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.
- 1FTL: Faster Than Light$0.04/1hr46h93.99%95.09%
- 2Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr29h93.79%95.97%
- 3Brotato$0.07/1hr42h95.11%95.93%
- 4theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.09/1hr34h88.91%89.08%
- 5Town of Salem$0.11/1hr44h87.32%87.87%
- 6Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 7Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.67%84.61%
- 8Portal Knights$0.15/1hr20h84.00%83.37%
- 9Generation Zero$0.15/1hr33h74.58%72.03%
- 10Army of Ruin$0.16/1hr25h85.99%88.05%
- 1120 Minutes Till Dawn$0.16/1hr15h89.04%90.31%
- 12Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.19/1hr27h93.37%94.18%
- 13Blood and Bacon$0.20/1hr5h93.14%95.27%
- 14Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.20/1hr25h96.95%97.70%
- 15Among Us$0.21/1hr24h91.93%92.02%
- 16Resident Evil 6$0.21/1hr23h78.18%77.18%
- 17Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.32%
- 18This War of Mine$0.27/1hr19h93.04%93.83%
- 19Picayune Dreams$0.27/1hr18h89.67%98.88%
- 20The Binding of Isaac$0.28/1hr18h93.34%94.62%
- 21Welcome to ParadiZe$0.28/1hr11h82.72%67.24%
- 22Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.77%86.98%
- 23Resident Evil 0$0.33/1hr15h81.67%80.09%
- 24Dead Space 2$0.33/1hr12h91.80%93.97%
- 25Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr15h79.99%78.32%
- 26Resident Evil Revelations$0.45/1hr11h82.69%81.26%
- 27The Final Station$0.63/1hr6h86.08%87.45%
- 28Wedding Witch$0.65/1hr8h86.76%89.62%
- 29Monstrum$0.80/1hr4h86.91%90.61%
- 30Feign$0.93/1hr5h87.25%91.15%
- 31Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.24/1hr4h85.31%85.09%
- 32Five Nights at Freddy's$1.58/1hr3h92.60%93.82%
- 33Yet Another Zombie Defense HD$1.92/1hr2h84.50%82.03%
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.