Best Value Colony Sim Games
The Colony Sim games that stretch a budget furthest: median reviewer playtime divided by current price. Pick your currency in the top bar to rank against your local prices.
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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.
- 1Oxygen Not Included$0.04/1hr184h95.97%96.72%
- 2The Guild II Renaissance$0.05/1hr55h84.68%83.51%
- 3Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr34h93.72%97.48%
- 4The Lost Village$0.08/1hr72h81.84%71.20%
- 5Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 6RimWorld$0.09/1hr298h97.47%97.85%
- 7Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 8Frostpunk$0.10/1hr30h92.23%92.74%
- 9Against the Storm$0.11/1hr82h92.49%94.44%
- 10Space Haven$0.11/1hr89h85.49%85.76%
- 11Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 12Craft The World$0.12/1hr38h87.43%88.40%
- 13Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.14/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 14Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.14/1hr107h85.49%85.62%
- 15Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.15/1hr31h84.45%82.43%
- 16Banished$0.15/1hr46h89.45%90.43%
- 17Occupy Mars: The Game$0.17/1hr91h81.24%69.78%
- 18Railroads Online$0.17/1hr89h81.19%74.57%
- 19Farm Together$0.18/1hr34h91.30%94.07%
- 20Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 21Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 22Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 23Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 24Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.22/1hr20h85.87%86.53%
- 25Settlement Survival$0.23/1hr22h85.12%85.04%
- 26Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr42h85.24%85.25%
- 27Ratopia$0.24/1hr69h86.02%87.74%
- 28ASKA$0.24/1hr82h82.33%80.00%
- 29Per Aspera$0.24/1hr31h81.79%75.91%
- 30Kingdoms and Castles$0.25/1hr40h91.54%93.57%
- 31Timberborn$0.25/1hr98h93.89%95.97%
- 32Soulmask$0.25/1hr78h79.52%77.00%
- 33SPORE$0.25/1hr20h91.73%92.63%
- 34Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.25/1hr40h85.56%87.77%
- 35Empires of the Undergrowth$0.25/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 36Kingdoms Reborn$0.25/1hr63h87.75%90.38%
- 37Going Medieval$0.26/1hr86h87.83%89.07%
- 38Captain of Industry$0.27/1hr92h87.94%90.31%
- 39Songs of Syx$0.28/1hr67h89.55%94.25%
- 40Surviving the Aftermath$0.29/1hr26h80.54%70.47%
- 41Stationeers$0.31/1hr90h86.42%87.76%
- 42Colony Survival$0.32/1hr59h88.47%92.11%
- 43Clanfolk$0.32/1hr47h86.39%91.61%
- 44Diplomacy is Not an Option$0.33/1hr36h85.39%85.55%
- 45Norland$0.33/1hr45h83.36%81.63%
- 46Dawn of Man$0.34/1hr37h86.22%86.80%
- 47Dwarf Fortress$0.34/1hr70h92.44%94.74%
- 48IXION$0.36/1hr29h81.09%78.79%
- 49They Are Billions$0.38/1hr80h85.13%85.12%
- 50Cult of the Lamb$0.38/1hr33h95.12%95.89%
- 51Frozenheim$0.39/1hr15h80.72%69.37%
- 52Eden Crafters$0.39/1hr31h85.06%85.47%
- 53Fabledom$0.39/1hr19h85.18%85.17%
- 54Sengoku Dynasty$0.39/1hr35h80.59%74.75%
- 55Plan B: Terraform$0.40/1hr30h86.78%91.18%
- 56Pharaoh: A New Era$0.40/1hr24h81.61%74.99%
- 57Stranded: Alien Dawn$0.41/1hr43h84.39%83.70%
- 58Prison Architect$0.41/1hr18h87.54%87.86%
- 59One Hour One Life$0.41/1hr9h83.40%79.54%
- 60Astro Colony$0.44/1hr29h83.47%80.55%
- 61Infection Free Zone$0.45/1hr39h82.25%80.67%
- 62Kingdom Eighties$0.49/1hr7h82.72%75.34%
- 63The Universim$0.51/1hr29h82.23%79.46%
- 64Havendock$0.53/1hr11h84.02%79.26%
- 65Academia : School Simulator$0.54/1hr9h84.87%83.88%
- 66Flotsam$0.56/1hr22h83.67%81.11%
- 67Fantasy Map Simulator$0.57/1hr11h86.39%89.17%
- 68下一站江湖Ⅱ$0.57/1hr35h78.85%72.17%
- 69Pioneers of Pagonia$0.58/1hr36h83.85%81.42%
- 70The Wandering Village$0.58/1hr26h88.62%91.97%
- 71Foundation$0.59/1hr60h86.23%86.66%
- 72Castle Story$0.59/1hr17h75.16%65.19%
- 73WorldBox - God Simulator$0.62/1hr32h93.82%95.33%
- 74Ostriv$0.66/1hr30h89.46%95.03%
- 75Reus 2$0.72/1hr14h87.37%94.26%
- 76The Crust$0.82/1hr25h82.50%76.54%
- 77Frostpunk 2$0.89/1hr23h77.59%74.79%
- 78Becastled$1.00/1hr13h83.93%81.71%
- 79Sapiens$1.07/1hr23h84.08%80.54%
- 80MEMORIAPOLIS$1.75/1hr13h83.45%75.61%
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.