Best Value Relaxing Games Under $20
The Relaxing 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.
- 1Cornerpond$0.02/1hr158h87.54%97.16%
- 2Ropuka's Idle Island$0.03/1hr121h88.04%95.40%
- 3Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi$0.04/1hr122h88.06%96.78%
- 4Chill Pulse$0.04/1hr115h88.38%95.55%
- 5Razortron 2000$0.06/1hr8h85.25%86.19%
- 6Starbound$0.10/1hr157h89.60%89.97%
- 7Rusty's Retirement$0.10/1hr71h91.95%96.71%
- 8Tiny Pasture$0.11/1hr56h88.28%92.48%
- 9Stardew Valley$0.11/1hr135h98.35%98.48%
- 10Spirit City: Lofi Sessions$0.13/1hr91h92.84%97.63%
- 11inbento$0.13/1hr7h87.59%96.67%
- 12Tavern Master$0.16/1hr19h88.92%92.13%
- 13RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe$0.16/1hr37h89.17%94.30%
- 14Peggle Deluxe$0.17/1hr6h92.41%97.65%
- 15Ithya: Magic Studies$0.17/1hr63h87.21%97.85%
- 16Placid Plastic Duck Simulator$0.18/1hr11h93.38%97.58%
- 17Farming Simulator 19$0.19/1hr95h93.36%94.47%
- 18ISLANDERS$0.19/1hr8h90.89%94.43%
- 19Amber Isle$0.21/1hr30h84.57%82.78%
- 20Sudocats$0.24/1hr4h87.02%98.56%
- 21Bear and Breakfast$0.24/1hr29h86.51%89.46%
- 22Potion Permit$0.25/1hr28h83.00%79.39%
- 23Descenders$0.27/1hr23h91.63%94.45%
- 24Motor Town: Behind The Wheel$0.27/1hr74h89.25%93.78%
- 25Draw & Guess$0.27/1hr15h84.13%83.89%
- 26TOEM: A Photo Adventure$0.29/1hr7h92.61%99.11%
- 27Little Witch in the Woods$0.29/1hr52h87.26%89.04%
- 28Garden Galaxy$0.29/1hr17h87.56%97.47%
- 29Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator$0.29/1hr27h91.46%92.93%
- 30Zodiacats$0.30/1hr3h86.56%98.59%
- 31Chillquarium$0.31/1hr20h88.09%92.19%
- 32Crab Champions$0.31/1hr32h94.72%97.88%
- 33I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h84.87%84.73%
- 34American Truck Simulator$0.32/1hr63h96.33%96.92%
- 35Euro Truck Simulator 2$0.32/1hr62h97.31%97.45%
- 36Mon Bazou$0.33/1hr48h93.14%97.12%
- 37Balatro$0.34/1hr35h97.22%97.84%
- 38Grocery Store Simulator$0.34/1hr27h87.17%90.79%
- 39gogh: Focus with Your Avatar$0.34/1hr35h87.05%91.00%
- 40Dinkum$0.34/1hr59h90.07%91.84%
- 41Bloons TD 5$0.35/1hr29h90.23%94.66%
- 42Core Keeper$0.35/1hr58h91.90%92.95%
- 43Fields of Mistria$0.35/1hr36h94.38%97.45%
- 44DAVE THE DIVER$0.38/1hr53h95.84%96.53%
- 45Banished$0.39/1hr51h89.40%90.43%
- 46Wingspan$0.41/1hr24h90.00%94.25%
- 47Kynseed$0.41/1hr48h84.54%82.90%
- 48ContractVille$0.42/1hr23h83.42%80.94%
- 49Cash Cleaner Simulator$0.46/1hr44h88.19%92.36%
- 50Mini Motorways$0.47/1hr21h92.97%96.27%
- 51GoreBox$0.47/1hr19h84.32%84.07%
- 52theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.47/1hr43h88.89%89.08%
- 53Farm Together$0.47/1hr43h91.23%94.08%
- 54Calico$0.47/1hr8h85.49%86.59%
- 55Rising World$0.48/1hr31h85.23%85.71%
- 56Moonstone Island$0.48/1hr41h84.55%83.77%
- 57Burgie's Cozy Kitchen$0.49/1hr14h86.24%96.89%
- 58CarX Drift Racing Online$0.51/1hr33h94.07%95.10%
- 59WorldBox - God Simulator$0.51/1hr39h93.76%95.33%
- 60TCG Card Shop Simulator$0.52/1hr38h94.57%96.54%
- 61Gas Station Simulator$0.53/1hr18h87.16%87.97%
- 62A Little to the Left$0.54/1hr11h89.29%91.61%
- 63Gourdlets$0.58/1hr9h86.09%92.56%
- 64Cozy Grove$0.59/1hr26h87.06%89.57%
- 65Plantera 2: Golden Acorn$0.61/1hr8h86.01%94.37%
- 66Farming Simulator 15$0.63/1hr21h89.65%92.49%
- 67My Dream Setup$0.63/1hr9h87.56%91.37%
- 68Finnish Cottage Simulator$0.64/1hr23h87.26%93.67%
- 69Cassette Beasts$0.65/1hr31h89.82%94.06%
- 70Cat Goes Fishing$0.65/1hr11h90.66%94.14%
- 71Kingdoms and Castles$0.66/1hr30h91.47%93.56%
- 72Nodebuster$0.66/1hr5h92.11%97.43%
- 73Let's School$0.67/1hr30h88.10%92.73%
- 74Zup!$0.67/1hr3h89.27%94.13%
- 75A Building Full of Cats$0.68/1hr1h89.07%98.92%
- 76Sailwind$0.69/1hr29h85.68%88.85%
- 77Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game$0.69/1hr14h86.17%88.00%
- 78Juice Galaxy$0.69/1hr7h91.86%98.47%
- 79The Tenants$0.69/1hr29h82.30%78.90%
- 80Dorfromantik$0.70/1hr20h93.45%96.34%
- 81Loddlenaut$0.70/1hr9h89.91%98.01%
- 82Aeruta$0.71/1hr21h86.83%94.54%
- 83A Story About My Uncle$0.72/1hr4h89.84%91.51%
- 84Viscera Cleanup Detail$0.73/1hr18h90.05%92.20%
- 85Minami Lane$0.74/1hr5h89.91%97.40%
- 86Chef RPG$0.74/1hr27h85.56%87.83%
- 87Doloc Town$0.76/1hr21h87.18%95.16%
- 88Ravenous Devils$0.76/1hr7h88.59%92.56%
- 89Cats Organized Neatly$0.77/1hr4h88.92%97.19%
- 90Gold Mining Simulator$0.80/1hr25h77.28%72.59%
- 91Click Mage$0.80/1hr6h86.32%91.71%
- 92Cattails: Wildwood Story$0.83/1hr24h86.75%97.51%
- 93Travellin Cats in China$0.85/1hr1h86.16%97.97%
- 94A Castle Full of Cats$0.85/1hr3h89.50%99.17%
- 95Coffee Talk$0.86/1hr8h90.36%94.70%
- 96A Tower Full of Cats$0.87/1hr4h87.82%99.51%
- 97Russian Life Simulator$0.89/1hr1h86.58%88.54%
- 98Trash Goblin$0.89/1hr21h85.47%88.46%
- 99Superflight$0.91/1hr3h91.07%96.37%
- 100FEZ$0.91/1hr11h89.72%92.66%
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.