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$0.01/1hr200h48.02%32.54%
- 2XCOM 2$0.03/1hr87h84.73%84.69%
- 3GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.04/1hr50h88.16%94.90%
- 4Cookie Clicker$0.04/1hr123h95.33%96.41%
- 5Elite Dangerous$0.04/1hr146h77.96%77.29%
- 6RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.05/1hr33h89.33%94.31%
- 7shapez$0.05/1hr21h91.78%95.91%
- 8PlateUp!$0.06/1hr35h92.18%94.75%
- 9Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword$0.06/1hr174h88.91%96.23%
- 10Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr34h93.72%97.48%
- 11Rusty's Retirement$0.06/1hr72h91.97%96.70%
- 12Old World$0.06/1hr62h84.44%82.51%
- 13Darkest Dungeon$0.07/1hr53h91.43%91.64%
- 14Roguebook$0.09/1hr20h85.17%83.83%
- 15Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.72%87.07%
- 16Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 17Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 18Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 19最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect$0.10/1hr41h83.56%52.93%
- 20Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete$0.10/1hr48h87.07%89.49%
- 21Town of Salem$0.10/1hr48h87.28%87.86%
- 22Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2$0.11/1hr36h79.47%74.30%
- 23Against the Storm$0.11/1hr82h92.49%94.44%
- 24Space Haven$0.11/1hr89h85.49%85.76%
- 25Battle Brothers$0.11/1hr78h87.32%88.06%
- 26XCOM: Enemy Unknown$0.12/1hr52h92.03%93.20%
- 27Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 28The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos$0.12/1hr45h86.08%87.20%
- 29The Last Spell$0.12/1hr52h88.78%91.40%
- 30Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga$0.12/1hr57h90.74%94.48%
- 31Dragon Cliff$0.13/1hr78h86.73%88.61%
- 32Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 33Slay the Spire$0.14/1hr45h97.04%97.45%
- 34Tropico 4$0.14/1hr32h88.83%91.69%
- 35King's Bounty: Warriors of the North$0.14/1hr71h83.44%79.47%
- 36Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok$0.15/1hr65h86.35%88.20%
- 37Crazy Machines 3$0.15/1hr6h89.33%94.35%
- 38Mindustry$0.16/1hr62h92.97%95.73%
- 39Black Desert$0.16/1hr62h74.62%73.50%
- 40Scribblenauts Unlimited$0.16/1hr12h89.64%93.97%
- 41XCOM: Chimera Squad$0.16/1hr18h75.35%71.17%
- 42RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack$0.16/1hr15h86.83%89.64%
- 43Monster Sanctuary$0.17/1hr45h88.56%91.22%
- 44ENDLESS Space 2$0.17/1hr59h83.87%83.30%
- 45Streamer Life Simulator$0.17/1hr12h81.14%76.04%
- 46Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 47The Guild II Renaissance$0.18/1hr55h84.68%83.51%
- 48Party Club$0.18/1hr4h81.05%71.62%
- 49Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 50Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.19/1hr27h90.33%96.33%
- 51Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 52Coromon$0.19/1hr26h84.72%84.44%
- 53Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 54Iratus: Lord of the Dead$0.20/1hr15h85.33%85.50%
- 55Warpips$0.20/1hr13h85.84%87.11%
- 56The Escapists$0.21/1hr13h88.29%90.21%
- 57Empires of the Undergrowth$0.21/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 58Outpath$0.23/1hr17h86.78%92.65%
- 59Russian Life Simulator$0.23/1hr2h86.57%88.52%
- 60Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 61Settlement Survival$0.23/1hr22h85.12%85.04%
- 62Cataclismo$0.23/1hr39h86.28%88.80%
- 63Tropico 5$0.23/1hr30h81.33%78.67%
- 64Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr42h85.24%85.25%
- 65ShellShock Live$0.24/1hr42h91.23%92.93%
- 66(the) Gnorp Apologue$0.24/1hr29h89.53%94.81%
- 67The Battle of Polytopia$0.24/1hr19h88.85%93.96%
- 68Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 69Per Aspera$0.24/1hr31h81.79%75.91%
- 70Ticket to Ride$0.25/1hr18h82.76%69.95%
- 71Niche - a genetics survival game$0.26/1hr14h84.91%86.14%
- 72Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.27/1hr19h94.47%96.51%
- 73Tropico 6$0.27/1hr37h87.08%87.73%
- 74Shadowrun Returns$0.28/1hr11h86.62%87.66%
- 75Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew$0.29/1hr35h87.87%91.04%
- 76Black Book$0.29/1hr26h88.01%92.20%
- 77Project Hospital$0.31/1hr33h86.98%88.89%
- 78Gordian Quest$0.32/1hr19h86.49%88.66%
- 79Isonzo$0.32/1hr19h83.82%83.03%
- 80Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.32/1hr19h88.18%98.68%
- 81Easy Red 2$0.32/1hr28h88.32%90.40%
- 82Age of History 3$0.32/1hr31h85.06%84.99%
- 83FTL: Faster Than Light$0.32/1hr31h93.97%95.08%
- 84Eden Crafters$0.32/1hr31h85.06%85.47%
- 85Game Dev Tycoon$0.33/1hr12h93.37%95.18%
- 86Backpack Hero$0.33/1hr26h85.73%86.37%
- 87Cluckmech Oasis$0.33/1hr30h86.01%88.28%
- 88Papa's Freezeria Deluxe$0.34/1hr18h93.23%99.26%
- 89Astro Colony$0.34/1hr29h83.47%80.55%
- 90Luck be a Landlord$0.35/1hr23h89.49%93.23%
- 91Verdun$0.35/1hr11h85.98%86.19%
- 92Homeworld Remastered Collection$0.35/1hr15h86.77%87.89%
- 93Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors$0.36/1hr23h92.08%96.16%
- 94Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.36/1hr28h91.44%96.68%
- 95Totally Accurate Battle Simulator$0.36/1hr19h97.05%97.82%
- 9620 Minutes Till Dawn$0.37/1hr14h88.98%90.28%
- 97Sandustry$0.38/1hr26h89.02%97.25%
- 98Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak$0.39/1hr13h82.40%79.28%
- 99The Escapists 2$0.39/1hr14h89.34%90.56%
- 100Fabledom$0.39/1hr19h85.18%85.17%
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.