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.
- 1Kenshi$0.09/1hr127h94.76%95.56%
- 2My Time at Portia$0.09/1hr63h90.40%91.51%
- 3Rusty's Retirement$0.11/1hr62h92.17%96.73%
- 4My Time at Sandrock$0.13/1hr104h87.48%88.19%
- 5Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr69h95.60%95.99%
- 6This War of Mine$0.15/1hr20h93.07%93.85%
- 7Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.15/1hr43h85.87%86.82%
- 8Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.17/1hr35h72.24%70.87%
- 9R.E.P.O.$0.18/1hr37h95.81%96.06%
- 10Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr55h97.41%97.52%
- 11Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr27h96.95%97.70%
- 12Generation Zero$0.19/1hr26h74.61%72.03%
- 13SKYHILL$0.19/1hr5h82.83%78.23%
- 14Fallout 4$0.20/1hr101h81.29%81.19%
- 15CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.44%83.12%
- 16Project Zomboid$0.20/1hr99h93.82%94.00%
- 17Frostpunk$0.21/1hr22h92.23%92.73%
- 18UnderRail$0.21/1hr71h85.46%86.12%
- 19The Long Dark$0.23/1hr85h88.70%88.96%
- 20The Talos Principle 2$0.24/1hr37h90.67%94.96%
- 21Dome Keeper$0.26/1hr21h90.19%92.35%
- 22Endzone - A World Apart$0.26/1hr10h81.12%76.76%
- 23XCOM 2$0.27/1hr73h84.69%84.62%
- 24Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.28/1hr36h90.65%93.93%
- 25A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr14h92.28%93.25%
- 26Sunkenland$0.30/1hr66h81.78%80.43%
- 27The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.33/1hr21h83.48%80.54%
- 28FAR: Lone Sails$0.37/1hr4h92.55%95.26%
- 29ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.39/1hr38h84.88%84.78%
- 30No Place Like Home$0.40/1hr20h83.04%78.31%
- 31Nuclear Throne$0.42/1hr28h92.46%96.02%
- 32Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.44/1hr23h91.58%94.23%
- 33Doloc Town$0.44/1hr45h87.16%95.96%
- 34Pacific Drive$0.45/1hr33h83.84%83.23%
- 35SurrounDead$0.47/1hr26h89.73%91.56%
- 36Rusted Moss$0.50/1hr16h86.00%89.30%
- 37Eastward$0.52/1hr24h84.33%83.94%
- 38RAGE$0.52/1hr19h80.40%77.89%
- 39ZERO Sievert$0.55/1hr36h84.78%84.65%
- 40Mad Max$0.56/1hr36h91.66%92.35%
- 41HumanitZ$0.57/1hr35h78.89%74.43%
- 42Forever Skies$0.61/1hr33h82.20%78.97%
- 43Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.62/1hr32h87.82%94.19%
- 44Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden$0.62/1hr22h88.67%90.23%
- 45OUTRIDERS$0.68/1hr30h69.55%66.95%
- 46I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.68/1hr29h85.22%84.71%
- 47BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.69/1hr29h92.34%94.26%
- 4860 Seconds! Reatomized$0.71/1hr7h91.40%94.47%
- 49The Wandering Village$0.71/1hr21h88.41%91.96%
- 50HAAK$0.73/1hr25h86.57%89.83%
- 51Kill The Crows$0.74/1hr7h87.75%95.11%
- 52Contagion$0.74/1hr13h77.50%72.75%
- 53Chained Together$0.75/1hr7h89.25%89.85%
- 54State of Decay: YOSE$0.76/1hr26h83.51%82.38%
- 55Dread Delusion$0.77/1hr26h87.11%90.31%
- 56INCISION$0.80/1hr11h85.47%85.61%
- 57ZEPHON$0.84/1hr22h85.13%83.37%
- 58The Long Drive$0.85/1hr19h88.00%88.46%
- 59Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.87/1hr23h87.08%87.96%
- 60S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$0.90/1hr22h93.08%94.67%
- 61Fallout 3$0.92/1hr11h82.57%81.48%
- 62LISA: The Painful$0.92/1hr22h91.49%95.48%
- 63Sunset Overdrive$0.92/1hr22h88.00%90.10%
- 64Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.95/1hr21h82.21%81.62%
- 65S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.95/1hr21h93.21%95.68%
- 66Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.95/1hr21h84.43%82.21%
- 67S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky$0.97/1hr21h85.19%85.28%
- 68The Walking Dead$0.98/1hr15h96.00%97.32%
- 69The Forever Winter$1.05/1hr14h73.33%68.56%
- 70Cruelty Squad$1.10/1hr18h93.00%96.08%
- 71Left 4 Dead$1.15/1hr9h94.98%96.39%
- 72Insect Swarm$1.18/1hr6h85.19%84.19%
- 73The End Is Nigh$1.19/1hr13h87.57%93.67%
- 74DUCKSIDE$1.22/1hr12h82.04%72.44%
- 75Death Trash$1.24/1hr13h86.90%92.10%
- 76Bastion$1.35/1hr11h93.23%95.27%
- 77Survive the Nights$1.36/1hr15h77.26%65.70%
- 78CRUEL$1.42/1hr7h86.96%95.23%
- 79The Walking Dead: Season Two$1.46/1hr10h94.04%96.58%
- 80Metro 2033 Redux$1.61/1hr12h91.81%92.26%
- 81The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$1.61/1hr9h84.17%83.48%
- 82I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream$1.64/1hr6h86.08%88.87%
- 83PILGRIM$1.67/1hr5h80.26%67.96%
- 84Metro: Last Light Redux$1.69/1hr12h90.60%91.24%
- 85The Walking Dead: The Final Season$1.76/1hr11h91.85%95.07%
- 86Plague Inc: Evolved$1.87/1hr8h93.05%94.22%
- 87BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT$1.88/1hr3h91.12%97.86%
- 88Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon$1.92/1hr8h86.79%87.48%
- 89Hyper Light Drifter$1.96/1hr10h90.39%92.99%
- 90Dungeon Munchies$2.10/1hr10h90.35%97.17%
- 9160 Seconds!$2.11/1hr4h85.17%84.93%
- 92The Final Station$2.62/1hr6h86.41%87.42%
- 93DeadPoly$2.97/1hr3h82.22%77.68%
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.