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.
- 1Sid Meier’s Civilization VI$0.06/1hr95h86.13%86.15%
- 2Transport Fever 2$0.07/1hr60h89.15%90.32%
- 3Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete$0.09/1hr43h87.19%89.48%
- 4RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.16/1hr38h89.41%94.31%
- 5Dyson Sphere Program$0.16/1hr123h96.23%97.42%
- 6The Guild II Renaissance$0.17/1hr58h84.80%83.52%
- 7The Lost Village$0.17/1hr69h82.06%71.39%
- 8Age of Empires II (Retired)$0.19/1hr105h94.90%95.83%
- 9Frostpunk$0.21/1hr29h92.24%92.74%
- 10Settlement Survival$0.22/1hr24h85.20%85.04%
- 11Parkitect$0.25/1hr47h89.36%94.20%
- 12Tropico 4$0.26/1hr59h88.93%91.69%
- 13Per Aspera$0.26/1hr29h81.88%75.91%
- 14Planetbase$0.29/1hr53h82.52%79.75%
- 15Gladiator Guild Manager$0.30/1hr16h84.16%81.09%
- 16Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.31/1hr48h84.14%82.39%
- 17Parkasaurus$0.36/1hr7h86.78%93.16%
- 18Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.38/1hr29h90.27%94.26%
- 19Banished$0.39/1hr52h89.48%90.43%
- 20Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.41/1hr24h93.60%97.48%
- 21Cardboard Town$0.41/1hr10h84.38%79.91%
- 22Tropico 5$0.42/1hr48h81.42%78.65%
- 23IXION$0.42/1hr25h81.18%78.79%
- 24Kingdoms Reborn$0.42/1hr47h87.86%90.37%
- 25Rise of Nations: Extended Edition$0.44/1hr46h91.10%94.68%
- 26OpenTTD$0.44/1hr22h91.18%94.63%
- 27Border Pioneer$0.46/1hr16h85.60%86.57%
- 28Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.48/1hr31h86.65%88.79%
- 29Heart of the Machine$0.48/1hr22h86.47%91.47%
- 30Craft The World$0.49/1hr38h87.30%88.41%
- 31下一站江湖Ⅱ$0.50/1hr40h78.93%72.17%
- 32Stronghold HD (2012)$0.51/1hr12h90.58%95.53%
- 33Dorfromantik$0.55/1hr17h93.55%96.33%
- 34TheoTown$0.55/1hr18h88.37%94.67%
- 35ContractVille$0.56/1hr18h83.62%80.88%
- 36Kingdoms and Castles$0.58/1hr35h91.58%93.57%
- 37SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition$0.61/1hr33h83.84%82.24%
- 38Mini Motorways$0.66/1hr15h93.09%96.27%
- 39RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack$0.71/1hr14h86.92%89.63%
- 40Age of Empires: Definitive Edition$0.71/1hr28h84.72%84.27%
- 41Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.78/1hr19h85.97%86.50%
- 42Citadelum$0.83/1hr15h85.21%84.04%
- 43Tavern Master$0.84/1hr18h89.22%92.14%
- 44Let's School$0.84/1hr24h88.48%92.70%
- 45A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA$0.89/1hr23h76.54%70.58%
- 46Kingdom Two Crowns$0.90/1hr22h89.21%90.17%
- 47Cossacks 3$0.91/1hr22h83.46%82.25%
- 48SUMMERHOUSE$0.91/1hr4h87.26%92.97%
- 49TerraScape$0.92/1hr16h85.99%88.59%
- 50The Tenants$0.94/1hr21h82.53%78.82%
- 51Thronefall$0.95/1hr14h92.92%96.13%
- 52The Infected$1.18/1hr14h84.83%84.11%
- 53Minami Lane$1.20/1hr4h90.17%97.38%
- 54Nordhold$1.26/1hr16h85.73%86.66%
- 55Havendock$1.27/1hr16h84.35%79.30%
- 56Dystopika$1.39/1hr3h88.05%95.80%
- 57Kingdom Eighties$1.51/1hr8h82.88%75.28%
- 58Becastled$1.93/1hr10h84.09%81.73%
- 59Ratropolis$1.96/1hr9h86.28%87.84%
- 60Townscaper$2.11/1hr3h92.14%95.28%
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.