Best Value Post-apocalyptic Games Under $40
The Post-apocalyptic games on Steam games under $40 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%
- 4Rust$0.12/1hr342h86.81%86.82%
- 5Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.13/1hr51h85.55%86.85%
- 6My Time at Sandrock$0.13/1hr104h87.36%88.19%
- 7DayZ$0.15/1hr167h77.93%77.77%
- 8This War of Mine$0.15/1hr20h93.02%93.85%
- 9Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr66h95.58%95.99%
- 10Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.17/1hr36h72.19%70.87%
- 11Left 4 Dead 2$0.19/1hr53h97.41%97.52%
- 12Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr26h96.92%97.70%
- 13SKYHILL$0.19/1hr5h82.52%78.23%
- 14Generation Zero$0.20/1hr25h74.52%72.03%
- 15CODE VEIN$0.20/1hr30h83.38%83.12%
- 16R.E.P.O.$0.20/1hr32h95.80%96.06%
- 17Frostpunk$0.21/1hr22h92.20%92.73%
- 18UnderRail$0.21/1hr71h85.46%86.12%
- 19Fallout 4$0.21/1hr93h81.27%81.19%
- 20Grim Dawn$0.22/1hr112h92.94%93.68%
- 21Project Zomboid$0.23/1hr86h93.81%94.01%
- 22Endzone - A World Apart$0.23/1hr11h80.88%76.75%
- 23The Talos Principle 2$0.24/1hr37h90.67%94.96%
- 24The Long Dark$0.25/1hr79h88.66%88.96%
- 25Dome Keeper$0.26/1hr21h90.03%92.34%
- 26XCOM 2$0.27/1hr73h84.65%84.62%
- 27Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.28/1hr36h90.65%93.93%
- 28A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr14h92.22%93.25%
- 29The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.30/1hr24h83.20%80.53%
- 30Sunkenland$0.30/1hr66h81.78%80.43%
- 31Timberborn$0.32/1hr77h93.81%95.98%
- 32FAR: Lone Sails$0.37/1hr4h92.42%95.26%
- 33Rain World$0.37/1hr30h92.43%93.77%
- 34ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.39/1hr38h84.88%84.78%
- 35No Place Like Home$0.40/1hr20h83.04%78.31%
- 36Nuclear Throne$0.40/1hr30h92.31%96.03%
- 37Phoenix Point$0.42/1hr60h80.05%73.14%
- 38They Are Billions$0.43/1hr70h85.12%85.14%
- 39Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.43/1hr32h87.82%94.19%
- 40Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game$0.44/1hr23h91.58%94.23%
- 41Deadside$0.44/1hr57h77.40%75.53%
- 42Doloc Town$0.44/1hr45h87.16%95.96%
- 43Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.45/1hr67h80.18%78.82%
- 44Pacific Drive$0.45/1hr33h83.72%83.25%
- 45Fallout 76$0.46/1hr87h72.79%71.92%
- 46SurrounDead$0.47/1hr26h89.73%91.56%
- 47Rusted Moss$0.48/1hr17h85.61%89.39%
- 48Eastward$0.52/1hr24h84.33%83.94%
- 49RAGE$0.52/1hr19h80.40%77.89%
- 50The Crust$0.53/1hr56h82.77%76.77%
- 51ZERO Sievert$0.55/1hr36h84.78%84.65%
- 52HumanitZ$0.57/1hr35h78.89%74.43%
- 53Mad Max$0.57/1hr35h91.61%92.35%
- 54Infection Free Zone$0.59/1hr41h82.14%80.58%
- 55The Last Spell$0.61/1hr41h88.69%91.43%
- 56Forever Skies$0.61/1hr33h82.20%78.97%
- 57Dying Light$0.66/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 58Killing Floor 2$0.66/1hr46h88.05%88.29%
- 59INCISION$0.67/1hr13h85.04%85.61%
- 6060 Seconds! Reatomized$0.68/1hr7h91.24%94.47%
- 61OUTRIDERS$0.68/1hr29h69.48%66.95%
- 62Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden$0.68/1hr21h88.51%90.23%
- 63I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.68/1hr29h84.90%84.73%
- 64Miscreated$0.68/1hr44h70.51%65.93%
- 65ELEX$0.71/1hr43h77.95%74.36%
- 66Outpost: Infinity Siege$0.71/1hr35h73.68%65.37%
- 67BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.71/1hr28h92.23%94.27%
- 68DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.71/1hr56h91.36%92.31%
- 69HAAK$0.72/1hr25h86.22%89.83%
- 70Kill The Crows$0.72/1hr7h87.39%95.11%
- 71Chained Together$0.74/1hr7h89.19%89.86%
- 72Contagion$0.74/1hr13h77.50%72.75%
- 73The Wandering Village$0.76/1hr20h88.15%91.95%
- 74Wasteland 3$0.76/1hr53h84.75%84.65%
- 75State of Decay: YOSE$0.76/1hr26h83.51%82.38%
- 76Dread Delusion$0.77/1hr26h86.79%90.31%
- 77Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.77/1hr26h82.13%81.62%
- 78AI LIMIT$0.78/1hr31h90.45%91.95%
- 79ZEPHON$0.82/1hr22h84.73%83.41%
- 80Deadzone: Rogue$0.82/1hr30h83.39%82.41%
- 81Days Gone$0.85/1hr47h92.11%92.73%
- 82S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$0.89/1hr22h93.00%94.67%
- 83The Long Drive$0.90/1hr18h87.93%88.46%
- 84Fallout 3$0.92/1hr11h82.57%81.48%
- 85Sunset Overdrive$0.92/1hr22h88.00%90.10%
- 86Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.93/1hr22h86.92%87.96%
- 87LISA: The Painful$0.93/1hr22h91.30%95.48%
- 88Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost$0.95/1hr21h84.43%82.21%
- 89S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.95/1hr21h93.10%95.69%
- 90S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky$0.97/1hr21h85.19%85.28%
- 91The Walking Dead$0.98/1hr15h95.95%97.32%
- 92HighFleet$0.99/1hr30h86.36%88.23%
- 93Roboquest$1.02/1hr25h92.26%95.26%
- 94IXION$1.03/1hr34h81.02%78.76%
- 95Drive Beyond Horizons$1.05/1hr24h80.23%77.83%
- 96The Forever Winter$1.05/1hr14h73.33%68.56%
- 97NieR:Automata$1.06/1hr38h87.26%87.41%
- 98ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights$1.08/1hr23h92.18%93.77%
- 99Cruelty Squad$1.10/1hr18h92.86%96.07%
- 100State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition$1.10/1hr27h83.04%82.76%
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.