Best Value Strategy Games Under $10
The Strategy 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%
- 2Mordheim: City of the Damned$0.02/1hr71h78.18%70.35%
- 3GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.03/1hr64h88.32%94.92%
- 4Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword$0.03/1hr185h88.63%96.22%
- 5Sid Meier's Civilization V$0.03/1hr224h95.14%95.60%
- 6Cookie Clicker$0.04/1hr123h95.34%96.42%
- 7FTL: Faster Than Light$0.04/1hr46h93.99%95.09%
- 8shapez$0.05/1hr21h91.82%95.90%
- 9Black Desert$0.05/1hr187h74.64%73.51%
- 10Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition$0.06/1hr72h88.31%89.21%
- 11TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children$0.06/1hr99h89.07%93.43%
- 12Sid Meier’s Civilization VI$0.06/1hr95h86.13%86.15%
- 13X4: Foundations$0.06/1hr156h81.29%79.94%
- 14Transport Fever 2$0.07/1hr60h89.15%90.32%
- 15Space Engineers$0.07/1hr142h88.57%88.81%
- 16Wall World$0.08/1hr14h88.28%90.56%
- 17Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.09/1hr28h86.79%87.04%
- 18Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete$0.09/1hr43h87.19%89.48%
- 19Rusty's Retirement$0.10/1hr72h92.12%96.69%
- 20最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect$0.10/1hr41h83.71%52.93%
- 21Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.10/1hr5h85.89%87.11%
- 22Monster Sanctuary$0.10/1hr49h88.65%91.21%
- 23Dragon Cliff$0.11/1hr92h86.85%88.61%
- 24Town of Salem$0.11/1hr44h87.32%87.87%
- 25Tales & Tactics$0.13/1hr14h84.00%78.05%
- 26Beholder$0.13/1hr11h90.10%91.64%
- 27Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2$0.13/1hr30h79.59%74.31%
- 28Wartales$0.13/1hr73h85.54%85.60%
- 29Solasta: Crown of the Magister$0.14/1hr55h86.31%86.75%
- 30Slay the Spire$0.14/1hr44h96.93%97.46%
- 31House Flipper$0.15/1hr17h93.27%93.97%
- 32Age of History II$0.15/1hr39h89.09%89.84%
- 33RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.16/1hr38h89.41%94.31%
- 34Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok$0.16/1hr61h86.50%88.21%
- 35Streamer Life Simulator$0.16/1hr12h81.27%76.03%
- 36Punch Club$0.16/1hr12h81.99%80.23%
- 37Marvel's Midnight Suns$0.16/1hr55h82.71%81.63%
- 3820 Minutes Till Dawn$0.16/1hr15h89.04%90.31%
- 39Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth$0.17/1hr60h68.06%60.60%
- 40King's Bounty: Warriors of the North$0.17/1hr60h83.87%79.46%
- 41The Guild II Renaissance$0.17/1hr58h84.80%83.52%
- 42Do Not Feed the Monkeys$0.17/1hr9h89.68%93.54%
- 43Epic Battle Fantasy 5$0.18/1hr56h90.36%98.56%
- 44Mindustry$0.18/1hr56h92.99%95.72%
- 45100% Orange Juice$0.19/1hr9h89.61%91.03%
- 46Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.20/1hr25h90.10%96.30%
- 47Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1$0.20/1hr34h89.92%94.12%
- 48Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.20/1hr25h96.95%97.70%
- 49Warpips$0.21/1hr12h86.00%87.13%
- 50Frostpunk$0.21/1hr29h92.24%92.74%
- 51L.A. Noire$0.21/1hr29h85.74%85.85%
- 52Into the Breach$0.21/1hr14h91.45%94.19%
- 53Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.22/1hr23h94.48%96.50%
- 54Party Hard$0.22/1hr9h87.78%90.15%
- 55Settlement Survival$0.22/1hr24h85.20%85.04%
- 56(the) Gnorp Apologue$0.22/1hr32h90.06%94.81%
- 57Outpath$0.23/1hr16h87.09%92.70%
- 58X-Morph: Defense$0.24/1hr8h87.16%91.31%
- 59For The King II$0.24/1hr36h76.43%70.87%
- 60DG2: Defense Grid 2$0.25/1hr39h85.72%86.62%
- 61Per Aspera$0.26/1hr29h81.88%75.91%
- 62ShellShock Live$0.26/1hr38h91.27%92.94%
- 63Sid Meier's Civilization IV$0.27/1hr15h86.82%92.39%
- 64Volcano Princess$0.28/1hr25h95.68%97.79%
- 65Songs of Conquest$0.30/1hr25h85.27%85.64%
- 66Gladiator Guild Manager$0.30/1hr16h84.16%81.09%
- 67Easy Red 2$0.34/1hr26h88.40%90.39%
- 68Age of History 3$0.35/1hr29h85.16%85.02%
- 69METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED$0.35/1hr28h83.07%69.39%
- 70Papa's Freezeria Deluxe$0.35/1hr17h93.36%99.26%
- 71Parkasaurus$0.36/1hr7h86.78%93.16%
- 72Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition (Classic)$0.36/1hr28h86.69%87.61%
- 73Cluckmech Oasis$0.37/1hr27h86.18%88.29%
- 74Holdfast: Nations At War$0.37/1hr27h88.70%89.84%
- 75Dungeon Clawler$0.39/1hr19h86.41%88.91%
- 76Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.40/1hr15h88.95%98.68%
- 77Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.41/1hr24h93.60%97.48%
- 78Cardboard Town$0.41/1hr10h84.38%79.91%
- 79Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite$0.41/1hr19h81.28%76.50%
- 80Castle Story$0.41/1hr24h74.98%65.18%
- 81Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.42/1hr24h91.27%96.68%
- 82Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III$0.46/1hr18h59.30%48.40%
- 83Border Pioneer$0.46/1hr16h85.60%86.57%
- 84XCOM: Chimera Squad$0.46/1hr22h75.40%71.17%
- 85Luck be a Landlord$0.46/1hr22h89.60%93.23%
- 86Bloons TD 5$0.48/1hr21h90.46%94.68%
- 87Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors$0.49/1hr20h92.24%96.16%
- 88Nubby's Number Factory$0.49/1hr10h93.06%97.30%
- 89Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense$0.50/1hr20h92.90%97.25%
- 90Stronghold HD (2012)$0.51/1hr12h90.58%95.53%
- 91Internet Cafe Simulator 2$0.53/1hr11h78.57%73.40%
- 92112 Operator$0.53/1hr9h86.82%88.73%
- 93Dorfromantik$0.55/1hr17h93.55%96.33%
- 94TheoTown$0.55/1hr18h88.37%94.67%
- 95Rogue: Genesia$0.55/1hr16h87.86%90.73%
- 96HuniePop$0.56/1hr18h93.11%95.57%
- 97s&box$0.56/1hr18h72.09%58.31%
- 98Fantasy Map Simulator$0.58/1hr14h86.11%89.18%
- 99Heretic's Fork$0.59/1hr17h85.27%84.91%
- 100LOCKDOWN Protocol$0.60/1hr17h85.78%86.01%
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.