.21/1hr33h89.01%94.50%
- 31Crypt of the NecroDancer$0.23/1hr13h92.54%95.51%
- 32Skul: The Hero Slayer$0.24/1hr42h92.02%93.26%
- 33Rocksmith 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY$0.24/1hr42h87.10%87.96%
- 34Party Hard$0.24/1hr8h87.85%90.16%
- 35LIMBO$0.25/1hr5h91.21%92.22%
- 36Darksiders III$0.25/1hr24h79.13%75.93%
- 37Golf With Your Friends$0.26/1hr9h87.06%87.35%
- 38Desperados III$0.26/1hr38h92.16%96.52%
- 39Descenders$0.27/1hr23h91.63%94.45%
- 40The Evil Within$0.27/1hr18h85.14%85.20%
- 41DOOM$0.28/1hr14h95.06%95.52%
- 42Blasphemous$0.28/1hr31h89.19%89.83%
- 43Voidigo$0.28/1hr18h88.75%96.54%
- 44Monstrum$0.31/1hr12h86.30%90.62%
- 45Tiny Rogues$0.31/1hr32h90.60%96.14%
- 46RUINER$0.32/1hr6h87.22%89.05%
- 47Gloomhaven$0.32/1hr31h83.11%81.97%
- 48Muse Dash$0.32/1hr9h91.00%91.50%
- 49DOOM + DOOM II$0.34/1hr12h93.55%96.63%
- 50Remnant: From the Ashes$0.34/1hr24h84.37%84.27%
- 51Bloons TD 5$0.35/1hr29h90.23%94.66%
- 52Dungreed$0.35/1hr28h88.90%93.31%
- 53Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 (2003 re-release)$0.35/1hr6h88.59%93.18%
- 54The Escapists 2$0.37/1hr13h89.29%90.58%
- 55Don't Starve$0.38/1hr26h95.61%96.55%
- 56Brigador: Up-Armored Edition$0.40/1hr16h87.83%93.25%
- 57Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense$0.40/1hr25h92.69%97.27%
- 58The Binding of Isaac$0.41/1hr12h93.30%94.64%
- 59Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.42/1hr24h91.02%96.74%
- 60Wolfenstein 3D$0.42/1hr4h87.47%93.32%
- 61Turbo Overkill$0.43/1hr14h88.66%93.99%
- 62ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights$0.45/1hr22h92.17%93.76%
- 63DOOM Eternal$0.46/1hr22h91.10%91.38%
- 64Lost Castle / 失落城堡$0.46/1hr21h85.96%86.50%
- 65Hyper Light Drifter$0.47/1hr11h90.12%92.97%
- 66Clustertruck$0.52/1hr6h90.53%93.56%
- 67Overcooked! 2$0.53/1hr12h89.83%90.41%
- 68Hello Neighbor$0.53/1hr11h85.73%85.98%
- 69Counter-Strike: Source$0.54/1hr18h95.73%96.29%
- 70Downwell$0.57/1hr5h90.17%96.55%
- 71Super Hexagon$0.57/1hr5h93.48%96.88%
- 72Overcooked$0.57/1hr7h87.88%89.65%
- 73Wall World$0.58/1hr12h88.13%90.67%
- 74Changed$0.61/1hr8h85.87%86.37%
- 75Thymesia$0.61/1hr10h83.48%82.27%
- 76Risk of Rain (2013)$0.64/1hr16h91.02%93.05%
- 77Game Dev Tycoon$0.65/1hr15h93.33%95.19%
- 78Cat Goes Fishing$0.65/1hr11h90.66%94.14%
- 79Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers$0.67/1hr11h84.14%81.83%
- 80Half-Life$0.69/1hr14h95.83%96.50%
- 81A Story About My Uncle$0.72/1hr4h89.84%91.51%
- 82Ghostrunner$0.73/1hr10h90.39%91.21%
- 83Trepang2$0.74/1hr13h90.12%92.83%
- 84Papers, Please$0.75/1hr13h95.93%97.30%
- 85SANABI$0.76/1hr13h95.00%97.26%
- 86Ghostrunner 2$0.79/1hr10h82.30%80.00%
- 87Serious Sam II$0.79/1hr13h87.73%89.89%
- 88Kindergarten$0.81/1hr6h91.03%96.81%
- 89Hitman: Blood Money$0.81/1hr12h90.55%94.07%
- 90100% Orange Juice$0.82/1hr9h89.52%91.04%
- 91Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.83/1hr10h82.56%82.27%
- 92Golf It!$0.83/1hr11h89.08%90.41%
- 93DEVOUR$0.86/1hr12h89.93%90.50%
- 94Far Cry$0.87/1hr12h83.25%81.81%
- 95Magicka$0.87/1hr12h85.23%85.32%
- 96Superflight$0.91/1hr3h91.07%96.37%
- 97Serious Sam Classics: Revolution$0.91/1hr11h86.12%89.90%
- 98PICO PARK$0.96/1hr4h89.31%90.77%
- 99FlatOut$0.96/1hr8h87.42%91.17%
- 100Hacknet$0.96/1hr10h91.16%93.55%
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.