Best Value Colony Sim Games Under $40
The Colony Sim games on Steam games under $40 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%
- 4RimWorld$0.10/1hr292h97.47%97.85%
- 5Against the Storm$0.11/1hr82h92.49%94.44%
- 6Space Haven$0.11/1hr89h85.49%85.76%
- 7Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 8Oxygen Not Included$0.14/1hr184h95.97%96.72%
- 9The Lost Village$0.17/1hr72h81.84%71.20%
- 10Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 11The Guild II Renaissance$0.18/1hr55h84.68%83.51%
- 12Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 13Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 14Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 15Empires of the Undergrowth$0.21/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 16Settlement Survival$0.23/1hr22h85.12%85.04%
- 17Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.23/1hr107h85.49%85.62%
- 18Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr42h85.24%85.25%
- 19Per Aspera$0.24/1hr31h81.79%75.91%
- 20Timberborn$0.25/1hr98h93.89%95.97%
- 21Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.25/1hr40h85.56%87.77%
- 22Captain of Industry$0.27/1hr92h87.94%90.31%
- 23Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.28/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 24ASKA$0.31/1hr82h82.33%80.00%
- 25Ratopia$0.32/1hr69h86.02%87.74%
- 26Kingdoms Reborn$0.32/1hr63h87.75%90.38%
- 27Clanfolk$0.32/1hr47h86.39%91.61%
- 28Railroads Online$0.32/1hr89h81.19%74.57%
- 29Eden Crafters$0.32/1hr31h85.06%85.47%
- 30Occupy Mars: The Game$0.33/1hr91h81.24%69.78%
- 31Norland$0.33/1hr45h83.36%81.63%
- 32Astro Colony$0.34/1hr29h83.47%80.55%
- 33Dawn of Man$0.34/1hr37h86.22%86.80%
- 34Going Medieval$0.35/1hr86h87.83%89.07%
- 35Songs of Syx$0.37/1hr67h89.55%94.25%
- 36They Are Billions$0.38/1hr80h85.13%85.12%
- 37Sengoku Dynasty$0.38/1hr35h80.59%74.75%
- 38Soulmask$0.39/1hr78h79.52%77.00%
- 39Stationeers$0.39/1hr90h86.42%87.76%
- 40Fabledom$0.39/1hr19h85.18%85.17%
- 41Colony Survival$0.42/1hr59h88.47%92.11%
- 42Dwarf Fortress$0.43/1hr70h92.44%94.74%
- 43Banished$0.44/1hr46h89.45%90.43%
- 44Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.48/1hr31h84.45%82.43%
- 45Kingdom Eighties$0.49/1hr7h82.72%75.34%
- 46Craft The World$0.49/1hr38h87.43%88.40%
- 47Kingdoms and Castles$0.50/1hr40h91.54%93.57%
- 48Havendock$0.53/1hr11h84.02%79.26%
- 49Plan B: Terraform$0.54/1hr30h86.78%91.18%
- 50Flotsam$0.56/1hr22h83.67%81.11%
- 51The Wandering Village$0.58/1hr26h88.62%91.97%
- 52Farm Together$0.58/1hr34h91.30%94.07%
- 53Foundation$0.59/1hr60h86.23%86.66%
- 54Frozenheim$0.59/1hr15h80.72%69.37%
- 55Castle Story$0.59/1hr17h75.16%65.19%
- 56WorldBox - God Simulator$0.62/1hr32h93.82%95.33%
- 57Infection Free Zone$0.64/1hr39h82.25%80.67%
- 58下一站江湖Ⅱ$0.71/1hr35h78.85%72.17%
- 59Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.74/1hr20h85.87%86.53%
- 60Fantasy Map Simulator$0.75/1hr11h86.39%89.17%
- 61Cult of the Lamb$0.77/1hr33h95.12%95.89%
- 62Stranded: Alien Dawn$0.81/1hr43h84.39%83.70%
- 63Diplomacy is Not an Option$0.83/1hr36h85.39%85.55%
- 64Ostriv$0.83/1hr30h89.46%95.03%
- 65Pharaoh: A New Era$0.94/1hr24h81.61%74.99%
- 66Pioneers of Pagonia$0.96/1hr36h83.85%81.42%
- 67Frostpunk$1.00/1hr30h92.23%92.74%
- 68SPORE$1.00/1hr20h91.73%92.63%
- 69The Universim$1.03/1hr29h82.23%79.46%
- 70Sapiens$1.07/1hr23h84.08%80.54%
- 71Surviving the Aftermath$1.17/1hr26h80.54%70.47%
- 72IXION$1.20/1hr29h81.09%78.79%
- 73The Crust$1.27/1hr25h82.50%76.54%
- 74Becastled$1.53/1hr13h83.93%81.71%
- 75Prison Architect$1.64/1hr18h87.54%87.86%
- 76One Hour One Life$1.64/1hr9h83.40%79.54%
- 77Frostpunk 2$1.65/1hr23h77.59%74.79%
- 78Reus 2$1.80/1hr14h87.37%94.26%
- 79Academia : School Simulator$2.15/1hr9h84.87%83.88%
- 80MEMORIAPOLIS$2.36/1hr13h83.45%75.61%
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.