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.
- 1Crosshair X$0.03/1hr296h91.92%93.37%
- 2FTL: Faster Than Light$0.04/1hr46h93.99%95.09%
- 3Rust$0.05/1hr392h86.72%86.73%
- 4Terraria$0.07/1hr152h97.30%97.38%
- 5Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr29h93.79%95.97%
- 6Deep Rock Galactic$0.07/1hr129h96.81%97.11%
- 7Space Engineers$0.07/1hr142h88.57%88.81%
- 8Brotato$0.07/1hr42h95.11%95.93%
- 9Dead by Daylight$0.07/1hr274h78.38%78.31%
- 10theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.09/1hr34h88.91%89.08%
- 11Fallout 4$0.09/1hr211h81.27%81.17%
- 12Town of Salem$0.11/1hr44h87.32%87.87%
- 13Left 4 Dead 2$0.12/1hr82h97.41%97.52%
- 14ICARUS$0.12/1hr72h76.03%74.67%
- 15R.E.P.O.$0.12/1hr53h95.76%96.00%
- 16Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 17Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.67%84.61%
- 18Wartales$0.13/1hr73h85.54%85.60%
- 19ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr108h83.36%83.33%
- 20Subsistence$0.14/1hr99h77.65%72.08%
- 21Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr67h95.59%95.98%
- 22Portal Knights$0.15/1hr20h84.00%83.37%
- 23Generation Zero$0.15/1hr33h74.58%72.03%
- 24Dungeon Defenders$0.16/1hr95h90.44%93.09%
- 25Army of Ruin$0.16/1hr25h85.99%88.05%
- 26Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.16/1hr62h84.98%85.44%
- 27Bloons TD 6$0.16/1hr87h96.89%97.18%
- 2820 Minutes Till Dawn$0.16/1hr15h89.04%90.31%
- 29Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.17/1hr116h79.96%78.39%
- 30Mindustry$0.18/1hr56h92.99%95.72%
- 31God Of Weapons$0.18/1hr33h84.94%84.03%
- 32Starbound$0.18/1hr82h89.59%89.94%
- 33Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.19/1hr27h93.37%94.18%
- 34Blood and Bacon$0.20/1hr5h93.14%95.27%
- 35Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.20/1hr25h96.95%97.70%
- 36Among Us$0.21/1hr24h91.93%92.02%
- 37Don't Starve Together$0.21/1hr73h94.74%94.91%
- 38Frostpunk$0.21/1hr29h92.24%92.74%
- 39Resident Evil 6$0.21/1hr23h78.18%77.18%
- 40The Planet Crafter$0.21/1hr56h94.76%96.03%
- 41Settlement Survival$0.22/1hr24h85.20%85.04%
- 42Soulmask$0.22/1hr87h79.60%77.04%
- 43ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.23/1hr64h84.77%84.76%
- 44The Isle$0.25/1hr82h80.57%80.17%
- 45Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.25/1hr81h90.38%94.30%
- 46Ostranauts$0.25/1hr80h83.35%77.27%
- 47Per Aspera$0.26/1hr29h81.88%75.91%
- 48Necesse$0.26/1hr58h90.82%92.70%
- 49Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.32%
- 50Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.27/1hr45h85.73%86.61%
- 51MORDHAU$0.27/1hr22h80.34%79.90%
- 52This War of Mine$0.27/1hr19h93.04%93.83%
- 53Rain World$0.27/1hr32h92.46%93.70%
- 54ANEURISM IV$0.27/1hr36h81.48%75.33%
- 55Picayune Dreams$0.27/1hr18h89.67%98.88%
- 56Mist Survival$0.28/1hr30h79.65%75.70%
- 57The Binding of Isaac$0.28/1hr18h93.34%94.62%
- 58Welcome to ParadiZe$0.28/1hr11h82.72%67.24%
- 59Planetbase$0.29/1hr53h82.52%79.75%
- 60The Long Dark$0.29/1hr69h88.63%88.90%
- 61Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.77%86.98%
- 62Total War: ATTILA$0.30/1hr67h83.05%82.44%
- 63ASKA$0.30/1hr66h82.37%79.94%
- 64The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.31/1hr23h83.44%80.52%
- 65I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h85.05%84.45%
- 66Barotrauma$0.32/1hr55h93.14%94.01%
- 67Resident Evil 0$0.33/1hr15h81.67%80.09%
- 68Resident Evil 4$0.33/1hr30h96.94%97.35%
- 69Dead Space 2$0.33/1hr12h91.80%93.97%
- 70Rising World$0.34/1hr33h85.13%85.71%
- 71Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr15h79.99%78.32%
- 72Core Keeper$0.35/1hr57h91.95%92.94%
- 73Beasts of Bermuda$0.35/1hr57h77.26%68.93%
- 74SurrounDead$0.36/1hr33h89.48%91.02%
- 75Aliens: Dark Descent$0.36/1hr33h86.85%87.61%
- 76My Summer Car$0.37/1hr41h94.17%94.92%
- 77Cluckmech Oasis$0.37/1hr27h86.18%88.29%
- 78Counter-Strike: Source$0.37/1hr27h95.75%96.29%
- 79Sunkenland$0.37/1hr54h81.86%80.40%
- 80Banished$0.39/1hr52h89.48%90.43%
- 81Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.39/1hr15h79.75%77.04%
- 82Atomicrops$0.40/1hr37h87.98%92.03%
- 83Castle Story$0.41/1hr24h74.98%65.18%
- 84Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.42/1hr14h81.19%79.66%
- 85IXION$0.42/1hr25h81.18%78.79%
- 86Kingdoms Reborn$0.42/1hr47h87.86%90.37%
- 87Raft$0.43/1hr47h92.80%92.99%
- 88Resident Evil 2$0.43/1hr18h96.54%97.04%
- 89Resident Evil Revelations$0.45/1hr11h82.69%81.26%
- 90Forever Skies$0.45/1hr30h81.97%78.23%
- 91Yet Another Zombie Survivors$0.45/1hr33h89.17%91.55%
- 92Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.46/1hr26h87.70%94.19%
- 93Sailwind$0.46/1hr43h85.99%88.78%
- 94Mad Max$0.47/1hr43h91.65%92.35%
- 95Day of Dragons$0.48/1hr42h76.07%65.07%
- 96Bloons TD 5$0.48/1hr21h90.46%94.68%
- 97Craft The World$0.49/1hr38h87.30%88.41%
- 98Counter-Strike$0.50/1hr20h96.96%97.40%
- 99下一站江湖Ⅱ$0.50/1hr40h78.93%72.17%
- 100Don't Starve$0.50/1hr20h95.63%96.54%
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.