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 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%
- 8Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr34h93.72%97.48%
- 9Mindustry$0.06/1hr62h92.97%95.73%
- 10Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition$0.07/1hr69h89.51%90.64%
- 11Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront$0.08/1hr116h85.21%85.22%
- 12Company of Heroes 2$0.08/1hr63h79.54%79.05%
- 13Rise of Nations: Extended Edition$0.08/1hr63h91.01%94.68%
- 14Mechabellum$0.09/1hr103h84.20%83.70%
- 15Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.09/1hr27h90.33%96.33%
- 16Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 17Frostpunk$0.10/1hr30h92.23%92.74%
- 18Total War: ATTILA$0.10/1hr89h83.00%82.42%
- 19Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.11/1hr79h92.89%94.24%
- 20Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2$0.11/1hr36h79.47%74.30%
- 21Against the Storm$0.11/1hr82h92.49%94.44%
- 22Men of War: Assault Squad 2$0.11/1hr54h90.16%91.23%
- 23Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 24STAR WARS Empire at War - Gold Pack$0.12/1hr60h95.37%97.73%
- 25Age of History 3$0.13/1hr31h85.06%84.99%
- 26Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition$0.13/1hr38h89.94%91.67%
- 27Call to Arms$0.14/1hr28h81.03%79.31%
- 28Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 29Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.14/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 30Tropico 4$0.14/1hr32h88.83%91.69%
- 31Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.14/1hr28h91.44%96.68%
- 32Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.15/1hr31h84.45%82.43%
- 33Banished$0.15/1hr46h89.45%90.43%
- 34Command & Conquer Remastered Collection$0.15/1hr27h89.44%90.66%
- 35A Total War Saga: TROY$0.15/1hr45h81.43%71.63%
- 36Evil Genius 2: World Domination$0.15/1hr26h76.02%69.11%
- 37Total War: ROME REMASTERED$0.16/1hr47h80.51%77.12%
- 38ENDLESS Space 2$0.17/1hr59h83.87%83.30%
- 39Iron Harvest$0.17/1hr26h77.43%72.59%
- 40UBOAT$0.18/1hr48h84.36%84.06%
- 41Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 42Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 43Wargame: Red Dragon$0.20/1hr31h87.41%88.54%
- 44Warpips$0.20/1hr13h85.84%87.11%
- 45Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.22/1hr20h85.87%86.53%
- 46Dungeons 3$0.22/1hr27h91.03%94.15%
- 47Cataclismo$0.23/1hr39h86.28%88.80%
- 48Sudden Strike 4$0.23/1hr17h82.00%78.20%
- 49Tropico 5$0.23/1hr30h81.33%78.67%
- 50Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr42h85.24%85.25%
- 51Halo Wars: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr21h88.24%91.44%
- 52Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 53Kingdoms and Castles$0.25/1hr40h91.54%93.57%
- 54Empires of the Undergrowth$0.25/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 55Cossacks 3$0.25/1hr27h83.39%82.28%
- 56The Guild 3$0.27/1hr28h74.03%60.14%
- 57Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr11h89.94%93.26%
- 58SpellForce 3 Reforced$0.27/1hr37h81.47%76.79%
- 59Brutal Legend$0.27/1hr11h90.54%93.16%
- 60Anno 2205$0.27/1hr22h79.32%70.11%
- 61Airships: Conquer the Skies$0.28/1hr36h89.46%95.92%
- 62A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA$0.29/1hr28h76.44%70.57%
- 63Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew$0.29/1hr35h87.87%91.04%
- 64Desperados III$0.31/1hr33h92.25%96.50%
- 65Dummynation$0.32/1hr30h85.85%87.90%
- 66Homeworld Remastered Collection$0.35/1hr15h86.77%87.89%
- 67Victoria II$0.36/1hr14h88.67%90.38%
- 68Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak$0.39/1hr13h82.40%79.28%
- 69Steel Division 2$0.39/1hr25h82.36%79.42%
- 70112 Operator$0.40/1hr12h86.67%88.68%
- 71Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III$0.41/1hr19h59.25%48.40%
- 72The Great War: Western Front$0.41/1hr17h80.94%66.27%
- 73Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition (Classic)$0.43/1hr23h86.58%87.58%
- 74Gladiator Guild Manager$0.43/1hr11h83.99%81.07%
- 75Border Pioneer$0.53/1hr13h85.90%86.53%
- 76Ancestors Legacy$0.55/1hr9h82.29%78.96%
- 77War Mongrels$0.56/1hr17h82.86%74.52%
- 78Castle Story$0.59/1hr17h75.16%65.19%
- 79Fly Corp$0.72/1hr12h85.55%84.91%
- 80Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic)$0.86/1hr12h90.31%94.60%
- 81Europa Universalis III Complete$1.14/1hr4h84.50%81.16%
- 82Breakout 13$1.21/1hr8h86.37%87.95%
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.