Best Value Open World Survival Craft Games Under $40
The Open World Survival Craft games on Steam games under $40 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.
- 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%
- 127 Days to Die$0.10/1hr257h87.01%86.98%
- 13Project Zomboid$0.10/1hr162h93.64%93.75%
- 14Eco$0.11/1hr204h82.55%80.69%
- 15Don't Starve$0.11/1hr22h95.62%96.54%
- 16Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.13/1hr100h86.78%94.97%
- 17Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.13/1hr155h79.53%79.05%
- 18Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 19Valheim$0.14/1hr200h93.51%93.61%
- 20Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.14/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 21Deadside$0.14/1hr69h77.44%75.53%
- 22Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr13h76.79%71.07%
- 23The Forest$0.15/1hr28h95.42%95.52%
- 24TerraTech$0.15/1hr40h89.33%91.35%
- 25SurrounDead$0.16/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 26ASTRONEER$0.16/1hr46h91.45%91.90%
- 27Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 28Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.16/1hr77h89.75%90.51%
- 29Occupy Mars: The Game$0.17/1hr91h81.24%69.78%
- 30Palworld$0.17/1hr124h94.46%94.59%
- 31Night of the Dead$0.17/1hr35h80.67%76.88%
- 32Stoneshard$0.17/1hr101h76.97%74.67%
- 33Ostranauts$0.18/1hr91h82.51%77.13%
- 34Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.18/1hr62h84.61%85.37%
- 35Core Keeper$0.18/1hr65h91.93%92.94%
- 36Necesse$0.19/1hr52h90.77%92.68%
- 37No Man's Sky$0.20/1hr122h85.35%85.28%
- 38Forager$0.20/1hr30h88.68%89.47%
- 39Subnautica$0.20/1hr37h96.86%97.09%
- 40The Survivalists$0.20/1hr25h80.20%76.18%
- 41Smalland: Survive the Wilds$0.20/1hr35h83.35%81.61%
- 42Satisfactory$0.21/1hr131h96.95%97.26%
- 43Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 44The Planet Crafter$0.22/1hr54h94.74%96.03%
- 45Outpath$0.23/1hr17h86.78%92.65%
- 46The Long Dark$0.23/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 47Crashlands$0.23/1hr19h86.39%89.52%
- 48DUCKSIDE$0.23/1hr26h81.40%72.16%
- 49ICARUS$0.24/1hr74h76.02%74.69%
- 50Survive the Nights$0.24/1hr21h76.72%65.59%
- 51Sunkenland$0.24/1hr62h81.57%80.44%
- 52ASKA$0.24/1hr82h82.33%80.00%
- 53Soulmask$0.25/1hr78h79.52%77.00%
- 54The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria$0.28/1hr43h82.47%81.03%
- 55Longvinter$0.28/1hr29h77.31%67.11%
- 56Dinkum$0.28/1hr56h90.09%91.78%
- 57Days Gone$0.29/1hr55h92.13%92.72%
- 58I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.29/1hr27h84.30%84.38%
- 59Subnautica: Below Zero$0.30/1hr25h89.64%90.05%
- 60Rising World$0.30/1hr37h84.82%85.75%
- 61Grounded$0.30/1hr66h89.32%89.75%
- 62Stationeers$0.31/1hr90h86.42%87.76%
- 63Mist Survival$0.31/1hr26h79.18%75.65%
- 64Far Cry Primal$0.32/1hr23h86.15%86.38%
- 65Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey$0.33/1hr30h81.83%79.04%
- 66Abiotic Factor$0.33/1hr84h94.25%95.78%
- 67Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.34/1hr17h79.39%77.02%
- 68Wildmender$0.35/1hr24h84.87%84.49%
- 69Welcome to ParadiZe$0.38/1hr12h82.21%67.39%
- 70Eden Crafters$0.39/1hr31h85.06%85.47%
- 71Raft$0.39/1hr34h92.86%92.99%
- 72DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2$0.40/1hr63h88.41%92.40%
- 73Craftopia$0.40/1hr37h78.98%75.91%
- 74The Front$0.41/1hr25h75.58%66.63%
- 75Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.41/1hr29h87.35%94.21%
- 76IfSunSets$0.42/1hr29h82.36%74.72%
- 77Arctico$0.43/1hr2h81.41%70.22%
- 78How to Survive$0.49/1hr8h83.60%82.67%
- 79Nova Lands$0.51/1hr18h86.66%89.17%
- 80Forever Skies$0.52/1hr26h81.37%78.17%
- 81Volcanoids$0.56/1hr25h83.46%82.61%
- 82Aloft$0.57/1hr31h84.00%83.28%
- 83The Infected$0.57/1hr17h84.73%84.09%
- 84Castle Story$0.59/1hr17h75.16%65.19%
- 85Nightingale$0.60/1hr13h72.55%66.06%
- 86METAL GEAR SURVIVE$0.71/1hr25h78.49%65.74%
- 87Voidtrain$0.76/1hr20h78.83%73.38%
- 88DeadPoly$0.79/1hr6h81.72%77.63%
- 89Len's Island$0.90/1hr15h82.70%79.59%
- 90RuneScape: Dragonwilds$0.91/1hr33h81.94%80.91%
- 91Stranded 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.