Best Value Colony Sim Games Under $40
The Colony Sim games on Steam games under $40 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%
- 2RimWorld$0.11/1hr246h97.35%97.85%
- 3Settlement Survival$0.16/1hr33h84.96%85.30%
- 4Oxygen Not Included$0.17/1hr149h95.96%96.73%
- 5ISLANDERS$0.19/1hr8h90.89%94.43%
- 6Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 7Factory Town Idle$0.21/1hr24h85.56%90.90%
- 8Planetbase$0.22/1hr69h82.28%79.73%
- 9Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.23/1hr110h85.34%85.61%
- 10Stationeers$0.23/1hr154h86.15%87.73%
- 11Stranded: Alien Dawn$0.24/1hr50h84.51%84.35%
- 12Soulmask$0.26/1hr117h79.59%77.18%
- 13Dwarf Fortress$0.32/1hr76h92.41%94.79%
- 14Stronghold HD (2012)$0.32/1hr19h90.35%95.54%
- 15Spellcaster University$0.32/1hr27h84.10%82.75%
- 16Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.35/1hr29h93.46%97.52%
- 17Colony Survival$0.35/1hr71h88.33%92.11%
- 18Captain of Industry$0.35/1hr99h87.77%90.25%
- 19ASKA$0.36/1hr70h82.16%79.85%
- 20Railroads Online$0.37/1hr78h81.10%74.71%
- 21Going Medieval$0.37/1hr80h87.80%89.14%
- 22Banished$0.39/1hr51h89.40%90.43%
- 23Astro Colony$0.40/1hr50h83.87%80.81%
- 24Space Haven$0.40/1hr62h85.24%85.75%
- 25They Are Billions$0.43/1hr70h85.10%85.13%
- 26Mind Over Magic$0.43/1hr58h85.50%86.77%
- 27Clanfolk$0.44/1hr68h86.70%91.73%
- 28Kingdoms Reborn$0.44/1hr45h87.65%90.45%
- 29Fantasy Map Simulator$0.44/1hr14h86.18%89.10%
- 30Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.45/1hr33h84.27%82.41%
- 31Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.46/1hr88h89.52%91.23%
- 32Timberborn$0.46/1hr77h93.81%95.98%
- 33Occupy Mars: The Game$0.46/1hr65h81.17%69.93%
- 34Songs of Syx$0.47/1hr54h89.45%94.43%
- 35Farm Together$0.47/1hr43h91.23%94.08%
- 36Plan B: Terraform$0.49/1hr33h86.39%91.17%
- 37Against the Storm$0.51/1hr59h92.45%94.47%
- 38WorldBox - God Simulator$0.51/1hr39h93.76%95.33%
- 39Infection Free Zone$0.52/1hr34h82.12%80.58%
- 40Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.55/1hr36h85.42%87.78%
- 41Craft The World$0.55/1hr34h87.11%88.39%
- 42Prison Architect$0.57/1hr53h88.73%89.25%
- 43Eden Crafters$0.60/1hr33h84.84%85.45%
- 44Castle Story$0.63/1hr16h74.71%65.07%
- 45Kingdoms and Castles$0.66/1hr30h91.47%93.56%
- 46Kingdom Two Crowns$0.66/1hr30h89.14%90.21%
- 47Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.67/1hr22h86.36%88.84%
- 48Ostriv$0.68/1hr37h89.14%95.00%
- 49Ratopia$0.69/1hr32h85.83%87.69%
- 50Sengoku Dynasty$0.69/1hr40h80.34%74.74%
- 51Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.76/1hr20h85.70%86.45%
- 52Foundation$0.76/1hr46h86.09%86.57%
- 53Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.78/1hr45h85.24%85.28%
- 54Diplomacy is Not an Option$0.78/1hr38h85.32%85.63%
- 55Dawn of Man$0.80/1hr31h86.13%86.81%
- 56Frostpunk 2$0.81/1hr28h77.56%74.81%
- 57IXION$0.82/1hr43h81.03%78.80%
- 58Frozenheim$0.82/1hr7h80.56%69.35%
- 59Cattails: Wildwood Story$0.83/1hr24h86.75%97.51%
- 60Per Aspera$0.84/1hr36h81.49%75.94%
- 61Cult of the Lamb$0.85/1hr30h95.08%95.88%
- 62Buggos$0.87/1hr12h85.51%87.96%
- 63The Crust$0.87/1hr34h82.76%76.89%
- 64Norland$0.90/1hr33h83.25%81.60%
- 65Empires of the Undergrowth$0.91/1hr33h91.08%94.38%
- 66Pharaoh: A New Era$0.94/1hr25h81.30%74.94%
- 67Stonehearth$1.02/1hr20h79.46%75.26%
- 68Flotsam$1.04/1hr24h83.51%80.92%
- 69Academia : School Simulator$1.05/1hr19h84.91%85.66%
- 70The Universim$1.09/1hr28h82.20%79.62%
- 71The Stronghold Collection$1.12/1hr22h86.36%88.84%
- 72Frostpunk$1.13/1hr27h92.20%92.73%
- 73The Wandering Village$1.14/1hr26h88.15%91.97%
- 74Kingdom Eighties$1.16/1hr10h82.54%75.28%
- 75SPORE$1.18/1hr17h91.68%92.61%
- 76Ancient Cities$1.24/1hr24h80.83%62.94%
- 77Fabledom$1.28/1hr16h84.89%85.16%
- 78Kingdom: New Lands$1.34/1hr11h85.23%85.47%
- 79War for the Overworld$1.39/1hr22h85.38%85.93%
- 80Pioneers of Pagonia$1.40/1hr25h83.50%81.32%
- 81Stronghold: Warlords$1.67/1hr24h77.89%65.09%
- 82Endzone - A World Apart$2.04/1hr12h80.72%76.73%
- 83Garbage$2.65/1hr6h83.06%65.70%
- 84New Cycle$3.53/1hr9h83.51%79.42%
- 85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.