Best Value Difficult Games Under $5
The Difficult 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.
- 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%
- 10SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising$0.15/1hr32h90.00%93.87%
- 11Monster Sanctuary$0.15/1hr32h88.34%91.24%
- 12Gothic 1$0.15/1hr32h89.83%92.52%
- 13Bomber Crew$0.16/1hr15h86.54%87.57%
- 14Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.16/1hr19h85.14%85.27%
- 15Soccer Online: Ball 3D$0.17/1hr6h84.66%84.41%
- 16Peggle Deluxe$0.17/1hr6h92.41%97.65%
- 17Going Under$0.19/1hr13h86.46%90.15%
- 18Bean Battles$0.20/1hr5h89.41%93.83%
- 19Nothing$0.21/1hr5h89.52%94.15%
- 20Quake Live$0.21/1hr14h85.90%86.51%
- 21Crypt of the NecroDancer$0.23/1hr13h92.54%95.51%
- 22Party Hard$0.24/1hr8h87.85%90.16%
- 23LIMBO$0.25/1hr5h91.21%92.22%
- 24Golf With Your Friends$0.26/1hr9h87.06%87.35%
- 25The Evil Within$0.27/1hr18h85.14%85.20%
- 26DOOM$0.28/1hr14h95.06%95.52%
- 27Voidigo$0.28/1hr18h88.75%96.54%
- 28Monstrum$0.31/1hr12h86.30%90.62%
- 29RUINER$0.32/1hr6h87.22%89.05%
- 30Muse Dash$0.32/1hr9h91.00%91.50%
- 31DOOM + DOOM II$0.34/1hr12h93.55%96.63%
- 32Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 (2003 re-release)$0.35/1hr6h88.59%93.18%
- 33The Escapists 2$0.37/1hr13h89.29%90.58%
- 34The Binding of Isaac$0.41/1hr12h93.30%94.64%
- 35Wolfenstein 3D$0.42/1hr4h87.47%93.32%
- 36Hyper Light Drifter$0.47/1hr11h90.12%92.97%
- 37Clustertruck$0.52/1hr6h90.53%93.56%
- 38Downwell$0.57/1hr5h90.17%96.55%
- 39Super Hexagon$0.57/1hr5h93.48%96.88%
- 40Overcooked$0.57/1hr7h87.88%89.65%
- 41Changed$0.61/1hr8h85.87%86.37%
- 42A Story About My Uncle$0.72/1hr4h89.84%91.51%
- 43Kindergarten$0.81/1hr6h91.03%96.81%
- 44Superflight$0.91/1hr3h91.07%96.37%
- 45PICO PARK$0.96/1hr4h89.31%90.77%
- 46Zup! S$1.00/1hr2h92.26%96.79%
- 47Hand Simulator$1.01/1hr3h84.03%83.78%
- 48VVVVVV$1.11/1hr4h90.58%96.18%
- 49Insaniquarium Deluxe$1.13/1hr4h89.74%96.82%
- 50Five Nights at Freddy's$1.31/1hr4h92.52%93.81%
- 51DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION$1.38/1hr2h90.30%94.19%
- 52Post Void$1.44/1hr2h91.51%96.83%
- 53Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.51/1hr3h84.99%85.11%
- 54LIZARDS MUST DIE$1.55/1hr3h93.07%96.24%
- 55UBERMOSH$2.94/1hr0h88.45%92.42%
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.