Best Rated Survival Games Under $20
The best rated Survival games on Steam for games under $20. Scores are weighted by review volume, so small-sample flukes stay off the list.
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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
- 1Left 4 Dead 21,062,41197.43%97.52%
- 2Terraria1,560,46297.31%97.37%
- 3Counter-Strike262,14797.06%97.40%
- 4Resident Evil 4281,48797.06%97.37%
- 5Bloons TD 6396,22496.96%97.18%
- 6Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition156,13896.94%97.69%
- 7Deep Rock Galactic380,72196.88%97.10%
- 8Subnautica381,30596.86%97.09%
- 9Resident Evil 2225,26696.66%97.04%
- 10The Walking Dead80,64995.99%97.33%
- 11Oxygen Not Included143,95395.97%96.72%
- 12Counter-Strike: Source193,65895.89%96.29%
- 13R.E.P.O.427,49195.82%95.99%
- 14Fallout: New Vegas262,24095.69%95.98%
- 15Outlast138,98295.68%96.44%
- 16Don't Starve113,49895.62%96.54%
- 17The Forest684,06795.42%95.52%
- 18Dying Light496,77195.09%95.23%
- 19Brotato119,12095.09%95.92%
- 20Resident Evil Village154,45595.00%95.64%
- 21Left 4 Dead68,20494.95%96.39%
- 22Don't Starve Together544,11694.78%94.90%
- 23Kenshi116,86894.77%95.59%
- 24The Planet Crafter74,15394.74%96.03%
- 25Resident Evil 7 Biohazard127,33094.55%95.29%
- 26My Summer Car117,79094.16%94.92%
- 27The Walking Dead: Season Two34,03294.00%96.59%
- 28FTL: Faster Than Light78,81693.97%95.08%
- 29Clone Drone in the Danger Zone39,59893.93%96.13%
- 30Killing Floor68,96093.89%95.16%
- 31Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc38,78293.88%95.96%
- 32Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun38,47493.79%96.03%
- 33Risk of Rain 2353,60293.68%93.84%
- 34Rise of the Tomb Raider156,31493.64%94.18%
- 35Project Zomboid486,52393.64%93.75%
- 36Ultimate Custom Night62,85093.45%94.77%
- 37Resident Evil 4 (2005)98,50493.36%94.19%
- 38The Binding of Isaac62,90593.32%94.61%
- 39S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat31,43593.15%95.68%
- 40Barotrauma89,96093.13%94.02%
- 41Blood and Bacon36,60493.11%95.28%
- 42Iron Snout17,48393.05%97.69%
- 43S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl48,15293.04%94.68%
- 44This War of Mine97,80593.03%93.83%
- 45Plague Inc: Evolved65,93693.02%94.20%
- 46Mindustry28,19592.97%95.73%
- 47Raft379,44892.86%92.99%
- 48Five Nights at Freddy's59,37492.57%93.82%
- 49Against the Storm37,56492.49%94.44%
- 50Rain World57,48792.44%93.70%
- 51FAR: Lone Sails26,47292.41%95.26%
- 52Contraband Police25,80292.27%95.02%
- 53Desperados III16,64292.25%96.50%
- 54WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition13,36592.23%97.51%
- 55Frostpunk137,55692.23%92.74%
- 56A Plague Tale: Innocence72,75692.21%93.18%
- 57Days Gone117,24592.13%92.72%
- 58Darkwood25,01292.11%94.89%
- 59Alien: Isolation66,95392.08%93.12%
- 60Among Us750,12891.98%92.03%
- 61Core Keeper66,65691.93%92.94%
- 62Crosshair X45,80191.89%93.36%
- 63Metro 2033 Redux142,12691.83%92.29%
- 64The Outlast Trials112,30591.77%92.36%
- 65Mad Max90,59991.64%92.35%
- 66The Walking Dead: The Final Season21,53991.63%95.06%
- 67Sven Co-op32,49491.60%93.57%
- 68Kingdoms and Castles31,43891.54%93.57%
- 69Dead Space 229,92791.54%93.97%
- 70Super Animal Royale44,67591.50%92.92%
- 71Alien Swarm21,63291.50%94.84%
- 72ASTRONEER139,45491.45%91.90%
- 7360 Seconds! Reatomized19,63791.32%94.44%
- 74Scrap Mechanic122,94391.31%91.80%
- 75Call of Duty: World at War53,37991.22%92.35%
- 76Empires of the Undergrowth18,94591.19%94.36%
- 77Five Nights at Freddy's 226,21791.09%93.69%
- 78Risk of Rain (2013)29,82991.08%93.05%
- 79Unturned564,82190.96%91.01%
- 80SCP: Secret Laboratory235,07990.90%91.02%
- 81Necesse29,11690.77%92.68%
- 82Resident Evil36,50290.71%92.31%
- 83Trailmakers39,33090.67%92.06%
- 84Metro: Last Light Redux82,00790.64%91.31%
- 85Bloons TD 511,97790.63%94.68%
- 86Dungeon Defenders19,00490.57%93.09%
- 87Unrailed!19,79090.47%93.15%
- 88The Evil Within 231,05690.38%92.06%
- 89POSTAL: Brain Damaged11,24490.34%94.93%
- 90My Time at Portia44,31990.31%91.46%
- 91Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander12,89990.29%94.25%
- 92Devil Daggers9,50290.13%95.34%
- 93Outlast 264,62190.08%90.83%
- 94Fistful of Frags36,91090.07%91.39%
- 95Dead Space (2008)29,22589.96%91.91%
- 96Picayune Dreams4,65489.94%98.88%
- 97Bad North: Jotunn Edition14,33989.94%93.26%
- 98DEVOUR88,23789.93%90.47%
- 99Dead Space71,21789.85%90.51%
- 100Bit Blaster XL6,15489.80%96.33%
