Best Value Life Sim Games Under $10
The Life Sim games on Steam games under $10 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.
- 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%
- 4Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.16/1hr13h93.40%97.59%
- 5Sun Haven$0.16/1hr53h81.82%80.57%
- 6The Guild II Renaissance$0.19/1hr53h84.54%83.49%
- 7Paleo Pines$0.20/1hr31h84.49%82.63%
- 8Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator$0.22/1hr21h84.71%83.74%
- 9Streamer Life Simulator$0.24/1hr8h81.07%76.11%
- 10Old Market Simulator$0.27/1hr22h85.94%87.78%
- 11Volcano Princess$0.28/1hr26h95.61%97.80%
- 12VillageRhapsody$0.32/1hr9h92.33%96.85%
- 13ANEURISM IV$0.37/1hr27h81.77%76.55%
- 14Monster Prom$0.37/1hr7h89.72%93.03%
- 15Yes, Your Grace$0.39/1hr8h86.19%87.06%
- 16No Place Like Home$0.40/1hr20h83.04%78.31%
- 17Progressbar95$0.40/1hr13h87.94%96.15%
- 18ContractVille$0.41/1hr24h83.46%80.96%
- 19Chushpan Simulator$0.41/1hr2h85.07%85.38%
- 20The Sushi Spinnery$0.42/1hr16h85.30%92.69%
- 21Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel$0.52/1hr19h85.55%88.81%
- 22Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game$0.55/1hr14h86.20%88.01%
- 23Internet Cafe Simulator 2$0.58/1hr10h78.42%73.44%
- 24Drug Lord Tycoon$0.58/1hr17h84.74%83.30%
- 25Sticky Business$0.61/1hr8h88.77%93.75%
- 26Chinese Online Game$0.61/1hr11h85.29%85.59%
- 27TheoTown$0.61/1hr16h88.04%94.53%
- 28Reigns$0.65/1hr5h85.85%86.93%
- 2960 Seconds! Reatomized$0.68/1hr7h91.24%94.47%
- 30Chinese Parents$0.75/1hr13h89.60%91.33%
- 31THE GAME OF LIFE 2$0.77/1hr5h82.80%78.02%
- 32Streamer Life Simulator 2$0.79/1hr12h83.53%81.43%
- 33Russian Life Simulator$0.87/1hr1h86.60%88.54%
- 34Vanity Fair: The Pursuit$0.91/1hr8h85.81%87.63%
- 35Summon$0.93/1hr1h86.95%92.54%
- 3660 Parsecs!$0.97/1hr5h86.06%88.72%
- 37Minami Lane$1.14/1hr4h89.94%97.46%
- 38Initial Drift Online$1.26/1hr2h76.67%62.33%
- 39Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator$1.28/1hr8h76.89%62.31%
- 40Comedy Night$1.32/1hr4h79.69%74.00%
- 41[Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件$2.26/1hr3h85.61%87.61%
- 42Insomnia: Theater in the Head$2.45/1hr1h87.79%97.24%
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.