Best Value Colony Sim Games Under $20
The Colony Sim games on Steam games under $20 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.
- 1The Guild II Renaissance$0.04/1hr46h84.33%83.49%
- 2Settlement Survival$0.16/1hr33h84.96%85.30%
- 3ISLANDERS$0.19/1hr8h90.89%94.43%
- 4Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 5Factory Town Idle$0.21/1hr24h85.56%90.90%
- 6Planetbase$0.22/1hr69h82.28%79.73%
- 7Stranded: Alien Dawn$0.24/1hr50h84.51%84.35%
- 8Stronghold HD (2012)$0.32/1hr19h90.35%95.54%
- 9Spellcaster University$0.32/1hr27h84.10%82.75%
- 10Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.35/1hr29h93.46%97.52%
- 11Banished$0.39/1hr51h89.40%90.43%
- 12Astro Colony$0.40/1hr50h83.87%80.81%
- 13Kingdoms Reborn$0.44/1hr45h87.65%90.45%
- 14Fantasy Map Simulator$0.44/1hr14h86.18%89.10%
- 15Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.45/1hr33h84.27%82.41%
- 16Farm Together$0.47/1hr43h91.23%94.08%
- 17Plan B: Terraform$0.49/1hr33h86.39%91.17%
- 18WorldBox - God Simulator$0.51/1hr39h93.76%95.33%
- 19Infection Free Zone$0.52/1hr34h82.12%80.58%
- 20Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.55/1hr36h85.42%87.78%
- 21Craft The World$0.55/1hr34h87.11%88.39%
- 22Eden Crafters$0.60/1hr33h84.84%85.45%
- 23Castle Story$0.63/1hr16h74.71%65.07%
- 24Kingdoms and Castles$0.66/1hr30h91.47%93.56%
- 25Kingdom Two Crowns$0.66/1hr30h89.14%90.21%
- 26Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.67/1hr22h86.36%88.84%
- 27Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.76/1hr20h85.70%86.45%
- 28Frozenheim$0.82/1hr7h80.56%69.35%
- 29Cattails: Wildwood Story$0.83/1hr24h86.75%97.51%
- 30Buggos$0.87/1hr12h85.51%87.96%
- 31Stonehearth$1.02/1hr20h79.46%75.26%
- 32Academia : School Simulator$1.05/1hr19h84.91%85.66%
- 33Kingdom Eighties$1.16/1hr10h82.54%75.28%
- 34SPORE$1.18/1hr17h91.68%92.61%
- 35Kingdom: New Lands$1.34/1hr11h85.23%85.47%
- 36Garbage$2.65/1hr6h83.06%65.70%
- 37下一站江湖Ⅱ$3.80/1hr5h78.72%72.09%
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.