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.
- 1RimWorld$0.08/1hr369h97.36%97.85%
- 2Oxygen Not Included$0.12/1hr212h95.98%96.72%
- 3The Guild II Renaissance$0.17/1hr58h84.80%83.52%
- 4The Lost Village$0.17/1hr69h82.06%71.39%
- 5Frostpunk$0.21/1hr29h92.24%92.74%
- 6Settlement Survival$0.22/1hr24h85.20%85.04%
- 7Soulmask$0.22/1hr87h79.60%77.04%
- 8Timberborn$0.25/1hr99h93.91%95.97%
- 9Per Aspera$0.26/1hr29h81.88%75.91%
- 10Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.27/1hr45h85.73%86.61%
- 11Captain of Industry$0.27/1hr92h88.03%90.29%
- 12Mind Over Magic$0.27/1hr93h85.72%86.58%
- 13Planetbase$0.29/1hr53h82.52%79.75%
- 14ASKA$0.30/1hr66h82.37%79.94%
- 15They Are Billions$0.30/1hr98h85.16%85.13%
- 16Ratopia$0.31/1hr72h86.13%87.75%
- 17Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.31/1hr48h84.14%82.39%
- 18Occupy Mars: The Game$0.34/1hr88h81.59%69.74%
- 19Stationeers$0.35/1hr101h86.50%87.75%
- 20Dwarf Fortress$0.35/1hr86h92.48%94.75%
- 21Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.36/1hr70h85.53%85.61%
- 22Against the Storm$0.37/1hr81h92.52%94.43%
- 23Songs of Syx$0.38/1hr65h89.34%94.28%
- 24Banished$0.39/1hr52h89.48%90.43%
- 25Railroads Online$0.40/1hr75h81.28%74.56%
- 26Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.41/1hr24h93.60%97.48%
- 27Castle Story$0.41/1hr24h74.98%65.18%
- 28Space Haven$0.41/1hr60h85.55%85.75%
- 29IXION$0.42/1hr25h81.18%78.79%
- 30Kingdoms Reborn$0.42/1hr47h87.86%90.37%
- 31Colony Survival$0.43/1hr58h88.58%92.10%
- 32Stranded: Alien Dawn$0.45/1hr78h84.66%84.06%
- 33Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.48/1hr31h86.65%88.79%
- 34Going Medieval$0.48/1hr62h87.92%89.09%
- 35Craft The World$0.49/1hr38h87.30%88.41%
- 36下一站江湖Ⅱ$0.50/1hr40h78.93%72.17%
- 37Stronghold HD (2012)$0.51/1hr12h90.58%95.53%
- 38Dawn of Man$0.52/1hr48h86.34%86.80%
- 39Clanfolk$0.52/1hr57h87.18%91.72%
- 40Plan B: Terraform$0.54/1hr29h86.89%91.18%
- 41Farm Together$0.54/1hr37h91.35%94.07%
- 42Kingdoms and Castles$0.58/1hr35h91.58%93.57%
- 43Foundation$0.58/1hr61h86.27%86.65%
- 44Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.58/1hr69h89.62%91.19%
- 45Fantasy Map Simulator$0.58/1hr14h86.11%89.18%
- 46Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.59/1hr34h85.92%87.76%
- 47WorldBox - God Simulator$0.59/1hr34h93.83%95.33%
- 48Prison Architect$0.63/1hr48h88.76%89.22%
- 49Eden Crafters$0.63/1hr32h85.38%85.56%
- 50Sengoku Dynasty$0.63/1hr44h80.70%74.79%
- 51Astro Colony$0.68/1hr29h84.31%80.53%
- 52Infection Free Zone$0.69/1hr35h82.32%80.66%
- 53Norland$0.71/1hr42h83.16%81.61%
- 54Cult of the Lamb$0.75/1hr33h95.14%95.89%
- 55Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.75/1hr46h85.26%85.25%
- 56Pharaoh: A New Era$0.77/1hr30h81.69%74.92%
- 57Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.78/1hr19h85.97%86.50%
- 58SPORE$0.81/1hr25h91.74%92.62%
- 59Surviving the Aftermath$0.84/1hr36h80.78%70.84%
- 60Ostriv$0.84/1hr30h89.54%95.03%
- 61Diplomacy is Not an Option$0.89/1hr34h85.51%85.59%
- 62Kingdom Two Crowns$0.90/1hr22h89.21%90.17%
- 63Empires of the Undergrowth$0.92/1hr33h91.26%94.36%
- 64Frostpunk 2$0.92/1hr24h77.64%74.80%
- 65The Crust$0.93/1hr22h82.87%76.71%
- 66The Universim$1.00/1hr30h82.36%79.50%
- 67Sapiens$1.07/1hr23h84.48%80.56%
- 68Flotsam$1.12/1hr22h83.99%81.08%
- 69Fabledom$1.16/1hr18h85.26%85.16%
- 70War for the Overworld$1.21/1hr25h85.65%85.94%
- 71The Wandering Village$1.24/1hr24h88.07%91.96%
- 72Pioneers of Pagonia$1.25/1hr28h83.96%81.45%
- 73Havendock$1.27/1hr16h84.35%79.30%
- 74Kingdom Eighties$1.51/1hr8h82.88%75.28%
- 75Becastled$1.93/1hr10h84.09%81.73%
- 76Endzone - A World Apart$2.34/1hr11h81.01%76.70%
- 77Kingdom: New Lands$2.40/1hr6h85.42%85.34%
- 78MEMORIAPOLIS$2.55/1hr13h83.86%75.65%
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.