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.
- 1Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr34h93.72%97.48%
- 2Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 3Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 4Against the Storm$0.11/1hr82h92.49%94.44%
- 5Space Haven$0.11/1hr89h85.49%85.76%
- 6Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 7The Lost Village$0.17/1hr72h81.84%71.20%
- 8Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 9The Guild II Renaissance$0.18/1hr55h84.68%83.51%
- 10Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 11Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 12Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 13Empires of the Undergrowth$0.21/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 14Settlement Survival$0.23/1hr22h85.12%85.04%
- 15Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr42h85.24%85.25%
- 16Per Aspera$0.24/1hr31h81.79%75.91%
- 17Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.25/1hr40h85.56%87.77%
- 18Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.28/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 19Kingdoms Reborn$0.32/1hr63h87.75%90.38%
- 20Clanfolk$0.32/1hr47h86.39%91.61%
- 21Eden Crafters$0.32/1hr31h85.06%85.47%
- 22Norland$0.33/1hr45h83.36%81.63%
- 23Astro Colony$0.34/1hr29h83.47%80.55%
- 24Dawn of Man$0.34/1hr37h86.22%86.80%
- 25Sengoku Dynasty$0.38/1hr35h80.59%74.75%
- 26Fabledom$0.39/1hr19h85.18%85.17%
- 27Banished$0.44/1hr46h89.45%90.43%
- 28Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.48/1hr31h84.45%82.43%
- 29Kingdom Eighties$0.49/1hr7h82.72%75.34%
- 30Craft The World$0.49/1hr38h87.43%88.40%
- 31Kingdoms and Castles$0.50/1hr40h91.54%93.57%
- 32Havendock$0.53/1hr11h84.02%79.26%
- 33Plan B: Terraform$0.54/1hr30h86.78%91.18%
- 34Flotsam$0.56/1hr22h83.67%81.11%
- 35The Wandering Village$0.58/1hr26h88.62%91.97%
- 36Farm Together$0.58/1hr34h91.30%94.07%
- 37Frozenheim$0.59/1hr15h80.72%69.37%
- 38Castle Story$0.59/1hr17h75.16%65.19%
- 39WorldBox - God Simulator$0.62/1hr32h93.82%95.33%
- 40Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.74/1hr20h85.87%86.53%
- 41Fantasy Map Simulator$0.75/1hr11h86.39%89.17%
- 42SPORE$1.00/1hr20h91.73%92.63%
- 43Becastled$1.53/1hr13h83.93%81.71%
- 44One Hour One Life$1.64/1hr9h83.40%79.54%
- 45Academia : School Simulator$2.15/1hr9h84.87%83.88%
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.