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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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.
  1. 1BidKing$0.01/1hr
  2. 2Mordheim: City of the Damned$0.02/1hr
  3. 3GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.03/1hr
  4. 4Cookie Clicker$0.04/1hr
  5. 5FTL: Faster Than Light$0.04/1hr
  6. 6shapez$0.05/1hr
  7. 7Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition$0.06/1hr
  8. 8Transport Fever 2$0.07/1hr
  9. 9Wall World$0.08/1hr
  10. 10Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.09/1hr
  11. 11Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete$0.09/1hr
  12. 12最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect$0.10/1hr
  13. 13Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.10/1hr
  14. 14Monster Sanctuary$0.10/1hr
  15. 15Town of Salem$0.11/1hr
  16. 16Tales & Tactics$0.13/1hr
  17. 17Beholder$0.13/1hr
  18. 18Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2$0.13/1hr
  19. 19House Flipper$0.15/1hr
  20. 20Streamer Life Simulator$0.16/1hr
  21. 21Punch Club$0.16/1hr
  22. 2220 Minutes Till Dawn$0.16/1hr
  23. 23Do Not Feed the Monkeys$0.17/1hr
  24. 24100% Orange Juice$0.19/1hr
  25. 25Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.20/1hr
  26. 26Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.20/1hr
  27. 27Warpips$0.21/1hr
  28. 28Into the Breach$0.21/1hr
  29. 29Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.22/1hr
  30. 30Party Hard$0.22/1hr
  31. 31Outpath$0.23/1hr
  32. 32X-Morph: Defense$0.24/1hr
  33. 33Sid Meier's Civilization IV$0.27/1hr
  34. 34Gladiator Guild Manager$0.30/1hr
  35. 35Parkasaurus$0.36/1hr
  36. 36Cardboard Town$0.41/1hr
  37. 37Nubby's Number Factory$0.49/1hr
  38. 38112 Operator$0.53/1hr
  39. 39House of Detention$0.61/1hr
  40. 40Nodebuster$0.64/1hr
  41. 41RUSSIAPHOBIA$0.74/1hr
  42. 42Master Healer Kale with useless party$0.74/1hr
  43. 43Russian Life Simulator$0.79/1hr
  44. 44THE GAME OF LIFE 2$0.83/1hr
  45. 45SUMMERHOUSE$0.91/1hr
  46. 46Feign$0.93/1hr
  47. 47Party Club$0.95/1hr
  48. 48Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.96/1hr
  49. 49Minami Lane$1.20/1hr
  50. 50Pacify$1.24/1hr
  51. 51Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.24/1hr
  52. 52Dice People$1.41/1hr
  53. 53Hunting Simulator 2$1.49/1hr
  54. 54Achievement Clicker$1.56/1hr
  55. 55Kabuto Park$1.58/1hr

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.