Best Value RTS Games
The RTS games that stretch a budget furthest: median reviewer playtime divided by current price. Pick your currency in the top bar to rank against your local prices.
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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.
- 1Supreme Commander 2$0.03/1hr94h86.89%88.21%
- 2Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance$0.03/1hr92h91.99%96.72%
- 3Total War: WARHAMMER III$0.03/1hr271h72.54%71.69%
- 4Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition$0.05/1hr161h87.34%87.58%
- 5Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion$0.05/1hr123h90.14%93.17%
- 6Company of Heroes$0.05/1hr60h91.08%94.22%
- 7Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition$0.05/1hr99h93.39%95.64%
- 8Hearts of Iron IV$0.05/1hr282h89.78%89.83%
- 9Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr34h93.72%97.48%
- 10Mindustry$0.06/1hr62h92.97%95.73%
- 11Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition$0.07/1hr69h89.51%90.64%
- 12Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront$0.08/1hr116h85.21%85.22%
- 13Company of Heroes 2$0.08/1hr63h79.54%79.05%
- 14Rise of Nations: Extended Edition$0.08/1hr63h91.01%94.68%
- 15Mechabellum$0.09/1hr103h84.20%83.70%
- 16Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.09/1hr27h90.33%96.33%
- 17Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 18Frostpunk$0.10/1hr30h92.23%92.74%
- 19Total War: ATTILA$0.10/1hr89h83.00%82.42%
- 20Total War: WARHAMMER II$0.10/1hr149h92.40%92.99%
- 21Kenshi$0.10/1hr118h94.77%95.59%
- 22Crusader Kings III$0.11/1hr142h88.04%88.24%
- 23Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.11/1hr79h92.89%94.24%
- 24Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2$0.11/1hr36h79.47%74.30%
- 25Against the Storm$0.11/1hr82h92.49%94.44%
- 26Men of War: Assault Squad 2$0.11/1hr54h90.16%91.23%
- 27Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 28Ultimate General: Civil War$0.12/1hr103h86.87%88.83%
- 29STAR WARS Empire at War - Gold Pack$0.12/1hr60h95.37%97.73%
- 30Dyson Sphere Program$0.12/1hr129h96.21%97.42%
- 31Age of History 3$0.13/1hr31h85.06%84.99%
- 32Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition$0.13/1hr38h89.94%91.67%
- 33Total War: THREE KINGDOMS$0.13/1hr90h82.51%82.23%
- 34Call to Arms$0.14/1hr28h81.03%79.31%
- 35Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 36Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.14/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 37Tropico 4$0.14/1hr32h88.83%91.69%
- 38Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.14/1hr28h91.44%96.68%
- 39Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.15/1hr31h84.45%82.43%
- 40Terra Invicta$0.15/1hr137h82.72%80.25%
- 41Banished$0.15/1hr46h89.45%90.43%
- 42Command & Conquer Remastered Collection$0.15/1hr27h89.44%90.66%
- 43A Total War Saga: TROY$0.15/1hr45h81.43%71.63%
- 44Sailing Era$0.15/1hr74h82.98%78.66%
- 45Evil Genius 2: World Domination$0.15/1hr26h76.02%69.11%
- 46Total War: ROME REMASTERED$0.16/1hr47h80.51%77.12%
- 47Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition$0.17/1hr139h94.56%94.91%
- 48ENDLESS Space 2$0.17/1hr59h83.87%83.30%
- 49Iron Harvest$0.17/1hr26h77.43%72.59%
- 50UBOAT$0.18/1hr48h84.36%84.06%
- 51Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 52Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 53Wargame: Red Dragon$0.20/1hr31h87.41%88.54%
- 54Age of Empires II (Retired)$0.20/1hr99h94.89%95.83%
- 55Warpips$0.20/1hr13h85.84%87.11%
- 56Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition$0.21/1hr131h85.64%85.68%
- 57Knights of Honor II: Sovereign$0.21/1hr54h82.34%77.23%
- 58Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.22/1hr20h85.87%86.53%
- 59Company of Heroes 3$0.22/1hr109h62.35%56.68%
- 60Dungeons 3$0.22/1hr27h91.03%94.15%
- 61Cataclismo$0.23/1hr39h86.28%88.80%
- 62Tower Dominion$0.23/1hr45h85.34%85.62%
- 63Sudden Strike 4$0.23/1hr17h82.00%78.20%
- 64Tropico 5$0.23/1hr30h81.33%78.67%
- 65Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr42h85.24%85.25%
- 66Halo Wars: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr21h88.24%91.44%
- 67Age of Mythology: Retold$0.24/1hr62h88.89%90.47%
- 68Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 69Kingdoms and Castles$0.25/1hr40h91.54%93.57%
- 70Empires of the Undergrowth$0.25/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 71Cossacks 3$0.25/1hr27h83.39%82.28%
- 72From the Depths$0.25/1hr98h87.46%89.23%
- 73Kingdoms Reborn$0.25/1hr63h87.75%90.38%
- 74Total War: WARHAMMER$0.26/1hr58h79.59%78.53%
- 75Going Medieval$0.26/1hr86h87.83%89.07%
- 76The Guild 3$0.27/1hr28h74.03%60.14%
- 77Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr11h89.94%93.26%
- 78SpellForce 3 Reforced$0.27/1hr37h81.47%76.79%
- 79Brutal Legend$0.27/1hr11h90.54%93.16%
- 80Anno 2205$0.27/1hr22h79.32%70.11%
- 81Last Train Home$0.27/1hr48h85.28%87.12%
- 82Airships: Conquer the Skies$0.28/1hr36h89.46%95.92%
- 83Total War: SHOGUN 2$0.28/1hr106h90.87%91.71%
- 84A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA$0.29/1hr28h76.44%70.57%
- 85Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew$0.29/1hr35h87.87%91.04%
- 86Anno 1800$0.30/1hr51h82.27%81.37%
- 87Desperados III$0.31/1hr33h92.25%96.50%
- 88Planetary Annihilation: TITANS$0.31/1hr48h84.72%84.40%
- 89Age of Darkness: Final Stand$0.31/1hr45h79.88%74.34%
- 90Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition$0.31/1hr101h85.84%85.96%
- 91WARNO$0.31/1hr44h81.81%79.73%
- 92Dummynation$0.32/1hr30h85.85%87.90%
- 93Colony Survival$0.32/1hr59h88.47%92.11%
- 94Clanfolk$0.32/1hr47h86.39%91.61%
- 95Diplomacy is Not an Option$0.33/1hr36h85.39%85.55%
- 96Norland$0.33/1hr45h83.36%81.63%
- 97Dawn of Man$0.34/1hr37h86.22%86.80%
- 98ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS 8 REMAKE$0.34/1hr104h75.18%49.87%
- 99Aliens: Dark Descent$0.35/1hr35h86.78%87.62%
- 100Homeworld Remastered Collection$0.35/1hr15h86.77%87.89%
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.