Best Value Zombies Games Under $5

The Zombies games on Steam games under $5 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.

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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.
  1. 1Painkiller: Black Edition$0.12/1hr
  2. 2Dying Light$0.13/1hr
  3. 3Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr
  4. 4The Evil Within$0.27/1hr
  5. 5DOOM$0.28/1hr
  6. 6DOOM 3$0.32/1hr
  7. 7Necroking$0.55/1hr
  8. 8Wolfenstein: The Old Blood$0.57/1hr
  9. 9The Final Station$0.62/1hr
  10. 10Half-Life: Blue Shift$1.30/1hr
  11. 11Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.51/1hr
  12. 12Yet Another Zombie Defense HD$2.49/1hr

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.