Best Value City Builder Games Under $20
The City Builder games on Steam games under $20 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.
- 1RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.05/1hr33h89.33%94.31%
- 2Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr34h93.72%97.48%
- 3Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 4Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 5Kenshi$0.10/1hr118h94.77%95.59%
- 6Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete$0.10/1hr48h87.07%89.49%
- 7Against the Storm$0.11/1hr82h92.49%94.44%
- 8Space Haven$0.11/1hr89h85.49%85.76%
- 9Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 10Tropico 4$0.14/1hr32h88.83%91.69%
- 11Dyson Sphere Program$0.15/1hr129h96.21%97.42%
- 12RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack$0.16/1hr15h86.83%89.64%
- 13The Lost Village$0.17/1hr72h81.84%71.20%
- 14Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 15The Guild II Renaissance$0.18/1hr55h84.68%83.51%
- 16Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 17Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 18Smalland: Survive the Wilds$0.20/1hr35h83.35%81.61%
- 19Age of Empires II (Retired)$0.20/1hr99h94.89%95.83%
- 20Empires of the Undergrowth$0.21/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 21Settlement Survival$0.23/1hr22h85.12%85.04%
- 22Cataclismo$0.23/1hr39h86.28%88.80%
- 23Tropico 5$0.23/1hr30h81.33%78.67%
- 24Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr42h85.24%85.25%
- 25Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 26Per Aspera$0.24/1hr31h81.79%75.91%
- 27HUMANKIND$0.27/1hr47h73.27%69.14%
- 28Tropico 6$0.27/1hr37h87.08%87.73%
- 29OpenTTD$0.29/1hr19h91.13%94.62%
- 30Project Hospital$0.31/1hr33h86.98%88.89%
- 31Rise of Nations: Extended Edition$0.32/1hr63h91.01%94.68%
- 32Kingdoms Reborn$0.32/1hr63h87.75%90.38%
- 33Clanfolk$0.32/1hr47h86.39%91.61%
- 34Norland$0.33/1hr45h83.36%81.63%
- 35Dawn of Man$0.34/1hr37h86.22%86.80%
- 36Sengoku Dynasty$0.38/1hr35h80.59%74.75%
- 37Fabledom$0.39/1hr19h85.18%85.17%
- 38Heart of the Machine$0.40/1hr22h86.29%91.51%
- 39Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.42/1hr26h90.44%94.23%
- 40The Infected$0.43/1hr17h84.73%84.09%
- 41Gladiator Guild Manager$0.43/1hr11h83.99%81.07%
- 42Banished$0.44/1hr46h89.45%90.43%
- 43Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.48/1hr31h84.45%82.43%
- 44Kingdom Eighties$0.49/1hr7h82.72%75.34%
- 45Craft The World$0.49/1hr38h87.43%88.40%
- 46Kingdoms and Castles$0.50/1hr40h91.54%93.57%
- 47ContractVille$0.51/1hr19h82.94%80.85%
- 48Mini Motorways$0.52/1hr19h93.05%96.26%
- 49Havendock$0.53/1hr11h84.02%79.26%
- 50TheoTown$0.53/1hr19h87.65%94.69%
- 51Flotsam$0.56/1hr22h83.67%81.11%
- 52TerraScape$0.57/1hr13h86.30%88.61%
- 53The Wandering Village$0.58/1hr26h88.62%91.97%
- 54Nordhold$0.58/1hr17h85.53%86.56%
- 55SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition$0.60/1hr33h83.72%82.25%
- 56Age of Empires: Definitive Edition$0.64/1hr31h84.63%84.29%
- 57Let's School$0.68/1hr29h88.40%92.70%
- 58Townscaper$0.70/1hr3h92.09%95.28%
- 59Tavern Master$0.72/1hr21h89.14%92.12%
- 60A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA$0.72/1hr28h76.44%70.57%
- 61Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.74/1hr20h85.87%86.53%
- 62Cossacks 3$0.74/1hr27h83.39%82.28%
- 63Thronefall$0.77/1hr17h92.88%96.13%
- 64Gourdlets$0.96/1hr5h85.72%92.33%
- 65Dorfromantik$1.07/1hr13h93.51%96.32%
- 66Border Pioneer$1.09/1hr13h85.90%86.53%
- 67Minami Lane$1.34/1hr4h90.09%97.35%
- 68Becastled$1.53/1hr13h83.93%81.71%
- 69SUMMERHOUSE$1.56/1hr3h86.46%92.98%
- 70Ratropolis$2.08/1hr9h86.53%87.88%
- 71Academia : School Simulator$2.15/1hr9h84.87%83.88%
- 72Dystopika$2.15/1hr3h87.25%95.75%
- 73Cardboard Town$2.64/1hr8h84.64%79.76%
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.