Best Value Grand Strategy Games
The Grand Strategy games that stretch a budget furthest: median reviewer playtime divided by current price. Pick your currency in the top bar to rank against your local prices.
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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.
- 1Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword$0.06/1hr174h88.91%96.23%
- 2Old World$0.06/1hr62h84.44%82.51%
- 3Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete$0.10/1hr48h87.07%89.49%
- 4Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 5Sid Meier's Civilization V$0.14/1hr220h95.26%95.61%
- 6Supreme Commander 2$0.14/1hr94h86.89%88.21%
- 7Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance$0.14/1hr92h91.99%96.72%
- 8Stellaris$0.15/1hr336h85.81%85.69%
- 9Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion$0.16/1hr123h90.14%93.17%
- 10ENDLESS Space 2$0.17/1hr59h83.87%83.30%
- 11Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition$0.19/1hr161h87.34%87.58%
- 12Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition$0.20/1hr99h93.39%95.64%
- 13Empires of the Undergrowth$0.21/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 14Total War: WARHAMMER III$0.22/1hr271h72.54%71.69%
- 15Total War: ATTILA$0.22/1hr89h83.00%82.42%
- 16Cataclismo$0.23/1hr39h86.28%88.80%
- 17Heroes' Vow: Three Kingdoms$0.26/1hr76h86.65%88.43%
- 18HUMANKIND$0.27/1hr47h73.27%69.14%
- 19Total War: SHOGUN 2$0.28/1hr106h90.87%91.71%
- 20Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew$0.29/1hr35h87.87%91.04%
- 21Ultimate General: Civil War$0.29/1hr103h86.87%88.83%
- 22Terra Invicta$0.29/1hr137h82.72%80.25%
- 23Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition$0.29/1hr69h89.51%90.64%
- 24X4: Foundations$0.30/1hr164h81.23%79.92%
- 25Age of History 3$0.32/1hr31h85.06%84.99%
- 26Norland$0.33/1hr45h83.36%81.63%
- 27STAR WARS Empire at War - Gold Pack$0.33/1hr60h95.37%97.73%
- 28Sailing Era$0.34/1hr74h82.98%78.66%
- 29Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator$0.34/1hr132h86.03%90.80%
- 30Terraforming Mars$0.35/1hr57h79.04%70.57%
- 31Crusader Kings III$0.35/1hr142h88.04%88.24%
- 32Dummynation$0.35/1hr30h85.85%87.90%
- 33Hearts of Iron IV$0.37/1hr137h89.80%89.85%
- 34Phoenix Point$0.37/1hr68h80.48%73.14%
- 35Songs of Syx$0.37/1hr67h89.55%94.25%
- 36Heart of the Machine$0.40/1hr22h86.29%91.51%
- 37Total War: WARHAMMER II$0.40/1hr149h92.40%92.99%
- 38Sid Meier’s Civilization VI$0.43/1hr139h86.23%86.18%
- 39Total War: THREE KINGDOMS$0.44/1hr90h82.51%82.23%
- 40A Total War Saga: TROY$0.45/1hr45h81.43%71.63%
- 41Dune: Imperium$0.45/1hr51h87.88%94.01%
- 42Galactic Civilizations IV$0.46/1hr87h82.51%72.26%
- 43City Bus Manager$0.48/1hr62h86.89%90.77%
- 44Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.48/1hr31h84.45%82.43%
- 45Age of Wonders 4$0.50/1hr100h82.33%81.10%
- 46Xenonauts 2$0.50/1hr40h83.79%81.41%
- 47Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts$0.51/1hr69h74.38%60.87%
- 48Master of Orion$0.51/1hr49h81.55%77.13%
- 49Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition$0.53/1hr38h89.94%91.67%
- 50Age of History II$0.53/1hr11h89.02%89.78%
- 51ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS 8 REMAKE$0.57/1hr104h75.18%49.87%
- 52Victoria 3$0.58/1hr86h70.55%68.23%
- 53Europa Universalis IV$0.58/1hr86h83.29%83.16%
- 54Planetary Annihilation: TITANS$0.62/1hr48h84.72%84.40%
- 55Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI with Power Up Kit$0.62/1hr64h87.30%92.46%
- 56Sid Meier's Civilization IV$0.64/1hr31h87.57%92.44%
- 57Total War: ROME REMASTERED$0.64/1hr47h80.51%77.12%
- 58Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth$0.66/1hr60h68.02%60.61%
- 59Armello$0.67/1hr37h83.12%81.84%
- 60ENDLESS Legend$0.69/1hr44h84.07%83.49%
- 61Airships: Conquer the Skies$0.70/1hr36h89.46%95.92%
- 62Manor Lords$0.70/1hr37h84.21%84.10%
- 63A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA$0.72/1hr28h76.44%70.57%
- 64Imperator: Rome$0.75/1hr11h70.32%64.86%
- 65Fantasy Map Simulator$0.75/1hr11h86.39%89.17%
- 66Breachway$0.79/1hr13h83.93%75.72%
- 67NEBULOUS: Fleet Command$0.83/1hr36h83.93%81.10%
- 68Knights of Honor II: Sovereign$0.84/1hr54h82.34%77.23%
- 69ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV$0.85/1hr70h71.41%62.93%
- 70Prehistoric Kingdom$0.87/1hr34h87.54%90.14%
- 71Dune: Spice Wars$1.03/1hr34h81.68%79.11%
- 72Total War: WARHAMMER$1.03/1hr58h79.59%78.53%
- 73Iron Harvest$1.15/1hr26h77.43%72.59%
- 74Spirit Island$1.19/1hr21h86.15%91.85%
- 75Songs of Silence$1.27/1hr11h84.65%80.59%
- 76Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War$1.40/1hr29h82.91%81.70%
- 77Victoria II$1.43/1hr14h88.67%90.38%
- 78Steel Division 2$1.57/1hr25h82.36%79.42%
- 79Total Conflict: Resistance$1.77/1hr17h81.67%74.01%
- 80Carrier Command 2$1.80/1hr17h84.63%81.60%
- 81Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2$1.98/1hr10h84.91%84.55%
- 82The Great War: Western Front$2.07/1hr17h80.94%66.27%
- 83ZEPHON$3.21/1hr12h85.33%83.04%
- 84Age of Wonders III$3.54/1hr8h81.68%78.98%
- 85Europa Universalis III Complete$3.81/1hr4h84.50%81.16%
- 86Sid Meier's Civilization VII$4.30/1hr12h52.61%47.38%
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.