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.
- 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%
- 15Rust$0.14/1hr287h86.68%86.67%
- 16Project Zomboid$0.16/1hr161h93.63%93.75%
- 17Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 18Left 4 Dead 2$0.20/1hr50h97.43%97.52%
- 19ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.20/1hr74h84.52%84.77%
- 20Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition$0.22/1hr23h82.19%81.66%
- 21Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 22Dome Keeper$0.23/1hr20h90.14%92.35%
- 23Doloc Town$0.25/1hr81h87.19%94.52%
- 24The Long Dark$0.25/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 25Timberborn$0.25/1hr98h93.89%95.97%
- 26Fallout 3$0.26/1hr9h82.34%81.48%
- 27HumanitZ$0.27/1hr45h78.37%74.26%
- 28Chernobylite Complete Edition$0.28/1hr22h83.24%81.99%
- 29Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.28/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 30Grim Dawn$0.29/1hr86h92.75%93.44%
- 31SurrounDead$0.32/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 32Sunkenland$0.32/1hr62h81.57%80.44%
- 33World War Z$0.33/1hr23h82.86%82.44%
- 34Insect Swarm$0.33/1hr7h84.96%84.15%
- 35Nuclear Throne$0.34/1hr36h92.38%96.01%
- 36Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.34/1hr50h79.10%78.70%
- 37Rain World$0.35/1hr32h92.44%93.70%
- 38R.E.P.O.$0.35/1hr29h95.81%95.99%
- 39Deadside$0.36/1hr69h77.44%75.53%
- 40Phoenix Point$0.37/1hr68h80.48%73.14%
- 41They Are Billions$0.38/1hr80h85.13%85.12%
- 42HighFleet$0.40/1hr38h86.49%88.24%
- 43Dying Light$0.41/1hr42h95.09%95.23%
- 44Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.41/1hr29h87.35%94.21%
- 45ZERO Sievert$0.45/1hr44h84.55%84.73%
- 46Forever Skies$0.46/1hr26h81.37%78.17%
- 47Deadzone: Rogue$0.49/1hr26h83.47%82.44%
- 48RAGE$0.49/1hr20h80.11%77.85%
- 49Pacific Drive$0.53/1hr34h83.70%83.14%
- 50OUTRIDERS$0.55/1hr36h69.54%66.99%
- 51Kill The Crows$0.57/1hr9h86.87%95.09%
- 52The Wandering Village$0.58/1hr26h88.62%91.97%
- 53DUCKSIDE$0.58/1hr26h81.40%72.16%
- 54Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.60/1hr50h80.06%78.65%
- 55BlazBlue Entropy Effect$0.60/1hr33h92.34%94.30%
- 56Chained Together$0.62/1hr6h89.05%89.65%
- 57Infection Free Zone$0.64/1hr39h82.25%80.67%
- 58The Long Drive$0.66/1hr24h87.83%88.29%
- 59State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition$0.70/1hr43h83.03%82.73%
- 60The Forever Winter$0.70/1hr43h72.80%68.21%
- 61Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days$0.70/1hr36h86.74%89.26%
- 62HAAK$0.70/1hr26h86.57%89.58%
- 63Urban Strife$0.71/1hr50h83.37%70.38%
- 64Days Gone$0.72/1hr55h92.13%92.72%
- 65Contagion$0.73/1hr14h77.21%72.73%
- 66ELEX$0.73/1hr41h77.68%74.32%
- 67I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.73/1hr27h84.30%84.38%
- 68The Talos Principle 2$0.76/1hr40h90.37%94.92%
- 69The End Is Nigh$0.76/1hr20h87.82%93.66%
- 70Dread Delusion$0.76/1hr26h87.28%90.14%
- 71Generation Zero$0.77/1hr32h74.55%72.04%
- 72Drive Beyond Horizons$0.77/1hr23h80.34%77.95%
- 73ATRI -My Dear Moments-$0.79/1hr11h94.44%98.38%
- 74DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.80/1hr50h91.31%92.20%
- 75AI LIMIT$0.81/1hr28h90.37%91.78%
- 76Rusted Moss$0.85/1hr24h86.02%89.27%
- 77Darksiders Warmastered Edition$0.85/1hr23h87.26%88.05%
- 78The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.89/1hr28h83.29%80.52%
- 79Sunset Overdrive$0.92/1hr22h87.69%90.06%
- 80Wasteland 3$0.92/1hr43h84.78%84.60%
- 81Borderlands Game of the Year$0.93/1hr32h88.64%89.72%
- 82S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.94/1hr21h93.15%95.68%
- 83LISA: The Painful$0.95/1hr21h91.36%95.42%
- 84Survive the Nights$0.97/1hr21h76.72%65.59%
- 85The Walking Dead$0.99/1hr15h95.99%97.33%
- 86Frostpunk$1.00/1hr30h92.23%92.74%
- 87Roboquest$1.00/1hr25h92.34%95.27%
- 88State of Decay: YOSE$1.01/1hr20h83.20%82.40%
- 89Metro Exodus$1.01/1hr30h89.62%89.95%
- 90This War of Mine$1.02/1hr20h93.03%93.83%
- 91Tom Clancy’s The Division$1.03/1hr29h72.26%70.92%
- 92Cruelty Squad$1.06/1hr19h92.93%96.02%
- 93Eastward$1.07/1hr23h84.29%83.89%
- 94Left 4 Dead$1.08/1hr9h94.95%96.39%
- 95Killing Floor 2$1.11/1hr27h88.04%88.26%
- 96NieR:Automata$1.14/1hr35h87.29%87.43%
- 97Surviving the Aftermath$1.17/1hr26h80.54%70.47%
- 98S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$1.18/1hr17h93.04%94.68%
- 99IXION$1.20/1hr29h81.09%78.79%
- 10060 Seconds!$1.20/1hr7h85.04%84.93%
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.