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$0.03/1hr124h88.29%95.18%
- 2Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr47h88.62%95.43%
- 3Stardew Valley$0.11/1hr139h98.35%98.48%
- 4My Time at Sandrock$0.11/1hr110h87.43%88.15%
- 5Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.15/1hr78h93.02%97.60%
- 6Streamer Life Simulator$0.16/1hr12h81.27%76.03%
- 7The Guild II Renaissance$0.17/1hr58h84.80%83.52%
- 8Fields of Mistria$0.18/1hr79h94.43%97.04%
- 9Ithya: Magic Studies$0.18/1hr61h87.59%97.86%
- 10Coral Island$0.23/1hr128h88.00%88.96%
- 11Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.25/1hr8h93.52%97.57%
- 12Ostranauts$0.25/1hr80h83.35%77.27%
- 13Crusader Kings III$0.26/1hr189h90.12%90.45%
- 14ANEURISM IV$0.27/1hr36h81.48%75.33%
- 15Monster Prom$0.28/1hr9h89.63%93.02%
- 16The Sims 3$0.28/1hr71h86.01%86.21%
- 17Volcano Princess$0.28/1hr25h95.68%97.79%
- 18Disney Dreamlight Valley$0.31/1hr128h90.20%92.17%
- 19Immortal Life$0.31/1hr55h83.56%79.48%
- 20I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h85.05%84.45%
- 21Travellers Rest$0.34/1hr53h86.97%87.86%
- 22Mon Bazou$0.34/1hr47h93.29%97.11%
- 23Supermarket Simulator$0.34/1hr58h91.33%92.04%
- 24Wylde Flowers$0.35/1hr71h87.62%95.88%
- 25VillageRhapsody$0.36/1hr8h92.48%96.87%
- 26Cash Cleaner Simulator$0.37/1hr55h88.47%92.38%
- 27Farm Together 2$0.37/1hr59h88.31%93.77%
- 28Dinkum$0.38/1hr53h90.15%91.80%
- 29Old Market Simulator$0.39/1hr25h86.15%87.66%
- 30Kynseed$0.40/1hr62h84.70%83.08%
- 31Little Witch in the Woods$0.41/1hr49h87.49%89.07%
- 32Potionomics$0.41/1hr37h87.56%90.48%
- 33BOOK OF HOURS$0.42/1hr60h86.45%88.76%
- 34Roots of Pacha$0.42/1hr60h87.92%93.59%
- 35STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town$0.42/1hr24h88.27%93.36%
- 36Sun Haven$0.43/1hr58h81.87%80.51%
- 37My Time at Portia$0.43/1hr69h90.34%91.47%
- 38Cozy Grove$0.46/1hr33h87.26%89.52%
- 39Car Dealer Simulator$0.46/1hr43h86.90%88.95%
- 40Sailwind$0.46/1hr43h85.99%88.78%
- 41Wobbly Life$0.46/1hr50h94.64%97.23%
- 42Progressbar95$0.46/1hr11h88.29%96.13%
- 43School Days$0.47/1hr24h81.59%76.87%
- 44The Ranch of Rivershine$0.47/1hr63h86.95%93.92%
- 45WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition$0.49/1hr61h92.32%97.51%
- 46Farlands$0.49/1hr24h86.00%89.79%
- 47Bellwright$0.50/1hr60h81.82%80.19%
- 48Internet Cafe Simulator 2$0.53/1hr11h78.57%73.40%
- 49TheoTown$0.55/1hr18h88.37%94.67%
- 50ContractVille$0.56/1hr18h83.62%80.88%
- 51Tales of Seikyu$0.58/1hr43h84.68%84.31%
- 52Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.59/1hr34h85.92%87.76%
- 53WorldBox - God Simulator$0.59/1hr34h93.83%95.33%
- 54Chef RPG$0.59/1hr34h85.88%87.83%
- 55Big Ambitions$0.59/1hr44h89.32%92.06%
- 56TCG Card Shop Simulator$0.60/1hr33h94.62%96.49%
- 57Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator$0.62/1hr29h84.45%83.28%
- 58Chinese Parents$0.62/1hr16h89.68%91.28%
- 59Sengoku Dynasty$0.63/1hr44h80.70%74.79%
- 60Office Life$0.64/1hr31h86.00%88.74%
- 61Critter Cove$0.65/1hr39h86.86%94.70%
- 62House Party$0.66/1hr15h85.60%85.77%
- 63Two Point Museum$0.68/1hr44h91.11%95.41%
- 64Reigns$0.68/1hr4h86.02%86.87%
- 65Mr. Prepper$0.72/1hr26h83.45%80.01%
- 66Crime Scene Cleaner$0.73/1hr41h95.24%98.10%
- 67Streamer Life Simulator 2$0.74/1hr13h83.64%81.23%
- 68Moonstone Island$0.75/1hr26h84.81%83.62%
- 69inZOI$0.77/1hr42h79.18%77.31%
- 70Chinese Online Game$0.78/1hr13h85.49%85.59%
- 71I Was a Teenage Exocolonist$0.79/1hr32h88.97%96.32%
- 72Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator$0.79/1hr24h91.54%92.93%
- 73Russian Life Simulator$0.79/1hr1h86.89%88.53%
- 7460 Parsecs!$0.80/1hr12h86.34%88.79%
- 75Cozy Caravan$0.81/1hr16h86.42%93.99%
- 76Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator$0.82/1hr37h84.99%83.74%
- 77THE GAME OF LIFE 2$0.83/1hr5h83.00%77.96%
- 78IfSunSets$0.84/1hr24h82.76%74.55%
- 79Bear and Breakfast$0.85/1hr24h86.77%89.44%
- 80Summon$0.86/1hr1h87.20%92.42%
- 81Punch Club 2: Fast Forward$0.87/1hr23h84.05%82.45%
- 82Finnish Cottage Simulator$0.88/1hr17h87.61%93.78%
- 83Potion Permit$0.89/1hr22h83.23%79.35%
- 84The Tenants$0.94/1hr21h82.53%78.82%
- 85Hello Kitty Island Adventure$0.94/1hr42h90.09%93.91%
- 86Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.95/1hr7h86.01%87.48%
- 87Trash Goblin$0.99/1hr13h85.81%88.43%
- 88Project Hospital$0.99/1hr25h87.05%88.89%
- 89Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game$1.00/1hr10h86.39%87.95%
- 90VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action$1.01/1hr15h94.82%97.27%
- 91Go-Go Town!$1.02/1hr22h87.08%93.40%
- 92SimRail - The Railway Simulator$1.03/1hr34h85.26%85.12%
- 93Sticky Business$1.05/1hr10h88.98%93.62%
- 94Sapiens$1.07/1hr23h84.48%80.56%
- 95The Sims 2 Legacy Collection$1.14/1hr26h81.06%72.62%
- 96The Guild 3$1.19/1hr25h74.20%60.23%
- 97Minami Lane$1.20/1hr4h90.17%97.38%
- 98Chushpan Simulator$1.23/1hr2h85.37%85.50%
- 99The Wandering Village$1.24/1hr24h88.07%91.96%
- 100Havendock$1.27/1hr16h84.35%79.30%
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.