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$0.03/1hr359h91.81%93.35%
- 2Rust$0.05/1hr394h86.78%86.80%
- 3Fallout: New Vegas$0.05/1hr91h95.58%95.98%
- 4Dead by Daylight$0.06/1hr343h78.50%78.43%
- 5Terraria$0.07/1hr148h97.30%97.38%
- 6Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands$0.07/1hr34h79.52%79.02%
- 7Beasts of Bermuda$0.07/1hr268h77.07%68.98%
- 8Space Engineers$0.08/1hr254h88.57%88.84%
- 9Fallout 4$0.08/1hr100h81.29%81.20%
- 10Fallout 76$0.08/1hr120h72.78%71.91%
- 11Brotato$0.09/1hr57h95.15%96.02%
- 12Starbound$0.10/1hr157h89.60%89.97%
- 13Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.12/1hr65h80.13%78.77%
- 14Dying Light$0.13/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 15Outward Definitive Edition$0.14/1hr35h75.66%72.69%
- 16Deadside$0.15/1hr69h77.38%75.51%
- 17Bomber Crew$0.16/1hr15h86.54%87.57%
- 18ANEURISM IV$0.16/1hr31h81.59%76.20%
- 19Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.16/1hr19h85.14%85.27%
- 20Settlement Survival$0.16/1hr33h84.96%85.30%
- 21FTL: Faster Than Light$0.17/1hr59h93.96%95.11%
- 22Among Us$0.17/1hr29h91.90%92.00%
- 23ARK: Survival Evolved$0.17/1hr87h83.35%83.33%
- 24Pathologic 2$0.17/1hr40h88.63%91.68%
- 25Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr54h97.41%97.52%
- 26Town of Salem$0.19/1hr27h87.24%87.88%
- 27Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr27h96.92%97.69%
- 28The Long Dark$0.19/1hr103h88.64%88.94%
- 29The Isle$0.20/1hr100h80.52%80.14%
- 30Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 31Quake Live$0.21/1hr14h85.90%86.51%
- 32Planetbase$0.22/1hr69h82.28%79.73%
- 33Barotrauma$0.23/1hr77h93.10%94.02%
- 34Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.23/1hr87h79.91%78.45%
- 35Picayune Dreams$0.23/1hr22h89.14%98.90%
- 36Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.04%95.26%
- 37Mindustry$0.24/1hr42h92.86%95.72%
- 38Stoneshard$0.24/1hr68h76.91%74.63%
- 39R.E.P.O.$0.24/1hr42h95.78%96.04%
- 40Stranded: Alien Dawn$0.24/1hr50h84.51%84.35%
- 41Bloons TD 6$0.25/1hr56h96.88%97.19%
- 42Dungeon Defenders$0.26/1hr59h90.27%93.09%
- 4320 Minutes Till Dawn$0.26/1hr19h89.08%90.51%
- 44Desperados III$0.26/1hr38h92.16%96.52%
- 45Dead Space 3$0.26/1hr15h77.49%72.47%
- 46Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.27/1hr63h85.11%85.50%
- 47Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.27/1hr44h79.07%78.80%
- 48The Evil Within$0.27/1hr18h85.14%85.20%
- 49Necesse$0.28/1hr27h90.76%92.81%
- 50The Infected$0.30/1hr53h84.68%84.32%
- 51RAGE$0.30/1hr13h80.35%77.84%
- 52Sunkenland$0.31/1hr65h81.78%80.45%
- 53Monstrum$0.31/1hr12h86.30%90.62%
- 54Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey$0.31/1hr26h81.71%78.99%
- 55I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h84.87%84.73%
- 56DOOM 3$0.32/1hr12h85.62%86.18%
- 57Dead Space 2$0.32/1hr12h91.69%93.97%
- 58My Summer Car$0.32/1hr47h94.14%94.93%
- 59Remnant: From the Ashes$0.34/1hr24h84.37%84.27%
- 60Cluckmech Oasis$0.34/1hr29h85.82%88.26%
- 61Bloons TD 5$0.35/1hr29h90.23%94.66%
- 62Core Keeper$0.35/1hr58h91.90%92.95%
- 63The Guild 3$0.35/1hr17h74.00%60.29%
- 64Ostranauts$0.36/1hr44h83.44%79.22%
- 65Don't Starve Together$0.37/1hr40h94.75%94.93%
- 66Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.38/1hr52h90.12%94.37%
- 67Don't Starve$0.38/1hr26h95.61%96.55%
- 68ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.39/1hr39h84.84%84.74%
- 69Banished$0.39/1hr51h89.40%90.43%
- 70Subsistence$0.39/1hr35h77.42%71.95%
- 71The Binding of Isaac$0.41/1hr12h93.30%94.64%
- 72Crashlands$0.42/1hr36h86.79%89.53%
- 73The Evil Within 2$0.42/1hr19h90.34%92.09%
- 74HumanitZ$0.42/1hr48h78.82%74.39%
- 75Mist Survival$0.42/1hr26h79.54%75.77%
- 76SurrounDead$0.43/1hr28h89.70%91.51%
- 77Forever Skies$0.44/1hr28h81.94%78.55%
- 78Kingdoms Reborn$0.44/1hr45h87.65%90.45%
- 79Atomicrops$0.44/1hr34h87.70%92.07%
- 80Age of Darkness: Final Stand$0.45/1hr31h79.55%74.46%
- 81ZERO Sievert$0.45/1hr44h84.78%84.68%
- 82Mad Max$0.46/1hr44h91.61%92.35%
- 83Yet Another Zombie Survivors$0.46/1hr33h88.58%91.26%
- 84theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.47/1hr43h88.89%89.08%
- 85Rising World$0.48/1hr31h85.23%85.71%
- 86Raft$0.49/1hr41h92.80%93.01%
- 87Green Hell$0.49/1hr18h84.72%84.70%
- 88DUCKSIDE$0.51/1hr12h81.98%72.36%
- 89PixARK$0.51/1hr39h78.11%73.13%
- 90Infection Free Zone$0.52/1hr34h82.12%80.58%
- 91The Forest$0.53/1hr38h95.38%95.53%
- 92Hello Neighbor$0.53/1hr11h85.73%85.98%
- 93Day of Dragons$0.54/1hr37h76.10%65.21%
- 94Counter-Strike: Source$0.54/1hr18h95.73%96.29%
- 95Craft The World$0.55/1hr34h87.11%88.39%
- 96Depth$0.57/1hr35h87.25%87.96%
- 97The Front$0.57/1hr35h75.46%66.87%
- 98Forager$0.58/1hr34h88.66%89.51%
- 99Witch It$0.58/1hr5h87.54%88.85%
- 100Eden Crafters$0.60/1hr33h84.84%85.45%
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.