Best Value Grand Strategy Games Under $10
The Grand Strategy 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%
- 2Supreme Commander 2$0.03/1hr94h86.89%88.21%
- 3Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance$0.03/1hr92h91.99%96.72%
- 4Sid Meier's Civilization V$0.03/1hr226h95.27%95.60%
- 5Total War: WARHAMMER III$0.03/1hr271h72.54%71.69%
- 6Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword$0.03/1hr174h88.91%96.23%
- 7Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition$0.05/1hr161h87.34%87.58%
- 8Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion$0.05/1hr123h90.14%93.17%
- 9Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition$0.05/1hr99h93.39%95.64%
- 10Sid Meier’s Civilization VI$0.06/1hr105h86.22%86.17%
- 11Europa Universalis IV$0.06/1hr86h83.29%83.16%
- 12X4: Foundations$0.06/1hr164h81.23%79.92%
- 13Old World$0.06/1hr62h84.44%82.51%
- 14Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition$0.07/1hr69h89.51%90.64%
- 15Total War: ATTILA$0.10/1hr89h83.00%82.42%
- 16Terraforming Mars$0.11/1hr57h79.04%70.57%
- 17Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 18STAR WARS Empire at War - Gold Pack$0.12/1hr60h95.37%97.73%
- 19Sid Meier's Civilization IV$0.13/1hr31h87.57%92.44%
- 20Age of History 3$0.13/1hr31h85.06%84.99%
- 21Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition$0.13/1hr38h89.94%91.67%
- 22Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War$0.14/1hr29h82.91%81.70%
- 23Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.15/1hr31h84.45%82.43%
- 24A Total War Saga: TROY$0.15/1hr45h81.43%71.63%
- 25Total War: ROME REMASTERED$0.16/1hr47h80.51%77.12%
- 26Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth$0.17/1hr60h68.02%60.61%
- 27ENDLESS Space 2$0.17/1hr59h83.87%83.30%
- 28ENDLESS Legend$0.17/1hr44h84.07%83.49%
- 29Iron Harvest$0.17/1hr26h77.43%72.59%
- 30Cataclismo$0.23/1hr39h86.28%88.80%
- 31Empires of the Undergrowth$0.25/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 32Armello$0.27/1hr37h83.12%81.84%
- 33Airships: Conquer the Skies$0.28/1hr36h89.46%95.92%
- 34A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA$0.29/1hr28h76.44%70.57%
- 35Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew$0.29/1hr35h87.87%91.04%
- 36Dummynation$0.32/1hr30h85.85%87.90%
- 37Victoria II$0.36/1hr14h88.67%90.38%
- 38Steel Division 2$0.39/1hr25h82.36%79.42%
- 39Age of History II$0.40/1hr11h89.02%89.78%
- 40The Great War: Western Front$0.41/1hr17h80.94%66.27%
- 41Spirit Island$0.48/1hr21h86.15%91.85%
- 42Fantasy Map Simulator$0.57/1hr11h86.39%89.17%
- 43Breachway$0.79/1hr13h83.93%75.72%
- 44Age of Wonders III$0.88/1hr8h81.68%78.98%
- 45Imperator: Rome$0.94/1hr11h70.32%64.86%
- 46Europa Universalis III Complete$1.14/1hr4h84.50%81.16%
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.