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.
- 1Rust$0.05/1hr392h86.72%86.73%
- 2Fallout 4$0.09/1hr211h81.27%81.17%
- 3Rusty's Retirement$0.10/1hr72h92.12%96.69%
- 4My Time at Sandrock$0.11/1hr110h87.43%88.15%
- 5UnderRail$0.11/1hr130h85.33%86.10%
- 67 Days to Die$0.12/1hr372h86.98%87.02%
- 7Left 4 Dead 2$0.12/1hr82h97.41%97.52%
- 8R.E.P.O.$0.12/1hr53h95.76%96.00%
- 9Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 10Project Zomboid$0.14/1hr182h93.60%93.77%
- 11Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr67h95.59%95.98%
- 12Generation Zero$0.15/1hr33h74.58%72.03%
- 13DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.18/1hr56h91.34%92.22%
- 14Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.20/1hr25h96.95%97.70%
- 15Frostpunk$0.21/1hr29h92.24%92.74%
- 16ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.23/1hr64h84.77%84.76%
- 17Timberborn$0.25/1hr99h93.91%95.97%
- 18Wasteland 3$0.25/1hr48h84.83%84.60%
- 19Deadside$0.26/1hr96h77.46%75.52%
- 20Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.27/1hr45h85.73%86.61%
- 21Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.27/1hr37h90.57%93.88%
- 22This War of Mine$0.27/1hr19h93.04%93.83%
- 23Rain World$0.27/1hr32h92.46%93.70%
- 24XCOM 2$0.28/1hr71h84.73%84.68%
- 25Welcome to ParadiZe$0.28/1hr11h82.72%67.24%
- 26Kenshi$0.29/1hr104h94.78%95.59%
- 27Doloc Town$0.29/1hr69h87.94%94.54%
- 28The Long Dark$0.29/1hr69h88.63%88.90%
- 29Phoenix Point$0.30/1hr84h79.92%73.15%
- 30GOD EATER 3$0.30/1hr20h82.38%79.33%
- 31They Are Billions$0.30/1hr98h85.16%85.13%
- 32Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.31/1hr98h80.16%78.71%
- 33The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.31/1hr23h83.44%80.52%
- 34Fallout 76$0.31/1hr128h72.80%71.91%
- 35I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h85.05%84.45%
- 36DayZ$0.33/1hr150h78.02%77.86%
- 37Rusted Moss$0.34/1hr24h86.02%89.27%
- 38Grim Dawn$0.35/1hr72h92.79%93.47%
- 39SurrounDead$0.36/1hr33h89.48%91.02%
- 40Sunkenland$0.37/1hr54h81.86%80.40%
- 41Nuclear Throne$0.40/1hr30h92.45%96.02%
- 42IXION$0.42/1hr25h81.18%78.79%
- 43Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.42/1hr24h91.56%94.25%
- 44My Time at Portia$0.43/1hr69h90.34%91.47%
- 45Forever Skies$0.45/1hr30h81.97%78.23%
- 46Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.46/1hr26h87.70%94.19%
- 47Mad Max$0.47/1hr43h91.65%92.35%
- 48The Last Spell$0.50/1hr50h88.61%91.40%
- 49HumanitZ$0.51/1hr39h78.59%74.25%
- 50Roboquest$0.56/1hr27h92.40%95.27%
- 51OUTRIDERS$0.58/1hr34h69.56%66.99%
- 52ZERO Sievert$0.59/1hr34h84.71%84.67%
- 53RAGE$0.59/1hr17h80.29%77.84%
- 54S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl$0.60/1hr99h80.29%79.93%
- 55ELEX$0.61/1hr50h77.86%74.33%
- 56The Forever Winter$0.61/1hr49h72.95%68.20%
- 57BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.62/1hr32h92.26%94.31%
- 58The Final Station$0.63/1hr6h86.08%87.45%
- 59The End Is Nigh$0.64/1hr24h87.54%93.62%
- 60Ghostrunner$0.66/1hr11h90.44%91.21%
- 61Ghostrunner 2$0.67/1hr12h82.53%79.98%
- 62Contagion$0.69/1hr14h77.63%72.73%
- 63Infection Free Zone$0.69/1hr35h82.32%80.66%
- 64Kill The Crows$0.69/1hr7h87.78%95.07%
- 65HAAK$0.70/1hr26h86.52%89.68%
- 66Dread Delusion$0.70/1hr28h87.06%90.19%
- 67Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.73/1hr41h72.26%70.91%
- 68Urban Strife$0.75/1hr46h83.87%70.60%
- 69Days Gone$0.75/1hr53h92.15%92.73%
- 70Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition$0.76/1hr79h87.42%88.08%
- 71Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days$0.77/1hr33h86.98%89.25%
- 72DUCKSIDE$0.78/1hr19h81.80%72.20%
- 73Chained Together$0.79/1hr6h89.10%89.68%
- 74The Long Drive$0.79/1hr20h87.88%88.33%
- 75The Talos Principle 2$0.83/1hr36h90.58%94.92%
- 76Clair Obscur: Expedition 33$0.83/1hr59h94.91%95.25%
- 77Surviving the Aftermath$0.84/1hr36h80.78%70.84%
- 78AI LIMIT$0.84/1hr27h90.45%91.82%
- 79Borderlands Game of the Year$0.86/1hr35h88.68%89.73%
- 80Dome Keeper$0.86/1hr21h90.01%92.35%
- 81Left 4 Dead$0.88/1hr11h94.98%96.39%
- 82S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.88/1hr23h93.19%95.69%
- 83State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition$0.88/1hr34h83.05%82.72%
- 84State of Decay: YOSE$0.88/1hr23h83.44%82.42%
- 85Miscreated$0.89/1hr34h70.61%65.95%
- 86Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.89/1hr22h87.14%88.05%
- 87Pacific Drive$0.92/1hr33h83.73%83.14%
- 88Frostpunk 2$0.92/1hr24h77.64%74.80%
- 89Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance$0.93/1hr64h88.68%91.72%
- 90The Crust$0.93/1hr22h82.87%76.71%
- 91Fallout 3$0.93/1hr11h82.51%81.49%
- 92REMNANT II$0.93/1hr54h82.73%82.35%
- 93Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered$0.94/1hr53h84.76%84.74%
- 94Sunset Overdrive$0.94/1hr21h87.89%90.04%
- 95DAEMON X MACHINA$0.95/1hr11h84.54%84.18%
- 96Insect Swarm$0.96/1hr7h85.19%84.15%
- 97HighFleet$0.97/1hr31h86.68%88.25%
- 98Metro Exodus$1.00/1hr30h89.63%89.94%
- 99Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$1.00/1hr20h82.21%81.65%
- 100The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series$1.02/1hr49h94.56%96.52%
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.