Best Value Immersive Sim Games Under $20
The Immersive 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.
- 1Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr47h88.62%95.43%
- 2theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.09/1hr34h88.91%89.08%
- 3Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.09/1hr28h86.79%87.04%
- 4House Flipper$0.15/1hr17h93.27%93.97%
- 5Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.16/1hr62h84.98%85.44%
- 6Barro$0.16/1hr3h83.00%78.72%
- 7Streamer Life Simulator$0.16/1hr12h81.27%76.03%
- 8Feed the Cups$0.18/1hr72h79.51%70.59%
- 9SnowRunner$0.19/1hr63h89.37%90.09%
- 10The Planet Crafter$0.21/1hr56h94.76%96.03%
- 11Euro Truck Simulator 2$0.22/1hr90h97.31%97.44%
- 12American Truck Simulator$0.23/1hr87h96.35%96.91%
- 13Farming Simulator 22$0.23/1hr87h92.01%92.73%
- 14Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.25/1hr8h93.52%97.57%
- 15Ostranauts$0.25/1hr80h83.35%77.27%
- 16Heroes' Vow: Three Kingdoms$0.26/1hr77h86.46%88.53%
- 17Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition$0.27/1hr26h91.16%94.84%
- 18ANEURISM IV$0.27/1hr36h81.48%75.33%
- 19Motor Town: Behind The Wheel$0.28/1hr71h89.52%93.84%
- 20Dishonored$0.34/1hr30h96.38%97.63%
- 21Travellers Rest$0.34/1hr53h86.97%87.86%
- 22Easy Red 2$0.34/1hr26h88.40%90.39%
- 23Supermarket Simulator$0.34/1hr58h91.33%92.04%
- 24Cash Cleaner Simulator$0.37/1hr55h88.47%92.38%
- 25Call of the Wild: The Angler$0.39/1hr23h76.20%63.95%
- 26Old Market Simulator$0.39/1hr25h86.15%87.66%
- 27Little Witch in the Woods$0.41/1hr49h87.49%89.07%
- 28GoreBox$0.41/1hr22h84.56%84.25%
- 29Streets of Rogue$0.45/1hr44h92.63%96.04%
- 30Car Dealer Simulator$0.46/1hr43h86.90%88.95%
- 31Sailwind$0.46/1hr43h85.99%88.78%
- 32School Days$0.47/1hr24h81.59%76.87%
- 33Day of Dragons$0.48/1hr42h76.07%65.07%
- 34Star Trucker$0.50/1hr15h82.52%78.29%
- 35Internet Cafe Simulator 2$0.53/1hr11h78.57%73.40%
- 36112 Operator$0.53/1hr9h86.82%88.73%
- 37Farmer's Life$0.54/1hr36h86.07%88.73%
- 38ContractVille$0.56/1hr18h83.62%80.88%
- 39Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator$0.56/1hr14h88.18%93.18%
- 40RoadCraft$0.56/1hr36h78.78%74.66%
- 41Chef RPG$0.59/1hr34h85.88%87.83%
- 42TCG Card Shop Simulator$0.60/1hr33h94.62%96.49%
- 43My Garage$0.60/1hr33h86.78%90.19%
- 44Barony$0.61/1hr33h88.54%90.63%
- 45SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition$0.61/1hr33h83.84%82.24%
- 46Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator$0.62/1hr29h84.45%83.28%
- 47Far Cry 2$0.63/1hr16h79.08%75.70%
- 48Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut$0.63/1hr32h90.32%91.95%
- 49Police Simulator: Patrol Officers$0.65/1hr31h77.88%74.61%
- 50Grocery Store Simulator$0.65/1hr23h87.39%90.70%
- 51Wrestling Empire$0.72/1hr21h87.01%94.09%
- 52Streamer Life Simulator 2$0.74/1hr13h83.64%81.23%
- 53My Dream Setup$0.76/1hr8h87.84%91.45%
- 54Uncrashed : FPV Drone Simulator$0.76/1hr20h89.71%95.25%
- 55Knowledge, or know Lady$0.79/1hr9h90.05%95.21%
- 56Cyber Manhunt$0.86/1hr12h89.64%92.33%
- 57Dark Messiah of Might & Magic$0.86/1hr12h88.37%90.87%
- 58Finnish Cottage Simulator$0.88/1hr17h87.61%93.78%
- 59Love Is All Around$0.89/1hr11h91.82%93.23%
- 60Juice Galaxy$0.89/1hr6h92.13%98.50%
- 61The Tenants$0.94/1hr21h82.53%78.82%
- 62Gloomwood$0.95/1hr21h89.79%94.99%
- 63Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.95/1hr7h86.01%87.48%
- 64Depersonalization$0.96/1hr21h88.52%93.05%
- 65TRYP FPV: Drone Racer Simulator$0.99/1hr17h85.44%85.75%
- 66Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing$1.00/1hr20h91.11%95.23%
- 67Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game$1.00/1hr10h86.39%87.95%
- 68Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm$1.00/1hr20h91.08%92.59%
- 69Sticky Business$1.05/1hr10h88.98%93.62%
- 70Cruelty Squad$1.20/1hr17h92.99%96.02%
- 71Breakout 13$1.24/1hr8h86.49%87.94%
- 72Havendock$1.27/1hr16h84.35%79.30%
- 73Fast Food Simulator$1.32/1hr11h86.19%87.07%
- 74JudgeSim$1.34/1hr5h85.24%84.57%
- 75Zero Hour$1.36/1hr7h79.19%77.35%
- 76BioShock Remastered$1.37/1hr15h83.44%83.15%
- 77PC Building Simulator$1.40/1hr14h92.20%93.50%
- 7860 Seconds! Reatomized$1.42/1hr7h91.37%94.44%
- 79AI2U: With You 'Til The End$1.46/1hr10h85.38%88.04%
- 80Car For Sale Simulator$1.47/1hr12h80.72%78.50%
- 81Animal Shelter$1.51/1hr13h86.02%87.67%
- 82KinitoPET$1.54/1hr4h89.95%93.02%
- 83Thief Simulator$1.57/1hr13h87.55%88.10%
- 8460 Seconds!$1.69/1hr5h85.14%84.93%
- 85BioShock 2 Remastered$1.71/1hr12h75.41%72.10%
- 86Dreamlike Love with Seira$1.76/1hr4h87.23%98.62%
- 87Kiosk$1.77/1hr2h85.89%87.83%
- 88The Exit 8$1.92/1hr1h89.49%93.02%
- 89Endorphin Vice$1.98/1hr5h77.92%56.84%
- 90No Case Should Remain Unsolved$2.12/1hr3h91.08%96.39%
- 91Ultimate Fishing Simulator$2.32/1hr9h87.19%89.14%
- 92[Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件$2.43/1hr2h85.89%87.61%
- 93The Operator$2.85/1hr5h88.30%91.55%
- 94Electrician Simulator$3.22/1hr6h83.75%80.19%
- 95Initial Drift Online$4.47/1hr1h76.79%62.10%
- 96Fortune's Run$5.63/1hr4h84.83%77.29%
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.