Best Value 4X Games Under $10
The 4X 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.
- 1Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete$0.02/1hr48h87.07%89.49%
- 2Sid Meier's Civilization V$0.03/1hr226h95.27%95.60%
- 3Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword$0.03/1hr174h88.91%96.23%
- 4Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion$0.05/1hr123h90.14%93.17%
- 5Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition$0.05/1hr99h93.39%95.64%
- 6Sid Meier’s Civilization VI$0.06/1hr105h86.22%86.17%
- 7Europa Universalis IV$0.06/1hr86h83.29%83.16%
- 8Old World$0.06/1hr62h84.44%82.51%
- 9Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 10STAR WARS Empire at War - Gold Pack$0.12/1hr60h95.37%97.73%
- 11Sid Meier's Civilization IV$0.13/1hr31h87.57%92.44%
- 12Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War$0.14/1hr29h82.91%81.70%
- 13A Total War Saga: TROY$0.15/1hr45h81.43%71.63%
- 14Total War: ROME REMASTERED$0.16/1hr47h80.51%77.12%
- 15Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth$0.17/1hr60h68.02%60.61%
- 16ENDLESS Space 2$0.17/1hr59h83.87%83.30%
- 17ENDLESS Legend$0.17/1hr44h84.07%83.49%
- 18Cataclismo$0.23/1hr39h86.28%88.80%
- 19Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr42h85.24%85.25%
- 20Empires of the Undergrowth$0.25/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 21Anno 2205$0.27/1hr22h79.32%70.11%
- 22Airships: Conquer the Skies$0.28/1hr36h89.46%95.92%
- 23Homeworld Remastered Collection$0.35/1hr15h86.77%87.89%
- 24The Battle of Polytopia$0.40/1hr19h88.85%93.96%
- 25Songs of Conquest$0.44/1hr17h85.43%85.61%
- 26Breachway$0.79/1hr13h83.93%75.72%
- 27Age of Wonders III$0.88/1hr8h81.68%78.98%
- 28Europa Universalis III Complete$1.14/1hr4h84.50%81.16%
- 29Age of Wonders: Planetfall$1.98/1hr4h82.85%79.36%
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.