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.
- 1UnderRail$0.02/1hr176h85.03%86.08%
- 2Left 4 Dead 2$0.02/1hr81h97.43%97.52%
- 3XCOM 2$0.03/1hr87h84.73%84.69%
- 4Grim Dawn$0.04/1hr86h92.75%93.44%
- 5Rusty's Retirement$0.06/1hr72h91.97%96.70%
- 6Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.06/1hr50h80.06%78.65%
- 7Fallout 76$0.06/1hr155h72.80%71.92%
- 8Rust$0.06/1hr311h86.70%86.69%
- 9Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.07/1hr36h90.39%93.89%
- 10Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 11Dying Light$0.07/1hr36h95.09%95.23%
- 12Fallout: New Vegas$0.07/1hr69h95.69%95.98%
- 13Fallout 4$0.07/1hr108h81.34%81.19%
- 14The Talos Principle 2$0.08/1hr40h90.37%94.92%
- 15ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.08/1hr74h84.52%84.77%
- 16My Time at Portia$0.08/1hr72h90.31%91.46%
- 17The Walking Dead$0.10/1hr15h95.99%97.33%
- 18Frostpunk$0.10/1hr30h92.23%92.74%
- 19Metro Exodus$0.10/1hr30h89.62%89.95%
- 20This War of Mine$0.10/1hr20h93.03%93.83%
- 21Kenshi$0.10/1hr118h94.77%95.59%
- 22Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.10/1hr24h91.42%94.25%
- 23Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.10/1hr29h72.26%70.92%
- 24Project Zomboid$0.10/1hr162h93.64%93.75%
- 25Cruelty Squad$0.11/1hr19h92.93%96.02%
- 26Killing Floor 2$0.11/1hr27h88.04%88.26%
- 27Generation Zero$0.12/1hr32h74.55%72.04%
- 28My Time at Sandrock$0.12/1hr100h87.39%88.14%
- 29The Last Spell$0.12/1hr52h88.78%91.40%
- 30Metro: Last Light Redux$0.12/1hr16h90.64%91.31%
- 31Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.13/1hr23h87.26%88.05%
- 32SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 33Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.14/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 34Deadside$0.14/1hr69h77.44%75.53%
- 35Metro 2033 Redux$0.15/1hr13h91.83%92.29%
- 36SurrounDead$0.16/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 37OUTRIDERS$0.16/1hr36h69.54%66.99%
- 38The Long Drive$0.17/1hr24h87.83%88.29%
- 39Phoenix Point$0.17/1hr68h80.48%73.14%
- 40Dead Island 2$0.17/1hr29h79.43%77.49%
- 41State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition$0.17/1hr43h83.03%82.73%
- 42The Talos Principle$0.18/1hr25h92.95%95.29%
- 43ELEX$0.18/1hr41h77.68%74.32%
- 44Borderlands Game of the Year$0.19/1hr32h88.64%89.72%
- 45Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 46RAGE$0.20/1hr20h80.11%77.85%
- 47Doloc Town$0.20/1hr81h87.19%94.52%
- 48CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.31%83.01%
- 49DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.20/1hr50h91.31%92.20%
- 50REMNANT II$0.20/1hr49h82.71%82.35%
- 51Left 4 Dead$0.22/1hr9h94.95%96.39%
- 52R.E.P.O.$0.22/1hr29h95.82%95.99%
- 53GOD EATER 3$0.23/1hr27h82.24%79.29%
- 54Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 55The Long Dark$0.23/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 56Dome Keeper$0.23/1hr20h90.14%92.35%
- 57Sunset Overdrive$0.23/1hr22h87.69%90.06%
- 58DUCKSIDE$0.23/1hr26h81.40%72.16%
- 59Survive the Nights$0.24/1hr21h76.72%65.59%
- 60RAGE 2$0.24/1hr33h71.06%63.32%
- 61Sunkenland$0.24/1hr62h81.57%80.44%
- 62Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance$0.24/1hr74h88.84%91.68%
- 63The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.25/1hr28h83.29%80.52%
- 64State of Decay: YOSE$0.25/1hr20h83.20%82.40%
- 65Nuclear Throne$0.25/1hr36h92.38%96.01%
- 66Remnant: From the Ashes$0.26/1hr23h84.38%84.25%
- 67Darksiders III$0.26/1hr23h79.29%75.92%
- 68Fallout 3$0.26/1hr9h82.34%81.48%
- 69HumanitZ$0.27/1hr45h78.37%74.26%
- 70The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series$0.27/1hr46h94.54%96.51%
- 71Wasteland 3$0.28/1hr43h84.78%84.60%
- 72Chernobylite Complete Edition$0.28/1hr22h83.24%81.99%
- 73Kill The Crows$0.28/1hr9h86.87%95.09%
- 74Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.29/1hr23h82.19%81.66%
- 75Days Gone$0.29/1hr55h92.13%92.72%
- 76Bastion$0.29/1hr10h93.18%95.27%
- 77I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.29/1hr27h84.30%84.38%
- 78Pacific Drive$0.29/1hr34h83.70%83.14%
- 79Surviving the Aftermath$0.29/1hr26h80.54%70.47%
- 80A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.30/1hr13h92.21%93.18%
- 81Terra Nil$0.30/1hr21h86.26%87.48%
- 82Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.30/1hr39h79.12%78.71%
- 83ZERO Sievert$0.32/1hr44h84.55%84.73%
- 84World War Z$0.33/1hr23h82.86%82.44%
- 85Insect Swarm$0.33/1hr7h84.96%84.15%
- 86Rusted Moss$0.34/1hr24h86.02%89.27%
- 87Plague Inc: Evolved$0.34/1hr9h93.02%94.20%
- 88Rain World$0.35/1hr32h92.44%93.70%
- 89HAAK$0.35/1hr26h86.57%89.58%
- 90The Walking Dead: Season Two$0.36/1hr10h94.00%96.59%
- 91IXION$0.36/1hr29h81.09%78.79%
- 92BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.36/1hr33h92.34%94.30%
- 93BIOMUTANT$0.38/1hr27h72.60%66.21%
- 94The End Is Nigh$0.38/1hr20h87.82%93.66%
- 95Dread Delusion$0.38/1hr26h87.28%90.14%
- 96Welcome to ParadiZe$0.38/1hr12h82.21%67.39%
- 97Hyper Light Drifter$0.38/1hr13h90.26%92.91%
- 98Terminator: Resistance$0.39/1hr20h89.04%91.59%
- 99HighFleet$0.40/1hr38h86.49%88.24%
- 100The Walking Dead: The Final Season$0.40/1hr13h91.63%95.06%
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.