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.
- 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%
- 4RimWorld$0.13/1hr269h97.35%97.86%
- 5The Guild II Renaissance$0.19/1hr53h84.54%83.49%
- 6Frostpunk$0.21/1hr22h92.20%92.73%
- 7Railroads Online$0.21/1hr73h81.12%74.68%
- 8Factory Town Idle$0.21/1hr24h85.63%90.84%
- 9Soulmask$0.23/1hr105h79.63%77.20%
- 10Per Aspera$0.23/1hr32h81.67%75.91%
- 11Endzone - A World Apart$0.23/1hr11h80.88%76.75%
- 12Stationeers$0.23/1hr150h86.29%87.72%
- 13Ratopia$0.24/1hr54h85.89%87.80%
- 14Space Haven$0.25/1hr60h85.41%85.80%
- 15Planetbase$0.26/1hr57h82.30%79.73%
- 16ASKA$0.27/1hr75h82.17%79.82%
- 17Captain of Industry$0.27/1hr89h87.76%90.22%
- 18Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.28/1hr88h85.41%85.59%
- 19Dwarf Fortress$0.29/1hr102h92.41%94.79%
- 20Astro Colony$0.30/1hr53h84.11%80.83%
- 21Stonehearth$0.30/1hr66h79.49%75.28%
- 22Oxygen Not Included$0.31/1hr80h95.97%96.74%
- 23Timberborn$0.32/1hr77h93.81%95.98%
- 24Eden Crafters$0.34/1hr38h85.08%85.46%
- 25Kingdoms and Castles$0.36/1hr28h91.47%93.55%
- 26Stronghold HD (2012)$0.37/1hr16h90.37%95.54%
- 27Banished$0.42/1hr48h89.40%90.42%
- 28The Sushi Spinnery$0.42/1hr16h85.30%92.69%
- 29Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.42/1hr24h93.48%97.53%
- 30They Are Billions$0.43/1hr70h85.12%85.14%
- 31Pharaoh: A New Era$0.43/1hr23h81.51%74.95%
- 32Kingdoms Reborn$0.43/1hr46h87.68%90.47%
- 33Fabledom$0.44/1hr19h85.05%85.15%
- 34Clanfolk$0.44/1hr68h86.88%91.65%
- 35Going Medieval$0.46/1hr65h87.81%89.14%
- 36Colony Survival$0.47/1hr53h88.34%92.10%
- 37Foundation$0.49/1hr48h86.07%86.53%
- 38Farm Together$0.50/1hr40h91.24%94.08%
- 39Songs of Syx$0.50/1hr50h89.48%94.49%
- 40Flotsam$0.51/1hr24h83.70%80.87%
- 41Plan B: Terraform$0.52/1hr25h86.61%91.18%
- 42Stranded: Alien Dawn$0.52/1hr67h84.67%84.40%
- 43The Crust$0.53/1hr56h82.77%76.77%
- 44ISLANDERS$0.53/1hr9h90.90%94.43%
- 45Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition$0.55/1hr27h85.54%87.60%
- 46Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.57/1hr70h89.51%91.21%
- 47Craft The World$0.58/1hr33h87.11%88.36%
- 48Occupy Mars: The Game$0.58/1hr51h81.43%70.05%
- 49Infection Free Zone$0.59/1hr41h82.14%80.58%
- 50下一站江湖Ⅱ$0.59/1hr42h78.71%71.96%
- 51Dawn of Man$0.61/1hr41h86.14%86.80%
- 52Against the Storm$0.61/1hr49h92.47%94.49%
- 53Prison Architect$0.62/1hr49h88.75%89.26%
- 54Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.64/1hr55h85.25%85.29%
- 55Mind Over Magic$0.64/1hr39h85.52%86.74%
- 56Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.64/1hr31h85.64%87.77%
- 57Fantasy Map Simulator$0.66/1hr12h86.19%89.06%
- 58WorldBox - God Simulator$0.68/1hr29h93.73%95.31%
- 59Sengoku Dynasty$0.69/1hr40h80.54%74.78%
- 60Ostriv$0.71/1hr35h89.29%94.99%
- 61Spellcaster University$0.71/1hr35h84.32%82.77%
- 62The Wandering Village$0.76/1hr20h88.15%91.95%
- 63Factory Town$0.78/1hr26h86.73%90.66%
- 64Pioneers of Pagonia$0.78/1hr27h83.71%81.38%
- 65Cattails: Wildwood Story$0.83/1hr24h86.99%97.49%
- 66Kingdom Two Crowns$0.83/1hr24h89.15%90.22%
- 67Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.85/1hr18h85.73%86.46%
- 68Empires of the Undergrowth$0.91/1hr33h91.08%94.37%
- 69Cult of the Lamb$0.93/1hr27h95.08%95.88%
- 70Castle Story$0.93/1hr11h74.73%65.06%
- 71Buggos$0.95/1hr11h85.34%87.90%
- 72Diplomacy is Not an Option$0.99/1hr30h85.33%85.61%
- 73IXION$1.03/1hr34h81.02%78.76%
- 74Settlement Survival$1.03/1hr19h85.15%85.36%
- 75Norland$1.05/1hr29h83.24%81.55%
- 76Reus 2$1.05/1hr24h86.75%94.52%
- 77Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$1.06/1hr14h86.39%88.86%
- 78Academia : School Simulator$1.23/1hr16h85.14%85.67%
- 79SPORE$1.31/1hr15h91.67%92.60%
- 80Republic of Pirates$1.33/1hr19h84.33%71.87%
- 81Kingdom Eighties$1.35/1hr9h82.59%75.33%
- 82One Hour One Life$1.48/1hr10h83.39%79.97%
- 83Kingdom: New Lands$1.59/1hr9h85.29%85.54%
- 84Ancient Cities$1.64/1hr18h81.07%62.87%
- 85The Universim$1.68/1hr18h82.23%79.64%
- 86Havendock$1.83/1hr10h84.07%79.38%
- 87The Stronghold Collection$1.85/1hr14h86.39%88.86%
- 88War for the Overworld$2.96/1hr10h85.40%85.92%
- 89Stronghold: Warlords$3.60/1hr11h78.10%65.11%
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.