Best Value Turn-Based Strategy Games Under $40
The Turn-Based Strategy games on Steam games under $40 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.
- 1Mordheim: City of the Damned$0.02/1hr71h78.18%70.35%
- 2Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword$0.03/1hr185h88.63%96.22%
- 3Sid Meier's Civilization V$0.03/1hr224h95.14%95.60%
- 4Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition$0.06/1hr72h88.31%89.21%
- 5TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children$0.06/1hr99h89.07%93.43%
- 6Sid Meier’s Civilization VI$0.06/1hr95h86.13%86.15%
- 7Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition$0.09/1hr120h95.16%95.64%
- 8Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete$0.09/1hr43h87.19%89.48%
- 9Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition$0.11/1hr47h87.57%89.67%
- 10Galactic Civilizations IV$0.11/1hr122h82.70%72.26%
- 11Mechabellum$0.11/1hr136h84.36%83.81%
- 12Wartales$0.13/1hr73h85.54%85.60%
- 13Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition$0.13/1hr145h83.83%83.49%
- 14Esports Godfather$0.14/1hr143h87.12%90.66%
- 15Age of History II$0.15/1hr39h89.09%89.84%
- 16Marvel's Midnight Suns$0.16/1hr55h82.71%81.63%
- 17Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth$0.17/1hr60h68.06%60.60%
- 18King's Bounty: Warriors of the North$0.17/1hr60h83.87%79.46%
- 19Into the Breach$0.21/1hr14h91.45%94.19%
- 20Your Only Move Is HUSTLE$0.22/1hr23h94.48%96.50%
- 21Wandering Sword$0.22/1hr80h93.15%94.87%
- 22For The King II$0.24/1hr36h76.43%70.87%
- 23Persona 4 Golden$0.24/1hr83h95.84%97.04%
- 24Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr82h93.42%95.64%
- 25Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition$0.25/1hr79h79.32%77.61%
- 26Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition$0.26/1hr118h87.35%87.58%
- 27Heroes' Vow: Three Kingdoms$0.26/1hr77h86.46%88.53%
- 28ShellShock Live$0.26/1hr38h91.27%92.94%
- 29BATTLETECH$0.26/1hr154h84.30%83.99%
- 30Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters$0.26/1hr43h79.92%76.63%
- 31Sid Meier's Civilization IV$0.27/1hr15h86.82%92.39%
- 32XCOM 2$0.28/1hr71h84.73%84.68%
- 33XCOM: Enemy Unknown$0.28/1hr53h92.06%93.20%
- 34Ultimate General: Civil War$0.29/1hr105h87.01%88.86%
- 35Songs of Conquest$0.30/1hr25h85.27%85.64%
- 36Phoenix Point$0.30/1hr84h79.92%73.15%
- 37Total War: ATTILA$0.30/1hr67h83.05%82.44%
- 38Gladiator Guild Manager$0.30/1hr16h84.16%81.09%
- 39Library Of Ruina$0.31/1hr98h92.81%94.47%
- 40Football, Tactics & Glory$0.34/1hr74h86.00%87.11%
- 41Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts$0.34/1hr103h74.18%60.91%
- 42Total War: SHOGUN 2$0.34/1hr87h90.98%91.81%
- 43Cauldron$0.35/1hr43h86.47%92.93%
- 44Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition$0.37/1hr54h89.54%90.65%
- 45Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga$0.38/1hr53h90.58%94.50%
- 46The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky$0.38/1hr52h89.48%94.02%
- 47Battle Brothers$0.39/1hr78h87.35%88.05%
- 48Dungeon Clawler$0.39/1hr19h86.41%88.91%
- 49Quasimorph$0.41/1hr61h83.78%82.55%
- 50Balatro$0.41/1hr37h97.24%97.84%
- 51Cardboard Town$0.41/1hr10h84.38%79.91%
- 52SpellForce: Conquest of Eo$0.43/1hr71h83.82%80.26%
- 53Terraforming Mars$0.43/1hr46h78.80%70.56%
- 54Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut$0.44/1hr34h86.57%89.31%
- 55Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.46/1hr26h87.70%94.19%
- 56Border Pioneer$0.46/1hr16h85.60%86.57%
- 57XCOM: Chimera Squad$0.46/1hr22h75.40%71.17%
- 58Monster Train 2$0.47/1hr53h90.40%95.32%
- 59Wildermyth$0.48/1hr34h91.16%94.66%
- 60Heart of the Machine$0.48/1hr22h86.47%91.47%
- 61Banner of the Maid$0.50/1hr34h85.51%86.40%
- 62Total War: THREE KINGDOMS$0.50/1hr80h82.54%82.25%
- 63The Last Spell$0.50/1hr50h88.61%91.40%
- 64This Is the Police 2$0.52/1hr29h80.98%75.21%
- 65Sultan's Game$0.52/1hr48h91.95%93.83%
- 66Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game$0.52/1hr31h85.73%87.98%
- 67The Matchless Kungfu$0.53/1hr38h82.70%79.29%
- 68Valkyria Chronicles$0.54/1hr37h87.72%89.94%
- 69Dorfromantik$0.55/1hr17h93.55%96.33%
- 70Conquest of Elysium 5$0.55/1hr54h85.64%89.99%
- 71West of Loathing$0.56/1hr20h91.33%97.69%
- 72Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI with Power Up Kit$0.57/1hr71h87.01%92.46%
- 73Wingspan$0.57/1hr35h89.95%94.27%
- 74Backpack Hero$0.58/1hr28h85.87%86.40%
- 75Shogun Showdown$0.58/1hr26h89.45%95.19%
- 76Gremlins, Inc.$0.58/1hr34h84.86%84.96%
- 77Talisman: Digital Classic Edition$0.60/1hr12h81.51%78.25%
- 78Hero's Hour$0.61/1hr29h82.83%79.44%
- 79Old World$0.62/1hr64h84.22%82.50%
- 80Wildfrost$0.62/1hr32h84.24%82.92%
- 81Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD Edition$0.63/1hr24h81.14%79.46%
- 82Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition$0.64/1hr31h89.98%91.67%
- 83A Total War Saga: TROY$0.65/1hr31h81.13%71.60%
- 84ENDLESS Legend$0.67/1hr45h83.93%83.49%
- 85Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate$0.70/1hr14h87.79%90.99%
- 86The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos$0.72/1hr49h86.21%87.19%
- 87ENDLESS Space 2$0.72/1hr55h83.93%83.31%
- 88Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend$0.72/1hr42h86.74%93.00%
- 89For The King$0.73/1hr27h87.26%87.70%
- 90Urban Strife$0.75/1hr46h83.87%70.60%
- 91Gloomhaven$0.77/1hr46h83.03%81.94%
- 92Fights in Tight Spaces$0.80/1hr31h86.69%89.93%
- 9360 Parsecs!$0.80/1hr12h86.34%88.79%
- 94Gordian Quest$0.81/1hr25h86.64%88.68%
- 95The Battle of Polytopia$0.82/1hr18h88.22%93.97%
- 96Invisible, Inc.$0.82/1hr24h87.15%91.24%
- 97Hexarchy$0.85/1hr24h84.92%81.92%
- 98Monster Train$0.85/1hr29h92.66%95.85%
- 99Ticket to Ride$0.86/1hr18h83.72%69.96%
- 100Cobalt Core$0.86/1hr23h88.65%96.05%
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.