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: Forged Alliance$0.03/1hr76h91.88%96.73%
- 2Supreme Commander 2$0.08/1hr34h86.79%88.22%
- 3Mechabellum$0.10/1hr104h84.07%83.74%
- 4Terra Invicta$0.17/1hr118h82.71%80.41%
- 5SpellForce 3 Reforced$0.20/1hr50h81.35%76.82%
- 6Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 7Victoria II$0.21/1hr95h89.74%92.14%
- 8Dyson Sphere Program$0.21/1hr94h96.22%97.46%
- 9Planetbase$0.22/1hr69h82.28%79.73%
- 10Age of Empires II (Retired)$0.22/1hr92h94.87%95.83%
- 11Airships: Conquer the Skies$0.24/1hr53h89.29%95.91%
- 12Mindustry$0.24/1hr42h92.86%95.72%
- 13Command & Conquer Remastered Collection$0.25/1hr20h89.39%90.66%
- 14Desperados III$0.26/1hr38h92.16%96.52%
- 15Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion$0.28/1hr72h90.04%93.16%
- 16Iron Harvest$0.31/1hr15h77.37%72.63%
- 17Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.31/1hr16h89.82%96.35%
- 18Stronghold HD (2012)$0.32/1hr19h90.35%95.54%
- 19DG2: Defense Grid 2$0.33/1hr31h85.34%86.53%
- 20Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.35/1hr29h93.46%97.52%
- 21The Guild 3$0.35/1hr17h74.00%60.29%
- 22112 Operator$0.36/1hr14h86.55%88.74%
- 23Age of History 3$0.36/1hr28h84.98%85.00%
- 24STAR WARS Empire at War - Gold Pack$0.39/1hr52h95.32%97.73%
- 25Banished$0.39/1hr51h89.40%90.43%
- 26Knights of Honor II: Sovereign$0.39/1hr29h81.84%77.18%
- 27Rise of Nations: Extended Edition$0.40/1hr50h90.90%94.67%
- 28Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.42/1hr24h91.02%96.74%
- 29Company of Heroes 2$0.43/1hr46h79.52%79.04%
- 30Kingdoms Reborn$0.44/1hr45h87.65%90.45%
- 31Age of Darkness: Final Stand$0.45/1hr31h79.55%74.46%
- 32Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.45/1hr33h84.27%82.41%
- 33Border Pioneer$0.49/1hr15h85.22%86.71%
- 34Infection Free Zone$0.52/1hr34h82.12%80.58%
- 35Cossacks 3$0.56/1hr36h83.31%82.30%
- 36Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2$0.57/1hr35h79.39%74.34%
- 37Satellite Reign$0.60/1hr5h80.23%71.44%
- 38Dummynation$0.62/1hr19h85.63%87.80%
- 39Castle Story$0.63/1hr16h74.71%65.07%
- 40Anno 2070$0.63/1hr29h71.21%60.39%
- 41Emberward$0.65/1hr31h88.24%96.95%
- 42Kingdoms and Castles$0.66/1hr30h91.47%93.56%
- 43Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.67/1hr22h86.36%88.84%
- 44Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII$0.72/1hr25h73.28%57.95%
- 45Company of Heroes$0.75/1hr27h90.99%94.24%
- 46Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.76/1hr20h85.70%86.45%
- 47Call to Arms$0.80/1hr19h80.97%79.32%
- 48Sudden Strike 4$0.80/1hr25h81.88%78.21%
- 49Age of Empires: Definitive Edition$0.81/1hr25h84.53%84.26%
- 50Buggos$0.87/1hr12h85.51%87.96%
- 51Tower Dominion$0.89/1hr20h85.17%85.60%
- 52Breakout 13$0.92/1hr11h86.22%87.93%
- 53Tropico 5$0.95/1hr21h81.23%78.65%
- 54Door Kickers$1.19/1hr17h89.58%94.20%
- 55Gladiator Guild Manager$1.19/1hr13h83.83%81.10%
- 56Halo Wars: Definitive Edition$1.19/1hr17h88.10%91.43%
- 57Bad North: Jotunn Edition$1.28/1hr12h89.71%93.26%
- 58Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic)$1.29/1hr12h90.20%94.61%
- 59Fly Corp$1.31/1hr11h84.93%84.91%
- 60Brutal Legend$1.43/1hr10h90.49%93.22%
- 61Warpips$1.70/1hr10h85.70%87.17%
- 62Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2$2.12/1hr9h84.74%84.48%
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.