Best Value Post-apocalyptic Games Under $20
The Post-apocalyptic 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.
- 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%
- 11Dying Light$0.13/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 12Deadside$0.15/1hr69h77.38%75.51%
- 13ELEX$0.15/1hr51h77.93%74.35%
- 14UnderRail$0.17/1hr86h85.42%86.08%
- 15Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr54h97.41%97.52%
- 16Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr27h96.92%97.69%
- 17The Long Dark$0.19/1hr103h88.64%88.94%
- 18Fallout 3$0.20/1hr12h82.56%81.49%
- 19Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 20REMNANT II$0.23/1hr55h82.69%82.36%
- 21XCOM 2$0.24/1hr84h84.66%84.64%
- 22R.E.P.O.$0.24/1hr42h95.78%96.04%
- 23Darksiders III$0.25/1hr24h79.13%75.93%
- 24OUTRIDERS$0.27/1hr30h69.49%66.96%
- 25Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.27/1hr44h79.07%78.80%
- 26Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.30/1hr22h82.14%81.65%
- 27RAGE$0.30/1hr13h80.35%77.84%
- 28Sunkenland$0.31/1hr65h81.78%80.45%
- 29I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h84.87%84.73%
- 30Remnant: From the Ashes$0.34/1hr24h84.37%84.27%
- 31Borderlands Game of the Year$0.34/1hr29h88.57%89.72%
- 32ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.39/1hr39h84.84%84.74%
- 33HumanitZ$0.42/1hr48h78.82%74.39%
- 34NieR:Automata$0.42/1hr38h87.26%87.42%
- 35SurrounDead$0.43/1hr28h89.70%91.51%
- 36BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.43/1hr28h92.23%94.27%
- 37Forever Skies$0.44/1hr28h81.94%78.55%
- 38ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights$0.45/1hr22h92.17%93.76%
- 39ZERO Sievert$0.45/1hr44h84.78%84.68%
- 40Mad Max$0.46/1hr44h91.61%92.35%
- 41DOOM Eternal$0.46/1hr22h91.10%91.38%
- 42Hyper Light Drifter$0.47/1hr11h90.12%92.97%
- 43Nuclear Throne$0.47/1hr26h92.29%96.02%
- 44BIOMUTANT$0.49/1hr20h72.41%66.19%
- 45DUCKSIDE$0.51/1hr12h81.98%72.36%
- 46Infection Free Zone$0.52/1hr34h82.12%80.58%
- 47RAGE 2$0.57/1hr14h71.30%63.28%
- 48Dome Keeper$0.60/1hr30h89.95%92.34%
- 49LISA: The Painful$0.61/1hr20h91.29%95.48%
- 50Thymesia$0.61/1hr10h83.48%82.27%
- 51The Final Station$0.62/1hr6h86.15%87.44%
- 52Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.66/1hr30h84.39%82.20%
- 53HAAK$0.70/1hr26h86.20%89.84%
- 54This War of Mine$0.71/1hr28h93.02%93.85%
- 55The Long Drive$0.73/1hr22h87.89%88.42%
- 56Ghostrunner$0.73/1hr10h90.39%91.21%
- 57Dread Delusion$0.74/1hr27h86.59%90.26%
- 58Chained Together$0.75/1hr7h89.17%89.84%
- 59Doloc Town$0.76/1hr21h87.18%95.16%
- 60Ghostrunner 2$0.79/1hr10h82.30%80.00%
- 61Kill The Crows$0.81/1hr6h87.36%95.09%
- 62S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$0.83/1hr24h93.00%94.67%
- 63Sunset Overdrive$0.86/1hr23h87.97%90.07%
- 64Rusted Moss$0.90/1hr22h85.57%89.31%
- 65State of Decay: YOSE$0.91/1hr22h83.49%82.38%
- 66S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.93/1hr21h93.09%95.69%
- 67The Walking Dead$0.94/1hr16h95.95%97.32%
- 68S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky$0.97/1hr21h85.18%85.28%
- 69Left 4 Dead$0.98/1hr10h94.92%96.39%
- 7060 Seconds! Reatomized$1.11/1hr9h91.22%94.46%
- 71CRUEL$1.24/1hr8h86.32%95.21%
- 72Plague Inc: Evolved$1.24/1hr12h92.98%94.21%
- 73I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream$1.27/1hr8h86.06%88.90%
- 74The End Is Nigh$1.36/1hr11h87.09%93.68%
- 75Metro: Last Light Redux$1.38/1hr15h90.56%91.26%
- 76The Walking Dead: Season Two$1.45/1hr10h93.93%96.58%
- 77Survive the Nights$1.45/1hr14h77.22%65.71%
- 78Bastion$1.55/1hr10h93.13%95.27%
- 79Metro 2033 Redux$1.55/1hr13h91.78%92.27%
- 80BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT$1.66/1hr3h90.74%97.85%
- 81The Walking Dead: The Final Season$1.68/1hr12h91.84%95.06%
- 82The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$1.68/1hr9h84.00%83.49%
- 83INCISION$1.80/1hr8h84.77%85.57%
- 84Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon$1.88/1hr8h86.60%87.45%
- 85PILGRIM$1.91/1hr4h80.21%67.79%
- 86Death Trash$1.95/1hr10h86.87%92.06%
- 87SKYHILL$1.96/1hr5h82.35%78.28%
- 8860 Seconds!$2.11/1hr4h84.93%84.93%
- 89Dungeon Munchies$2.25/1hr9h89.91%97.17%
- 90DeadPoly$2.34/1hr4h82.16%77.61%
- 91FAR: Lone Sails$3.43/1hr4h92.42%95.27%
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.