Best Value City Builder Games Under $10
The City Builder 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%
- 2RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.05/1hr33h89.33%94.31%
- 3The Guild II Renaissance$0.05/1hr55h84.68%83.51%
- 4Sid Meier’s Civilization VI$0.06/1hr105h86.22%86.17%
- 5Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr34h93.72%97.48%
- 6Rise of Nations: Extended Edition$0.08/1hr63h91.01%94.68%
- 7The Lost Village$0.08/1hr72h81.84%71.20%
- 8Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 9Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 10Two Point Campus$0.10/1hr31h86.38%87.84%
- 11Frostpunk$0.10/1hr30h92.23%92.74%
- 12Against the Storm$0.11/1hr82h92.49%94.44%
- 13Space Haven$0.11/1hr89h85.49%85.76%
- 14Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 15Craft The World$0.12/1hr38h87.43%88.40%
- 16Airport CEO$0.13/1hr50h84.21%83.05%
- 17Tropico 4$0.14/1hr32h88.83%91.69%
- 18Tavern Master$0.14/1hr21h89.14%92.12%
- 19Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.15/1hr31h84.45%82.43%
- 20Banished$0.15/1hr46h89.45%90.43%
- 21SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition$0.15/1hr33h83.72%82.25%
- 22Cities: Skylines$0.16/1hr56h92.71%92.86%
- 23RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack$0.16/1hr15h86.83%89.64%
- 24ContractVille$0.17/1hr19h82.94%80.85%
- 25Transport Fever 2$0.18/1hr34h89.12%90.32%
- 26Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 27Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 28Construction Simulator$0.19/1hr13h82.55%80.75%
- 29Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 30Smalland: Survive the Wilds$0.20/1hr35h83.35%81.61%
- 31Train Simulator Classic$0.22/1hr28h75.14%71.73%
- 32Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.22/1hr20h85.87%86.53%
- 33Settlement Survival$0.23/1hr22h85.12%85.04%
- 34Cataclismo$0.23/1hr39h86.28%88.80%
- 35Tropico 5$0.23/1hr30h81.33%78.67%
- 36Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr42h85.24%85.25%
- 37Let's School$0.24/1hr29h88.40%92.70%
- 38Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 39Per Aspera$0.24/1hr31h81.79%75.91%
- 40Kingdoms and Castles$0.25/1hr40h91.54%93.57%
- 41Empires of the Undergrowth$0.25/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 42Cossacks 3$0.25/1hr27h83.39%82.28%
- 43Anno 2205$0.27/1hr22h79.32%70.11%
- 44OpenTTD$0.29/1hr19h91.13%94.62%
- 45A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA$0.29/1hr28h76.44%70.57%
- 46Surviving the Aftermath$0.29/1hr26h80.54%70.47%
- 47Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.29/1hr26h90.44%94.23%
- 48Two Point Hospital$0.30/1hr25h90.46%91.97%
- 49Terra Nil$0.30/1hr21h86.26%87.48%
- 50Project Hospital$0.31/1hr33h86.98%88.89%
- 51Fabledom$0.39/1hr19h85.18%85.17%
- 52TheoTown$0.40/1hr19h87.65%94.69%
- 53Pharaoh: A New Era$0.40/1hr24h81.61%74.99%
- 54Prison Architect$0.41/1hr18h87.54%87.86%
- 55Mini Motorways$0.42/1hr19h93.05%96.26%
- 56Gladiator Guild Manager$0.43/1hr11h83.99%81.07%
- 57Thronefall$0.46/1hr17h92.88%96.13%
- 58Gourdlets$0.48/1hr5h85.72%92.33%
- 59Kingdom Eighties$0.49/1hr7h82.72%75.34%
- 60Cardboard Town$0.53/1hr8h84.64%79.76%
- 61Border Pioneer$0.53/1hr13h85.90%86.53%
- 62Havendock$0.53/1hr11h84.02%79.26%
- 63Academia : School Simulator$0.54/1hr9h84.87%83.88%
- 64Ancestors Legacy$0.55/1hr9h82.29%78.96%
- 65The Infected$0.57/1hr17h84.73%84.09%
- 66TerraScape$0.57/1hr13h86.30%88.61%
- 67Nordhold$0.58/1hr17h85.53%86.56%
- 68Minami Lane$0.67/1hr4h90.09%97.35%
- 69Townscaper$0.70/1hr3h92.09%95.28%
- 70Reus 2$0.72/1hr14h87.37%94.26%
- 71Dorfromantik$0.75/1hr13h93.51%96.32%
- 72SUMMERHOUSE$0.78/1hr3h86.46%92.98%
- 73Ratropolis$0.83/1hr9h86.53%87.88%
- 74Parkasaurus$1.09/1hr8h86.39%93.09%
- 75Dystopika$1.25/1hr3h87.25%95.75%
- 76Age 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.