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.
- 1Cornerpond$0.02/1hr158h87.87%97.12%
- 2Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi$0.02/1hr147h88.46%96.88%
- 3Ropuka's Idle Island$0.03/1hr124h88.29%95.18%
- 4Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr47h88.62%95.43%
- 5theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.09/1hr34h88.91%89.08%
- 6Rusty's Retirement$0.10/1hr72h92.12%96.69%
- 7Tiny Pasture$0.11/1hr57h88.64%92.48%
- 8Stardew Valley$0.11/1hr139h98.35%98.48%
- 9House Flipper$0.15/1hr17h93.27%93.97%
- 10Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.15/1hr78h93.02%97.60%
- 11RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.16/1hr38h89.41%94.31%
- 12Fields of Mistria$0.18/1hr79h94.43%97.04%
- 13DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.18/1hr56h91.34%92.22%
- 14Razortron 2000$0.18/1hr6h85.58%86.34%
- 15Ithya: Magic Studies$0.18/1hr61h87.59%97.86%
- 16Starbound$0.18/1hr82h89.59%89.94%
- 17Crab Champions$0.19/1hr54h94.84%97.89%
- 18Chillquarium$0.19/1hr31h88.40%92.06%
- 19The Last Campfire$0.20/1hr7h93.51%97.49%
- 20Euro Truck Simulator 2$0.22/1hr90h97.31%97.44%
- 21gogh: Focus with Your Avatar$0.23/1hr53h87.38%91.14%
- 22American Truck Simulator$0.23/1hr87h96.35%96.91%
- 23Outpath$0.23/1hr16h87.09%92.70%
- 24Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.25/1hr8h93.52%97.57%
- 25Parkitect$0.25/1hr47h89.36%94.20%
- 26Hardspace: Shipbreaker$0.28/1hr38h88.10%89.30%
- 27Motor Town: Behind The Wheel$0.28/1hr71h89.52%93.84%
- 28Doloc Town$0.29/1hr69h87.94%94.54%
- 29Farming Simulator 19$0.31/1hr58h93.43%94.49%
- 30Immortal Life$0.31/1hr55h83.56%79.48%
- 31I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h85.05%84.45%
- 32Swords & Souls: Neverseen$0.32/1hr17h88.42%93.21%
- 33Mon Bazou$0.34/1hr47h93.29%97.11%
- 34Rising World$0.34/1hr33h85.13%85.71%
- 35Core Keeper$0.35/1hr57h91.95%92.94%
- 36Draw & Guess$0.36/1hr14h84.25%83.94%
- 37Cash Cleaner Simulator$0.37/1hr55h88.47%92.38%
- 38Dinkum$0.38/1hr53h90.15%91.80%
- 39Banished$0.39/1hr52h89.48%90.43%
- 40Call of the Wild: The Angler$0.39/1hr23h76.20%63.95%
- 41Little Witch in the Woods$0.41/1hr49h87.49%89.07%
- 42GoreBox$0.41/1hr22h84.56%84.25%
- 43Balatro$0.41/1hr37h97.24%97.84%
- 44STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town$0.42/1hr24h88.27%93.36%
- 45Burgie's Cozy Kitchen$0.43/1hr16h86.26%96.10%
- 46Farming Simulator 15$0.44/1hr29h89.73%92.51%
- 47The Gunk$0.45/1hr6h85.78%86.39%
- 48Cozy Grove$0.46/1hr33h87.26%89.52%
- 49Sailwind$0.46/1hr43h85.99%88.78%
- 50Bloons TD 5$0.48/1hr21h90.46%94.68%
- 51Farlands$0.49/1hr24h86.00%89.79%
- 52Star Trucker$0.50/1hr15h82.52%78.29%
- 53CarX Drift Racing Online$0.51/1hr33h94.11%95.09%
- 54Cat Goes Fishing$0.52/1hr13h90.83%94.16%
- 55Farmer's Life$0.54/1hr36h86.07%88.73%
- 56Farm Together$0.54/1hr37h91.35%94.07%
- 57Dorfromantik$0.55/1hr17h93.55%96.33%
- 58Slime Rancher 2$0.55/1hr33h92.96%94.49%
- 59DAVE THE DIVER$0.55/1hr36h95.84%96.49%
- 60ContractVille$0.56/1hr18h83.62%80.88%
- 61Wingspan$0.57/1hr35h89.95%94.27%
- 62Kingdoms and Castles$0.58/1hr35h91.58%93.57%
- 63Plantera 2: Golden Acorn$0.58/1hr8h86.41%94.19%
- 64Cassette Beasts$0.59/1hr34h89.91%94.02%
- 65WorldBox - God Simulator$0.59/1hr34h93.83%95.33%
- 66Chef RPG$0.59/1hr34h85.88%87.83%
- 67TCG Card Shop Simulator$0.60/1hr33h94.62%96.49%
- 68Miss Neko 3$0.62/1hr2h87.36%92.76%
- 69Office Life$0.64/1hr31h86.00%88.74%
- 70Nodebuster$0.64/1hr5h92.38%97.39%
- 71Grocery Store Simulator$0.65/1hr23h87.39%90.70%
- 72Ravenous Devils$0.66/1hr8h88.93%92.56%
- 73Mini Motorways$0.66/1hr15h93.09%96.27%
- 74Superflight$0.67/1hr4h91.26%96.37%
- 75Cats Organized Neatly$0.67/1hr4h89.20%97.19%
- 76Vampires' Melody$0.70/1hr6h89.75%97.45%
- 77A Little to the Left$0.71/1hr8h89.43%91.57%
- 78Gold Mining Simulator$0.71/1hr28h77.36%72.51%
- 79Zup! F$0.73/1hr3h90.65%96.87%
- 80RUSSIAPHOBIA$0.74/1hr1h77.92%68.78%
- 81Peggle Deluxe$0.74/1hr7h92.66%97.66%
- 82Moonstone Island$0.75/1hr26h84.81%83.62%
- 83My Dream Setup$0.76/1hr8h87.84%91.45%
- 84shapez 2 - Factory$0.77/1hr19h92.37%96.97%
- 85Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator$0.79/1hr24h91.54%92.93%
- 86Mini Metro$0.79/1hr13h92.02%96.00%
- 87Russian Life Simulator$0.79/1hr1h86.89%88.53%
- 88Citadelum$0.83/1hr15h85.21%84.04%
- 89Tavern Master$0.84/1hr18h89.22%92.14%
- 90Let's School$0.84/1hr24h88.48%92.70%
- 91Bear and Breakfast$0.85/1hr24h86.77%89.44%
- 92Retrowave$0.86/1hr3h91.29%95.14%
- 93Finnish Cottage Simulator$0.88/1hr17h87.61%93.78%
- 94Love Is All Around$0.89/1hr11h91.82%93.23%
- 95Potion Permit$0.89/1hr22h83.23%79.35%
- 96Chants of Sennaar$0.89/1hr11h95.21%98.25%
- 97Juice Galaxy$0.89/1hr6h92.13%98.50%
- 98SUMMERHOUSE$0.91/1hr4h87.26%92.97%
- 99TerraScape$0.92/1hr16h85.99%88.59%
- 100The Tenants$0.94/1hr21h82.53%78.82%
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.