Best Value Hack and Slash Games Under $5
The Hack and Slash 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.
- 1Dragon Cliff$0.03/1hr78h86.73%88.61%
- 2FOR HONOR$0.04/1hr80h69.80%68.69%
- 3Grim Dawn$0.04/1hr86h92.75%93.44%
- 4Mount & Blade: Warband$0.05/1hr95h97.19%97.71%
- 5Brotato$0.06/1hr47h95.09%95.92%
- 6Dying Light$0.07/1hr36h95.09%95.23%
- 7The Surge$0.07/1hr27h79.58%74.54%
- 8Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem$0.08/1hr36h59.62%55.86%
- 9Warhammer: Vermintide 2$0.08/1hr36h85.05%85.04%
- 10Warhammer: Chaosbane$0.09/1hr16h74.63%58.41%
- 11Chronicon$0.10/1hr49h89.58%94.10%
- 12Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr47h87.87%88.42%
- 13Titan Quest Anniversary Edition$0.10/1hr48h89.21%90.27%
- 14Killing Floor 2$0.11/1hr27h88.04%88.26%
- 15Death's Door$0.11/1hr17h90.85%93.14%
- 16Moonlighter$0.12/1hr16h82.48%81.38%
- 17Middle-earth: Shadow of War$0.13/1hr40h88.64%88.94%
- 18Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.13/1hr23h87.26%88.05%
- 19Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr$0.13/1hr37h78.85%76.01%
- 20Alice: Madness Returns$0.14/1hr18h89.40%90.77%
- 21Torchlight II$0.14/1hr28h91.22%92.54%
- 22Afterimage$0.14/1hr34h81.46%77.34%
- 23Halls of Torment$0.15/1hr34h92.90%95.33%
- 24The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.53%75.35%
- 25MORDHAU$0.15/1hr20h80.32%79.89%
- 26Torchlight$0.16/1hr19h87.45%90.51%
- 27Heroes of Hammerwatch$0.16/1hr19h86.28%87.44%
- 28Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor$0.16/1hr24h91.83%92.52%
- 29Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition$0.17/1hr27h80.79%78.67%
- 30Dead Island 2$0.17/1hr29h79.43%77.49%
- 31Dust: An Elysian Tail$0.17/1hr17h91.92%95.14%
- 32Army of Ruin$0.18/1hr17h85.81%88.06%
- 33Lost Castle / 失落城堡$0.19/1hr16h86.08%86.46%
- 34Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition$0.21/1hr10h79.69%74.45%
- 35Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 36Dark Messiah of Might & Magic$0.22/1hr12h88.24%90.83%
- 37Shadow Warrior$0.22/1hr14h90.07%91.90%
- 38Shadow Warrior 2$0.22/1hr13h86.56%87.05%
- 39Going Under$0.22/1hr9h86.64%90.12%
- 40Darksiders Genesis$0.25/1hr18h83.19%81.75%
- 41HELLDIVERS Dive Harder Edition$0.25/1hr16h89.19%90.39%
- 42Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale$0.26/1hr15h89.84%96.03%
- 43Brutal Legend$0.27/1hr11h90.54%93.16%
- 44Children of Morta$0.28/1hr12h87.42%88.38%
- 45Bastion$0.29/1hr10h93.18%95.27%
- 46Hob$0.30/1hr14h86.26%88.18%
- 47RUINER$0.31/1hr6h87.53%88.93%
- 48Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide$0.33/1hr9h81.63%79.98%
- 49Insect Swarm$0.33/1hr7h84.96%84.15%
- 50FATE$0.34/1hr12h88.33%95.36%
- 51Castle Crashers$0.34/1hr13h95.45%96.18%
- 52Wizard with a Gun$0.34/1hr15h83.81%80.37%
- 53Cat Quest II$0.36/1hr10h88.86%95.21%
- 54Blue Fire$0.36/1hr11h84.31%81.49%
- 55Cat Quest$0.37/1hr9h89.62%94.61%
- 56One Piece Pirate Warriors 3$0.37/1hr11h81.35%77.84%
- 57Chivalry: Medieval Warfare$0.38/1hr13h82.93%82.58%
- 58Welcome to ParadiZe$0.38/1hr12h82.21%67.39%
- 59Hyper Light Drifter$0.38/1hr13h90.26%92.91%
- 60Transistor$0.39/1hr10h91.83%93.95%
- 61Gauntlet Slayer Edition$0.46/1hr7h83.63%82.13%
- 62Wizard of Legend$0.47/1hr10h88.80%90.51%
- 63How to Survive$0.49/1hr8h83.60%82.67%
- 64Ryse: Son of Rome$0.50/1hr7h86.75%87.10%
- 65POSTAL 4: No Regerts$0.51/1hr10h73.38%65.32%
- 66LIZARDS MUST DIE$0.52/1hr2h93.18%96.21%
- 67Anomaly Agent$0.60/1hr6h90.01%94.83%
- 68ICEY$0.72/1hr5h88.80%89.88%
- 69Juice Galaxy$0.81/1hr6h92.03%98.50%
- 70Bright Memory$1.90/1hr2h88.77%89.85%
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.