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.
- 1Starbound$0.04/1hr120h89.66%90.00%
- 2FTL: Faster Than Light$0.07/1hr53h94.02%95.11%
- 3Death Road to Canada$0.10/1hr23h89.17%92.75%
- 4Brotato$0.10/1hr29h95.22%96.05%
- 5Among Us$0.11/1hr28h91.91%91.99%
- 6Trailmakers$0.11/1hr44h90.70%92.09%
- 7theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.13/1hr31h88.90%89.07%
- 8This War of Mine$0.15/1hr20h93.07%93.85%
- 9Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.15/1hr26h93.84%96.02%
- 10Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr27h96.95%97.70%
- 11Generation Zero$0.19/1hr26h74.61%72.03%
- 12SKYHILL$0.19/1hr5h82.83%78.23%
- 13Green Hell$0.19/1hr19h84.79%84.72%
- 14Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.20/1hr25h93.32%94.12%
- 15Town of Salem$0.20/1hr24h87.36%87.88%
- 16Frostpunk$0.21/1hr22h92.23%92.73%
- 17Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.21/1hr19h87.23%89.95%
- 18Resident Evil 6$0.24/1hr21h78.33%77.31%
- 1920 Minutes Till Dawn$0.24/1hr13h89.28%90.60%
- 20Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.14%95.25%
- 21Far Cry$0.25/1hr12h83.27%81.81%
- 22Picayune Dreams$0.26/1hr19h89.65%98.92%
- 23Endzone - A World Apart$0.26/1hr10h81.12%76.76%
- 24Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.81%92.30%
- 25A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr14h92.28%93.25%
- 26God Of Weapons$0.29/1hr9h84.99%84.09%
- 27Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr17h81.81%80.16%
- 28Resident Evil 5$0.33/1hr15h86.76%86.96%
- 29Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr15h79.88%78.27%
- 30EVERSPACE$0.36/1hr6h81.63%78.30%
- 31FAR: Lone Sails$0.37/1hr4h92.55%95.26%
- 32The Binding of Isaac$0.42/1hr12h93.38%94.65%
- 33Resident Evil Revelations$0.43/1hr11h82.58%81.27%
- 34ALTF4$0.47/1hr6h82.41%79.60%
- 35Unrailed!$0.48/1hr6h90.58%93.19%
- 36Feign$0.63/1hr8h87.68%91.22%
- 37Wedding Witch$0.63/1hr8h86.76%89.57%
- 3860 Seconds! Reatomized$0.71/1hr7h91.40%94.47%
- 39Five Nights at Freddy's$1.17/1hr4h92.60%93.81%
- 40Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.92/1hr3h85.01%85.07%
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.