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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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.
- 1Myth of Empires$0.03/1hr224h73.97%67.60%
- 2SCUM$0.03/1hr526h74.83%74.01%
- 3Terraria$0.04/1hr130h97.31%97.37%
- 4Don't Starve Together$0.05/1hr102h94.78%94.90%
- 5Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.06/1hr103h79.91%78.37%
- 6Rust$0.06/1hr311h86.70%86.69%
- 7Space Engineers$0.07/1hr145h88.56%88.81%
- 8Dying Light$0.07/1hr36h95.09%95.23%
- 9ARK: Survival Evolved$0.08/1hr123h83.40%83.34%
- 10Starbound$0.08/1hr71h89.79%89.93%
- 11Subsistence$0.09/1hr104h77.22%72.12%
- 12Project Zomboid$0.10/1hr162h93.64%93.75%
- 13Don't Starve$0.11/1hr22h95.62%96.54%
- 14Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.13/1hr100h86.78%94.97%
- 15Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.13/1hr155h79.53%79.05%
- 16Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 17Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.14/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 18Deadside$0.14/1hr69h77.44%75.53%
- 19Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr13h76.79%71.07%
- 20The Forest$0.15/1hr28h95.42%95.52%
- 21TerraTech$0.15/1hr40h89.33%91.35%
- 22SurrounDead$0.16/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 23ASTRONEER$0.16/1hr46h91.45%91.90%
- 24Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 25Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.16/1hr77h89.75%90.51%
- 26Occupy Mars: The Game$0.17/1hr91h81.24%69.78%
- 27Night of the Dead$0.17/1hr35h80.67%76.88%
- 28Stoneshard$0.17/1hr101h76.97%74.67%
- 29Ostranauts$0.18/1hr91h82.51%77.13%
- 30Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.18/1hr62h84.61%85.37%
- 31Core Keeper$0.18/1hr65h91.93%92.94%
- 32Necesse$0.19/1hr52h90.77%92.68%
- 33Forager$0.20/1hr30h88.68%89.47%
- 34Subnautica$0.20/1hr37h96.86%97.09%
- 35The Survivalists$0.20/1hr25h80.20%76.18%
- 36Smalland: Survive the Wilds$0.20/1hr35h83.35%81.61%
- 37Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 38The Planet Crafter$0.22/1hr54h94.74%96.03%
- 39Outpath$0.23/1hr17h86.78%92.65%
- 40The Long Dark$0.23/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 41Crashlands$0.23/1hr19h86.39%89.52%
- 42DUCKSIDE$0.23/1hr26h81.40%72.16%
- 43ICARUS$0.24/1hr74h76.02%74.69%
- 44Survive the Nights$0.24/1hr21h76.72%65.59%
- 45Sunkenland$0.24/1hr62h81.57%80.44%
- 46ASKA$0.24/1hr82h82.33%80.00%
- 47Soulmask$0.25/1hr78h79.52%77.00%
- 48The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria$0.28/1hr43h82.47%81.03%
- 49Longvinter$0.28/1hr29h77.31%67.11%
- 50Dinkum$0.28/1hr56h90.09%91.78%
- 51Days Gone$0.29/1hr55h92.13%92.72%
- 52I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.29/1hr27h84.30%84.38%
- 53Subnautica: Below Zero$0.30/1hr25h89.64%90.05%
- 54Rising World$0.30/1hr37h84.82%85.75%
- 55Grounded$0.30/1hr66h89.32%89.75%
- 56Mist Survival$0.31/1hr26h79.18%75.65%
- 57Far Cry Primal$0.32/1hr23h86.15%86.38%
- 58Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey$0.33/1hr30h81.83%79.04%
- 59Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.34/1hr17h79.39%77.02%
- 60Wildmender$0.35/1hr24h84.87%84.49%
- 61Welcome to ParadiZe$0.38/1hr12h82.21%67.39%
- 62Eden Crafters$0.39/1hr31h85.06%85.47%
- 63Raft$0.39/1hr34h92.86%92.99%
- 64Craftopia$0.40/1hr37h78.98%75.91%
- 65The Front$0.41/1hr25h75.58%66.63%
- 66Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.41/1hr29h87.35%94.21%
- 67IfSunSets$0.42/1hr29h82.36%74.72%
- 68Arctico$0.43/1hr2h81.41%70.22%
- 69How to Survive$0.49/1hr8h83.60%82.67%
- 70Nova Lands$0.51/1hr18h86.66%89.17%
- 71Forever Skies$0.52/1hr26h81.37%78.17%
- 72Volcanoids$0.56/1hr25h83.46%82.61%
- 73Aloft$0.57/1hr31h84.00%83.28%
- 74The Infected$0.57/1hr17h84.73%84.09%
- 75Castle Story$0.59/1hr17h75.16%65.19%
- 76Nightingale$0.60/1hr13h72.55%66.06%
- 77METAL GEAR SURVIVE$0.71/1hr25h78.49%65.74%
- 78Voidtrain$0.76/1hr20h78.83%73.38%
- 79DeadPoly$0.79/1hr6h81.72%77.63%
- 80Len's Island$0.90/1hr15h82.70%79.59%
- 81Stranded Deep$1.48/1hr14h76.05%74.15%
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.