Best Value Tower Defense Games Under $5
The Tower Defense 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.
- 1Dungeon Defenders$0.03/1hr96h90.57%93.09%
- 2GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.04/1hr50h88.16%94.90%
- 3Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense$0.04/1hr23h93.04%97.25%
- 4Bloons TD 6$0.05/1hr105h96.96%97.18%
- 5Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr34h93.72%97.48%
- 6Mindustry$0.06/1hr62h92.97%95.73%
- 7Wall World$0.08/1hr13h88.19%90.56%
- 8Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.72%87.07%
- 9Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 10Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.09/1hr27h90.33%96.33%
- 11Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 12最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect$0.10/1hr41h83.56%52.93%
- 13Craft The World$0.12/1hr38h87.43%88.40%
- 14Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.14/1hr28h91.44%96.68%
- 15Cluckmech Oasis$0.16/1hr30h86.01%88.28%
- 16Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.18/1hr17h85.22%85.25%
- 17Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 18Orcs Must Die!$0.20/1hr12h90.41%95.84%
- 19Warpips$0.20/1hr13h85.84%87.11%
- 20Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.22/1hr20h85.87%86.53%
- 21Bloons TD 5$0.23/1hr18h90.63%94.68%
- 22Orcs Must Die! 2$0.23/1hr16h89.85%92.23%
- 23Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 24Dome Keeper$0.23/1hr20h90.14%92.35%
- 25Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr11h89.94%93.26%
- 26Heretic's Fork$0.33/1hr15h85.52%84.90%
- 27X-Morph: Defense$0.33/1hr12h86.99%91.26%
- 28Progressbar95$0.35/1hr11h88.12%96.14%
- 29Yet Another Zombie Defense HD$0.36/1hr2h84.33%82.05%
- 30Rock of Ages$0.41/1hr5h87.19%92.08%
- 31Ultimate Zombie Defense$0.42/1hr4h85.16%85.11%
- 32Kingdom Eighties$0.49/1hr7h82.72%75.34%
- 33Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder$0.51/1hr6h85.38%85.90%
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.