Best Value Post-apocalyptic Games
The Post-apocalyptic games that stretch a budget furthest: median reviewer playtime divided by current price. Pick your currency in the top bar to rank against your local prices.
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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.
- 1Rust$0.05/1hr394h86.78%86.80%
- 2Fallout: New Vegas$0.05/1hr91h95.58%95.98%
- 3Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.07/1hr36h90.63%93.90%
- 4Fallout 4$0.08/1hr100h81.29%81.20%
- 5Fallout 76$0.08/1hr120h72.78%71.91%
- 6Rusty's Retirement$0.10/1hr71h91.95%96.71%
- 7Cruelty Squad$0.11/1hr18h92.84%96.04%
- 8Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.12/1hr65h80.13%78.77%
- 9Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.12/1hr25h86.92%87.98%
- 10Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.12/1hr20h91.59%94.24%
- 11Project Zomboid$0.13/1hr200h93.68%93.87%
- 12Dying Light$0.13/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 13Grim Dawn$0.14/1hr180h92.79%93.52%
- 14Deadside$0.15/1hr69h77.38%75.51%
- 15ELEX$0.15/1hr51h77.93%74.35%
- 167 Days to Die$0.17/1hr271h87.20%87.26%
- 17UnderRail$0.17/1hr86h85.42%86.08%
- 18Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr54h97.41%97.52%
- 19Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr27h96.92%97.69%
- 20The Long Dark$0.19/1hr103h88.64%88.94%
- 21Fallout 3$0.20/1hr12h82.56%81.49%
- 22Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 23Miscreated$0.21/1hr146h70.51%65.95%
- 24DayZ$0.22/1hr223h77.96%77.81%
- 25REMNANT II$0.23/1hr55h82.69%82.36%
- 26XCOM 2$0.24/1hr84h84.66%84.64%
- 27R.E.P.O.$0.24/1hr42h95.78%96.04%
- 28Kenshi$0.25/1hr122h94.73%95.57%
- 29Darksiders III$0.25/1hr24h79.13%75.93%
- 30OUTRIDERS$0.27/1hr30h69.49%66.96%
- 31Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.27/1hr44h79.07%78.80%
- 32Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.30/1hr22h82.14%81.65%
- 33RAGE$0.30/1hr13h80.35%77.84%
- 34Sunkenland$0.31/1hr65h81.78%80.45%
- 35I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h84.87%84.73%
- 36Phoenix Point$0.33/1hr76h80.02%73.12%
- 37Remnant: From the Ashes$0.34/1hr24h84.37%84.27%
- 38Borderlands Game of the Year$0.34/1hr29h88.57%89.72%
- 39Outpost: Infinity Siege$0.35/1hr72h73.64%65.34%
- 40My Time at Sandrock$0.36/1hr111h87.34%88.18%
- 41ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.39/1hr39h84.84%84.74%
- 42HumanitZ$0.42/1hr48h78.82%74.39%
- 43NieR:Automata$0.42/1hr38h87.26%87.42%
- 44They Are Billions$0.43/1hr70h85.10%85.13%
- 45SurrounDead$0.43/1hr28h89.70%91.51%
- 46BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.43/1hr28h92.23%94.27%
- 47Forever Skies$0.44/1hr28h81.94%78.55%
- 48ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights$0.45/1hr22h92.17%93.76%
- 49ZERO Sievert$0.45/1hr44h84.78%84.68%
- 50Timberborn$0.46/1hr77h93.81%95.98%
- 51Mad Max$0.46/1hr44h91.61%92.35%
- 52DOOM Eternal$0.46/1hr22h91.10%91.38%
- 53Hyper Light Drifter$0.47/1hr11h90.12%92.97%
- 54Nuclear Throne$0.47/1hr26h92.29%96.02%
- 55BIOMUTANT$0.49/1hr20h72.41%66.19%
- 56NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...$0.50/1hr48h87.33%88.27%
- 57DUCKSIDE$0.51/1hr12h81.98%72.36%
- 58Infection Free Zone$0.52/1hr34h82.12%80.58%
- 59My Time at Portia$0.54/1hr55h90.29%91.50%
- 60RAGE 2$0.57/1hr14h71.30%63.28%
- 61Dome Keeper$0.60/1hr30h89.95%92.34%
- 62LISA: The Painful$0.61/1hr20h91.29%95.48%
- 63Thymesia$0.61/1hr10h83.48%82.27%
- 64The Final Station$0.62/1hr6h86.15%87.44%
- 65The Last Spell$0.62/1hr40h88.67%91.42%
- 66Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.66/1hr30h84.39%82.20%
- 67State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition$0.69/1hr43h83.04%82.77%
- 68HAAK$0.70/1hr26h86.20%89.84%
- 69This War of Mine$0.71/1hr28h93.02%93.85%
- 70Clair Obscur: Expedition 33$0.72/1hr55h94.93%95.29%
- 71The Long Drive$0.73/1hr22h87.89%88.42%
- 72Ghostrunner$0.73/1hr10h90.39%91.21%
- 73Dread Delusion$0.74/1hr27h86.59%90.26%
- 74Chained Together$0.75/1hr7h89.17%89.84%
- 75DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.75/1hr53h91.35%92.30%
- 76Doloc Town$0.76/1hr21h87.18%95.16%
- 77Deadzone: Rogue$0.76/1hr33h83.30%82.44%
- 78The Talos Principle 2$0.78/1hr39h90.64%94.92%
- 79Wasteland 3$0.78/1hr51h84.72%84.62%
- 80Ghostrunner 2$0.79/1hr10h82.30%80.00%
- 81Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition$0.79/1hr63h87.75%87.97%
- 82Kill The Crows$0.81/1hr6h87.36%95.09%
- 83Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.81/1hr37h72.20%70.88%
- 84Frostpunk 2$0.81/1hr28h77.56%74.81%
- 85Roboquest$0.82/1hr31h92.24%95.25%
- 86IXION$0.82/1hr43h81.03%78.80%
- 87Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition$0.82/1hr73h87.34%88.14%
- 88Days Gone$0.83/1hr48h92.11%92.73%
- 89S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$0.83/1hr24h93.00%94.67%
- 90Sunset Overdrive$0.86/1hr23h87.97%90.07%
- 91The Crust$0.87/1hr34h82.76%76.89%
- 92Rusted Moss$0.90/1hr22h85.57%89.31%
- 93State of Decay: YOSE$0.91/1hr22h83.49%82.38%
- 94Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance$0.92/1hr65h88.80%91.87%
- 95S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl$0.92/1hr65h80.13%79.77%
- 96S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.93/1hr21h93.09%95.69%
- 97The Walking Dead$0.94/1hr16h95.95%97.32%
- 98Killing Floor 2$0.94/1hr32h88.04%88.28%
- 99Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered$0.95/1hr53h84.82%84.67%
- 100Urban Strife$0.96/1hr37h84.11%71.14%
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.