Best Value Immersive Sim Games Under $5
The Immersive Sim 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.
- 1Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition$0.03/1hr27h91.09%94.86%
- 2theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.06/1hr35h89.03%89.07%
- 3Euro Truck Simulator 2$0.06/1hr81h97.35%97.44%
- 4Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut$0.06/1hr31h90.26%91.95%
- 5Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator$0.08/1hr57h84.16%83.77%
- 6Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.08/1hr31h86.77%87.04%
- 7Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 8HITMAN World of Assassination$0.08/1hr36h87.04%87.31%
- 9Dishonored$0.09/1hr28h96.37%97.63%
- 10Deus Ex: Mankind Divided$0.09/1hr34h78.13%76.47%
- 11Car Mechanic Simulator 2021$0.09/1hr33h93.56%95.72%
- 12Cruelty Squad$0.11/1hr19h92.93%96.02%
- 13Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.11/1hr9h93.47%97.57%
- 14American Truck Simulator$0.11/1hr45h96.50%96.92%
- 15ANEURISM IV$0.11/1hr44h80.74%75.15%
- 16Ultimate Fishing Simulator$0.12/1hr10h87.07%89.14%
- 17Streets of Rogue$0.12/1hr34h92.75%96.03%
- 18Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm$0.12/1hr24h91.05%92.59%
- 19Thief Simulator$0.13/1hr13h87.52%88.10%
- 20SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition$0.15/1hr33h83.72%82.25%
- 21Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm$0.17/1hr30h80.11%79.07%
- 22Streamer Life Simulator$0.17/1hr12h81.14%76.04%
- 23ContractVille$0.17/1hr19h82.94%80.85%
- 24Construction Simulator$0.19/1hr13h82.55%80.75%
- 25Electrician Simulator$0.19/1hr6h83.01%80.19%
- 26Far Cry 2$0.20/1hr15h78.98%75.67%
- 27Dark Messiah of Might & Magic$0.22/1hr12h88.24%90.83%
- 28BioShock 2 Remastered$0.22/1hr13h75.38%72.15%
- 29Cyber Manhunt$0.26/1hr13h89.54%92.31%
- 30Barro$0.29/1hr2h82.90%78.73%
- 31Animal Shelter$0.31/1hr10h85.26%87.66%
- 32My Dream Setup$0.33/1hr7h87.22%91.47%
- 33BioShock Remastered$0.35/1hr14h83.45%83.18%
- 34Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.39/1hr9h86.31%87.49%
- 35112 Operator$0.40/1hr12h86.67%88.68%
- 36Amnesia: The Bunker$0.45/1hr11h89.70%93.28%
- 37Sticky Business$0.47/1hr11h88.86%93.61%
- 38Knowledge, or know Lady$0.55/1hr9h89.93%95.21%
- 39JudgeSim$0.56/1hr6h84.90%84.52%
- 4060 Seconds! Reatomized$0.77/1hr6h91.32%94.44%
- 41Juice Galaxy$0.81/1hr6h92.03%98.50%
- 42Kiosk$1.19/1hr2h85.05%87.78%
- 43No Case Should Remain Unsolved$1.42/1hr3h90.97%96.37%
- 44[Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件$2.04/1hr2h85.07%87.59%
- 45The Exit 8$2.20/1hr1h89.38%92.99%
- 46Initial Drift Online$2.84/1hr1h76.67%62.06%
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.