Best Value Zombies Games Under $40
The Zombies games on Steam games under $40 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.
- 1Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.03/1hr393h74.12%73.71%
- 2Left 4 Dead 2$0.12/1hr82h97.41%97.52%
- 3Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 4Project Zomboid$0.14/1hr182h93.60%93.77%
- 5Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.19/1hr27h93.37%94.18%
- 6Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.20/1hr25h96.95%97.70%
- 7Resident Evil 6$0.21/1hr23h78.18%77.18%
- 8Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.32%
- 9Mist Survival$0.28/1hr30h79.65%75.70%
- 10Monster Prom$0.28/1hr9h89.63%93.02%
- 11Welcome to ParadiZe$0.28/1hr11h82.72%67.24%
- 12Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.77%86.98%
- 13They Are Billions$0.30/1hr98h85.16%85.13%
- 14The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.31/1hr23h83.44%80.52%
- 15Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.31/1hr127h72.69%71.78%
- 16Resident Evil 0$0.33/1hr15h81.67%80.09%
- 17Resident Evil 4$0.33/1hr30h96.94%97.35%
- 18Brick Rigs$0.34/1hr59h93.56%94.94%
- 19Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr15h79.99%78.32%
- 20SurrounDead$0.36/1hr33h89.48%91.02%
- 21Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.39/1hr15h79.75%77.04%
- 22Saints Row: The Third$0.42/1hr24h94.31%95.60%
- 23Half-Life 2$0.42/1hr24h97.17%97.60%
- 24Colony Survival$0.43/1hr58h88.58%92.10%
- 25Resident Evil 2$0.43/1hr18h96.54%97.04%
- 26Tower Unite$0.44/1hr46h88.32%89.69%
- 27Resident Evil Revelations$0.45/1hr11h82.69%81.26%
- 28Yet Another Zombie Survivors$0.45/1hr33h89.17%91.55%
- 29Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.46/1hr26h87.70%94.19%
- 30HumanitZ$0.51/1hr39h78.59%74.25%
- 31Prototype$0.51/1hr12h82.24%80.46%
- 32Resident Evil Village$0.54/1hr19h95.00%95.63%
- 33Dead Space (2008)$0.58/1hr14h90.23%91.91%
- 34Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.61/1hr13h94.56%95.29%
- 35Death Road to Canada$0.61/1hr25h89.21%92.73%
- 36Painkiller: Black Edition$0.62/1hr16h86.13%88.95%
- 37The Final Station$0.63/1hr6h86.08%87.45%
- 38GTFO$0.68/1hr16h84.05%83.86%
- 39DOOM 3$0.68/1hr15h85.54%86.15%
- 40Contagion$0.69/1hr14h77.63%72.73%
- 41Infection Free Zone$0.69/1hr35h82.32%80.66%
- 42Dread Dawn$0.70/1hr29h83.00%72.42%
- 43Urban Strife$0.75/1hr46h83.87%70.60%
- 44Days Gone$0.75/1hr53h92.15%92.73%
- 45Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days$0.77/1hr33h86.98%89.25%
- 46Call of Duty: Black Ops III$0.77/1hr19h85.17%85.16%
- 47IfSunSets$0.84/1hr24h82.76%74.55%
- 48Far Cry$0.84/1hr12h83.16%81.78%
- 49Resident Evil 3$0.85/1hr9h83.57%83.43%
- 50Left 4 Dead$0.88/1hr11h94.98%96.39%
- 51S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.88/1hr23h93.19%95.69%
- 52State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition$0.88/1hr34h83.05%82.72%
- 53The Forest$0.88/1hr23h95.38%95.52%
- 54State of Decay: YOSE$0.88/1hr23h83.44%82.42%
- 55Miscreated$0.89/1hr34h70.61%65.95%
- 56Red Dead Redemption$0.89/1hr28h90.18%92.42%
- 57Diplomacy is Not an Option$0.89/1hr34h85.51%85.59%
- 58Prototype 2$0.90/1hr13h80.13%76.80%
- 59The Evil Within$0.91/1hr22h85.12%85.22%
- 60Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition$0.92/1hr32h89.20%89.96%
- 61Sunset Overdrive$0.94/1hr21h87.89%90.04%
- 62Night of the Dead$0.98/1hr31h80.80%76.92%
- 63The Walking Dead$1.03/1hr15h96.00%97.33%
- 64Black Mesa$1.06/1hr19h94.33%94.95%
- 65Deadzone: Rogue$1.10/1hr23h83.55%82.42%
- 66Dead Estate$1.11/1hr13h89.08%94.59%
- 67Dead Island Definitive Edition$1.12/1hr18h82.77%81.86%
- 68Survive the Nights$1.17/1hr17h77.05%65.62%
- 69Killing Floor$1.19/1hr17h93.91%95.15%
- 70World War Z$1.21/1hr23h83.14%82.48%
- 71DOOM$1.21/1hr16h95.08%95.52%
- 72ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights$1.24/1hr20h92.25%93.76%
- 73Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.24/1hr4h85.31%85.09%
- 74Half-Life: Blue Shift$1.24/1hr4h90.09%92.59%
- 75Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)$1.28/1hr8h91.29%93.68%
- 76Door Kickers: Action Squad$1.33/1hr11h90.16%94.71%
- 77Pavlov$1.33/1hr19h87.95%88.60%
- 78No More Room in Hell 2$1.35/1hr22h64.24%56.72%
- 79SKYHILL$1.38/1hr7h82.82%78.32%
- 80The Walking Dead: Season Two$1.38/1hr11h94.03%96.58%
- 81Killing Floor 2$1.42/1hr21h88.05%88.26%
- 82South Park: The Stick of Truth$1.43/1hr21h96.10%97.57%
- 83DeadPoly$1.44/1hr7h82.01%77.56%
- 84S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky$1.50/1hr13h85.30%85.29%
- 85Call of Duty: World at War$1.53/1hr10h91.24%92.35%
- 86Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare$1.53/1hr10h67.57%61.67%
- 87Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)$1.55/1hr10h88.27%89.00%
- 88Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War$1.55/1hr10h81.15%79.37%
- 89The Walking Dead: The Final Season$1.58/1hr13h91.80%95.06%
- 90Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.60/1hr12h77.27%71.08%
- 91The Walking Dead: A New Frontier$1.67/1hr9h83.95%83.51%
- 92Plague Inc: Evolved$1.68/1hr9h93.04%94.21%
- 93Book of Demons$1.69/1hr15h87.57%90.53%
- 94Yet Another Zombie Defense HD$1.92/1hr2h84.50%82.03%
- 95Call of Duty: Vanguard$1.99/1hr10h79.52%67.43%
- 96Call of Duty: Modern Warfare$1.99/1hr8h80.11%78.96%
- 97Call of Duty: WWII$2.01/1hr7h73.02%70.39%
- 98Call of Duty: Black Ops$2.02/1hr10h89.88%90.93%
- 99The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners$2.11/1hr9h85.18%85.59%
- 100The Evil Within 2$2.15/1hr19h90.45%92.07%
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.