Best Value Open World Survival Craft Games Under $20
The Open World Survival Craft games on Steam games under $20 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.
- 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%
- 5Dying Light$0.13/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 6Deadside$0.15/1hr69h77.38%75.51%
- 7ARK: Survival Evolved$0.17/1hr87h83.35%83.33%
- 8The Long Dark$0.19/1hr103h88.64%88.94%
- 9Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 10Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.23/1hr87h79.91%78.45%
- 11Stoneshard$0.24/1hr68h76.91%74.63%
- 12Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.27/1hr63h85.11%85.50%
- 13Necesse$0.28/1hr27h90.76%92.81%
- 14The Infected$0.30/1hr53h84.68%84.32%
- 15Sunkenland$0.31/1hr65h81.78%80.45%
- 16Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey$0.31/1hr26h81.71%78.99%
- 17I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h84.87%84.73%
- 18Dinkum$0.34/1hr59h90.07%91.84%
- 19Core Keeper$0.35/1hr58h91.90%92.95%
- 20Ostranauts$0.36/1hr44h83.44%79.22%
- 21Don't Starve Together$0.37/1hr40h94.75%94.93%
- 22Don't Starve$0.38/1hr26h95.61%96.55%
- 23Subsistence$0.39/1hr35h77.42%71.95%
- 24Crashlands$0.42/1hr36h86.79%89.53%
- 25Mist Survival$0.42/1hr26h79.54%75.77%
- 26SurrounDead$0.43/1hr28h89.70%91.51%
- 27Forever Skies$0.44/1hr28h81.94%78.55%
- 28Rising World$0.48/1hr31h85.23%85.71%
- 29Raft$0.49/1hr41h92.80%93.01%
- 30Green Hell$0.49/1hr18h84.72%84.70%
- 31DUCKSIDE$0.51/1hr12h81.98%72.36%
- 32The Forest$0.53/1hr38h95.38%95.53%
- 33The Front$0.57/1hr35h75.46%66.87%
- 34Forager$0.58/1hr34h88.66%89.51%
- 35Eden Crafters$0.60/1hr33h84.84%85.45%
- 36Castle Story$0.63/1hr16h74.71%65.07%
- 37Longvinter$0.65/1hr31h77.21%67.41%
- 38Nova Lands$0.65/1hr31h85.95%89.26%
- 39The Survivalists$0.72/1hr21h80.57%76.24%
- 40Tribes of Midgard$0.82/1hr24h78.89%76.39%
- 41Volcanoids$0.98/1hr20h83.84%82.67%
- 42Stranded Deep$1.43/1hr14h76.04%74.18%
- 43Survive the Nights$1.45/1hr14h77.22%65.71%
- 44Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.53/1hr13h77.16%71.15%
- 45Arctico$2.12/1hr5h82.00%70.36%
- 46DeadPoly$2.34/1hr4h82.16%77.61%
- 47Badiya: Desert Survival$4.43/1hr5h83.74%48.54%
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.