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$0.02/1hr153h88.03%95.19%
- 2Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi$0.04/1hr140h87.71%96.90%
- 3RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.05/1hr33h89.33%94.31%
- 4Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.05/1hr94h92.62%97.58%
- 5Rusty's Retirement$0.06/1hr72h91.97%96.70%
- 6My Time at Portia$0.08/1hr72h90.31%91.46%
- 7Chillquarium$0.09/1hr29h88.14%92.04%
- 8Tiny Pasture$0.10/1hr58h88.39%92.48%
- 9Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.11/1hr9h93.47%97.57%
- 10Chill Pulse$0.11/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 11Moonstone Island$0.12/1hr42h84.63%83.54%
- 12Stardew Valley$0.13/1hr113h98.38%98.48%
- 13Ithya: Magic Studies$0.16/1hr67h86.71%97.82%
- 14Core Keeper$0.18/1hr65h91.93%92.94%
- 15Fields of Mistria$0.19/1hr74h94.21%97.04%
- 16Crab Champions$0.20/1hr50h94.81%97.90%
- 17Cats Organized Neatly$0.22/1hr4h88.48%97.19%
- 18Outpath$0.23/1hr17h86.78%92.65%
- 19Russian Life Simulator$0.23/1hr2h86.57%88.52%
- 20gogh: Focus with Your Avatar$0.23/1hr53h86.71%91.19%
- 21Star Valor$0.23/1hr44h85.29%88.22%
- 22Doloc Town$0.25/1hr81h87.19%94.52%
- 23Starbound$0.25/1hr59h89.78%89.92%
- 24Niche - a genetics survival game$0.26/1hr14h84.91%86.14%
- 25Farmer's Life$0.26/1hr35h85.78%88.74%
- 26Hardspace: Shipbreaker$0.27/1hr39h88.02%89.29%
- 27Cash Cleaner Simulator$0.28/1hr54h87.87%92.36%
- 28Euro Truck Simulator 2$0.30/1hr68h97.34%97.44%
- 29Motor Town: Behind The Wheel$0.30/1hr66h89.46%93.85%
- 30Balatro$0.30/1hr49h97.37%97.83%
- 31Restaurant Empire II$0.31/1hr65h84.00%77.53%
- 32Animal Shelter$0.31/1hr10h85.26%87.66%
- 33My Dream Setup$0.33/1hr7h87.22%91.47%
- 34Farming Simulator 19$0.33/1hr54h93.41%94.49%
- 35Insect Swarm$0.33/1hr7h84.96%84.15%
- 36Mon Bazou$0.34/1hr47h93.25%97.12%
- 37Dinkum$0.36/1hr56h90.09%91.78%
- 38Draw & Guess$0.38/1hr13h84.20%83.92%
- 39Immortal Life$0.39/1hr44h83.84%79.39%
- 40Fabledom$0.39/1hr19h85.18%85.17%
- 41Rising World$0.40/1hr37h84.82%85.75%
- 42TCG Card Shop Simulator$0.42/1hr48h94.52%96.39%
- 43Star Trucker$0.42/1hr18h82.16%78.27%
- 44Arctico$0.43/1hr2h81.41%70.22%
- 45Banished$0.44/1hr46h89.45%90.43%
- 46American Truck Simulator$0.45/1hr44h96.49%96.91%
- 47Farlands$0.45/1hr26h86.38%89.87%
- 48Amber Isle$0.45/1hr15h85.19%82.39%
- 49Sailwind$0.46/1hr44h85.13%88.79%
- 50Sticky Business$0.47/1hr11h88.86%93.61%
- 51Burgie's Cozy Kitchen$0.47/1hr15h85.84%96.10%
- 52Supraland Six Inches Under$0.48/1hr14h88.90%96.16%
- 53Little Witch in the Woods$0.48/1hr42h87.40%89.08%
- 54GoreBox$0.48/1hr19h84.55%84.30%
- 55Superflight$0.49/1hr6h91.19%96.37%
- 56CarX Drift Racing Online$0.50/1hr34h94.09%95.09%
- 57Kingdoms and Castles$0.50/1hr40h91.54%93.57%
- 58ContractVille$0.51/1hr19h82.94%80.85%
- 59Farming Simulator 15$0.51/1hr25h89.68%92.51%
- 60Cozy Grove$0.51/1hr29h86.68%89.51%
- 61Mini Motorways$0.52/1hr19h93.05%96.26%
- 62Chef RPG$0.53/1hr38h85.05%87.83%
- 63Havendock$0.53/1hr11h84.02%79.26%
- 64Slime Rancher 2$0.54/1hr33h92.96%94.50%
- 65DAVE THE DIVER$0.54/1hr37h95.83%96.48%
- 66Cat Goes Fishing$0.55/1hr13h90.78%94.16%
- 67RUSSIAPHOBIA$0.57/1hr1h78.14%68.75%
- 68Bloons TD 5$0.57/1hr18h90.63%94.68%
- 69TerraScape$0.57/1hr13h86.30%88.61%
- 70The Wandering Village$0.58/1hr26h88.62%91.97%
- 71Farm Together$0.58/1hr34h91.30%94.07%
- 72Cassette Beasts$0.59/1hr34h89.73%94.03%
- 73Plantera 2: Golden Acorn$0.59/1hr8h86.07%94.19%
- 74Nodebuster$0.61/1hr5h92.18%97.39%
- 75theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.62/1hr32h89.02%89.07%
- 76Gold Mining Simulator$0.62/1hr32h76.95%72.50%
- 77WorldBox - God Simulator$0.62/1hr32h93.82%95.33%
- 78Wingspan$0.62/1hr32h90.15%94.29%
- 79Cooking Simulator$0.63/1hr8h84.83%84.65%
- 80Peggle Deluxe$0.65/1hr8h92.71%97.66%
- 81Grocery Store Simulator$0.66/1hr23h86.73%90.71%
- 82Let's School$0.68/1hr29h88.40%92.70%
- 83Townscaper$0.70/1hr3h92.09%95.28%
- 84Ravenous Devils$0.71/1hr7h88.86%92.56%
- 85Tavern Master$0.72/1hr21h89.14%92.12%
- 86I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.73/1hr27h84.30%84.38%
- 87Harold Halibut$0.73/1hr13h83.99%81.94%
- 88Finnish Cottage Simulator$0.73/1hr21h86.84%93.83%
- 89Travellin Cats in China$0.79/1hr1h85.59%98.03%
- 90Travellin Cats Around the World$0.80/1hr2h85.29%97.30%
- 91Mini Metro$0.81/1hr12h91.62%96.00%
- 92Juice Galaxy$0.81/1hr6h92.03%98.50%
- 93Insaniquarium Deluxe$0.83/1hr6h90.26%96.80%
- 94shapez 2 - Factory$0.84/1hr21h91.94%96.94%
- 95Bear and Breakfast$0.85/1hr24h86.07%89.43%
- 96Beacon Pines$0.85/1hr7h89.44%97.56%
- 97Chants of Sennaar$0.86/1hr12h95.33%98.24%
- 98Love Is All Around$0.88/1hr11h91.79%93.23%
- 99Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop$0.89/1hr10h79.10%70.04%
- 100Aeruta$0.89/1hr22h86.32%94.51%
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.