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.
- 1Starbound$0.04/1hr120h89.66%90.00%
- 2Crosshair X$0.05/1hr196h91.91%93.37%
- 3Dead by Daylight$0.05/1hr364h78.51%78.44%
- 4FTL: Faster Than Light$0.07/1hr53h94.02%95.11%
- 5Beasts of Bermuda$0.09/1hr226h77.34%68.97%
- 6Kenshi$0.09/1hr127h94.76%95.56%
- 7My Time at Portia$0.09/1hr63h90.40%91.51%
- 8Terraria$0.10/1hr105h97.30%97.38%
- 9Death Road to Canada$0.10/1hr23h89.17%92.75%
- 10Brotato$0.10/1hr29h95.22%96.05%
- 11Among Us$0.11/1hr28h91.91%91.99%
- 12Deep Rock Galactic$0.11/1hr82h96.84%97.14%
- 13Trailmakers$0.11/1hr44h90.70%92.09%
- 14theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.13/1hr31h88.90%89.07%
- 15ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr110h83.36%83.33%
- 16Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr69h95.60%95.99%
- 17TerraTech$0.15/1hr42h89.55%91.39%
- 18This War of Mine$0.15/1hr20h93.07%93.85%
- 19Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.15/1hr43h85.87%86.82%
- 20Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.15/1hr26h93.84%96.02%
- 21Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.17/1hr35h72.24%70.87%
- 22R.E.P.O.$0.18/1hr37h95.81%96.06%
- 23Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr55h97.41%97.52%
- 24Crashlands$0.19/1hr28h86.80%89.50%
- 25Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr27h96.95%97.70%
- 26The Planet Crafter$0.19/1hr63h94.75%96.04%
- 27Cluckmech Oasis$0.19/1hr52h85.85%88.29%
- 28Generation Zero$0.19/1hr26h74.61%72.03%
- 29SKYHILL$0.19/1hr5h82.83%78.23%
- 30Green Hell$0.19/1hr19h84.79%84.72%
- 31Fallout 4$0.20/1hr101h81.29%81.19%
- 32Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.20/1hr25h93.32%94.12%
- 33Project Zomboid$0.20/1hr99h93.82%94.00%
- 34Town of Salem$0.20/1hr24h87.36%87.88%
- 35Frostpunk$0.21/1hr22h92.23%92.73%
- 36Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.21/1hr19h87.23%89.95%
- 37The Isle$0.21/1hr95h80.57%80.16%
- 38Space Engineers$0.23/1hr89h88.62%88.85%
- 39The Long Dark$0.23/1hr85h88.70%88.96%
- 40Resident Evil 6$0.24/1hr21h78.33%77.31%
- 4120 Minutes Till Dawn$0.24/1hr13h89.28%90.60%
- 42Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.14%95.25%
- 43Ratopia$0.24/1hr54h86.21%87.80%
- 44Per Aspera$0.24/1hr31h81.98%75.92%
- 45Subsistence$0.25/1hr42h77.44%71.95%
- 46Far Cry$0.25/1hr12h83.27%81.81%
- 47Mindustry$0.25/1hr40h92.99%95.72%
- 48Picayune Dreams$0.26/1hr19h89.65%98.92%
- 49Planetbase$0.26/1hr58h82.54%79.73%
- 50Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.26/1hr54h90.46%94.38%
- 51Endzone - A World Apart$0.26/1hr10h81.12%76.76%
- 52Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.81%92.30%
- 53Barotrauma$0.26/1hr76h93.14%94.01%
- 54ASKA$0.27/1hr75h82.39%79.83%
- 55Space Haven$0.27/1hr55h85.64%85.81%
- 56A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr14h92.28%93.25%
- 57Resident Evil 4$0.28/1hr36h96.90%97.33%
- 58Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.28/1hr21h81.13%79.70%
- 59God Of Weapons$0.29/1hr9h84.99%84.09%
- 60Medieval Dynasty$0.30/1hr58h89.60%90.40%
- 61Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr17h81.81%80.16%
- 62Sunkenland$0.30/1hr66h81.78%80.43%
- 63The Matchless Kungfu$0.31/1hr33h82.80%80.03%
- 64Terraformers$0.31/1hr26h86.25%88.41%
- 65Jurassic World Evolution$0.32/1hr39h87.12%87.43%
- 66Aliens: Dark Descent$0.32/1hr37h86.87%87.64%
- 67Eden Crafters$0.32/1hr40h85.45%85.43%
- 68Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom$0.32/1hr37h84.43%83.51%
- 69WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition$0.32/1hr61h92.30%97.53%
- 70The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.33/1hr21h83.48%80.54%
- 71Resident Evil 5$0.33/1hr15h86.76%86.96%
- 72Stonehearth$0.34/1hr59h79.70%75.28%
- 73Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr15h79.88%78.27%
- 74Bloons TD 5$0.35/1hr28h90.25%94.66%
- 75Resident Evil 2$0.36/1hr23h96.54%97.05%
- 76SULFUR$0.36/1hr35h86.38%87.35%
- 77EVERSPACE$0.36/1hr6h81.63%78.30%
- 78My Summer Car$0.36/1hr41h94.18%94.94%
- 79ANEURISM IV$0.37/1hr27h81.77%76.55%
- 80FAR: Lone Sails$0.37/1hr4h92.55%95.26%
- 81Kingdoms and Castles$0.37/1hr27h91.59%93.55%
- 82Bloons TD 6$0.37/1hr37h96.90%97.19%
- 83ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.39/1hr38h84.88%84.78%
- 84Mist Survival$0.39/1hr22h79.61%75.84%
- 85Rising World$0.40/1hr25h85.26%85.72%
- 86Night of the Dead$0.41/1hr30h80.64%76.97%
- 87Ostranauts$0.41/1hr49h84.41%80.55%
- 88Crashlands 2$0.41/1hr36h85.57%88.01%
- 89Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.42/1hr48h80.03%78.45%
- 90Core Keeper$0.42/1hr48h91.96%92.95%
- 91Banished$0.42/1hr48h89.49%90.42%
- 92The Binding of Isaac$0.42/1hr12h93.38%94.65%
- 93Necesse$0.42/1hr36h91.04%93.07%
- 94Dungeon Defenders$0.43/1hr35h90.29%93.09%
- 95Don't Starve Together$0.43/1hr35h94.77%94.94%
- 96Resident Evil Revelations$0.43/1hr11h82.58%81.27%
- 97Kingdoms Reborn$0.44/1hr45h87.92%90.47%
- 98Pacific Drive$0.45/1hr33h83.84%83.23%
- 99ALTF4$0.47/1hr6h82.41%79.60%
- 100Atomicrops$0.47/1hr32h88.01%92.06%
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.