Best Value Post-apocalyptic Games Under $40
The Post-apocalyptic games on Steam games under $40 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%
- 177 Days to Die$0.10/1hr257h87.01%86.98%
- 18The Walking Dead$0.10/1hr15h95.99%97.33%
- 19Frostpunk$0.10/1hr30h92.23%92.74%
- 20Metro Exodus$0.10/1hr30h89.62%89.95%
- 21This War of Mine$0.10/1hr20h93.03%93.83%
- 22Kenshi$0.10/1hr118h94.77%95.59%
- 23Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.10/1hr24h91.42%94.25%
- 24Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.10/1hr29h72.26%70.92%
- 25Project Zomboid$0.10/1hr162h93.64%93.75%
- 26Cruelty Squad$0.11/1hr19h92.93%96.02%
- 27Killing Floor 2$0.11/1hr27h88.04%88.26%
- 28Generation Zero$0.12/1hr32h74.55%72.04%
- 29My Time at Sandrock$0.12/1hr100h87.39%88.14%
- 30The Last Spell$0.12/1hr52h88.78%91.40%
- 31Metro: Last Light Redux$0.12/1hr16h90.64%91.31%
- 32Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.13/1hr23h87.26%88.05%
- 33SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 34Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.14/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 35Deadside$0.14/1hr69h77.44%75.53%
- 36DayZ$0.14/1hr173h78.10%77.89%
- 37Metro 2033 Redux$0.15/1hr13h91.83%92.29%
- 38SurrounDead$0.16/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 39OUTRIDERS$0.16/1hr36h69.54%66.99%
- 40The Long Drive$0.17/1hr24h87.83%88.29%
- 41Phoenix Point$0.17/1hr68h80.48%73.14%
- 42Dead Island 2$0.17/1hr29h79.43%77.49%
- 43State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition$0.17/1hr43h83.03%82.73%
- 44The Talos Principle$0.18/1hr25h92.95%95.29%
- 45ELEX$0.18/1hr41h77.68%74.32%
- 46Borderlands Game of the Year$0.19/1hr32h88.64%89.72%
- 47Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 48RAGE$0.20/1hr20h80.11%77.85%
- 49Doloc Town$0.20/1hr81h87.19%94.52%
- 50CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.31%83.01%
- 51DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.20/1hr50h91.31%92.20%
- 52REMNANT II$0.20/1hr49h82.71%82.35%
- 53Left 4 Dead$0.22/1hr9h94.95%96.39%
- 54R.E.P.O.$0.22/1hr29h95.82%95.99%
- 55GOD EATER 3$0.23/1hr27h82.24%79.29%
- 56Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 57The Long Dark$0.23/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 58Dome Keeper$0.23/1hr20h90.14%92.35%
- 59Sunset Overdrive$0.23/1hr22h87.69%90.06%
- 60DUCKSIDE$0.23/1hr26h81.40%72.16%
- 61Survive the Nights$0.24/1hr21h76.72%65.59%
- 62RAGE 2$0.24/1hr33h71.06%63.32%
- 63Sunkenland$0.24/1hr62h81.57%80.44%
- 64Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance$0.24/1hr74h88.84%91.68%
- 65The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.25/1hr28h83.29%80.52%
- 66Timberborn$0.25/1hr98h93.89%95.97%
- 67State of Decay: YOSE$0.25/1hr20h83.20%82.40%
- 68Nuclear Throne$0.25/1hr36h92.38%96.01%
- 69Remnant: From the Ashes$0.26/1hr23h84.38%84.25%
- 70Darksiders III$0.26/1hr23h79.29%75.92%
- 71Fallout 3$0.26/1hr9h82.34%81.48%
- 72HumanitZ$0.27/1hr45h78.37%74.26%
- 73The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series$0.27/1hr46h94.54%96.51%
- 74Wasteland 3$0.28/1hr43h84.78%84.60%
- 75Chernobylite Complete Edition$0.28/1hr22h83.24%81.99%
- 76Kill The Crows$0.28/1hr9h86.87%95.09%
- 77Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.29/1hr23h82.19%81.66%
- 78Days Gone$0.29/1hr55h92.13%92.72%
- 79Bastion$0.29/1hr10h93.18%95.27%
- 80I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.29/1hr27h84.30%84.38%
- 81Pacific Drive$0.29/1hr34h83.70%83.14%
- 82Surviving the Aftermath$0.29/1hr26h80.54%70.47%
- 83A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.30/1hr13h92.21%93.18%
- 84Terra Nil$0.30/1hr21h86.26%87.48%
- 85Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.30/1hr39h79.12%78.71%
- 86ZERO Sievert$0.32/1hr44h84.55%84.73%
- 87World War Z$0.33/1hr23h82.86%82.44%
- 88Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition$0.33/1hr92h87.44%88.07%
- 89Insect Swarm$0.33/1hr7h84.96%84.15%
- 90Rusted Moss$0.34/1hr24h86.02%89.27%
- 91Plague Inc: Evolved$0.34/1hr9h93.02%94.20%
- 92Rain World$0.35/1hr32h92.44%93.70%
- 93HAAK$0.35/1hr26h86.57%89.58%
- 94The Walking Dead: Season Two$0.36/1hr10h94.00%96.59%
- 95IXION$0.36/1hr29h81.09%78.79%
- 96BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.36/1hr33h92.34%94.30%
- 97BIOMUTANT$0.38/1hr27h72.60%66.21%
- 98They Are Billions$0.38/1hr80h85.13%85.12%
- 99The End Is Nigh$0.38/1hr20h87.82%93.66%
- 100Dread Delusion$0.38/1hr26h87.28%90.14%
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.