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$0.09/1hr138h94.72%95.56%
- 2My Time at Portia$0.10/1hr62h90.31%91.51%
- 3Rusty's Retirement$0.11/1hr66h91.98%96.74%
- 4Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.13/1hr51h85.55%86.85%
- 5My Time at Sandrock$0.13/1hr104h87.36%88.19%
- 6This War of Mine$0.15/1hr20h93.02%93.85%
- 7Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr66h95.58%95.99%
- 8Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.17/1hr36h72.19%70.87%
- 9Left 4 Dead 2$0.19/1hr53h97.41%97.52%
- 10Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr26h96.92%97.70%
- 11SKYHILL$0.19/1hr5h82.52%78.23%
- 12Generation Zero$0.20/1hr25h74.52%72.03%
- 13CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.38%83.12%
- 14R.E.P.O.$0.20/1hr32h95.80%96.06%
- 15Frostpunk$0.21/1hr22h92.20%92.73%
- 16UnderRail$0.21/1hr71h85.46%86.12%
- 17Fallout 4$0.21/1hr93h81.27%81.19%
- 18Project Zomboid$0.23/1hr86h93.81%94.01%
- 19Endzone - A World Apart$0.23/1hr11h80.88%76.75%
- 20The Talos Principle 2$0.24/1hr37h90.67%94.96%
- 21The Long Dark$0.25/1hr79h88.66%88.96%
- 22Dome Keeper$0.26/1hr21h90.03%92.34%
- 23XCOM 2$0.27/1hr73h84.65%84.62%
- 24Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.28/1hr36h90.65%93.93%
- 25A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr14h92.22%93.25%
- 26The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.30/1hr24h83.20%80.53%
- 27Sunkenland$0.30/1hr66h81.78%80.43%
- 28FAR: Lone Sails$0.37/1hr4h92.42%95.26%
- 29Rain World$0.37/1hr30h92.43%93.77%
- 30ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.39/1hr38h84.88%84.78%
- 31No Place Like Home$0.40/1hr20h83.04%78.31%
- 32Nuclear Throne$0.40/1hr30h92.31%96.03%
- 33Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.43/1hr32h87.82%94.19%
- 34Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.44/1hr23h91.58%94.23%
- 35Doloc Town$0.44/1hr45h87.16%95.96%
- 36Pacific Drive$0.45/1hr33h83.72%83.25%
- 37SurrounDead$0.47/1hr26h89.73%91.56%
- 38Rusted Moss$0.48/1hr17h85.61%89.39%
- 39Eastward$0.52/1hr24h84.33%83.94%
- 40RAGE$0.52/1hr19h80.40%77.89%
- 41ZERO Sievert$0.55/1hr36h84.78%84.65%
- 42HumanitZ$0.57/1hr35h78.89%74.43%
- 43Mad Max$0.57/1hr35h91.61%92.35%
- 44Forever Skies$0.61/1hr33h82.20%78.97%
- 45INCISION$0.67/1hr13h85.04%85.61%
- 4660 Seconds! Reatomized$0.68/1hr7h91.24%94.47%
- 47OUTRIDERS$0.68/1hr29h69.48%66.95%
- 48Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden$0.68/1hr21h88.51%90.23%
- 49I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.68/1hr29h84.90%84.73%
- 50BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.71/1hr28h92.23%94.27%
- 51HAAK$0.72/1hr25h86.22%89.83%
- 52Kill The Crows$0.72/1hr7h87.39%95.11%
- 53Chained Together$0.74/1hr7h89.19%89.86%
- 54Contagion$0.74/1hr13h77.50%72.75%
- 55The Wandering Village$0.76/1hr20h88.15%91.95%
- 56State of Decay: YOSE$0.76/1hr26h83.51%82.38%
- 57Dread Delusion$0.77/1hr26h86.79%90.31%
- 58Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.77/1hr26h82.13%81.62%
- 59ZEPHON$0.82/1hr22h84.73%83.41%
- 60S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$0.89/1hr22h93.00%94.67%
- 61The Long Drive$0.90/1hr18h87.93%88.46%
- 62Fallout 3$0.92/1hr11h82.57%81.48%
- 63Sunset Overdrive$0.92/1hr22h88.00%90.10%
- 64Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.93/1hr22h86.92%87.96%
- 65LISA: The Painful$0.93/1hr22h91.30%95.48%
- 66Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.95/1hr21h84.43%82.21%
- 67S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.95/1hr21h93.10%95.69%
- 68S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky$0.97/1hr21h85.19%85.28%
- 69The Walking Dead$0.98/1hr15h95.95%97.32%
- 70The Forever Winter$1.05/1hr14h73.33%68.56%
- 71Cruelty Squad$1.10/1hr18h92.86%96.07%
- 72Left 4 Dead$1.18/1hr9h94.92%96.39%
- 73Insect Swarm$1.19/1hr6h84.82%84.19%
- 74The End Is Nigh$1.20/1hr13h87.22%93.67%
- 75DUCKSIDE$1.22/1hr12h82.04%72.44%
- 76Death Trash$1.24/1hr13h86.90%92.10%
- 77Survive the Nights$1.36/1hr15h77.26%65.70%
- 78The Walking Dead: Season Two$1.47/1hr10h93.94%96.58%
- 79Bastion$1.48/1hr10h93.13%95.27%
- 80CRUEL$1.59/1hr6h86.56%95.23%
- 81The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$1.59/1hr9h84.01%83.48%
- 82Metro 2033 Redux$1.61/1hr12h91.77%92.26%
- 83I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream$1.64/1hr6h86.08%88.87%
- 84PILGRIM$1.67/1hr5h80.26%67.96%
- 85Metro: Last Light Redux$1.69/1hr12h90.54%91.24%
- 86BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT$1.74/1hr3h90.86%97.86%
- 87The Walking Dead: The Final Season$1.76/1hr11h91.85%95.07%
- 88Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon$1.92/1hr8h86.63%87.47%
- 89Hyper Light Drifter$1.96/1hr10h90.23%92.99%
- 90Dungeon Munchies$2.10/1hr10h90.08%97.18%
- 9160 Seconds!$2.11/1hr4h84.96%84.94%
- 92Plague Inc: Evolved$2.17/1hr7h92.98%94.22%
- 93The Final Station$2.59/1hr6h86.17%87.42%
- 94DeadPoly$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.