Best Value Survival Games Under $5
The Survival games on Steam games under $5 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%
- 3Dungeon Defenders$0.03/1hr96h90.57%93.09%
- 4Terraria$0.04/1hr130h97.31%97.37%
- 5Outward Definitive Edition$0.04/1hr52h75.70%72.68%
- 6The Outlast Trials$0.05/1hr88h91.77%92.36%
- 7Bloons TD 6$0.05/1hr105h96.96%97.18%
- 8Town of Salem$0.05/1hr48h87.28%87.86%
- 9theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.06/1hr35h89.03%89.07%
- 10God Of Weapons$0.06/1hr46h84.78%84.02%
- 11Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.06/1hr50h80.06%78.65%
- 12Brotato$0.06/1hr47h95.09%95.92%
- 13Mindustry$0.06/1hr62h92.97%95.73%
- 14Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 15Dying Light$0.07/1hr36h95.09%95.23%
- 16Atomicrops$0.07/1hr41h87.85%92.05%
- 17Fallout: New Vegas$0.07/1hr69h95.69%95.98%
- 18Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr27h93.88%95.96%
- 19Death Road to Canada$0.08/1hr30h89.06%92.74%
- 20Counter-Strike: Source$0.08/1hr24h95.89%96.29%
- 21The Binding of Isaac$0.09/1hr19h93.32%94.61%
- 22Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 23Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 24FTL: Faster Than Light$0.10/1hr31h93.97%95.08%
- 25The Walking Dead$0.10/1hr15h95.99%97.33%
- 26Frostpunk$0.10/1hr30h92.23%92.74%
- 27Metro Exodus$0.10/1hr30h89.62%89.95%
- 28This War of Mine$0.10/1hr20h93.03%93.83%
- 29Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.10/1hr29h72.26%70.92%
- 30Killing Floor$0.10/1hr19h93.89%95.16%
- 31Mr. Prepper$0.11/1hr27h83.21%80.01%
- 32Killing Floor 2$0.11/1hr27h88.04%88.26%
- 33Don't Starve$0.11/1hr22h95.62%96.54%
- 34ANEURISM IV$0.11/1hr44h80.74%75.15%
- 35Generation Zero$0.12/1hr32h74.55%72.04%
- 36Dead Island Definitive Edition$0.12/1hr17h82.49%81.86%
- 37Counter-Strike$0.12/1hr17h97.06%97.40%
- 38Among Us$0.12/1hr25h91.98%92.03%
- 39Craft The World$0.12/1hr38h87.43%88.40%
- 40Metro: Last Light Redux$0.12/1hr16h90.64%91.31%
- 41SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 42Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 43Picayune Dreams$0.13/1hr19h89.94%98.88%
- 44Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 45Blood and Bacon$0.15/1hr5h93.11%95.28%
- 46Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr13h76.79%71.07%
- 47Metro 2033 Redux$0.15/1hr13h91.83%92.29%
- 48The Forest$0.15/1hr28h95.42%95.52%
- 49MORDHAU$0.15/1hr20h80.32%79.89%
- 50Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 51Cluckmech Oasis$0.16/1hr30h86.01%88.28%
- 52The Long Drive$0.17/1hr24h87.83%88.29%
- 53Homefront: The Revolution$0.17/1hr12h69.90%60.99%
- 54Bomber Crew$0.17/1hr14h86.64%87.58%
- 55Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 56Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.17/1hr23h87.64%89.86%
- 57EVERSPACE$0.17/1hr12h81.51%78.30%
- 58Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.18/1hr17h85.22%85.25%
- 5920 Minutes Till Dawn$0.18/1hr14h88.98%90.28%
- 60Army of Ruin$0.18/1hr17h85.81%88.06%
- 61Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 62Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 63Far Cry 2$0.20/1hr15h78.98%75.67%
- 64RAGE$0.20/1hr20h80.11%77.85%
- 65The Escapists$0.20/1hr13h88.29%90.21%
- 66The Survivalists$0.20/1hr25h80.20%76.18%
- 67Portal Knights$0.20/1hr15h83.92%83.36%
- 68Risk of Rain (2013)$0.21/1hr10h91.08%93.05%
- 69Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr24h93.36%94.19%
- 70Far Cry 3$0.21/1hr24h87.56%87.74%
- 71Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 72Left 4 Dead$0.22/1hr9h94.95%96.39%
- 73Bloons TD 5$0.23/1hr18h90.63%94.68%
- 74Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 75Crashlands$0.23/1hr19h86.39%89.52%
- 76Settlement Survival$0.23/1hr22h85.12%85.04%
- 77The Evil Within$0.24/1hr21h85.23%85.24%
- 78Survive the Nights$0.24/1hr21h76.72%65.59%
- 79Rise of the Tomb Raider$0.24/1hr18h93.64%94.18%
- 80Blazing Sails$0.24/1hr15h85.20%86.06%
- 81Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 82Dead Space 3$0.25/1hr16h77.15%72.42%
- 83Resident Evil 6$0.25/1hr20h78.13%77.15%
- 84Hatred$0.25/1hr5h84.65%84.47%
- 85State of Decay: YOSE$0.25/1hr20h83.20%82.40%
- 86The Beast Inside$0.25/1hr10h83.32%82.54%
- 87HELLDIVERS Dive Harder Edition$0.25/1hr16h89.19%90.39%
- 88Niche - a genetics survival game$0.26/1hr14h84.91%86.14%
- 89Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr11h89.94%93.26%
- 90DOOM 3$0.28/1hr14h85.32%86.16%
- 91Alan Wake's American Nightmare$0.28/1hr5h79.16%74.45%
- 92Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.74%86.97%
- 93A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.30/1hr13h92.21%93.18%
- 94Resident Evil$0.31/1hr16h90.71%92.31%
- 95Far Cry$0.31/1hr10h82.91%81.76%
- 96Strange Brigade$0.32/1hr16h84.30%84.34%
- 97Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide$0.33/1hr9h81.63%79.98%
- 98Devil Daggers$0.33/1hr10h90.13%95.34%
- 99Counter-Strike: Condition Zero$0.33/1hr6h89.60%91.47%
- 100Wedding Witch$0.34/1hr9h86.60%89.62%
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.