Best Value Survival Games Under $5
The Survival games on Steam games under $5 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.
- 1Fallout 4$0.04/1hr137h81.34%81.19%
- 2Outward Definitive Edition$0.04/1hr52h75.70%72.68%
- 3Fallout: New Vegas$0.04/1hr57h95.68%95.97%
- 4Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 5Atomicrops$0.07/1hr41h87.85%92.05%
- 6Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 7Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 8Mr. Prepper$0.10/1hr27h83.21%80.01%
- 9Town of Salem$0.10/1hr48h87.28%87.86%
- 10Brotato$0.11/1hr47h95.09%95.92%
- 11Among Us$0.11/1hr27h91.98%92.03%
- 12SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 13Picayune Dreams$0.13/1hr19h89.94%98.88%
- 14Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 15Green Hell$0.15/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 16Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 17Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 18Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 19Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 20The Survivalists$0.20/1hr25h80.20%76.18%
- 21Risk of Rain (2013)$0.21/1hr10h91.08%93.05%
- 22Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr24h93.36%94.19%
- 23The Escapists$0.21/1hr13h88.29%90.21%
- 24Blood and Bacon$0.21/1hr5h93.11%95.28%
- 25Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 26Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 27Settlement Survival$0.23/1hr22h85.12%85.04%
- 28Bendy and the Dark Revival$0.23/1hr9h88.98%91.87%
- 29Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 30Resident Evil 6$0.25/1hr20h78.13%77.15%
- 31Niche - a genetics survival game$0.26/1hr14h84.91%86.14%
- 32The Binding of Isaac$0.26/1hr19h93.32%94.61%
- 33Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr11h89.94%93.26%
- 34Alan Wake's American Nightmare$0.28/1hr5h79.16%74.45%
- 35Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.74%86.97%
- 36Resident Evil$0.31/1hr16h90.71%92.31%
- 37Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide$0.33/1hr9h81.63%79.98%
- 38Wedding Witch$0.34/1hr9h86.60%89.62%
- 39Resident Evil 0$0.34/1hr14h81.47%80.05%
- 40Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.35/1hr14h79.73%78.33%
- 41Witch It$0.36/1hr8h87.61%88.84%
- 42Yet Another Zombie Defense HD$0.36/1hr2h84.33%82.05%
- 4320 Minutes Till Dawn$0.37/1hr14h88.98%90.28%
- 44Arctico$0.43/1hr2h81.41%70.22%
- 45Resident Evil Revelations$0.44/1hr11h82.32%81.28%
- 46Amnesia: The Bunker$0.45/1hr11h89.70%93.28%
- 47Kingdom Eighties$0.49/1hr7h82.72%75.34%
- 48Unrailed!$0.52/1hr6h90.47%93.15%
- 49Feign$0.67/1hr7h87.51%91.18%
- 50Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.12/1hr4h85.16%85.11%
- 51Five Nights at Freddy's$1.55/1hr3h92.57%93.82%
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.