Best Value RTS Games Under $20
The RTS 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.
- 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%
- 47ENDLESS Space 2$0.17/1hr59h83.87%83.30%
- 48Iron Harvest$0.17/1hr26h77.43%72.59%
- 49UBOAT$0.18/1hr48h84.36%84.06%
- 50Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 51Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 52Wargame: Red Dragon$0.20/1hr31h87.41%88.54%
- 53Age of Empires II (Retired)$0.20/1hr99h94.89%95.83%
- 54Warpips$0.20/1hr13h85.84%87.11%
- 55Knights of Honor II: Sovereign$0.21/1hr54h82.34%77.23%
- 56Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.22/1hr20h85.87%86.53%
- 57Dungeons 3$0.22/1hr27h91.03%94.15%
- 58Cataclismo$0.23/1hr39h86.28%88.80%
- 59Tower Dominion$0.23/1hr45h85.34%85.62%
- 60Sudden Strike 4$0.23/1hr17h82.00%78.20%
- 61Tropico 5$0.23/1hr30h81.33%78.67%
- 62Northgard: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr42h85.24%85.25%
- 63Halo Wars: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr21h88.24%91.44%
- 64Age of Mythology: Retold$0.24/1hr62h88.89%90.47%
- 65Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 66Kingdoms and Castles$0.25/1hr40h91.54%93.57%
- 67Empires of the Undergrowth$0.25/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 68Cossacks 3$0.25/1hr27h83.39%82.28%
- 69Kingdoms Reborn$0.25/1hr63h87.75%90.38%
- 70Total War: WARHAMMER$0.26/1hr58h79.59%78.53%
- 71The Guild 3$0.27/1hr28h74.03%60.14%
- 72Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr11h89.94%93.26%
- 73SpellForce 3 Reforced$0.27/1hr37h81.47%76.79%
- 74Brutal Legend$0.27/1hr11h90.54%93.16%
- 75Anno 2205$0.27/1hr22h79.32%70.11%
- 76Last Train Home$0.27/1hr48h85.28%87.12%
- 77Airships: Conquer the Skies$0.28/1hr36h89.46%95.92%
- 78A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA$0.29/1hr28h76.44%70.57%
- 79Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew$0.29/1hr35h87.87%91.04%
- 80Anno 1800$0.30/1hr51h82.27%81.37%
- 81Desperados III$0.31/1hr33h92.25%96.50%
- 82Planetary Annihilation: TITANS$0.31/1hr48h84.72%84.40%
- 83Age of Darkness: Final Stand$0.31/1hr45h79.88%74.34%
- 84WARNO$0.31/1hr44h81.81%79.73%
- 85Dummynation$0.32/1hr30h85.85%87.90%
- 86Colony Survival$0.32/1hr59h88.47%92.11%
- 87Clanfolk$0.32/1hr47h86.39%91.61%
- 88Diplomacy is Not an Option$0.33/1hr36h85.39%85.55%
- 89Norland$0.33/1hr45h83.36%81.63%
- 90Dawn of Man$0.34/1hr37h86.22%86.80%
- 91Aliens: Dark Descent$0.35/1hr35h86.78%87.62%
- 92Homeworld Remastered Collection$0.35/1hr15h86.77%87.89%
- 93Victoria II$0.36/1hr14h88.67%90.38%
- 94IXION$0.36/1hr29h81.09%78.79%
- 95Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak$0.39/1hr13h82.40%79.28%
- 96Steel Division 2$0.39/1hr25h82.36%79.42%
- 97Door Kickers 2: Task Force North$0.39/1hr38h91.43%96.02%
- 98112 Operator$0.40/1hr12h86.67%88.68%
- 99Farthest Frontier$0.41/1hr43h85.79%86.02%
- 100Dune: Spice Wars$0.41/1hr34h81.68%79.11%
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.