Best Value Strategy Games Under $5
The Strategy 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%
- 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%
- 5RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.05/1hr33h89.33%94.31%
- 6shapez$0.05/1hr21h91.78%95.91%
- 7PlateUp!$0.06/1hr35h92.18%94.75%
- 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%
- 11Darkest Dungeon$0.07/1hr53h91.43%91.64%
- 12Roguebook$0.09/1hr20h85.17%83.83%
- 13Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.72%87.07%
- 14Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 15Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 16Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 17最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect$0.10/1hr41h83.56%52.93%
- 18Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete$0.10/1hr48h87.07%89.49%
- 19Town of Salem$0.10/1hr48h87.28%87.86%
- 20Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2$0.11/1hr36h79.47%74.30%
- 21Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 22Tropico 4$0.14/1hr32h88.83%91.69%
- 23Crazy Machines 3$0.15/1hr6h89.33%94.35%
- 24Scribblenauts Unlimited$0.16/1hr12h89.64%93.97%
- 25XCOM: Chimera Squad$0.16/1hr18h75.35%71.17%
- 26RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack$0.16/1hr15h86.83%89.64%
- 27Streamer Life Simulator$0.17/1hr12h81.14%76.04%
- 28Party Club$0.18/1hr4h81.05%71.62%
- 29Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 30Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.19/1hr27h90.33%96.33%
- 31Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 32Coromon$0.19/1hr26h84.72%84.44%
- 33Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 34Iratus: Lord of the Dead$0.20/1hr15h85.33%85.50%
- 35Warpips$0.20/1hr13h85.84%87.11%
- 36The Escapists$0.21/1hr13h88.29%90.21%
- 37Outpath$0.23/1hr17h86.78%92.65%
- 38Russian Life Simulator$0.23/1hr2h86.57%88.52%
- 39Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 40Settlement Survival$0.23/1hr22h85.12%85.04%
- 41The Battle of Polytopia$0.24/1hr19h88.85%93.96%
- 42Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 43Ticket to Ride$0.25/1hr18h82.76%69.95%
- 44Niche - a genetics survival game$0.26/1hr14h84.91%86.14%
- 45Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.27/1hr19h94.47%96.51%
- 46Shadowrun Returns$0.28/1hr11h86.62%87.66%
- 47Game Dev Tycoon$0.33/1hr12h93.37%95.18%
- 48Verdun$0.35/1hr11h85.98%86.19%
- 4920 Minutes Till Dawn$0.37/1hr14h88.98%90.28%
- 50Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak$0.39/1hr13h82.40%79.28%
- 51Nubby's Number Factory$0.40/1hr13h93.21%97.31%
- 52Gladiator Guild Manager$0.43/1hr11h83.99%81.07%
- 53Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.46/1hr1h87.02%91.57%
- 54Kingdom Eighties$0.49/1hr7h82.72%75.34%
- 55RUSSIAPHOBIA$0.57/1hr1h78.14%68.75%
- 56Nodebuster$0.61/1hr5h92.18%97.39%
- 57Feign$0.67/1hr7h87.51%91.18%
- 58THE GAME OF LIFE 2$0.70/1hr5h82.25%77.90%
- 59Dice People$0.77/1hr2h85.56%90.69%
- 60Master Healer Kale with useless party$0.79/1hr6h86.10%95.46%
- 61Tannenberg$0.79/1hr5h85.70%86.22%
- 62Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.12/1hr4h85.16%85.11%
- 63Pacify$1.24/1hr4h85.86%86.02%
- 64Ballionaire$1.26/1hr4h85.04%84.49%
- 65Minami Lane$1.34/1hr4h90.09%97.35%
- 66Kabuto Park$1.42/1hr4h89.10%99.50%
- 67SUMMERHOUSE$1.56/1hr3h86.46%92.98%
- 68Achievement Clicker$2.47/1hr0h84.51%82.55%
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.