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.
- 1Fallout: New Vegas$0.05/1hr91h95.58%95.98%
- 2Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands$0.07/1hr34h79.52%79.02%
- 3Brotato$0.09/1hr57h95.15%96.02%
- 4Dying Light$0.13/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 5Outward Definitive Edition$0.14/1hr35h75.66%72.69%
- 6Bomber Crew$0.16/1hr15h86.54%87.57%
- 7ANEURISM IV$0.16/1hr31h81.59%76.20%
- 8Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.16/1hr19h85.14%85.27%
- 9Among Us$0.17/1hr29h91.90%92.00%
- 10Town of Salem$0.19/1hr27h87.24%87.88%
- 11Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr27h96.92%97.69%
- 12Quake Live$0.21/1hr14h85.90%86.51%
- 13Picayune Dreams$0.23/1hr22h89.14%98.90%
- 14Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.04%95.26%
- 1520 Minutes Till Dawn$0.26/1hr19h89.08%90.51%
- 16Dead Space 3$0.26/1hr15h77.49%72.47%
- 17The Evil Within$0.27/1hr18h85.14%85.20%
- 18RAGE$0.30/1hr13h80.35%77.84%
- 19Monstrum$0.31/1hr12h86.30%90.62%
- 20DOOM 3$0.32/1hr12h85.62%86.18%
- 21Dead Space 2$0.32/1hr12h91.69%93.97%
- 22The Binding of Isaac$0.41/1hr12h93.30%94.64%
- 23Witch It$0.58/1hr5h87.54%88.85%
- 24The Final Station$0.62/1hr6h86.15%87.44%
- 25Wedding Witch$0.66/1hr8h86.24%89.56%
- 26Feign$0.67/1hr7h87.38%91.25%
- 27Distance$0.74/1hr3h88.17%92.43%
- 28ALTF4$0.75/1hr4h82.05%79.61%
- 29Five Nights at Freddy's$1.31/1hr4h92.52%93.81%
- 30Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.51/1hr3h84.99%85.11%
- 31Yet Another Zombie Defense HD$2.49/1hr2h84.19%82.09%
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.