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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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.
  1. 1Oxygen Not Included$0.04/1hr
  2. 2The Guild II Renaissance$0.05/1hr
  3. 3Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr
  4. 4The Lost Village$0.08/1hr
  5. 5Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr
  6. 6Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr
  7. 7Frostpunk$0.10/1hr
  8. 8Against the Storm$0.11/1hr
  9. 9Space Haven$0.11/1hr
  10. 10Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr
  11. 11Craft The World$0.12/1hr
  12. 12Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.14/1hr
  13. 13Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.14/1hr
  14. 14Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.15/1hr
  15. 15Banished$0.15/1hr
  16. 16Occupy Mars: The Game$0.17/1hr
  17. 17Railroads Online$0.17/1hr
  18. 18Farm Together$0.18/1hr
  19. 19Planetbase$0.18/1hr
  20. 20Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr
  21. 21Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr
  22. 22Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr
  23. 23Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.22/1hr
  24. 24Settlement Survival$0.23/1hr
  25. 25Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr
  26. 26Ratopia$0.24/1hr
  27. 27ASKA$0.24/1hr
  28. 28Per Aspera$0.24/1hr
  29. 29Kingdoms and Castles$0.25/1hr
  30. 30Soulmask$0.25/1hr
  31. 31SPORE$0.25/1hr
  32. 32Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.25/1hr
  33. 33Empires of the Undergrowth$0.25/1hr
  34. 34Kingdoms Reborn$0.25/1hr
  35. 35Songs of Syx$0.28/1hr
  36. 36Surviving the Aftermath$0.29/1hr
  37. 37Colony Survival$0.32/1hr
  38. 38Clanfolk$0.32/1hr
  39. 39Diplomacy is Not an Option$0.33/1hr
  40. 40Norland$0.33/1hr
  41. 41Dawn of Man$0.34/1hr
  42. 42IXION$0.36/1hr
  43. 43Cult of the Lamb$0.38/1hr
  44. 44Frozenheim$0.39/1hr
  45. 45Eden Crafters$0.39/1hr
  46. 46Fabledom$0.39/1hr
  47. 47Sengoku Dynasty$0.39/1hr
  48. 48Plan B: Terraform$0.40/1hr
  49. 49Pharaoh: A New Era$0.40/1hr
  50. 50Stranded: Alien Dawn$0.41/1hr
  51. 51Prison Architect$0.41/1hr
  52. 52One Hour One Life$0.41/1hr
  53. 53Astro Colony$0.44/1hr
  54. 54Infection Free Zone$0.45/1hr
  55. 55Kingdom Eighties$0.49/1hr
  56. 56The Universim$0.51/1hr
  57. 57Havendock$0.53/1hr
  58. 58Academia : School Simulator$0.54/1hr
  59. 59Flotsam$0.56/1hr
  60. 60Fantasy Map Simulator$0.57/1hr
  61. 61下一站江湖Ⅱ$0.57/1hr
  62. 62The Wandering Village$0.58/1hr
  63. 63Castle Story$0.59/1hr
  64. 64WorldBox - God Simulator$0.62/1hr
  65. 65Ostriv$0.66/1hr
  66. 66Reus 2$0.72/1hr
  67. 67Becastled$1.00/1hr

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.