Best Value Zombies Games Under $40
The Zombies games on Steam games under $40 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.
- 1Left 4 Dead 2$0.02/1hr81h97.43%97.52%
- 2SCUM$0.03/1hr526h74.83%74.01%
- 3Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.04/1hr321h74.20%73.70%
- 4Dying Light$0.07/1hr36h95.09%95.23%
- 5Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.07/1hr141h72.53%71.62%
- 6Death Road to Canada$0.08/1hr30h89.06%92.74%
- 7Half-Life 2$0.09/1hr21h97.27%97.60%
- 87 Days to Die$0.10/1hr257h87.01%86.98%
- 9The Walking Dead$0.10/1hr15h95.99%97.33%
- 10Project Zomboid$0.10/1hr162h93.64%93.75%
- 11Killing Floor$0.10/1hr19h93.89%95.16%
- 12Saints Row: The Third$0.10/1hr24h94.29%95.60%
- 13Killing Floor 2$0.11/1hr27h88.04%88.26%
- 14Dead Island Definitive Edition$0.12/1hr17h82.49%81.86%
- 15SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 16DayZ$0.14/1hr173h78.10%77.89%
- 17Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr13h76.79%71.07%
- 18The Forest$0.15/1hr28h95.42%95.52%
- 19SurrounDead$0.16/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 20Night of the Dead$0.17/1hr35h80.67%76.88%
- 21Dead Island 2$0.17/1hr29h79.43%77.49%
- 22State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition$0.17/1hr43h83.03%82.73%
- 23Painkiller: Black Edition$0.19/1hr11h85.88%88.86%
- 24Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr24h93.36%94.19%
- 25Tower Unite$0.21/1hr42h88.27%89.68%
- 26Left 4 Dead$0.22/1hr9h94.95%96.39%
- 27Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 28Brick Rigs$0.23/1hr61h93.50%94.90%
- 29Sunset Overdrive$0.23/1hr22h87.69%90.06%
- 30The Evil Within$0.24/1hr21h85.23%85.24%
- 31Door Kickers: Action Squad$0.24/1hr12h89.64%94.71%
- 32Survive the Nights$0.24/1hr21h76.72%65.59%
- 33Half-Life: Blue Shift$0.25/1hr4h90.12%92.59%
- 34Resident Evil 6$0.25/1hr20h78.13%77.15%
- 35The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.25/1hr28h83.29%80.52%
- 36State of Decay: YOSE$0.25/1hr20h83.20%82.40%
- 37Dead Estate$0.25/1hr20h88.94%94.59%
- 38HumanitZ$0.27/1hr45h78.37%74.26%
- 39Yet Another Zombie Survivors$0.27/1hr34h89.06%91.55%
- 40The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series$0.27/1hr46h94.54%96.51%
- 41DOOM 3$0.28/1hr14h85.32%86.16%
- 42Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition$0.29/1hr31h89.18%89.97%
- 43Days Gone$0.29/1hr55h92.13%92.72%
- 44DOOM$0.29/1hr14h95.20%95.52%
- 45Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.74%86.97%
- 46Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.30/1hr39h79.12%78.71%
- 47Resident Evil$0.31/1hr16h90.71%92.31%
- 48Far Cry$0.31/1hr10h82.91%81.76%
- 49Mist Survival$0.31/1hr26h79.18%75.65%
- 50Monster Prom$0.32/1hr8h89.79%93.01%
- 51Resident Evil 4$0.32/1hr32h97.06%97.37%
- 52Colony Survival$0.32/1hr59h88.47%92.11%
- 53Strange Brigade$0.32/1hr16h84.30%84.34%
- 54World War Z$0.33/1hr23h82.86%82.44%
- 55Diplomacy is Not an Option$0.33/1hr36h85.39%85.55%
- 56Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.34/1hr17h79.39%77.02%
- 57Plague Inc: Evolved$0.34/1hr9h93.02%94.20%
- 58Resident Evil 0$0.34/1hr14h81.47%80.05%
- 59Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.35/1hr14h79.73%78.33%
- 60South Park: The Stick of Truth$0.35/1hr22h96.09%97.57%
- 61Back 4 Blood$0.35/1hr17h70.79%68.83%
- 62The Walking Dead: Season Two$0.36/1hr10h94.00%96.59%
- 63Yet Another Zombie Defense HD$0.36/1hr2h84.33%82.05%
- 64Zombie Army 4: Dead War$0.36/1hr14h85.35%86.24%
- 65They Are Billions$0.38/1hr80h85.13%85.12%
- 66Welcome to ParadiZe$0.38/1hr12h82.21%67.39%
- 67The Walking Dead: The Final Season$0.40/1hr13h91.63%95.06%
- 68Half-Life: Source$0.40/1hr5h74.48%68.62%
- 69Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.41/1hr29h87.35%94.21%
- 70IfSunSets$0.42/1hr29h82.36%74.72%
- 71Resident Evil 2$0.42/1hr19h96.66%97.04%
- 72Book of Demons$0.42/1hr15h87.78%90.52%
- 73The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$0.42/1hr9h84.01%83.51%
- 74Ultimate Zombie Defense$0.42/1hr4h85.16%85.11%
- 75The Evil Within 2$0.43/1hr18h90.38%92.06%
- 76Resident Evil Revelations$0.44/1hr11h82.32%81.28%
- 77Infection Free Zone$0.45/1hr39h82.25%80.67%
- 78Resident Evil Village$0.47/1hr21h95.00%95.64%
- 79ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights$0.49/1hr21h92.23%93.76%
- 80Prototype$0.49/1hr12h82.03%80.46%
- 81Deadzone: Rogue$0.49/1hr26h83.47%82.44%
- 82How to Survive$0.49/1hr8h83.60%82.67%
- 83Urban Strife$0.49/1hr50h83.37%70.38%
- 84The Final Station$0.54/1hr7h86.31%87.50%
- 85Wolfenstein: The Old Blood$0.56/1hr9h88.97%90.32%
- 86Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days$0.56/1hr36h86.74%89.26%
- 87Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.57/1hr14h94.55%95.29%
- 88Zombie Army Trilogy$0.59/1hr8h85.16%85.64%
- 89Black Mesa$0.60/1hr20h94.33%94.96%
- 90No More Room in Hell 2$0.61/1hr37h64.29%56.97%
- 91Dead Space (2008)$0.61/1hr13h89.96%91.91%
- 92GTFO$0.62/1hr17h84.02%83.85%
- 93Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville$0.68/1hr13h75.83%70.86%
- 94METAL GEAR SURVIVE$0.71/1hr25h78.49%65.74%
- 95Contagion$0.73/1hr14h77.21%72.73%
- 96F.E.A.R. 3$0.73/1hr5h76.39%70.63%
- 97Sker Ritual$0.73/1hr9h83.81%81.53%
- 98DeadPoly$0.79/1hr6h81.72%77.63%
- 99Resident Evil 3$0.83/1hr10h83.58%83.46%
- 100Prototype 2$0.84/1hr14h80.04%76.81%
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.