Best Value Survival Games Under $20
The Survival 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.
- 1Dead by Daylight$0.02/1hr363h78.36%78.25%
- 2Crosshair X$0.03/1hr309h91.89%93.36%
- 3Myth of Empires$0.03/1hr224h73.97%67.60%
- 4SCUM$0.03/1hr526h74.83%74.01%
- 5Fallout 4$0.04/1hr137h81.34%81.19%
- 6Outward Definitive Edition$0.04/1hr52h75.70%72.68%
- 7Fallout: New Vegas$0.04/1hr57h95.68%95.97%
- 8Fallout 76$0.05/1hr155h72.80%71.92%
- 9Deep Rock Galactic$0.07/1hr135h96.87%97.10%
- 10Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 11Atomicrops$0.07/1hr41h87.85%92.05%
- 12Subsistence$0.08/1hr104h77.22%72.12%
- 13My Time at Portia$0.08/1hr72h90.31%91.46%
- 14Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 15Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 16Terraria$0.09/1hr106h97.31%97.37%
- 17Don't Starve Together$0.10/1hr150h94.77%94.89%
- 18Kenshi$0.10/1hr118h94.77%95.59%
- 19Mr. Prepper$0.10/1hr27h83.21%80.01%
- 20Town of Salem$0.10/1hr48h87.28%87.86%
- 21Brotato$0.11/1hr47h95.09%95.92%
- 22Against the Storm$0.11/1hr82h92.49%94.44%
- 23Among Us$0.11/1hr27h91.98%92.03%
- 24Space Haven$0.11/1hr89h85.49%85.76%
- 25Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 26Risk of Rain 2$0.13/1hr65h93.69%93.85%
- 27SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 28God Of Weapons$0.13/1hr46h84.78%84.02%
- 29Picayune Dreams$0.13/1hr19h89.94%98.88%
- 30Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 31Space Engineers$0.14/1hr145h88.56%88.81%
- 32Beasts of Bermuda$0.15/1hr137h77.13%68.88%
- 33Green Hell$0.15/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 34Dungeon Defenders$0.16/1hr96h90.57%93.09%
- 35Mindustry$0.16/1hr62h92.97%95.73%
- 36Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 37Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 38Stoneshard$0.17/1hr101h76.97%74.67%
- 39ARK: Survival Evolved$0.18/1hr85h83.40%83.34%
- 40Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 41Core Keeper$0.18/1hr65h91.93%92.94%
- 42Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 43Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 44Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.19/1hr103h79.91%78.37%
- 45The Survivalists$0.20/1hr25h80.20%76.18%
- 46Left 4 Dead 2$0.20/1hr50h97.43%97.52%
- 47Smalland: Survive the Wilds$0.20/1hr35h83.35%81.61%
- 48ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.20/1hr74h84.52%84.77%
- 49Risk of Rain (2013)$0.21/1hr10h91.08%93.05%
- 50Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr24h93.36%94.19%
- 51The Escapists$0.21/1hr13h88.29%90.21%
- 52Empires of the Undergrowth$0.21/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 53Blood and Bacon$0.21/1hr5h93.11%95.28%
- 54Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.21/1hr66h90.29%94.25%
- 55Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 56Bloons TD 6$0.22/1hr65h96.96%97.18%
- 57Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.22/1hr23h87.64%89.86%
- 58Ostranauts$0.22/1hr91h82.51%77.13%
- 59Total War: ATTILA$0.22/1hr89h83.00%82.42%
- 60ANEURISM IV$0.23/1hr44h80.74%75.15%
- 61Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 62Settlement Survival$0.23/1hr22h85.12%85.04%
- 63Bendy and the Dark Revival$0.23/1hr9h88.98%91.87%
- 64Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 65Per Aspera$0.24/1hr31h81.79%75.91%
- 66The Long Dark$0.25/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 67Resident Evil 6$0.25/1hr20h78.13%77.15%
- 68Starbound$0.25/1hr59h89.78%89.92%
- 69Niche - a genetics survival game$0.26/1hr14h84.91%86.14%
- 70The Binding of Isaac$0.26/1hr19h93.32%94.61%
- 71HUMANKIND$0.27/1hr47h73.27%69.14%
- 72The Planet Crafter$0.27/1hr54h94.74%96.03%
- 73Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr11h89.94%93.26%
- 74HumanitZ$0.27/1hr45h78.37%74.26%
- 75Yet Another Zombie Survivors$0.27/1hr34h89.06%91.55%
- 76Medieval Dynasty$0.28/1hr63h89.51%90.33%
- 77Chernobylite Complete Edition$0.28/1hr22h83.24%81.99%
- 78The Isle$0.28/1hr71h80.56%80.18%
- 79Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.28/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 80Alan Wake's American Nightmare$0.28/1hr5h79.16%74.45%
- 81SULFUR$0.29/1hr35h86.40%87.56%
- 82Necesse$0.29/1hr52h90.77%92.68%
- 83Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.74%86.97%
- 84Resident Evil$0.31/1hr16h90.71%92.31%
- 85Mist Survival$0.31/1hr26h79.18%75.65%
- 86Kingdoms Reborn$0.32/1hr63h87.75%90.38%
- 87Clanfolk$0.32/1hr47h86.39%91.61%
- 88SurrounDead$0.32/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 89Sunkenland$0.32/1hr62h81.57%80.44%
- 90FTL: Faster Than Light$0.32/1hr31h93.97%95.08%
- 91Eden Crafters$0.32/1hr31h85.06%85.47%
- 92Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide$0.33/1hr9h81.63%79.98%
- 93Cluckmech Oasis$0.33/1hr30h86.01%88.28%
- 94Norland$0.33/1hr45h83.36%81.63%
- 95My Summer Car$0.34/1hr45h94.16%94.92%
- 96Wedding Witch$0.34/1hr9h86.60%89.62%
- 97Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.34/1hr50h79.10%78.70%
- 98Dawn of Man$0.34/1hr37h86.22%86.80%
- 99Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.34/1hr17h79.39%77.02%
- 100Resident Evil 0$0.34/1hr14h81.47%80.05%
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.