Best Value RTS Games Under $20
The RTS 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.
- 1Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr34h93.72%97.48%
- 2Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 3Kenshi$0.10/1hr118h94.77%95.59%
- 4Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2$0.11/1hr36h79.47%74.30%
- 5Against the Storm$0.11/1hr82h92.49%94.44%
- 6Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 7Supreme Commander 2$0.14/1hr94h86.89%88.21%
- 8Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 9Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance$0.14/1hr92h91.99%96.72%
- 10Tropico 4$0.14/1hr32h88.83%91.69%
- 11Mechabellum$0.15/1hr103h84.20%83.70%
- 12Dyson Sphere Program$0.15/1hr129h96.21%97.42%
- 13Mindustry$0.16/1hr62h92.97%95.73%
- 14Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion$0.16/1hr123h90.14%93.17%
- 15ENDLESS Space 2$0.17/1hr59h83.87%83.30%
- 16Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 17Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.19/1hr27h90.33%96.33%
- 18Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 19Age of Empires II (Retired)$0.20/1hr99h94.89%95.83%
- 20Warpips$0.20/1hr13h85.84%87.11%
- 21Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition$0.20/1hr99h93.39%95.64%
- 22Empires of the Undergrowth$0.21/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 23Total War: ATTILA$0.22/1hr89h83.00%82.42%
- 24Cataclismo$0.23/1hr39h86.28%88.80%
- 25Tropico 5$0.23/1hr30h81.33%78.67%
- 26Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr42h85.24%85.25%
- 27Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 28Company of Heroes$0.25/1hr60h91.08%94.22%
- 29Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr11h89.94%93.26%
- 30Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.28/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 31Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew$0.29/1hr35h87.87%91.04%
- 32Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition$0.29/1hr69h89.51%90.64%
- 33Company of Heroes 2$0.32/1hr63h79.54%79.05%
- 34Rise of Nations: Extended Edition$0.32/1hr63h91.01%94.68%
- 35Kingdoms Reborn$0.32/1hr63h87.75%90.38%
- 36Clanfolk$0.32/1hr47h86.39%91.61%
- 37Age of History 3$0.32/1hr31h85.06%84.99%
- 38Norland$0.33/1hr45h83.36%81.63%
- 39STAR WARS Empire at War - Gold Pack$0.33/1hr60h95.37%97.73%
- 40Dawn of Man$0.34/1hr37h86.22%86.80%
- 41Homeworld Remastered Collection$0.35/1hr15h86.77%87.89%
- 42Dummynation$0.35/1hr30h85.85%87.90%
- 43Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.36/1hr28h91.44%96.68%
- 44Tower Dominion$0.39/1hr45h85.34%85.62%
- 45Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak$0.39/1hr13h82.40%79.28%
- 46Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III$0.41/1hr19h59.25%48.40%
- 47Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition (Classic)$0.43/1hr23h86.58%87.58%
- 48Gladiator Guild Manager$0.43/1hr11h83.99%81.07%
- 49Banished$0.44/1hr46h89.45%90.43%
- 50A Total War Saga: TROY$0.45/1hr45h81.43%71.63%
- 51Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.48/1hr31h84.45%82.43%
- 52Kingdoms and Castles$0.50/1hr40h91.54%93.57%
- 53Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition$0.53/1hr38h89.94%91.67%
- 54Call to Arms$0.54/1hr28h81.03%79.31%
- 55The Wandering Village$0.58/1hr26h88.62%91.97%
- 56Castle Story$0.59/1hr17h75.16%65.19%
- 57Age of Empires: Definitive Edition$0.64/1hr31h84.63%84.29%
- 58A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA$0.72/1hr28h76.44%70.57%
- 59Fly Corp$0.72/1hr12h85.55%84.91%
- 60Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.74/1hr20h85.87%86.53%
- 61Cossacks 3$0.74/1hr27h83.39%82.28%
- 62Command & Conquer Remastered Collection$0.75/1hr27h89.44%90.66%
- 63Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic)$0.86/1hr12h90.31%94.60%
- 64Halo Wars: Definitive Edition$0.95/1hr21h88.24%91.44%
- 65Emberward$1.06/1hr19h88.86%96.93%
- 66Border Pioneer$1.09/1hr13h85.90%86.53%
- 67Sudden Strike 4$1.17/1hr17h82.00%78.20%
- 68Breakout 13$1.21/1hr8h86.37%87.95%
- 69Brutal Legend$1.35/1hr11h90.54%93.16%
- 70Victoria II$1.43/1hr14h88.67%90.38%
- 71Becastled$1.53/1hr13h83.93%81.71%
- 72Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2$1.98/1hr10h84.91%84.55%
- 73Homeworld 3$2.14/1hr9h64.45%40.77%
- 74Europa Universalis III Complete$3.81/1hr4h84.50%81.16%
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.