Best Value Survival Games Under $20
The Survival 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.
- 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%
- 6SCUM$0.03/1hr526h74.83%74.01%
- 7Terraria$0.04/1hr130h97.31%97.37%
- 8Outward Definitive Edition$0.04/1hr52h75.70%72.68%
- 9Oxygen Not Included$0.04/1hr184h95.97%96.72%
- 10The Outlast Trials$0.05/1hr88h91.77%92.36%
- 11Bloons TD 6$0.05/1hr105h96.96%97.18%
- 12Don't Starve Together$0.05/1hr102h94.78%94.90%
- 13Mortal Online 2$0.05/1hr315h70.42%59.82%
- 14Town of Salem$0.05/1hr48h87.28%87.86%
- 15theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.06/1hr35h89.03%89.07%
- 16Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.06/1hr103h79.91%78.37%
- 17God Of Weapons$0.06/1hr46h84.78%84.02%
- 18Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.06/1hr50h80.06%78.65%
- 19Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense$0.06/1hr120h85.84%86.28%
- 20Brotato$0.06/1hr47h95.09%95.92%
- 21Mindustry$0.06/1hr62h92.97%95.73%
- 22Fallout 76$0.06/1hr155h72.80%71.92%
- 23Rust$0.06/1hr311h86.70%86.69%
- 24Space Engineers$0.07/1hr145h88.56%88.81%
- 25Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 26Dying Light$0.07/1hr36h95.09%95.23%
- 27Atomicrops$0.07/1hr41h87.85%92.05%
- 28Fallout: New Vegas$0.07/1hr69h95.69%95.98%
- 29Fallout 4$0.07/1hr108h81.34%81.19%
- 30Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr27h93.88%95.96%
- 31Death Road to Canada$0.08/1hr30h89.06%92.74%
- 32ARK: Survival Evolved$0.08/1hr123h83.40%83.34%
- 33ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.08/1hr74h84.52%84.77%
- 34My Time at Portia$0.08/1hr72h90.31%91.46%
- 35Counter-Strike: Source$0.08/1hr24h95.89%96.29%
- 36Starbound$0.08/1hr71h89.79%89.93%
- 37The Binding of Isaac$0.09/1hr19h93.32%94.61%
- 38Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 39Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 40Subsistence$0.09/1hr104h77.22%72.12%
- 41FTL: Faster Than Light$0.10/1hr31h93.97%95.08%
- 42Deep Rock Galactic$0.10/1hr93h96.88%97.10%
- 43The Walking Dead$0.10/1hr15h95.99%97.33%
- 44Frostpunk$0.10/1hr30h92.23%92.74%
- 45Metro Exodus$0.10/1hr30h89.62%89.95%
- 46Total War: ATTILA$0.10/1hr89h83.00%82.42%
- 47This War of Mine$0.10/1hr20h93.03%93.83%
- 48Kenshi$0.10/1hr118h94.77%95.59%
- 49Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.10/1hr29h72.26%70.92%
- 50Project Zomboid$0.10/1hr162h93.64%93.75%
- 51Killing Floor$0.10/1hr19h93.89%95.16%
- 52Against the Storm$0.11/1hr82h92.49%94.44%
- 53Mr. Prepper$0.11/1hr27h83.21%80.01%
- 54Killing Floor 2$0.11/1hr27h88.04%88.26%
- 55Don't Starve$0.11/1hr22h95.62%96.54%
- 56Space Haven$0.11/1hr89h85.49%85.76%
- 57ANEURISM IV$0.11/1hr44h80.74%75.15%
- 58Generation Zero$0.12/1hr32h74.55%72.04%
- 59Dead Island Definitive Edition$0.12/1hr17h82.49%81.86%
- 60Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 61Counter-Strike$0.12/1hr17h97.06%97.40%
- 62Among Us$0.12/1hr25h91.98%92.03%
- 63Craft The World$0.12/1hr38h87.43%88.40%
- 64Metro: Last Light Redux$0.12/1hr16h90.64%91.31%
- 65Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.13/1hr100h86.78%94.97%
- 66Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.13/1hr155h79.53%79.05%
- 67SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 68Wartales$0.13/1hr75h85.42%85.49%
- 69Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 70Trailmakers$0.13/1hr56h90.67%92.06%
- 71Picayune Dreams$0.13/1hr19h89.94%98.88%
- 72Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 73Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.14/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 74Deadside$0.14/1hr69h77.44%75.53%
- 75Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.14/1hr107h85.49%85.62%
- 76Beasts of Bermuda$0.15/1hr137h77.13%68.88%
- 77Blood and Bacon$0.15/1hr5h93.11%95.28%
- 78Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr13h76.79%71.07%
- 79Banished$0.15/1hr46h89.45%90.43%
- 80Scrap Mechanic$0.15/1hr129h91.31%91.80%
- 81Metro 2033 Redux$0.15/1hr13h91.83%92.29%
- 82The Forest$0.15/1hr28h95.42%95.52%
- 83MORDHAU$0.15/1hr20h80.32%79.89%
- 84TerraTech$0.15/1hr40h89.33%91.35%
- 85The Riftbreaker$0.16/1hr57h88.87%90.34%
- 86Risk of Rain 2$0.16/1hr52h93.68%93.84%
- 87SurrounDead$0.16/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 88ASTRONEER$0.16/1hr46h91.45%91.90%
- 89Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 90Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.16/1hr77h89.75%90.51%
- 91Cluckmech Oasis$0.16/1hr30h86.01%88.28%
- 92Occupy Mars: The Game$0.17/1hr91h81.24%69.78%
- 93The Long Drive$0.17/1hr24h87.83%88.29%
- 94Homefront: The Revolution$0.17/1hr12h69.90%60.99%
- 95Bomber Crew$0.17/1hr14h86.64%87.58%
- 96Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 97Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.17/1hr23h87.64%89.86%
- 98Night of the Dead$0.17/1hr35h80.67%76.88%
- 99EVERSPACE$0.17/1hr12h81.51%78.30%
- 100Stoneshard$0.17/1hr101h76.97%74.67%
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.