Best Value RTS Games Under $10
The RTS 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.
- 1Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance$0.03/1hr76h91.88%96.73%
- 2Supreme Commander 2$0.08/1hr34h86.79%88.22%
- 3SpellForce 3 Reforced$0.20/1hr50h81.35%76.82%
- 4Mindustry$0.24/1hr42h92.86%95.72%
- 5Command & Conquer Remastered Collection$0.25/1hr20h89.39%90.66%
- 6Desperados III$0.26/1hr38h92.16%96.52%
- 7Iron Harvest$0.31/1hr15h77.37%72.63%
- 8Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.31/1hr16h89.82%96.35%
- 9Stronghold HD (2012)$0.32/1hr19h90.35%95.54%
- 10DG2: Defense Grid 2$0.33/1hr31h85.34%86.53%
- 11Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.35/1hr29h93.46%97.52%
- 12The Guild 3$0.35/1hr17h74.00%60.29%
- 13112 Operator$0.36/1hr14h86.55%88.74%
- 14Age of History 3$0.36/1hr28h84.98%85.00%
- 15Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.42/1hr24h91.02%96.74%
- 16Border Pioneer$0.49/1hr15h85.22%86.71%
- 17Satellite Reign$0.60/1hr5h80.23%71.44%
- 18Castle Story$0.63/1hr16h74.71%65.07%
- 19Buggos$0.87/1hr12h85.51%87.96%
- 20Breakout 13$0.92/1hr11h86.22%87.93%
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.