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.
- 17 Days to Die$0.07/1hr635h86.71%86.76%
- 2Kenshi$0.09/1hr138h94.72%95.56%
- 3My Time at Portia$0.10/1hr62h90.31%91.51%
- 4Rusty's Retirement$0.11/1hr66h91.98%96.74%
- 5Rust$0.12/1hr342h86.81%86.82%
- 6Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.13/1hr51h85.55%86.85%
- 7My Time at Sandrock$0.13/1hr104h87.36%88.19%
- 8DayZ$0.15/1hr167h77.93%77.77%
- 9This War of Mine$0.15/1hr20h93.02%93.85%
- 10Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr66h95.58%95.99%
- 11Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.17/1hr36h72.19%70.87%
- 12Left 4 Dead 2$0.19/1hr53h97.41%97.52%
- 13Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr26h96.92%97.70%
- 14SKYHILL$0.19/1hr5h82.52%78.23%
- 15Generation Zero$0.20/1hr25h74.52%72.03%
- 16CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.38%83.12%
- 17R.E.P.O.$0.20/1hr32h95.80%96.06%
- 18Frostpunk$0.21/1hr22h92.20%92.73%
- 19UnderRail$0.21/1hr71h85.46%86.12%
- 20Fallout 4$0.21/1hr93h81.27%81.19%
- 21Grim Dawn$0.22/1hr112h92.94%93.68%
- 22Project Zomboid$0.23/1hr86h93.81%94.01%
- 23Endzone - A World Apart$0.23/1hr11h80.88%76.75%
- 24The Talos Principle 2$0.24/1hr37h90.67%94.96%
- 25The Long Dark$0.25/1hr79h88.66%88.96%
- 26Dome Keeper$0.26/1hr21h90.03%92.34%
- 27XCOM 2$0.27/1hr73h84.65%84.62%
- 28Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.28/1hr36h90.65%93.93%
- 29A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr14h92.22%93.25%
- 30The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.30/1hr24h83.20%80.53%
- 31Sunkenland$0.30/1hr66h81.78%80.43%
- 32Timberborn$0.32/1hr77h93.81%95.98%
- 33FAR: Lone Sails$0.37/1hr4h92.42%95.26%
- 34Rain World$0.37/1hr30h92.43%93.77%
- 35ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.39/1hr38h84.88%84.78%
- 36No Place Like Home$0.40/1hr20h83.04%78.31%
- 37Nuclear Throne$0.40/1hr30h92.31%96.03%
- 38Phoenix Point$0.42/1hr60h80.05%73.14%
- 39They Are Billions$0.43/1hr70h85.12%85.14%
- 40Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.43/1hr32h87.82%94.19%
- 41Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.44/1hr23h91.58%94.23%
- 42Deadside$0.44/1hr57h77.40%75.53%
- 43Doloc Town$0.44/1hr45h87.16%95.96%
- 44Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.45/1hr67h80.18%78.82%
- 45Pacific Drive$0.45/1hr33h83.72%83.25%
- 46Fallout 76$0.46/1hr87h72.79%71.92%
- 47SurrounDead$0.47/1hr26h89.73%91.56%
- 48Rusted Moss$0.48/1hr17h85.61%89.39%
- 49Eastward$0.52/1hr24h84.33%83.94%
- 50RAGE$0.52/1hr19h80.40%77.89%
- 51The Crust$0.53/1hr56h82.77%76.77%
- 52ZERO Sievert$0.55/1hr36h84.78%84.65%
- 53HumanitZ$0.57/1hr35h78.89%74.43%
- 54Mad Max$0.57/1hr35h91.61%92.35%
- 55Infection Free Zone$0.59/1hr41h82.14%80.58%
- 56The Last Spell$0.61/1hr41h88.69%91.43%
- 57Forever Skies$0.61/1hr33h82.20%78.97%
- 58Dying Light$0.66/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 59Killing Floor 2$0.66/1hr46h88.05%88.29%
- 60INCISION$0.67/1hr13h85.04%85.61%
- 6160 Seconds! Reatomized$0.68/1hr7h91.24%94.47%
- 62OUTRIDERS$0.68/1hr29h69.48%66.95%
- 63Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden$0.68/1hr21h88.51%90.23%
- 64I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.68/1hr29h84.90%84.73%
- 65Miscreated$0.68/1hr44h70.51%65.93%
- 66ELEX$0.71/1hr43h77.95%74.36%
- 67Outpost: Infinity Siege$0.71/1hr35h73.68%65.37%
- 68BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.71/1hr28h92.23%94.27%
- 69DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.71/1hr56h91.36%92.31%
- 70HAAK$0.72/1hr25h86.22%89.83%
- 71Kill The Crows$0.72/1hr7h87.39%95.11%
- 72Chained Together$0.74/1hr7h89.19%89.86%
- 73Contagion$0.74/1hr13h77.50%72.75%
- 74The Wandering Village$0.76/1hr20h88.15%91.95%
- 75Wasteland 3$0.76/1hr53h84.75%84.65%
- 76State of Decay: YOSE$0.76/1hr26h83.51%82.38%
- 77Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance$0.76/1hr78h88.82%91.91%
- 78Dread Delusion$0.77/1hr26h86.79%90.31%
- 79Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.77/1hr26h82.13%81.62%
- 80AI LIMIT$0.78/1hr31h90.45%91.95%
- 81ZEPHON$0.82/1hr22h84.73%83.41%
- 82Deadzone: Rogue$0.82/1hr30h83.39%82.41%
- 83Days Gone$0.85/1hr47h92.11%92.73%
- 84Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition$0.89/1hr56h87.75%87.97%
- 85S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$0.89/1hr22h93.00%94.67%
- 86The Long Drive$0.90/1hr18h87.93%88.46%
- 87Fallout 3$0.92/1hr11h82.57%81.48%
- 88Sunset Overdrive$0.92/1hr22h88.00%90.10%
- 89Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.93/1hr22h86.92%87.96%
- 90LISA: The Painful$0.93/1hr22h91.30%95.48%
- 91Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition$0.95/1hr63h87.38%88.19%
- 92Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.95/1hr21h84.43%82.21%
- 93S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.95/1hr21h93.10%95.69%
- 94REMNANT II$0.97/1hr52h82.69%82.36%
- 95S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky$0.97/1hr21h85.19%85.28%
- 96The Walking Dead$0.98/1hr15h95.95%97.32%
- 97HighFleet$0.99/1hr30h86.36%88.23%
- 98Clair Obscur: Expedition 33$1.00/1hr48h94.94%95.31%
- 99Roboquest$1.02/1hr25h92.26%95.26%
- 100IXION$1.03/1hr34h81.02%78.76%
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.