Best Value Colony Sim Games Under $20
The Colony Sim 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.
- 1Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.12/1hr36h84.31%82.44%
- 2High Sea Saga DX$0.12/1hr58h84.84%82.17%
- 3Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.13/1hr51h85.55%86.85%
- 4The Guild II Renaissance$0.19/1hr53h84.54%83.49%
- 5Frostpunk$0.21/1hr22h92.20%92.73%
- 6Railroads Online$0.21/1hr73h81.12%74.68%
- 7Factory Town Idle$0.21/1hr24h85.63%90.84%
- 8Per Aspera$0.23/1hr32h81.67%75.91%
- 9Endzone - A World Apart$0.23/1hr11h80.88%76.75%
- 10Ratopia$0.24/1hr54h85.89%87.80%
- 11Space Haven$0.25/1hr60h85.41%85.80%
- 12Planetbase$0.26/1hr57h82.30%79.73%
- 13ASKA$0.27/1hr75h82.17%79.82%
- 14Astro Colony$0.30/1hr53h84.11%80.83%
- 15Stonehearth$0.30/1hr66h79.49%75.28%
- 16Eden Crafters$0.34/1hr38h85.08%85.46%
- 17Kingdoms and Castles$0.36/1hr28h91.47%93.55%
- 18Stronghold HD (2012)$0.37/1hr16h90.37%95.54%
- 19Banished$0.42/1hr48h89.40%90.42%
- 20The Sushi Spinnery$0.42/1hr16h85.30%92.69%
- 21Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.42/1hr24h93.48%97.53%
- 22Pharaoh: A New Era$0.43/1hr23h81.51%74.95%
- 23Kingdoms Reborn$0.43/1hr46h87.68%90.47%
- 24Fabledom$0.44/1hr19h85.05%85.15%
- 25Farm Together$0.50/1hr40h91.24%94.08%
- 26Flotsam$0.51/1hr24h83.70%80.87%
- 27Plan B: Terraform$0.52/1hr25h86.61%91.18%
- 28ISLANDERS$0.53/1hr9h90.90%94.43%
- 29Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition$0.55/1hr27h85.54%87.60%
- 30Craft The World$0.58/1hr33h87.11%88.36%
- 31Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.64/1hr31h85.64%87.77%
- 32Fantasy Map Simulator$0.66/1hr12h86.19%89.06%
- 33WorldBox - God Simulator$0.68/1hr29h93.73%95.31%
- 34The Wandering Village$0.76/1hr20h88.15%91.95%
- 35Factory Town$0.78/1hr26h86.73%90.66%
- 36Cattails: Wildwood Story$0.83/1hr24h86.99%97.49%
- 37Kingdom Two Crowns$0.83/1hr24h89.15%90.22%
- 38Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.85/1hr18h85.73%86.46%
- 39Castle Story$0.93/1hr11h74.73%65.06%
- 40Buggos$0.95/1hr11h85.34%87.90%
- 41Settlement Survival$1.03/1hr19h85.15%85.36%
- 42Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$1.06/1hr14h86.39%88.86%
- 43Academia : School Simulator$1.23/1hr16h85.14%85.67%
- 44SPORE$1.31/1hr15h91.67%92.60%
- 45Kingdom Eighties$1.35/1hr9h82.59%75.33%
- 46One Hour One Life$1.48/1hr10h83.39%79.97%
- 47Kingdom: New Lands$1.59/1hr9h85.29%85.54%
- 48Havendock$1.83/1hr10h84.07%79.38%
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.