Best Rated Survival Games Under $40
The best rated Survival 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.
- 1Left 4 Dead 21,037,29797.41%97.53%
- 2RimWorld240,69397.39%97.88%
- 3Terraria1,527,76697.31%97.39%
- 4Factorio230,35697.01%97.51%
- 5Counter-Strike259,94796.97%97.41%
- 6Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition152,92496.94%97.70%
- 7Bloons TD 6388,21296.90%97.20%
- 8Deep Rock Galactic376,63196.85%97.16%
- 9Resident Evil 4254,41996.84%97.29%
- 10Satisfactory272,41396.83%97.25%
- 11Subnautica371,44296.78%97.08%
- 12Resident Evil 2212,76396.52%97.04%
- 13Oxygen Not Included140,81596.02%96.77%
- 14The Walking Dead79,51395.99%97.33%
- 15R.E.P.O.399,37095.84%96.10%
- 16Counter-Strike: Source191,54795.75%96.29%
- 17Outlast136,10395.70%96.46%
- 18Don't Starve112,70395.66%96.57%
- 19Fallout: New Vegas258,00995.60%96.00%
- 20The Forest672,68495.39%95.54%
- 21Brotato114,81895.33%96.20%
- 22Dying Light488,32895.04%95.24%
- 23Resident Evil Village148,37794.96%95.61%
- 24Left 4 Dead66,92594.96%96.39%
- 25Don't Starve Together532,35594.84%95.02%
- 26Kenshi113,28294.75%95.57%
- 27The Planet Crafter70,62394.72%96.05%
- 28Resident Evil 7 Biohazard121,60694.55%95.31%
- 29Abiotic Factor55,76694.26%95.85%
- 30My Summer Car114,40294.17%94.94%
- 31Palworld422,57194.06%94.26%
- 32FTL: Faster Than Light78,05094.02%95.13%
- 33The Walking Dead: Season Two33,67494.02%96.58%
- 34Clone Drone in the Danger Zone38,40893.94%96.16%
- 35Killing Floor68,64993.93%95.17%
- 36Valheim535,06993.86%94.02%
- 37Project Zomboid453,29293.85%94.04%
- 38Timberborn39,88393.83%95.95%
- 39Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun38,26293.82%96.02%
- 40Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc37,12393.75%96.00%
- 41Rise of the Tomb Raider152,54793.62%94.16%
- 42Risk of Rain 2348,51893.55%93.79%
- 43The Binding of Isaac62,39093.41%94.70%
- 44Resident Evil 4 (2005)95,73693.25%94.08%
- 45S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat31,34393.18%95.67%
- 46Barotrauma86,85493.12%94.01%
- 47Blood and Bacon36,12193.10%95.23%
- 48S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl47,95093.07%94.67%
- 49This War of Mine97,09893.07%93.86%
- 50Plague Inc: Evolved62,90993.05%94.26%
- 51Mindustry26,85692.96%95.78%
- 52Raft372,93192.84%93.04%
- 53Rain World52,26292.68%94.08%
- 54Against the Storm36,13492.63%94.63%
- 55Five Nights at Freddy's58,38992.55%93.78%
- 56Dwarf Fortress31,10892.53%94.83%
- 57FAR: Lone Sails25,95192.52%95.26%
- 58A Plague Tale: Innocence67,61892.33%93.36%
- 59Desperados III16,38392.29%96.51%
- 60Contraband Police24,94392.24%94.99%
- 61WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition12,86192.24%97.56%
- 62Frostpunk135,20292.22%92.72%
- 63Darkwood24,32392.15%94.93%
- 64Days Gone114,38892.15%92.74%
- 65Alien: Isolation65,50692.12%93.15%
- 66The Outlast Trials104,42792.05%92.69%
- 67The Walking Dead: The Final Season21,22891.97%95.07%
- 68Core Keeper64,83191.93%92.94%
- 69Among Us732,70591.87%91.96%
- 70Crosshair X42,04391.86%93.40%
- 71Dead Space 228,97591.77%93.98%
- 72Metro 2033 Redux135,28691.72%92.19%
- 73Mad Max89,19091.64%92.34%
- 74Kingdoms and Castles31,13791.56%93.54%
- 75ASTRONEER138,16091.51%91.95%
- 76Five Nights at Freddy's 225,74091.38%93.70%
- 77Scrap Mechanic117,64991.34%91.85%
- 7860 Seconds! Reatomized19,09291.31%94.41%
- 79FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED12,99291.27%95.80%
- 80Call of Duty: World at War52,81591.27%92.38%
- 81Empires of the Undergrowth18,04991.18%94.39%
- 82Risk of Rain (2013)29,81191.12%93.05%
- 83Necesse27,32391.07%93.14%
- 84Caves of Qud12,34590.79%95.16%
- 85Resident Evil34,86990.75%92.29%
- 86Unrailed!19,59090.57%93.22%
- 87Trailmakers36,06190.57%92.01%
- 88Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander12,64390.51%94.47%
- 89Metro: Last Light Redux78,85490.50%91.15%
- 90Dungeon Defenders18,86690.48%93.17%
- 91The Evil Within 230,60290.46%92.12%
- 92Bloons TD 511,86990.43%94.67%
- 93POSTAL: Brain Damaged10,85990.40%95.02%
