5 minutes

5 minutes

DIG Games · October 14, 2025 · Action, Casual, Arcade, 2D Platformer, Minimalist

Buy 5 minutes from Steam at $2.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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9 user reviews33% · 9
Best price
$2.99
lowest tracked $0.49
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5 minutes price by region

5 minutes costs £0.30 in the United Kingdom, €0.35 in Europe (EUR), zł1.96 in Poland, $2.19 in Georgia (USD), $2.99 in the United States, CA$3.59 in Canada, A$4.25 in Australia, NZ$4.79 in New Zealand and R$11.99 in Brazil right now.

Cheapest 5 minutes offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £0.30 −89% £2.65 £0.30 2
Europe (EUR) €0.35 −89% €3.15 €0.35 2
Poland zł1.96 −84% zł12.49 zł1.96 2
Georgia (USD) $2.19 $2.19 — 1
United Statesyour region $2.99 $2.99 — 1
Canada CA$3.59 CA$3.59 — 1
Australia A$4.25 A$4.25 — 1
New Zealand NZ$4.79 NZ$4.79 — 1
Brazil R$11.99 R$11.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About 5 minutes

✦ AI summary

5 Minutes is a brutal roguelike arcade game where you battle through randomly generated stages filled with relentless enemies and deadly traps with no checkpoints or second chances. Its punishing permadeath difficulty and retro pixel art create a merciless test of reflexes and patience that's designed to break even veteran players.

5 Minutes is not just a game.
It’s a sentence. An arena where your patience, reflexes, and sanity are put to the test. A psychological battlefield disguised as entertainment, designed to break even the most seasoned players.There are no save games here, no checkpoints, no mercy. Every time you start 5 Minutes, you’re thrown back to the beginning, fully aware that any mistake—no matter how small—could be your last. Death is permanent. And defeat is inevitable.The universe of 5 Minutes is built in visceral pixel art, a retro aesthetic that evokes the brutality of the arcade classics, but pushed to the limits of absurdity. The deceptively simple visuals clash cruelly with the density of the challenge. Each stage is randomly generated, ensuring no path is ever repeated, no pattern ever mastered, and that every attempt feels like facing an entirely new nightmare.Your goal? To find the final stage.
Simple on paper. Unreachable in reality.
Every level is a trial by fire: ruthless enemies, hidden traps, environments that bend against you, and paths that punish both haste and hesitation in equal measure. Surviving a single stage is already an achievement. Reaching the end… almost a legend.5 Minutes offers no comfort. No respite. No forgiveness. It’s a game for those unafraid to fall a thousand times, for those who see defeat not as failure, but as an invitation. For those who seek the glory of challenging the impossible, even if they never attain it.Prepare to enter.
Prepare to fail.
Prepare to die.This is the endless cycle of 5 Minutes:
Live. Fall. Restart.

5 minutes — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

5 minutes is criticized by players as AI-generated content that feels poorly made, with complaints that it's a low-effort platformer shooter combining Flappy Bird jumping mechanics with basic shooting that players describe as among the worst games on Steam. Players express frustration that the developer appears to have used AI generation throughout the game despite claims otherwise, viewing it as a scam rather than a genuine creative work.

Not recommended Feb 8, 2026
[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url] This game is partially or completely made with talentless, soulless AI generated content.[/quote] "5 minutes" is a bunch of AI slop... while the "developer" of this garbage AI slop claims it's only the marketing stuff, AI Slop imagery is present in the game title screen and elsewhere. So this is a case of a developer trying to scam gamers out of money for AI Slop that they vibe coded... the entire game feels like it was the result of badly done AI prompting. As game, this is complete and utter crap. It's a platformer shooter that uses a Flappy Bird mechanism to jump over obstacles, and you click to shoot enemies. It truly is one of the worst games on Steam, and the fact that it's just vibe coded AI Slop being pushed at games [b]for profit[/b] is a heinous insult to the entire gaming industry. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game …
7 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 23, 2025
i stole this from crow, sorry slop
3 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 1, 2026
WEIRD
1 found this helpful

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