Best Value Simulation Games Under $5
The Simulation games on Steam games under $5 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$0.01/1hr200h48.02%32.54%
- 2Ropuka's Idle Island$0.02/1hr153h88.03%95.19%
- 3The NOexistenceN of Lilith$0.03/1hr58h86.92%98.07%
- 4Cookie Clicker$0.04/1hr123h95.33%96.41%
- 5RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.05/1hr33h89.33%94.31%
- 6shapez$0.05/1hr21h91.78%95.91%
- 7Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.05/1hr94h92.62%97.58%
- 8Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr34h93.72%97.48%
- 9Rusty's Retirement$0.06/1hr72h91.97%96.70%
- 10Old World$0.06/1hr62h84.44%82.51%
- 11Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 12Chillquarium$0.09/1hr29h88.14%92.04%
- 13Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 14Mr. Prepper$0.10/1hr27h83.21%80.01%
- 15Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.11/1hr9h93.47%97.57%
- 16Chill Pulse$0.11/1hr46h87.90%95.43%
- 17SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 18Hacknet$0.14/1hr11h91.22%93.53%
- 19Tropico 4$0.14/1hr32h88.83%91.69%
- 20FlatOut$0.15/1hr10h87.55%91.08%
- 21Green Hell$0.15/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 22Crazy Machines 3$0.15/1hr6h89.33%94.35%
- 23Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 24RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack$0.16/1hr15h86.83%89.64%
- 25Streamer Life Simulator$0.17/1hr12h81.14%76.04%
- 26Party Club$0.18/1hr4h81.05%71.62%
- 27Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 28Internet Cafe Simulator$0.19/1hr5h78.33%72.61%
- 29Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 30Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 31Bus Simulator 18$0.20/1hr15h82.35%80.95%
- 32The Escapists$0.21/1hr13h88.29%90.21%
- 33Outpath$0.23/1hr17h86.78%92.65%
- 34Russian Life Simulator$0.23/1hr2h86.57%88.52%
- 35Dome Keeper$0.23/1hr20h90.14%92.35%
- 36Settlement Survival$0.23/1hr22h85.12%85.04%
- 37The Battle of Polytopia$0.24/1hr19h88.85%93.96%
- 38MudRunner$0.24/1hr16h90.42%91.60%
- 39Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 40Ticket to Ride$0.25/1hr18h82.76%69.95%
- 41Niche - a genetics survival game$0.26/1hr14h84.91%86.14%
- 42Supermarket Chaos$0.27/1hr19h86.48%92.87%
- 43Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr11h89.94%93.26%
- 44Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.27/1hr19h94.47%96.51%
- 45Slime Rancher$0.30/1hr17h97.24%98.01%
- 46Lonely Mountains: Downhill$0.30/1hr13h86.46%90.60%
- 47Animal Shelter$0.31/1hr10h85.26%87.66%
- 48Game Dev Tycoon$0.33/1hr12h93.37%95.18%
- 49My Dream Setup$0.33/1hr7h87.22%91.47%
- 50Verdun$0.35/1hr11h85.98%86.19%
- 51DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION$0.35/1hr2h90.42%94.22%
- 52VillageRhapsody$0.36/1hr8h92.34%96.87%
- 53Wobbledogs$0.37/1hr14h92.72%98.22%
- 54Buckshot Roulette$0.38/1hr4h94.36%95.09%
- 55Road Redemption$0.40/1hr7h83.76%82.71%
- 56Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You$0.40/1hr6h88.25%90.23%
- 57Gladiator Guild Manager$0.43/1hr11h83.99%81.07%
- 58Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.46/1hr1h87.02%91.57%
- 59Progressbar95$0.47/1hr11h88.12%96.14%
- 60Sticky Business$0.47/1hr11h88.86%93.61%
- 61That's not my Neighbor$0.53/1hr6h86.36%88.83%
- 62RUSSIAPHOBIA$0.57/1hr1h78.14%68.75%
- 63Plantera 2: Golden Acorn$0.59/1hr8h86.07%94.19%
- 64Drunken Wrestlers 2$0.60/1hr7h86.13%86.64%
- 65Nodebuster$0.61/1hr5h92.18%97.39%
- 66Chained Together$0.62/1hr6h89.05%89.65%
- 67Cooking Simulator$0.63/1hr8h84.83%84.65%
- 68LoveChoice$0.64/1hr2h90.66%92.15%
- 69THE GAME OF LIFE 2$0.70/1hr5h82.25%77.90%
- 70Townscaper$0.70/1hr3h92.09%95.28%
- 71Ravenous Devils$0.71/1hr7h88.86%92.56%
- 72Tannenberg$0.79/1hr5h85.70%86.22%
- 73WRC Generations – The FIA WRC Official Game$0.81/1hr5h79.31%68.07%
- 74Gamble With Your Friends$0.88/1hr6h88.26%89.60%
- 75Summon$0.94/1hr1h86.42%92.45%
- 76Gourdlets$0.96/1hr5h85.72%92.33%
- 77Retrowave$0.99/1hr3h91.23%95.15%
- 78Digseum$1.07/1hr3h90.67%97.68%
- 79Arctic Eggs$1.17/1hr3h88.58%95.56%
- 80Minami Lane$1.34/1hr4h90.09%97.35%
- 81Hand Simulator$1.40/1hr2h84.06%83.75%
- 82Kabuto Park$1.42/1hr4h89.10%99.50%
- 83Chushpan Simulator$1.51/1hr2h84.55%85.54%
- 84Five Nights at Freddy's$1.55/1hr3h92.57%93.82%
- 85SUMMERHOUSE$1.56/1hr3h86.46%92.98%
- 86Kiosk$1.83/1hr2h85.05%87.78%
- 87Achievement Clicker$2.47/1hr0h84.51%82.55%
- 88Insomnia: Theater in the Head$2.53/1hr1h87.99%97.18%
- 89The Exit 8$3.15/1hr1h89.38%92.99%
- 90Initial Drift Online$7.13/1hr1h76.67%62.06%
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.