Best Value Open World Survival Craft Games
The Open World Survival Craft games that stretch a budget furthest: median reviewer playtime divided by current price. Pick your currency in the top bar to rank against your local prices.
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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.
- 1Rust$0.05/1hr394h86.78%86.80%
- 2Terraria$0.07/1hr148h97.30%97.38%
- 3Space Engineers$0.08/1hr254h88.57%88.84%
- 4Starbound$0.10/1hr157h89.60%89.97%
- 5Eco$0.12/1hr186h82.48%80.73%
- 6Project Zomboid$0.13/1hr200h93.68%93.87%
- 7Dying Light$0.13/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 8Deadside$0.15/1hr69h77.38%75.51%
- 97 Days to Die$0.17/1hr271h87.20%87.26%
- 10ARK: Survival Evolved$0.17/1hr87h83.35%83.33%
- 11The Long Dark$0.19/1hr103h88.64%88.94%
- 12Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 13Miscreated$0.21/1hr146h70.51%65.95%
- 14Myth of Empires$0.22/1hr137h73.86%67.53%
- 15Card Survival: Fantasy Forest$0.22/1hr100h84.00%75.90%
- 16Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.22/1hr181h79.48%79.02%
- 17Satisfactory$0.22/1hr179h96.83%97.26%
- 18Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.22/1hr112h89.71%90.51%
- 19Stationeers$0.23/1hr154h86.15%87.73%
- 20Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.23/1hr87h79.91%78.45%
- 21Stoneshard$0.24/1hr68h76.91%74.63%
- 22SCUM$0.25/1hr182h74.99%74.20%
- 23Soulmask$0.26/1hr117h79.59%77.18%
- 24Valheim$0.26/1hr115h93.82%93.99%
- 25Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.27/1hr63h85.11%85.50%
- 26Necesse$0.28/1hr27h90.76%92.81%
- 27The Infected$0.30/1hr53h84.68%84.32%
- 28Palworld$0.30/1hr99h94.29%94.49%
- 29Sunkenland$0.31/1hr65h81.78%80.45%
- 30Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey$0.31/1hr26h81.71%78.99%
- 31I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h84.87%84.73%
- 32Dinkum$0.34/1hr59h90.07%91.84%
- 33Core Keeper$0.35/1hr58h91.90%92.95%
- 34ASKA$0.36/1hr70h82.16%79.85%
- 35Ostranauts$0.36/1hr44h83.44%79.22%
- 36Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.36/1hr69h87.29%95.02%
- 37Don't Starve Together$0.37/1hr40h94.75%94.93%
- 38Don't Starve$0.38/1hr26h95.61%96.55%
- 39Subsistence$0.39/1hr35h77.42%71.95%
- 40Crashlands$0.42/1hr36h86.79%89.53%
- 41Mist Survival$0.42/1hr26h79.54%75.77%
- 42Abiotic Factor$0.43/1hr82h94.20%95.80%
- 43SurrounDead$0.43/1hr28h89.70%91.51%
- 44Forever Skies$0.44/1hr28h81.94%78.55%
- 45The Planet Crafter$0.46/1hr53h94.70%96.04%
- 46Occupy Mars: The Game$0.46/1hr65h81.17%69.93%
- 47Night of the Dead$0.46/1hr65h80.60%76.93%
- 48Rising World$0.48/1hr31h85.23%85.71%
- 49Raft$0.49/1hr41h92.80%93.01%
- 50TerraTech$0.49/1hr51h89.55%91.40%
- 51Green Hell$0.49/1hr18h84.72%84.70%
- 52ASTRONEER$0.50/1hr60h91.46%91.93%
- 53DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2$0.50/1hr50h88.38%92.37%
- 54Grounded$0.51/1hr79h89.26%89.72%
- 55DUCKSIDE$0.51/1hr12h81.98%72.36%
- 56The Forest$0.53/1hr38h95.38%95.53%
- 57The Front$0.57/1hr35h75.46%66.87%
- 58Forager$0.58/1hr34h88.66%89.51%
- 59Eden Crafters$0.60/1hr33h84.84%85.45%
- 60Castle Story$0.63/1hr16h74.71%65.07%
- 61Longvinter$0.65/1hr31h77.21%67.41%
- 62Nova Lands$0.65/1hr31h85.95%89.26%
- 63The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria$0.69/1hr43h82.83%81.11%
- 64No Man's Sky$0.69/1hr87h84.99%84.99%
- 65Crashlands 2$0.71/1hr35h85.53%87.97%
- 66The Survivalists$0.72/1hr21h80.57%76.24%
- 67Subnautica$0.72/1hr41h96.78%97.09%
- 68RuneScape: Dragonwilds$0.74/1hr41h82.14%81.17%
- 69Tribes of Midgard$0.82/1hr24h78.89%76.39%
- 70Days Gone$0.83/1hr48h92.11%92.73%
- 71Aloft$0.97/1hr26h84.63%83.77%
- 72Volcanoids$0.98/1hr20h83.84%82.67%
- 73Nightingale$1.02/1hr29h73.01%66.39%
- 74Subnautica: Below Zero$1.05/1hr29h89.64%90.08%
- 75Smalland: Survive the Wilds$1.11/1hr31h83.23%81.73%
- 76Wildmender$1.12/1hr22h84.85%84.47%
- 77Far Cry Primal$1.16/1hr26h86.07%86.35%
- 78Voidtrain$1.29/1hr23h79.38%73.68%
- 79Starbase$1.32/1hr26h72.94%55.55%
- 80Len's Island$1.41/1hr18h82.64%79.72%
- 81Stranded Deep$1.43/1hr14h76.04%74.18%
- 82Craftopia$1.45/1hr17h79.01%76.07%
- 83Survive the Nights$1.45/1hr14h77.22%65.71%
- 84Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.53/1hr13h77.16%71.15%
- 85Arctico$2.12/1hr5h82.00%70.36%
- 86Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$2.27/1hr13h79.63%77.04%
- 87DeadPoly$2.34/1hr4h82.16%77.61%
- 88ICARUS$3.87/1hr9h75.88%74.53%
- 89Badiya: Desert Survival$4.43/1hr5h83.74%48.54%
- 90Breathedge$5.64/1hr4h82.85%81.60%
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.