Best Value Relaxing Games Under $20
The Relaxing 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.
- 1Ropuka's Idle Island$0.02/1hr230h88.11%95.60%
- 2Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi$0.02/1hr129h88.00%96.80%
- 3Cornerpond$0.03/1hr91h87.57%97.15%
- 4Starbound$0.04/1hr120h89.63%90.00%
- 5Razortron 2000$0.05/1hr19h85.28%86.20%
- 6Tiny Pasture$0.07/1hr60h88.43%92.49%
- 7Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr65h88.41%95.54%
- 8My Time at Portia$0.10/1hr62h90.31%91.51%
- 9Rusty's Retirement$0.11/1hr66h91.98%96.74%
- 10theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.11/1hr37h88.88%89.07%
- 11Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition$0.11/1hr41h93.37%94.96%
- 12Stardew Valley$0.11/1hr133h98.35%98.48%
- 13Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.16/1hr13h93.40%97.59%
- 14Sun Haven$0.16/1hr53h81.82%80.57%
- 15Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.17/1hr70h92.85%97.64%
- 16Ithya: Magic Studies$0.19/1hr59h87.23%97.88%
- 17The Last Campfire$0.19/1hr8h93.36%97.53%
- 18Paleo Pines$0.20/1hr31h84.49%82.63%
- 19Fields of Mistria$0.20/1hr70h94.42%97.68%
- 20Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator$0.22/1hr21h84.71%83.74%
- 21Let's School$0.22/1hr32h88.27%92.73%
- 22Cassette Beasts$0.22/1hr31h89.74%94.08%
- 23Chillquarium$0.24/1hr25h88.28%92.27%
- 24Outpath$0.25/1hr18h86.85%92.90%
- 25Call of the Wild: The Angler$0.26/1hr34h75.87%63.82%
- 26Farming Simulator 19$0.26/1hr69h93.37%94.47%
- 27Crab Champions$0.27/1hr37h94.73%97.88%
- 28Euro Truck Simulator 2$0.27/1hr74h97.32%97.45%
- 29Train Simulator Classic$0.27/1hr22h75.02%71.62%
- 30Swords & Souls: Neverseen$0.28/1hr19h88.17%93.17%
- 31My Dream Setup$0.28/1hr9h87.57%91.38%
- 32RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.28/1hr21h89.19%94.31%
- 33Core Keeper$0.29/1hr48h91.89%92.95%
- 34Draw & Guess$0.31/1hr16h84.13%83.88%
- 35Hardspace: Shipbreaker$0.31/1hr34h87.97%89.31%
- 36Little Witch in the Woods$0.34/1hr58h87.24%89.00%
- 37American Truck Simulator$0.35/1hr58h96.34%96.92%
- 38Bloons TD 5$0.35/1hr28h90.25%94.66%
- 39Fae Farm$0.35/1hr29h83.63%79.84%
- 40Motor Town: Behind The Wheel$0.35/1hr57h89.24%93.76%
- 41Mon Bazou$0.36/1hr45h93.15%97.14%
- 42Kingdoms and Castles$0.36/1hr28h91.47%93.55%
- 43Immortal Life$0.36/1hr47h83.38%79.67%
- 44Supraland Six Inches Under$0.38/1hr16h88.28%96.10%
- 45DAVE THE DIVER$0.38/1hr52h95.86%96.54%
- 46No Place Like Home$0.40/1hr20h83.04%78.31%
- 47Balatro$0.40/1hr38h97.22%97.85%
- 48Rising World$0.40/1hr25h85.26%85.72%
- 49gogh: Focus with Your Avatar$0.40/1hr30h87.03%90.91%
- 50ContractVille$0.41/1hr24h83.46%80.96%
- 51Chushpan Simulator$0.41/1hr2h85.07%85.38%
- 52Crashlands 2$0.41/1hr36h85.57%88.01%
- 53Cash Cleaner Simulator$0.41/1hr48h88.23%92.41%
- 54Banished$0.42/1hr48h89.40%90.42%
- 55Turmoil$0.43/1hr10h89.89%92.95%
- 56Fabledom$0.44/1hr19h85.05%85.15%
- 57Doloc Town$0.44/1hr45h87.16%95.96%
- 58Dorfromantik$0.45/1hr20h93.47%96.35%
- 59LEGO Bricktales$0.46/1hr13h84.65%83.06%
- 60GoreBox$0.47/1hr19h84.38%84.13%
- 61Farming Simulator 15$0.47/1hr28h89.58%92.49%
- 62TCG Card Shop Simulator$0.47/1hr42h94.59%96.56%
- 63Gourdlets$0.47/1hr6h86.32%92.48%
- 64Dinkum$0.48/1hr42h90.09%91.85%
- 65Burgie's Cozy Kitchen$0.50/1hr14h86.15%97.17%
- 66Farm Together$0.50/1hr40h91.24%94.08%
- 67The Gunk$0.50/1hr7h85.55%86.51%
- 68GRIS$0.51/1hr6h95.01%96.06%
- 69Eastward$0.52/1hr24h84.33%83.94%
- 70Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel$0.52/1hr19h85.55%88.81%
- 71Farmer's Life$0.52/1hr36h85.79%88.73%
- 72ISLANDERS$0.53/1hr9h90.90%94.43%
- 73Sailwind$0.55/1hr37h85.68%88.73%
- 74Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game$0.55/1hr14h86.20%88.01%
- 75shapez 2 - Factory$0.56/1hr32h92.25%97.14%
- 76Slime Rancher 2$0.57/1hr32h92.91%94.53%
- 77Sudocats$0.57/1hr3h87.05%98.61%
- 78Zodiacats$0.58/1hr3h86.59%98.58%
- 79Garden Galaxy$0.58/1hr17h87.60%97.53%
- 80Sticky Business$0.61/1hr8h88.77%93.75%
- 81Mini Motorways$0.63/1hr16h92.97%96.27%
- 82Chef RPG$0.63/1hr32h85.59%87.85%
- 83Zup!$0.65/1hr3h89.30%94.14%
- 84Moonstone Island$0.66/1hr30h84.59%83.80%
- 85Cat Goes Fishing$0.67/1hr10h90.69%94.18%
- 86Lightyear Frontier$0.67/1hr22h84.63%83.86%
- 87WorldBox - God Simulator$0.68/1hr29h93.73%95.31%
- 88I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.68/1hr29h84.90%84.73%
- 89Nodebuster$0.68/1hr4h92.24%97.45%
- 90Office Life$0.70/1hr28h85.63%88.76%
- 91Townscaper$0.71/1hr3h92.03%95.30%
- 92Gold Mining Simulator$0.71/1hr28h77.29%72.57%
- 93Potion Permit$0.72/1hr28h83.03%79.38%
- 94Harold Halibut$0.72/1hr14h84.66%82.11%
- 95Cozy Grove$0.72/1hr21h87.08%89.57%
- 96Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop$0.73/1hr12h79.02%70.04%
- 97CarX Drift Racing Online$0.73/1hr23h94.09%95.11%
- 98Retrowave$0.73/1hr4h91.15%95.16%
- 99City Bus Manager$0.73/1hr25h86.27%90.87%
- 100Bear and Breakfast$0.73/1hr27h86.55%89.52%
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.