Best Value Turn-Based Strategy Games Under $10

The Turn-Based Strategy games on Steam games under $10 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.

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.
  1. 1Mordheim: City of the Damned$0.02/1hr
  2. 2Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword$0.03/1hr
  3. 3Sid Meier's Civilization V$0.03/1hr
  4. 4Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition$0.06/1hr
  5. 5TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children$0.06/1hr
  6. 6Sid Meier’s Civilization VI$0.06/1hr
  7. 7Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete$0.09/1hr
  8. 8Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$0.11/1hr
  9. 9Wartales$0.13/1hr
  10. 10Age of History II$0.15/1hr
  11. 11Marvel's Midnight Suns$0.16/1hr
  12. 12Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth$0.17/1hr
  13. 13King's Bounty: Warriors of the North$0.17/1hr
  14. 14Into the Breach$0.21/1hr
  15. 15Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.22/1hr
  16. 16For The King II$0.24/1hr
  17. 17ShellShock Live$0.26/1hr
  18. 18Sid Meier's Civilization IV$0.27/1hr
  19. 19Songs of Conquest$0.30/1hr
  20. 20Gladiator Guild Manager$0.30/1hr
  21. 21Dungeon Clawler$0.39/1hr
  22. 22Cardboard Town$0.41/1hr
  23. 23Border Pioneer$0.46/1hr
  24. 24XCOM: Chimera Squad$0.46/1hr
  25. 25Dorfromantik$0.55/1hr
  26. 26Talisman: Digital Classic Edition$0.60/1hr
  27. 27Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate$0.70/1hr
  28. 2860 Parsecs!$0.80/1hr

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.