Best Rated Open World Survival Craft Games Under $40
The best rated Open World Survival Craft games on Steam for games under $40. Scores are weighted by review volume, so small-sample flukes stay off the list.
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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
- 1Terraria1,560,46297.31%97.37%
- 2Satisfactory280,63296.95%97.26%
- 3Subnautica381,30596.86%97.09%
- 4Don't Starve113,49895.62%96.54%
- 5The Forest684,06795.42%95.52%
- 6Dying Light496,77195.09%95.23%
- 7Don't Starve Together544,11694.78%94.90%
- 8The Planet Crafter74,15394.74%96.03%
- 9Palworld491,61194.46%94.59%
- 10Abiotic Factor59,30094.25%95.78%
- 11Project Zomboid486,52393.64%93.75%
- 12Valheim557,97893.51%93.61%
- 13Raft379,44892.86%92.99%
- 14Days Gone117,24592.13%92.72%
- 15Core Keeper66,65691.93%92.94%
- 16ASTRONEER139,45491.45%91.90%
- 17Necesse29,11690.77%92.68%
- 18Dinkum29,15090.09%91.78%
- 19Starbound123,32789.79%89.93%
- 20Stormworks: Build and Rescue60,13189.75%90.51%
- 21Subnautica: Below Zero108,46289.64%90.05%
- 22TerraTech25,02089.33%91.35%
- 23Grounded95,91589.32%89.75%
- 24SurrounDead26,94389.19%91.01%
- 25Forager44,08588.68%89.47%
- 26The Long Dark123,87888.61%88.89%
- 27Space Engineers134,48388.56%88.81%
- 28DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 28,09588.41%92.40%
- 29Terminus: Zombie Survivors4,50587.35%94.21%
- 30Dig or Die4,29087.18%90.47%
- 317 Days to Die401,82087.01%86.98%
- 32Outpath3,12886.78%92.65%
- 33Card Survival: Tropical Island3,06386.78%94.97%
- 34Rust1,405,11986.70%86.69%
- 35Nova Lands3,53686.66%89.17%
- 36Stationeers9,29686.42%87.76%
- 37Crashlands6,76686.39%89.52%
- 38Far Cry Primal41,36086.15%86.38%
- 39Walking Zombie 213,34286.10%87.48%
- 40Open World Game: the Open World Game2,54186.01%92.88%
- 41Survivalist: Invisible Strain4,55685.62%86.59%
- 42No Man's Sky422,33985.35%85.28%
- 43Eden Crafters2,68485.06%85.47%
- 44Crashlands 22,46585.00%87.99%
- 45Feel The Snow3,06184.95%87.19%
- 46Wildmender2,24384.87%84.49%
- 47Rising World6,01484.82%85.75%
- 48The Infected7,01984.73%84.09%
- 49Green Hell102,74984.66%84.61%
- 50Survival: Fountain of Youth4,51784.61%85.37%
- 51Badiya: Desert Survival34284.54%48.54%
- 52I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival4,69284.30%84.38%
- 53Aloft3,77484.00%83.28%
- 54Lighthouse Keeper47883.93%76.99%
- 55Above Snakes2,00483.92%74.65%
- 56How to Survive17,10683.60%82.67%
- 57Volcanoids9,35583.46%82.61%
- 58Card Survival: Fantasy Forest1,17883.44%76.40%
- 59Survivalist2,56783.42%80.13%
- 60Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper2,36683.42%79.84%
- 61ARK: Survival Evolved778,93683.40%83.34%
- 62Smalland: Survive the Wilds10,53783.35%81.61%
- 63Salt2,25282.85%76.55%
- 64Winter Survival77682.72%62.76%
- 65Len's Island7,96782.70%79.59%
- 66CastleMiner Z11,15682.70%81.30%
- 67Eco14,07882.55%80.69%
- 68Niffelheim2,33682.51%71.06%
- 69Ostranauts3,27082.51%77.13%
- 70CryoFall6,47182.48%78.30%
- 71The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria12,47782.47%81.03%
- 72IfSunSets2,49682.36%74.72%
- 73ASKA12,24282.33%80.00%
- 74Welcome to ParadiZe1,38382.21%67.39%
- 75Mirthwood2,38182.15%70.39%
- 76FortressCraft Evolved!3,06682.13%72.18%
- 77Breathedge18,41882.10%80.93%
- 78Spirit of the Island1,90782.06%65.71%
- 79Survive on Raft1,24781.95%63.43%
- 80RuneScape: Dragonwilds31,55781.94%80.91%
- 81Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey12,04281.83%79.04%
- 82DeadPoly6,23581.72%77.63%
- 83Force of Nature4,20881.66%75.48%
- 84Sunkenland23,97781.57%80.44%
- 85Arctico2,55281.41%70.22%
- 86DUCKSIDE3,10481.40%72.16%
- 87Forever Skies9,04681.37%78.17%
- 88Among Trees2,23781.31%68.13%
- 89Stars End1,43281.30%60.61%
- 90Cubic Castles4,28381.27%74.27%
- 91Occupy Mars: The Game3,16081.24%69.78%
- 92Wurm Unlimited3,13781.22%71.50%
- 93Boundless2,77481.06%69.50%
- 94Night of the Dead11,88480.67%76.88%
- 95The Survivalists10,12180.20%76.18%
- 96Empyrion - Galactic Survival34,43679.91%78.37%
- 97Wurm Online2,57879.78%62.37%
- 98Conan Exiles Enhanced117,62979.53%79.05%
- 99Soulmask22,48179.52%77.00%
- 100Creativerse30,70679.41%77.54%
