Best Games Under $5
Five bucks or less, and good enough that I would still buy it.
Two numbers make the cut. A real price of five dollars or less, and a BANG of 76 or better. That 76 sits nine points under the 85 where the BANGER tier starts everywhere else on the site, and I would drop it again. Under five bucks the downside is a sandwich, so a game only has to be clearly good. At 85 this list would be 342 games. At 76 it is 807, and the extra 465 are ones I would actually buy.
More about this list
Start with the obvious hole. 79 of them have no verified length from HowLongToBeat, so their value read is thinner than the number looks, and 229 rest on fewer than 500 reviews. Price moves too, so a good chunk of this list is cheap this week and full price the next.
Hello Charlotte EP3: Childhood's End leads it at 100. The Room is 92.9 across 31,899 reviews, a puzzle box that holds up a decade on, which is not what a five dollar shelf is supposed to look like. Hexcells is 97, 1.9 hours of pure logic grid, and it lists at $2.99. Vampire Survivors is 94.9 off 266,984 reviews and lists at $4.99, a genuinely famous game that is permanently this cheap. Big-budget games pass through a list like this during a sale and leave again when it ends.
