Best Value Colony Sim Games Under $10

The Colony Sim games on Steam games under $10 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.

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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.
  1. 1High Sea Saga DX$0.12/1hr
  2. 2Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.14/1hr
  3. 3Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.15/1hr
  4. 4The Guild II Renaissance$0.18/1hr
  5. 5Frostpunk$0.21/1hr
  6. 6Factory Town Idle$0.21/1hr
  7. 7Per Aspera$0.24/1hr
  8. 8Endzone - A World Apart$0.26/1hr
  9. 9Kingdoms and Castles$0.37/1hr
  10. 10Pharaoh: A New Era$0.40/1hr
  11. 11Stronghold HD (2012)$0.40/1hr
  12. 12The Sushi Spinnery$0.42/1hr
  13. 13Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.42/1hr
  14. 14Fabledom$0.45/1hr
  15. 15ISLANDERS$0.45/1hr
  16. 16Fantasy Map Simulator$0.70/1hr
  17. 17Castle Story$0.93/1hr
  18. 18Buggos$0.95/1hr

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.