Best Value RTS Games Under $5
The RTS games on Steam games under $5 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%
- 3Company of Heroes$0.05/1hr60h91.08%94.22%
- 4Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition$0.05/1hr99h93.39%95.64%
- 5Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr34h93.72%97.48%
- 6Mindustry$0.06/1hr62h92.97%95.73%
- 7Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition$0.07/1hr69h89.51%90.64%
- 8Company of Heroes 2$0.08/1hr63h79.54%79.05%
- 9Rise of Nations: Extended Edition$0.08/1hr63h91.01%94.68%
- 10Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.09/1hr27h90.33%96.33%
- 11Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 12Frostpunk$0.10/1hr30h92.23%92.74%
- 13Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2$0.11/1hr36h79.47%74.30%
- 14Age of History 3$0.13/1hr31h85.06%84.99%
- 15Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition$0.13/1hr38h89.94%91.67%
- 16Call to Arms$0.14/1hr28h81.03%79.31%
- 17Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 18Tropico 4$0.14/1hr32h88.83%91.69%
- 19Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.14/1hr28h91.44%96.68%
- 20Anno 1404 - History Edition$0.15/1hr31h84.45%82.43%
- 21Command & Conquer Remastered Collection$0.15/1hr27h89.44%90.66%
- 22Evil Genius 2: World Domination$0.15/1hr26h76.02%69.11%
- 23Iron Harvest$0.17/1hr26h77.43%72.59%
- 24Stronghold 2: Steam Edition$0.19/1hr19h86.88%88.79%
- 25Warpips$0.20/1hr13h85.84%87.11%
- 26Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.22/1hr20h85.87%86.53%
- 27Sudden Strike 4$0.23/1hr17h82.00%78.20%
- 28Halo Wars: Definitive Edition$0.24/1hr21h88.24%91.44%
- 29Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 30Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr11h89.94%93.26%
- 31Brutal Legend$0.27/1hr11h90.54%93.16%
- 32Victoria II$0.36/1hr14h88.67%90.38%
- 33Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak$0.39/1hr13h82.40%79.28%
- 34112 Operator$0.40/1hr12h86.67%88.68%
- 35Gladiator Guild Manager$0.43/1hr11h83.99%81.07%
- 36Europa Universalis III Complete$1.14/1hr4h84.50%81.16%
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.