Best Value Post-apocalyptic Games Under $20
The Post-apocalyptic games on Steam games under $20 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.
- 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%
- 15Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 16Left 4 Dead 2$0.20/1hr50h97.43%97.52%
- 17ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.20/1hr74h84.52%84.77%
- 18Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.22/1hr23h82.19%81.66%
- 19Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 20Dome Keeper$0.23/1hr20h90.14%92.35%
- 21Doloc Town$0.25/1hr81h87.19%94.52%
- 22The Long Dark$0.25/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 23Fallout 3$0.26/1hr9h82.34%81.48%
- 24HumanitZ$0.27/1hr45h78.37%74.26%
- 25Chernobylite Complete Edition$0.28/1hr22h83.24%81.99%
- 26Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.28/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 27SurrounDead$0.32/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 28Sunkenland$0.32/1hr62h81.57%80.44%
- 29World War Z$0.33/1hr23h82.86%82.44%
- 30Insect Swarm$0.33/1hr7h84.96%84.15%
- 31Nuclear Throne$0.34/1hr36h92.38%96.01%
- 32Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.34/1hr50h79.10%78.70%
- 33Rain World$0.35/1hr32h92.44%93.70%
- 34R.E.P.O.$0.35/1hr29h95.81%95.99%
- 35HighFleet$0.40/1hr38h86.49%88.24%
- 36Dying Light$0.41/1hr42h95.09%95.23%
- 37Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.41/1hr29h87.35%94.21%
- 38ZERO Sievert$0.45/1hr44h84.55%84.73%
- 39Forever Skies$0.46/1hr26h81.37%78.17%
- 40Deadzone: Rogue$0.49/1hr26h83.47%82.44%
- 41RAGE$0.49/1hr20h80.11%77.85%
- 42Pacific Drive$0.53/1hr34h83.70%83.14%
- 43OUTRIDERS$0.55/1hr36h69.54%66.99%
- 44Kill The Crows$0.57/1hr9h86.87%95.09%
- 45The Wandering Village$0.58/1hr26h88.62%91.97%
- 46DUCKSIDE$0.58/1hr26h81.40%72.16%
- 47BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.60/1hr33h92.34%94.30%
- 48Chained Together$0.62/1hr6h89.05%89.65%
- 49The Long Drive$0.66/1hr24h87.83%88.29%
- 50HAAK$0.70/1hr26h86.57%89.58%
- 51Contagion$0.73/1hr14h77.21%72.73%
- 52I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.73/1hr27h84.30%84.38%
- 53The End Is Nigh$0.76/1hr20h87.82%93.66%
- 54Dread Delusion$0.76/1hr26h87.28%90.14%
- 55Drive Beyond Horizons$0.77/1hr23h80.34%77.95%
- 56ATRI -My Dear Moments-$0.79/1hr11h94.44%98.38%
- 57Rusted Moss$0.85/1hr24h86.02%89.27%
- 58Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.85/1hr23h87.26%88.05%
- 59Sunset Overdrive$0.92/1hr22h87.69%90.06%
- 60S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.94/1hr21h93.15%95.68%
- 61LISA: The Painful$0.95/1hr21h91.36%95.42%
- 62Survive the Nights$0.97/1hr21h76.72%65.59%
- 63The Walking Dead$0.99/1hr15h95.99%97.33%
- 64State of Decay: YOSE$1.01/1hr20h83.20%82.40%
- 65This War of Mine$1.02/1hr20h93.03%93.83%
- 66Cruelty Squad$1.06/1hr19h92.93%96.02%
- 67Left 4 Dead$1.08/1hr9h94.95%96.39%
- 68S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$1.18/1hr17h93.04%94.68%
- 6960 Seconds!$1.20/1hr7h85.04%84.93%
- 70Metro: Last Light Redux$1.24/1hr16h90.64%91.31%
- 71Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$1.25/1hr16h85.07%82.26%
- 72A Plague Tale: Innocence$1.30/1hr13h92.21%93.18%
- 73CRUEL$1.38/1hr7h86.76%95.16%
- 74The Walking Dead: Season Two$1.43/1hr10h94.00%96.59%
- 75Bastion$1.46/1hr10h93.18%95.27%
- 76Metro 2033 Redux$1.52/1hr13h91.83%92.29%
- 77Dungeon Munchies$1.52/1hr13h90.40%97.18%
- 78Hyper Light Drifter$1.54/1hr13h90.26%92.91%
- 7960 Seconds! Reatomized$1.54/1hr6h91.32%94.44%
- 80DeadPoly$1.59/1hr6h81.72%77.63%
- 81S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky$1.59/1hr13h84.97%85.29%
- 82The Walking Dead: The Final Season$1.59/1hr13h91.63%95.06%
- 83I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream$1.63/1hr6h85.58%88.84%
- 84The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$1.69/1hr9h84.01%83.51%
- 85BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT$1.72/1hr3h91.06%97.68%
- 86Plague Inc: Evolved$1.72/1hr9h93.02%94.20%
- 87How to Survive$1.97/1hr8h83.60%82.67%
- 88Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon$1.98/1hr8h86.64%87.37%
- 89PILGRIM$2.09/1hr4h80.34%67.80%
- 90The Final Station$2.18/1hr7h86.31%87.50%
- 91FAR: Lone Sails$3.22/1hr5h92.41%95.26%
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.