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 21,051,98797.41%97.52%
- 2Terraria1,543,70197.30%97.38%
- 3Counter-Strike261,11696.94%97.40%
- 4Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition154,82996.92%97.69%
- 5Bloons TD 6392,70196.88%97.19%
- 6The Walking Dead80,14995.95%97.32%
- 7R.E.P.O.416,22295.78%96.04%
- 8Counter-Strike: Source192,72295.73%96.29%
- 9Outlast138,06195.66%96.44%
- 10Don't Starve113,30695.61%96.55%
- 11Fallout: New Vegas260,41595.58%95.98%
- 12The Forest679,80795.38%95.53%
- 13Brotato117,57095.15%96.02%
- 14Dying Light493,25095.03%95.23%
- 15Left 4 Dead67,79194.92%96.39%
- 16Don't Starve Together540,96094.75%94.93%
- 17Resident Evil 7 Biohazard125,40294.54%95.31%
- 18My Summer Car116,38594.14%94.93%
- 19FTL: Faster Than Light78,49093.96%95.11%
- 20The Walking Dead: Season Two33,90893.93%96.58%
- 21Killing Floor68,84493.86%95.16%
- 22Clone Drone in the Danger Zone39,17693.85%96.13%
- 23Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc38,09993.70%96.00%
- 24Ultimate Custom Night62,61593.42%94.77%
- 25The Binding of Isaac62,72593.30%94.64%
- 26Resident Evil 4 (2005)97,52193.30%94.15%
- 27Barotrauma88,90793.10%94.02%
- 28S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat31,38893.09%95.69%
- 29Iron Snout17,47493.05%97.69%
- 30Blood and Bacon36,43793.04%95.26%
- 31This War of Mine97,48193.02%93.85%
- 32S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl48,08293.00%94.67%
- 33Plague Inc: Evolved65,27592.98%94.21%
- 34Mindustry27,75292.86%95.72%
- 35Raft376,74392.80%93.01%
- 36Five Nights at Freddy's58,95892.52%93.81%
- 37FAR: Lone Sails26,31592.42%95.27%
- 38Desperados III16,53492.16%96.52%
- 39Darkwood24,77792.03%94.89%
- 40Among Us742,62991.90%92.00%
- 41Core Keeper65,87291.90%92.95%
- 42The Walking Dead: The Final Season21,42991.84%95.06%
- 43Crosshair X44,70091.81%93.35%
- 44Metro 2033 Redux139,78491.78%92.27%
- 45Alien Swarm21,59891.70%94.83%
- 46Dead Space 229,56791.69%93.97%
- 47Mad Max90,07791.61%92.35%
- 48Sven Co-op32,40491.54%93.58%
- 49Super Animal Royale44,37691.50%92.98%
- 50Kingdoms and Castles31,34591.47%93.56%
- 51Five Nights at Freddy's 226,00891.26%93.69%
- 5260 Seconds! Reatomized19,43291.22%94.46%
- 53Call of Duty: World at War53,10791.17%92.35%
- 54Risk of Rain (2013)29,82791.02%93.05%
- 55Unturned564,36290.91%91.02%
- 56SCP: Secret Laboratory233,04690.81%91.07%
- 57Necesse28,44590.76%92.81%
- 58Resident Evil35,99890.70%92.30%
- 59Metro: Last Light Redux80,89090.56%91.26%
- 60Unrailed!19,69390.40%93.17%
- 61The Evil Within 230,84690.34%92.09%
- 62Dungeon Defenders18,96490.27%93.09%
- 63Bloons TD 511,93890.23%94.66%
- 64Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander12,78690.12%94.37%
- 65POSTAL: Brain Damaged11,11490.10%94.98%
- 66Dead Space (2008)29,07290.10%91.88%
- 67Outlast 264,11890.07%90.87%
- 68Fistful of Frags36,87590.02%91.40%
- 69Devil Daggers9,43189.98%95.33%
- 70Five Nights at Freddy's 416,83189.96%92.94%
- 71DEVOUR87,98489.93%90.50%
- 72Loddlenaut6,13489.91%98.01%
- 73Dead Space69,75989.79%90.49%
- 74Counter-Strike: Condition Zero28,28089.73%91.42%
- 75Bad North: Jotunn Edition14,12889.71%93.26%
- 76SurrounDead26,25489.70%91.51%
- 77Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion15,51689.61%92.62%
- 78Starbound123,23689.60%89.97%
- 79Chinese Parents26,88789.59%91.32%
- 80Banished43,25989.40%90.43%
- 81Bendy and the Dark Revival16,04089.36%92.12%
- 82No More Room in Hell76,29789.34%89.91%
- 83Aliens vs. Predator21,39889.31%91.36%
- 84Bit Blaster XL6,15389.29%96.36%
- 85Double Action: Boogaloo11,40689.25%93.02%
- 86Alan Wake58,91489.22%89.94%
- 87HELLDIVERS Dive Harder Edition33,31889.15%90.41%
- 88Kingdom Two Crowns39,27989.14%90.21%
- 89Picayune Dreams4,55989.14%98.90%
- 9020 Minutes Till Dawn29,00189.08%90.51%
- 91Death Road to Canada10,45888.93%92.75%
- 92theHunter: Call of the Wild201,46988.89%89.08%
- 93Kingdom: Classic22,67788.88%90.62%
- 94The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth8,23488.71%93.30%
- 95Forager43,91888.66%89.51%
- 96Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal4,81888.66%96.37%
- 97The Long Dark123,18488.64%88.94%
- 98Pathologic 212,12988.63%91.68%
- 99Yet Another Zombie Survivors13,58688.58%91.26%
- 100Space Engineers134,25588.57%88.84%
