Best Value Story Rich Games Under $5
The Story Rich 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.
- 1The Elder Scrolls Online$0.03/1hr183h81.30%80.88%
- 2Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition$0.03/1hr27h91.09%94.86%
- 3The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut$0.03/1hr43h89.00%89.43%
- 4The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition$0.04/1hr110h92.09%92.19%
- 5Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition$0.04/1hr107h83.79%83.47%
- 6FOR HONOR$0.04/1hr80h69.80%68.69%
- 7Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition$0.04/1hr80h79.28%77.61%
- 8Company of Heroes$0.05/1hr60h91.08%94.22%
- 9Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition$0.05/1hr73h88.27%89.20%
- 10Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.06/1hr50h80.06%78.65%
- 11Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus$0.06/1hr24h88.65%91.02%
- 12Touhou Mystia's Izakaya$0.06/1hr49h95.44%98.56%
- 13Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut$0.06/1hr31h90.26%91.95%
- 14CrossCode$0.07/1hr61h89.73%92.37%
- 15FINAL FANTASY VIII$0.07/1hr73h86.52%88.17%
- 16Styx: Master of Shadows$0.07/1hr29h83.73%83.28%
- 17Bean Battles$0.07/1hr7h89.53%93.83%
- 18Solasta: Crown of the Magister$0.07/1hr44h86.23%86.70%
- 19Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.07/1hr36h90.39%93.89%
- 20Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 21Dying Light$0.07/1hr36h95.09%95.23%
- 22Gothic II: Gold Edition$0.07/1hr71h90.41%93.84%
- 23The Surge$0.07/1hr27h79.58%74.54%
- 24STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords$0.07/1hr55h91.02%93.61%
- 25Fallout: New Vegas$0.07/1hr69h95.69%95.98%
- 26Kingdom Come: Deliverance$0.07/1hr61h84.62%84.43%
- 27Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr27h93.88%95.96%
- 28The Talos Principle 2$0.08/1hr40h90.37%94.92%
- 29The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition$0.08/1hr39h89.43%89.90%
- 30Beyond: Two Souls$0.08/1hr12h86.99%87.61%
- 31Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition$0.08/1hr36h93.37%94.90%
- 32Dishonored$0.09/1hr28h96.37%97.63%
- 33The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition (2009)$0.09/1hr43h93.45%95.01%
- 34Heavy Rain$0.09/1hr11h85.33%85.67%
- 35Deus Ex: Mankind Divided$0.09/1hr34h78.13%76.47%
- 36Risen$0.09/1hr40h86.65%88.84%
- 37Half-Life 2$0.09/1hr21h97.27%97.60%
- 38Batman: Arkham Knight$0.10/1hr42h89.45%89.72%
- 39The Walking Dead$0.10/1hr15h95.99%97.33%
- 40STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic$0.10/1hr40h89.74%91.07%
- 41Metro Exodus$0.10/1hr30h89.62%89.95%
- 42This War of Mine$0.10/1hr20h93.03%93.83%
- 43Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen$0.10/1hr47h87.87%88.42%
- 44HuniePop$0.10/1hr19h93.08%95.57%
- 45Loop Hero$0.10/1hr29h91.10%92.72%
- 46Titan Quest Anniversary Edition$0.10/1hr48h89.21%90.27%
- 47Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition$0.11/1hr28h93.12%94.11%
- 48Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$0.11/1hr45h87.69%89.58%
- 49Monster Sanctuary$0.11/1hr45h88.56%91.22%
- 50Gothic 1$0.11/1hr45h89.63%92.55%
- 51Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales$0.11/1hr35h88.10%89.78%
- 52Psychonauts$0.11/1hr18h91.60%94.92%
- 53Tricolour Lovestory$0.11/1hr6h82.22%81.16%
- 54Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.12/1hr10h82.59%82.28%
- 55DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2$0.12/1hr43h89.22%89.90%
- 56Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth$0.12/1hr17h88.25%92.28%
- 57Assassin’s Creed Rogue$0.12/1hr34h86.10%86.51%
- 58Graveyard Keeper$0.12/1hr41h85.28%85.30%
- 59Metro: Last Light Redux$0.12/1hr16h90.64%91.31%
- 60Middle-earth: Shadow of War$0.13/1hr40h88.64%88.94%
- 61Deponia$0.13/1hr8h85.68%86.18%
- 62Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.13/1hr23h87.26%88.05%
- 63Gothic 3$0.13/1hr38h82.76%81.54%
- 64Ori and the Will of the Wisps$0.13/1hr22h95.78%96.50%
- 65Valkyria Chronicles$0.14/1hr36h87.89%89.93%
- 66GreedFall$0.14/1hr25h79.06%76.01%
- 67Alice: Madness Returns$0.14/1hr18h89.40%90.77%
- 68Half-Life: Opposing Force$0.14/1hr7h92.90%95.36%
- 69Hacknet$0.14/1hr11h91.22%93.53%
- 70Afterimage$0.14/1hr34h81.46%77.34%
- 71The Surge 2$0.15/1hr20h80.53%75.35%
- 72Metro 2033 Redux$0.15/1hr13h91.83%92.29%
- 73Watch_Dogs 2$0.15/1hr16h82.36%82.09%
- 74Mirror$0.15/1hr5h95.17%96.36%
- 75Hitman: Absolution$0.15/1hr13h92.11%93.20%
- 76Undertale$0.16/1hr16h96.27%96.51%
- 77Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition$0.16/1hr25h94.95%96.19%
- 78Nothing$0.16/1hr3h89.62%94.08%
- 79Portal 2$0.16/1hr12h98.49%98.71%
- 80Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor$0.16/1hr24h91.83%92.52%
- 81Punch Club$0.16/1hr12h82.15%80.23%
- 82Vampyr$0.17/1hr24h79.82%77.46%
- 83Homefront: The Revolution$0.17/1hr12h69.90%60.99%
- 84Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition$0.17/1hr27h80.79%78.67%
- 85Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 86AI: The Somnium Files$0.17/1hr24h88.12%91.49%
- 87Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.17/1hr23h87.64%89.86%
- 88Do Not Feed the Monkeys$0.17/1hr9h89.47%93.55%
- 89Dust: An Elysian Tail$0.17/1hr17h91.92%95.14%
- 90West of Loathing$0.18/1hr19h91.53%97.68%
- 91Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions$0.18/1hr27h79.90%72.10%
- 92Half-Life$0.18/1hr11h96.02%96.49%
- 93The Witness$0.18/1hr22h84.35%84.40%
- 94Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition$0.18/1hr17h95.22%96.37%
- 95The Talos Principle$0.18/1hr25h92.95%95.29%
- 96This Is the Police$0.18/1hr20h83.63%82.26%
- 97Celeste$0.18/1hr27h96.63%97.40%
- 98The Room Three$0.19/1hr8h90.62%95.34%
- 99Tales of the Neon Sea$0.19/1hr9h84.59%85.22%
- 100Coromon$0.19/1hr26h84.72%84.44%
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.