Best Value Survival Games Under $10
The Survival games on Steam games under $10 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.
- 1Crosshair X$0.02/1hr309h91.89%93.36%
- 2Left 4 Dead 2$0.02/1hr81h97.43%97.52%
- 3Dead by Daylight$0.03/1hr289h78.39%78.28%
- 4Dungeon Defenders$0.03/1hr96h90.57%93.09%
- 5Myth of Empires$0.03/1hr224h73.97%67.60%
- 6Terraria$0.04/1hr130h97.31%97.37%
- 7Outward Definitive Edition$0.04/1hr52h75.70%72.68%
- 8Oxygen Not Included$0.04/1hr184h95.97%96.72%
- 9The Outlast Trials$0.05/1hr88h91.77%92.36%
- 10Bloons TD 6$0.05/1hr105h96.96%97.18%
- 11Don't Starve Together$0.05/1hr102h94.78%94.90%
- 12Town of Salem$0.05/1hr48h87.28%87.86%
- 13theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.06/1hr35h89.03%89.07%
- 14Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.06/1hr103h79.91%78.37%
- 15God Of Weapons$0.06/1hr46h84.78%84.02%
- 16Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.06/1hr50h80.06%78.65%
- 17Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense$0.06/1hr120h85.84%86.28%
- 18Brotato$0.06/1hr47h95.09%95.92%
- 19Mindustry$0.06/1hr62h92.97%95.73%
- 20Fallout 76$0.06/1hr155h72.80%71.92%
- 21Space Engineers$0.07/1hr145h88.56%88.81%
- 22Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 23Dying Light$0.07/1hr36h95.09%95.23%
- 24Atomicrops$0.07/1hr41h87.85%92.05%
- 25Fallout: New Vegas$0.07/1hr69h95.69%95.98%
- 26Fallout 4$0.07/1hr108h81.34%81.19%
- 27Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr27h93.88%95.96%
- 28Death Road to Canada$0.08/1hr30h89.06%92.74%
- 29ARK: Survival Evolved$0.08/1hr123h83.40%83.34%
- 30ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.08/1hr74h84.52%84.77%
- 31My Time at Portia$0.08/1hr72h90.31%91.46%
- 32Counter-Strike: Source$0.08/1hr24h95.89%96.29%
- 33Starbound$0.08/1hr71h89.79%89.93%
- 34The Binding of Isaac$0.09/1hr19h93.32%94.61%
- 35Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 36Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 37Subsistence$0.09/1hr104h77.22%72.12%
- 38FTL: Faster Than Light$0.10/1hr31h93.97%95.08%
- 39Deep Rock Galactic$0.10/1hr93h96.88%97.10%
- 40The Walking Dead$0.10/1hr15h95.99%97.33%
- 41Frostpunk$0.10/1hr30h92.23%92.74%
- 42Metro Exodus$0.10/1hr30h89.62%89.95%
- 43Total War: ATTILA$0.10/1hr89h83.00%82.42%
- 44This War of Mine$0.10/1hr20h93.03%93.83%
- 45Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.10/1hr29h72.26%70.92%
- 46Killing Floor$0.10/1hr19h93.89%95.16%
- 47Against the Storm$0.11/1hr82h92.49%94.44%
- 48Mr. Prepper$0.11/1hr27h83.21%80.01%
- 49Killing Floor 2$0.11/1hr27h88.04%88.26%
- 50Don't Starve$0.11/1hr22h95.62%96.54%
- 51Space Haven$0.11/1hr89h85.49%85.76%
- 52ANEURISM IV$0.11/1hr44h80.74%75.15%
- 53Generation Zero$0.12/1hr32h74.55%72.04%
- 54Dead Island Definitive Edition$0.12/1hr17h82.49%81.86%
- 55Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 56Counter-Strike$0.12/1hr17h97.06%97.40%
- 57Among Us$0.12/1hr25h91.98%92.03%
- 58Craft The World$0.12/1hr38h87.43%88.40%
- 59Metro: Last Light Redux$0.12/1hr16h90.64%91.31%
- 60SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 61Wartales$0.13/1hr75h85.42%85.49%
- 62Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 63Trailmakers$0.13/1hr56h90.67%92.06%
- 64Picayune Dreams$0.13/1hr19h89.94%98.88%
- 65Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 66Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.14/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 67Deadside$0.14/1hr69h77.44%75.53%
- 68Blood and Bacon$0.15/1hr5h93.11%95.28%
- 69Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr13h76.79%71.07%
- 70Banished$0.15/1hr46h89.45%90.43%
- 71Metro 2033 Redux$0.15/1hr13h91.83%92.29%
- 72The Forest$0.15/1hr28h95.42%95.52%
- 73MORDHAU$0.15/1hr20h80.32%79.89%
- 74TerraTech$0.15/1hr40h89.33%91.35%
- 75The Riftbreaker$0.16/1hr57h88.87%90.34%
- 76Risk of Rain 2$0.16/1hr52h93.68%93.84%
- 77SurrounDead$0.16/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 78ASTRONEER$0.16/1hr46h91.45%91.90%
- 79Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 80Cluckmech Oasis$0.16/1hr30h86.01%88.28%
- 81The Long Drive$0.17/1hr24h87.83%88.29%
- 82Homefront: The Revolution$0.17/1hr12h69.90%60.99%
- 83Bomber Crew$0.17/1hr14h86.64%87.58%
- 84Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 85Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.17/1hr23h87.64%89.86%
- 86Night of the Dead$0.17/1hr35h80.67%76.88%
- 87EVERSPACE$0.17/1hr12h81.51%78.30%
- 88State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition$0.17/1hr43h83.03%82.73%
- 89UBOAT$0.18/1hr48h84.36%84.06%
- 90Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.18/1hr17h85.22%85.25%
- 91Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 9220 Minutes Till Dawn$0.18/1hr14h88.98%90.28%
- 93Army of Ruin$0.18/1hr17h85.81%88.06%
- 94Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 95Necesse$0.19/1hr52h90.77%92.68%
- 96Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 97Far Cry 2$0.20/1hr15h78.98%75.67%
- 98Forager$0.20/1hr30h88.68%89.47%
- 99RAGE$0.20/1hr20h80.11%77.85%
- 100Far Cry 4$0.20/1hr30h84.72%84.65%
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.