Best Value Post-apocalyptic Games
The Post-apocalyptic games that stretch a budget furthest: median reviewer playtime divided by current price. Pick your currency in the top bar to rank against your local prices.
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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.
- 1XCOM 2$0.03/1hr87h84.73%84.69%
- 2Fallout 4$0.04/1hr137h81.34%81.19%
- 3Fallout: New Vegas$0.04/1hr57h95.68%95.97%
- 4Fallout 76$0.05/1hr155h72.80%71.92%
- 5Rusty's Retirement$0.06/1hr72h91.97%96.70%
- 6Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.07/1hr36h90.39%93.89%
- 7Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 8My Time at Portia$0.08/1hr72h90.31%91.46%
- 9UnderRail$0.09/1hr176h85.03%86.08%
- 10Kenshi$0.10/1hr118h94.77%95.59%
- 11Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.10/1hr24h91.42%94.25%
- 12My Time at Sandrock$0.12/1hr100h87.39%88.14%
- 13The Last Spell$0.12/1hr52h88.78%91.40%
- 14SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 15Rust$0.14/1hr287h86.68%86.67%
- 16Project Zomboid$0.16/1hr161h93.63%93.75%
- 17DayZ$0.16/1hr320h78.13%77.92%
- 18Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 197 Days to Die$0.20/1hr224h86.97%86.94%
- 20Left 4 Dead 2$0.20/1hr50h97.43%97.52%
- 21ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.20/1hr74h84.52%84.77%
- 22Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.22/1hr23h82.19%81.66%
- 23Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 24Dome Keeper$0.23/1hr20h90.14%92.35%
- 25Doloc Town$0.25/1hr81h87.19%94.52%
- 26The Long Dark$0.25/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 27Timberborn$0.25/1hr98h93.89%95.97%
- 28Fallout 3$0.26/1hr9h82.34%81.48%
- 29HumanitZ$0.27/1hr45h78.37%74.26%
- 30Chernobylite Complete Edition$0.28/1hr22h83.24%81.99%
- 31Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.28/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 32Grim Dawn$0.29/1hr86h92.75%93.44%
- 33SurrounDead$0.32/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 34Sunkenland$0.32/1hr62h81.57%80.44%
- 35World War Z$0.33/1hr23h82.86%82.44%
- 36Insect Swarm$0.33/1hr7h84.96%84.15%
- 37Nuclear Throne$0.34/1hr36h92.38%96.01%
- 38Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.34/1hr50h79.10%78.70%
- 39Rain World$0.35/1hr32h92.44%93.70%
- 40R.E.P.O.$0.35/1hr29h95.81%95.99%
- 41Deadside$0.36/1hr69h77.44%75.53%
- 42Phoenix Point$0.37/1hr68h80.48%73.14%
- 43They Are Billions$0.38/1hr80h85.13%85.12%
- 44HighFleet$0.40/1hr38h86.49%88.24%
- 45Dying Light$0.41/1hr42h95.09%95.23%
- 46Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.41/1hr29h87.35%94.21%
- 47ZERO Sievert$0.45/1hr44h84.55%84.73%
- 48Forever Skies$0.46/1hr26h81.37%78.17%
- 49Deadzone: Rogue$0.49/1hr26h83.47%82.44%
- 50RAGE$0.49/1hr20h80.11%77.85%
- 51Pacific Drive$0.53/1hr34h83.70%83.14%
- 52S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl$0.54/1hr112h80.35%80.00%
- 53OUTRIDERS$0.55/1hr36h69.54%66.99%
- 54Kill The Crows$0.57/1hr9h86.87%95.09%
- 55The Wandering Village$0.58/1hr26h88.62%91.97%
- 56DUCKSIDE$0.58/1hr26h81.40%72.16%
- 57Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.60/1hr50h80.06%78.65%
- 58BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.60/1hr33h92.34%94.30%
- 59Chained Together$0.62/1hr6h89.05%89.65%
- 60Infection Free Zone$0.64/1hr39h82.25%80.67%
- 61Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition$0.65/1hr92h87.44%88.07%
- 62The Long Drive$0.66/1hr24h87.83%88.29%
- 63State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition$0.70/1hr43h83.03%82.73%
- 64The Forever Winter$0.70/1hr43h72.80%68.21%
- 65Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days$0.70/1hr36h86.74%89.26%
- 66HAAK$0.70/1hr26h86.57%89.58%
- 67Urban Strife$0.71/1hr50h83.37%70.38%
- 68Days Gone$0.72/1hr55h92.13%92.72%
- 69Contagion$0.73/1hr14h77.21%72.73%
- 70ELEX$0.73/1hr41h77.68%74.32%
- 71I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.73/1hr27h84.30%84.38%
- 72The Talos Principle 2$0.76/1hr40h90.37%94.92%
- 73The End Is Nigh$0.76/1hr20h87.82%93.66%
- 74Dread Delusion$0.76/1hr26h87.28%90.14%
- 75Generation Zero$0.77/1hr32h74.55%72.04%
- 76Drive Beyond Horizons$0.77/1hr23h80.34%77.95%
- 77ATRI -My Dear Moments-$0.79/1hr11h94.44%98.38%
- 78DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.80/1hr50h91.31%92.20%
- 79AI LIMIT$0.81/1hr28h90.37%91.78%
- 80Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance$0.81/1hr74h88.84%91.68%
- 81Clair Obscur: Expedition 33$0.82/1hr59h94.89%95.23%
- 82Rusted Moss$0.85/1hr24h86.02%89.27%
- 83Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.85/1hr23h87.26%88.05%
- 84The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.89/1hr28h83.29%80.52%
- 85Sunset Overdrive$0.92/1hr22h87.69%90.06%
- 86Wasteland 3$0.92/1hr43h84.78%84.60%
- 87Borderlands Game of the Year$0.93/1hr32h88.64%89.72%
- 88S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.94/1hr21h93.15%95.68%
- 89LISA: The Painful$0.95/1hr21h91.36%95.42%
- 90Survive the Nights$0.97/1hr21h76.72%65.59%
- 91Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered$0.97/1hr51h84.48%84.75%
- 92The Walking Dead$0.99/1hr15h95.99%97.33%
- 93Frostpunk$1.00/1hr30h92.23%92.74%
- 94Roboquest$1.00/1hr25h92.34%95.27%
- 95State of Decay: YOSE$1.01/1hr20h83.20%82.40%
- 96Metro Exodus$1.01/1hr30h89.62%89.95%
- 97REMNANT II$1.01/1hr49h82.71%82.35%
- 98This War of Mine$1.02/1hr20h93.03%93.83%
- 99Tom Clancy’s The Division$1.03/1hr29h72.26%70.92%
- 100Cruelty Squad$1.06/1hr19h92.93%96.02%
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.