Best Value Grand Strategy Games Under $20
The Grand Strategy 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.
- 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%
- 10Hearts of Iron IV$0.05/1hr282h89.78%89.83%
- 11Sid Meier’s Civilization VI$0.06/1hr105h86.22%86.17%
- 12Europa Universalis IV$0.06/1hr86h83.29%83.16%
- 13X4: Foundations$0.06/1hr164h81.23%79.92%
- 14Old World$0.06/1hr62h84.44%82.51%
- 15Stellaris$0.07/1hr221h85.87%85.76%
- 16Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition$0.07/1hr69h89.51%90.64%
- 17Total War: ATTILA$0.10/1hr89h83.00%82.42%
- 18Total War: WARHAMMER II$0.10/1hr149h92.40%92.99%
- 19Terraforming Mars$0.11/1hr57h79.04%70.57%
- 20Crusader Kings III$0.11/1hr142h88.04%88.24%
- 21Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 22Ultimate General: Civil War$0.12/1hr103h86.87%88.83%
- 23STAR WARS Empire at War - Gold Pack$0.12/1hr60h95.37%97.73%
- 24Sid Meier's Civilization IV$0.13/1hr31h87.57%92.44%
- 25Age of History 3$0.13/1hr31h85.06%84.99%
- 26Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition$0.13/1hr38h89.94%91.67%
- 27Total War: THREE KINGDOMS$0.13/1hr90h82.51%82.23%
- 28Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War$0.14/1hr29h82.91%81.70%
- 29Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.15/1hr31h84.45%82.43%
- 30Terra Invicta$0.15/1hr137h82.72%80.25%
- 31A Total War Saga: TROY$0.15/1hr45h81.43%71.63%
- 32Sailing Era$0.15/1hr74h82.98%78.66%
- 33Galactic Civilizations IV$0.16/1hr87h82.51%72.26%
- 34Total War: ROME REMASTERED$0.16/1hr47h80.51%77.12%
- 35Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth$0.17/1hr60h68.02%60.61%
- 36Phoenix Point$0.17/1hr68h80.48%73.14%
- 37ENDLESS Space 2$0.17/1hr59h83.87%83.30%
- 38ENDLESS Legend$0.17/1hr44h84.07%83.49%
- 39Iron Harvest$0.17/1hr26h77.43%72.59%
- 40Victoria 3$0.17/1hr86h70.55%68.23%
- 41Knights of Honor II: Sovereign$0.21/1hr54h82.34%77.23%
- 42Cataclismo$0.23/1hr39h86.28%88.80%
- 43Empires of the Undergrowth$0.25/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 44Total War: WARHAMMER$0.26/1hr58h79.59%78.53%
- 45Heroes' Vow: Three Kingdoms$0.26/1hr76h86.65%88.43%
- 46HUMANKIND$0.27/1hr47h73.27%69.14%
- 47City Bus Manager$0.27/1hr62h86.89%90.77%
- 48Armello$0.27/1hr37h83.12%81.84%
- 49Airships: Conquer the Skies$0.28/1hr36h89.46%95.92%
- 50Songs of Syx$0.28/1hr67h89.55%94.25%
- 51A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA$0.29/1hr28h76.44%70.57%
- 52Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew$0.29/1hr35h87.87%91.04%
- 53Dune: Imperium$0.29/1hr51h87.88%94.01%
- 54Planetary Annihilation: TITANS$0.31/1hr48h84.72%84.40%
- 55Dummynation$0.32/1hr30h85.85%87.90%
- 56Norland$0.33/1hr45h83.36%81.63%
- 57Victoria II$0.36/1hr14h88.67%90.38%
- 58Steel Division 2$0.39/1hr25h82.36%79.42%
- 59Age of History II$0.40/1hr11h89.02%89.78%
- 60Dune: Spice Wars$0.41/1hr34h81.68%79.11%
- 61NEBULOUS: Fleet Command$0.41/1hr36h83.93%81.10%
- 62The Great War: Western Front$0.41/1hr17h80.94%66.27%
- 63Heart of the Machine$0.47/1hr22h86.29%91.51%
- 64Spirit Island$0.48/1hr21h86.15%91.85%
- 65Xenonauts 2$0.50/1hr40h83.79%81.41%
- 66Fantasy Map Simulator$0.57/1hr11h86.39%89.17%
- 67Breachway$0.79/1hr13h83.93%75.72%
- 68Age of Wonders III$0.88/1hr8h81.68%78.98%
- 69Carrier Command 2$0.90/1hr17h84.63%81.60%
- 70Imperator: Rome$0.94/1hr11h70.32%64.86%
- 71Europa Universalis III Complete$1.14/1hr4h84.50%81.16%
- 72Songs of Silence$1.27/1hr11h84.65%80.59%
- 73ZEPHON$1.28/1hr12h85.33%83.04%
- 74Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2$1.98/1hr10h84.91%84.55%
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.