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.
- 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%
- 16UnderRail$0.17/1hr86h85.42%86.08%
- 17Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr54h97.41%97.52%
- 18Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr27h96.92%97.69%
- 19The Long Dark$0.19/1hr103h88.64%88.94%
- 20Fallout 3$0.20/1hr12h82.56%81.49%
- 21Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 22Miscreated$0.21/1hr146h70.51%65.95%
- 23REMNANT II$0.23/1hr55h82.69%82.36%
- 24XCOM 2$0.24/1hr84h84.66%84.64%
- 25R.E.P.O.$0.24/1hr42h95.78%96.04%
- 26Kenshi$0.25/1hr122h94.73%95.57%
- 27Darksiders III$0.25/1hr24h79.13%75.93%
- 28OUTRIDERS$0.27/1hr30h69.49%66.96%
- 29Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.27/1hr44h79.07%78.80%
- 30Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.30/1hr22h82.14%81.65%
- 31RAGE$0.30/1hr13h80.35%77.84%
- 32Sunkenland$0.31/1hr65h81.78%80.45%
- 33I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h84.87%84.73%
- 34Phoenix Point$0.33/1hr76h80.02%73.12%
- 35Remnant: From the Ashes$0.34/1hr24h84.37%84.27%
- 36Borderlands Game of the Year$0.34/1hr29h88.57%89.72%
- 37Outpost: Infinity Siege$0.35/1hr72h73.64%65.34%
- 38My Time at Sandrock$0.36/1hr111h87.34%88.18%
- 39ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.39/1hr39h84.84%84.74%
- 40HumanitZ$0.42/1hr48h78.82%74.39%
- 41NieR:Automata$0.42/1hr38h87.26%87.42%
- 42They Are Billions$0.43/1hr70h85.10%85.13%
- 43SurrounDead$0.43/1hr28h89.70%91.51%
- 44BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.43/1hr28h92.23%94.27%
- 45Forever Skies$0.44/1hr28h81.94%78.55%
- 46ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights$0.45/1hr22h92.17%93.76%
- 47ZERO Sievert$0.45/1hr44h84.78%84.68%
- 48Timberborn$0.46/1hr77h93.81%95.98%
- 49Mad Max$0.46/1hr44h91.61%92.35%
- 50DOOM Eternal$0.46/1hr22h91.10%91.38%
- 51Hyper Light Drifter$0.47/1hr11h90.12%92.97%
- 52Nuclear Throne$0.47/1hr26h92.29%96.02%
- 53BIOMUTANT$0.49/1hr20h72.41%66.19%
- 54NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...$0.50/1hr48h87.33%88.27%
- 55DUCKSIDE$0.51/1hr12h81.98%72.36%
- 56Infection Free Zone$0.52/1hr34h82.12%80.58%
- 57My Time at Portia$0.54/1hr55h90.29%91.50%
- 58RAGE 2$0.57/1hr14h71.30%63.28%
- 59Dome Keeper$0.60/1hr30h89.95%92.34%
- 60LISA: The Painful$0.61/1hr20h91.29%95.48%
- 61Thymesia$0.61/1hr10h83.48%82.27%
- 62The Final Station$0.62/1hr6h86.15%87.44%
- 63The Last Spell$0.62/1hr40h88.67%91.42%
- 64Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.66/1hr30h84.39%82.20%
- 65State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition$0.69/1hr43h83.04%82.77%
- 66HAAK$0.70/1hr26h86.20%89.84%
- 67This War of Mine$0.71/1hr28h93.02%93.85%
- 68Clair Obscur: Expedition 33$0.72/1hr55h94.93%95.29%
- 69The Long Drive$0.73/1hr22h87.89%88.42%
- 70Ghostrunner$0.73/1hr10h90.39%91.21%
- 71Dread Delusion$0.74/1hr27h86.59%90.26%
- 72Chained Together$0.75/1hr7h89.17%89.84%
- 73DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.75/1hr53h91.35%92.30%
- 74Doloc Town$0.76/1hr21h87.18%95.16%
- 75Deadzone: Rogue$0.76/1hr33h83.30%82.44%
- 76The Talos Principle 2$0.78/1hr39h90.64%94.92%
- 77Wasteland 3$0.78/1hr51h84.72%84.62%
- 78Ghostrunner 2$0.79/1hr10h82.30%80.00%
- 79Kill The Crows$0.81/1hr6h87.36%95.09%
- 80Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.81/1hr37h72.20%70.88%
- 81Frostpunk 2$0.81/1hr28h77.56%74.81%
- 82Roboquest$0.82/1hr31h92.24%95.25%
- 83IXION$0.82/1hr43h81.03%78.80%
- 84Days Gone$0.83/1hr48h92.11%92.73%
- 85S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$0.83/1hr24h93.00%94.67%
- 86Sunset Overdrive$0.86/1hr23h87.97%90.07%
- 87The Crust$0.87/1hr34h82.76%76.89%
- 88Rusted Moss$0.90/1hr22h85.57%89.31%
- 89State of Decay: YOSE$0.91/1hr22h83.49%82.38%
- 90S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.93/1hr21h93.09%95.69%
- 91The Walking Dead$0.94/1hr16h95.95%97.32%
- 92Killing Floor 2$0.94/1hr32h88.04%88.28%
- 93Urban Strife$0.96/1hr37h84.11%71.14%
- 94Generation Zero$0.96/1hr26h74.51%72.03%
- 95S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky$0.97/1hr21h85.18%85.28%
- 96Rain World$0.97/1hr26h92.41%93.74%
- 97Left 4 Dead$0.98/1hr10h94.92%96.39%
- 98HighFleet$1.05/1hr29h86.20%88.25%
- 99Eastward$1.10/1hr23h84.30%83.92%
- 100The Talos Principle$1.10/1hr27h92.89%95.31%
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.