Best Value Life Sim Games
The Life Sim 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.
- 1Ropuka's Idle Island$0.02/1hr230h88.11%95.60%
- 2Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr65h88.41%95.54%
- 3My Time at Portia$0.10/1hr62h90.31%91.51%
- 4Stardew Valley$0.11/1hr133h98.35%98.48%
- 5My Time at Sandrock$0.13/1hr104h87.36%88.19%
- 6Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.16/1hr13h93.40%97.59%
- 7Sun Haven$0.16/1hr53h81.82%80.57%
- 8Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.17/1hr70h92.85%97.64%
- 9The Guild II Renaissance$0.19/1hr53h84.54%83.49%
- 10Ithya: Magic Studies$0.19/1hr59h87.23%97.88%
- 11Paleo Pines$0.20/1hr31h84.49%82.63%
- 12Fields of Mistria$0.20/1hr70h94.42%97.68%
- 13Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator$0.22/1hr21h84.71%83.74%
- 14Farm Together 2$0.23/1hr113h88.00%93.66%
- 15Streamer Life Simulator$0.24/1hr8h81.07%76.11%
- 16Car Dealer Simulator$0.27/1hr55h87.01%89.05%
- 17Old Market Simulator$0.27/1hr22h85.94%87.78%
- 18Volcano Princess$0.28/1hr26h95.61%97.80%
- 19Coral Island$0.31/1hr98h87.80%88.84%
- 20Travellers Rest$0.31/1hr43h86.90%87.98%
- 21Wylde Flowers$0.32/1hr79h87.32%95.90%
- 22VillageRhapsody$0.32/1hr9h92.33%96.85%
- 23Crusader Kings III$0.32/1hr156h90.09%90.45%
- 24WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition$0.32/1hr61h92.09%97.52%
- 25Little Witch in the Woods$0.34/1hr58h87.24%89.00%
- 26Mon Bazou$0.36/1hr45h93.15%97.14%
- 27Immortal Life$0.36/1hr47h83.38%79.67%
- 28ANEURISM IV$0.37/1hr27h81.77%76.55%
- 29Monster Prom$0.37/1hr7h89.72%93.03%
- 30Bellwright$0.38/1hr78h81.81%80.30%
- 31Disney Dreamlight Valley$0.39/1hr103h90.10%92.19%
- 32Yes, Your Grace$0.39/1hr8h86.19%87.06%
- 33Ostranauts$0.40/1hr51h84.04%80.58%
- 34No Place Like Home$0.40/1hr20h83.04%78.31%
- 35Progressbar95$0.40/1hr13h87.94%96.15%
- 36School Days$0.41/1hr28h81.21%76.36%
- 37ContractVille$0.41/1hr24h83.46%80.96%
- 38Chushpan Simulator$0.41/1hr2h85.07%85.38%
- 39Cash Cleaner Simulator$0.41/1hr48h88.23%92.41%
- 40Roots of Pacha$0.42/1hr59h87.67%93.62%
- 41The Sushi Spinnery$0.42/1hr16h85.30%92.69%
- 42Supermarket Simulator$0.43/1hr47h91.31%92.07%
- 43Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator$0.43/1hr25h84.20%83.21%
- 44Big Ambitions$0.46/1hr57h89.34%92.62%
- 45Project Hospital$0.47/1hr54h86.89%88.95%
- 46TCG Card Shop Simulator$0.47/1hr42h94.59%96.56%
- 47Dinkum$0.48/1hr42h90.09%91.85%
- 48Wobbly Life$0.48/1hr48h94.51%97.23%
- 49The Ranch of Rivershine$0.48/1hr62h86.65%94.01%
- 50The Sims 3$0.50/1hr40h85.96%86.24%
- 51Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel$0.52/1hr19h85.55%88.81%
- 52BOOK OF HOURS$0.54/1hr46h86.19%88.94%
- 53Sailwind$0.55/1hr37h85.68%88.73%
- 54Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game$0.55/1hr14h86.20%88.01%
- 55Internet Cafe Simulator 2$0.58/1hr10h78.42%73.44%
- 56Drug Lord Tycoon$0.58/1hr17h84.74%83.30%
- 57Kynseed$0.58/1hr43h84.41%82.93%
- 58Two Point Museum$0.60/1hr50h90.82%95.34%
- 59Sticky Business$0.61/1hr8h88.77%93.75%
- 60Chinese Online Game$0.61/1hr11h85.29%85.59%
- 61TheoTown$0.61/1hr16h88.04%94.53%
- 62Chef RPG$0.63/1hr32h85.59%87.85%
- 63Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.64/1hr31h85.64%87.77%
- 64Reigns$0.65/1hr5h85.85%86.93%
- 65Moonstone Island$0.66/1hr30h84.59%83.80%
- 6660 Seconds! Reatomized$0.68/1hr7h91.24%94.47%
- 67WorldBox - God Simulator$0.68/1hr29h93.73%95.31%
- 68I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.68/1hr29h84.90%84.73%
- 69Sengoku Dynasty$0.69/1hr40h80.54%74.78%
- 70Mr. Prepper$0.69/1hr27h83.29%80.17%
- 71Tales of Seikyu$0.70/1hr36h84.94%84.79%
- 72Office Life$0.70/1hr28h85.63%88.76%
- 73Potion Permit$0.72/1hr28h83.03%79.38%
- 74Cozy Grove$0.72/1hr21h87.08%89.57%
- 75Bear and Breakfast$0.73/1hr27h86.55%89.52%
- 76Chinese Parents$0.75/1hr13h89.60%91.33%
- 77The Wandering Village$0.76/1hr20h88.15%91.95%
- 78THE GAME OF LIFE 2$0.77/1hr5h82.80%78.02%
- 79Finnish Cottage Simulator$0.79/1hr19h87.27%93.64%
- 80Streamer Life Simulator 2$0.79/1hr12h83.53%81.43%
- 81Growing Up$0.82/1hr18h85.75%87.83%
- 82I Was a Teenage Exocolonist$0.83/1hr30h88.62%96.31%
- 83Cattails: Wildwood Story$0.83/1hr24h86.99%97.49%
- 84Trash Goblin$0.84/1hr15h85.52%88.59%
- 85Crime Scene Cleaner$0.86/1hr33h95.08%98.09%
- 86Russian Life Simulator$0.87/1hr1h86.60%88.54%
- 87Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator$0.89/1hr22h91.45%92.91%
- 88Potionomics$0.90/1hr28h87.29%90.44%
- 89Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.91/1hr8h85.81%87.63%
- 90Summon$0.93/1hr1h86.95%92.54%
- 91Punch Club 2: Fast Forward$0.93/1hr21h84.22%82.54%
- 92The Tenants$0.94/1hr21h82.33%78.91%
- 93Cozy Caravan$0.94/1hr21h86.02%93.70%
- 9460 Parsecs!$0.97/1hr5h86.06%88.72%
- 95inZOI$0.98/1hr41h78.97%77.10%
- 96SimRail - The Railway Simulator$1.00/1hr35h85.06%85.21%
- 97Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story$1.02/1hr20h85.68%98.54%
- 98Sunset Motel$1.02/1hr12h84.49%78.78%
- 99Go-Go Town!$1.04/1hr20h86.61%93.36%
- 100Reus 2$1.05/1hr24h86.75%94.52%
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.