Best Value Simulation Games Under $10
The Simulation 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.
- 1BidKing$0.01/1hr210h48.46%32.61%
- 2Cornerpond$0.02/1hr158h87.87%97.12%
- 3Ropuka's Idle Island$0.03/1hr124h88.29%95.18%
- 4Cookie Clicker$0.04/1hr123h95.34%96.42%
- 5FTL: Faster Than Light$0.04/1hr46h93.99%95.09%
- 6The NOexistenceN of Lilith$0.04/1hr45h87.85%98.00%
- 7shapez$0.05/1hr21h91.82%95.90%
- 8X4: Foundations$0.06/1hr156h81.29%79.94%
- 9Transport Fever 2$0.07/1hr60h89.15%90.32%
- 10Space Engineers$0.07/1hr142h88.57%88.81%
- 11Graveyard Keeper$0.08/1hr52h85.33%85.33%
- 12Chill Pulse$0.08/1hr47h88.62%95.43%
- 13theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.09/1hr34h88.91%89.08%
- 14Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.09/1hr28h86.79%87.04%
- 15Rusty's Retirement$0.10/1hr72h92.12%96.69%
- 16Garry's Mod$0.10/1hr49h96.78%96.87%
- 17Tiny Pasture$0.11/1hr57h88.64%92.48%
- 18Dragon Cliff$0.11/1hr92h86.85%88.61%
- 19DSX$0.12/1hr67h77.59%69.43%
- 20ICARUS$0.12/1hr72h76.03%74.67%
- 21Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.67%84.61%
- 22FlatOut$0.14/1hr11h87.66%91.13%
- 23Touhou Mystia's Izakaya$0.15/1hr41h95.47%98.56%
- 24House Flipper$0.15/1hr17h93.27%93.97%
- 25RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.16/1hr38h89.41%94.31%
- 26Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.16/1hr62h84.98%85.44%
- 27Streamer Life Simulator$0.16/1hr12h81.27%76.03%
- 28The Guild II Renaissance$0.17/1hr58h84.80%83.52%
- 29Do Not Feed the Monkeys$0.17/1hr9h89.68%93.54%
- 30Internet Cafe Simulator$0.18/1hr6h78.62%72.66%
- 31KovaaK's$0.19/1hr50h91.49%92.97%
- 32Chillquarium$0.19/1hr31h88.40%92.06%
- 33Frostpunk$0.21/1hr29h92.24%92.74%
- 34Into the Breach$0.21/1hr14h91.45%94.19%
- 35People Playground$0.21/1hr47h98.04%98.44%
- 36Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.22/1hr23h94.48%96.50%
- 37Settlement Survival$0.22/1hr24h85.20%85.04%
- 38Slime Rancher$0.22/1hr23h97.25%98.01%
- 39(the) Gnorp Apologue$0.22/1hr32h90.06%94.81%
- 40Assetto Corsa$0.23/1hr22h92.45%92.86%
- 41Outpath$0.23/1hr16h87.09%92.70%
- 42EVERSPACE 2$0.24/1hr41h85.44%85.94%
- 43Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.25/1hr8h93.52%97.57%
- 44Per Aspera$0.26/1hr29h81.88%75.91%
- 45F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch$0.26/1hr18h85.42%86.32%
- 46This War of Mine$0.27/1hr19h93.04%93.83%
- 47Supermarket Chaos$0.27/1hr18h87.34%92.73%
- 48ANEURISM IV$0.27/1hr36h81.48%75.33%
- 49Mist Survival$0.28/1hr30h79.65%75.70%
- 50Monster Prom$0.28/1hr9h89.63%93.02%
- 51Volcano Princess$0.28/1hr25h95.68%97.79%
- 52Gladiator Guild Manager$0.30/1hr16h84.16%81.09%
- 53Matchmaking Inc.$0.31/1hr29h86.79%88.67%
- 54I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h85.05%84.45%
- 55Ale & Tale Tavern$0.31/1hr19h87.25%89.09%
- 56CarX Street$0.32/1hr28h75.73%70.82%
- 57Assetto Corsa Competizione$0.33/1hr31h91.42%92.68%
- 58Rocksmith 2014 Edition REMASTERED LEARN & PLAY$0.34/1hr30h87.22%87.96%
- 59Easy Red 2$0.34/1hr26h88.40%90.39%
- 60Age of History 3$0.35/1hr29h85.16%85.02%
- 61Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library!$0.35/1hr17h91.97%94.48%
- 62METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED$0.35/1hr28h83.07%69.39%
- 63Papa's Freezeria Deluxe$0.35/1hr17h93.36%99.26%
- 64Parkasaurus$0.36/1hr7h86.78%93.16%
- 65VillageRhapsody$0.36/1hr8h92.48%96.87%
- 66Holdfast: Nations At War$0.37/1hr27h88.70%89.84%
- 67Dungeon Clawler$0.39/1hr19h86.41%88.91%
- 68Call of the Wild: The Angler$0.39/1hr23h76.20%63.95%
- 69Old Market Simulator$0.39/1hr25h86.15%87.66%
- 70Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.40/1hr15h88.95%98.68%
- 71GoreBox$0.41/1hr22h84.56%84.25%
- 72Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.41/1hr24h93.60%97.48%
- 73Unheard - Voices of Crime$0.41/1hr7h93.54%95.95%
- 74Cardboard Town$0.41/1hr10h84.38%79.91%
- 75Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite$0.41/1hr19h81.28%76.50%
- 76Castle Story$0.41/1hr24h74.98%65.18%
- 77STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town$0.42/1hr24h88.27%93.36%
- 78Burgie's Cozy Kitchen$0.43/1hr16h86.26%96.10%
- 79OpenTTD$0.44/1hr22h91.18%94.63%
- 80Poly Bridge 3$0.45/1hr13h86.78%96.16%
- 81Drunken Wrestlers 2$0.46/1hr9h86.18%86.64%
- 82Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III$0.46/1hr18h59.30%48.40%
- 83Luck be a Landlord$0.46/1hr22h89.60%93.23%
- 84Progressbar95$0.46/1hr11h88.29%96.13%
- 85Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution$0.46/1hr22h84.52%82.69%
- 86Mall Together$0.47/1hr20h85.90%94.24%
- 87Scritchy Scratchy$0.49/1hr14h90.98%94.47%
- 88WRC 10 FIA World Rally Championship$0.50/1hr10h81.73%72.61%
- 89Don't Starve$0.50/1hr20h95.63%96.54%
- 90Human Fall Flat$0.50/1hr12h94.23%94.62%
- 91Star Trucker$0.50/1hr15h82.52%78.29%
- 92Stronghold HD (2012)$0.51/1hr12h90.58%95.53%
- 93Opus Magnum$0.51/1hr20h90.43%97.25%
- 94Cat Goes Fishing$0.52/1hr13h90.83%94.16%
- 95Internet Cafe Simulator 2$0.53/1hr11h78.57%73.40%
- 96112 Operator$0.53/1hr9h86.82%88.73%
- 97Dorfromantik$0.55/1hr17h93.55%96.33%
- 98TheoTown$0.55/1hr18h88.37%94.67%
- 99Fortune Mill$0.55/1hr15h84.58%82.08%
- 100ContractVille$0.56/1hr18h83.62%80.88%
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.