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.
- 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%
- 9ARK: Survival Evolved$0.17/1hr87h83.35%83.33%
- 10The Long Dark$0.19/1hr103h88.64%88.94%
- 11Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 12Miscreated$0.21/1hr146h70.51%65.95%
- 13Myth of Empires$0.22/1hr137h73.86%67.53%
- 14Card Survival: Fantasy Forest$0.22/1hr100h84.00%75.90%
- 15Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.22/1hr181h79.48%79.02%
- 16Satisfactory$0.22/1hr179h96.83%97.26%
- 17Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.22/1hr112h89.71%90.51%
- 18Stationeers$0.23/1hr154h86.15%87.73%
- 19Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.23/1hr87h79.91%78.45%
- 20Stoneshard$0.24/1hr68h76.91%74.63%
- 21Soulmask$0.26/1hr117h79.59%77.18%
- 22Valheim$0.26/1hr115h93.82%93.99%
- 23Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.27/1hr63h85.11%85.50%
- 24Necesse$0.28/1hr27h90.76%92.81%
- 25The Infected$0.30/1hr53h84.68%84.32%
- 26Palworld$0.30/1hr99h94.29%94.49%
- 27Sunkenland$0.31/1hr65h81.78%80.45%
- 28Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey$0.31/1hr26h81.71%78.99%
- 29I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h84.87%84.73%
- 30Dinkum$0.34/1hr59h90.07%91.84%
- 31Core Keeper$0.35/1hr58h91.90%92.95%
- 32ASKA$0.36/1hr70h82.16%79.85%
- 33Ostranauts$0.36/1hr44h83.44%79.22%
- 34Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.36/1hr69h87.29%95.02%
- 35Don't Starve Together$0.37/1hr40h94.75%94.93%
- 36Don't Starve$0.38/1hr26h95.61%96.55%
- 37Subsistence$0.39/1hr35h77.42%71.95%
- 38Crashlands$0.42/1hr36h86.79%89.53%
- 39Mist Survival$0.42/1hr26h79.54%75.77%
- 40Abiotic Factor$0.43/1hr82h94.20%95.80%
- 41SurrounDead$0.43/1hr28h89.70%91.51%
- 42Forever Skies$0.44/1hr28h81.94%78.55%
- 43The Planet Crafter$0.46/1hr53h94.70%96.04%
- 44Occupy Mars: The Game$0.46/1hr65h81.17%69.93%
- 45Night of the Dead$0.46/1hr65h80.60%76.93%
- 46Rising World$0.48/1hr31h85.23%85.71%
- 47Raft$0.49/1hr41h92.80%93.01%
- 48TerraTech$0.49/1hr51h89.55%91.40%
- 49Green Hell$0.49/1hr18h84.72%84.70%
- 50ASTRONEER$0.50/1hr60h91.46%91.93%
- 51DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2$0.50/1hr50h88.38%92.37%
- 52Grounded$0.51/1hr79h89.26%89.72%
- 53DUCKSIDE$0.51/1hr12h81.98%72.36%
- 54The Forest$0.53/1hr38h95.38%95.53%
- 55The Front$0.57/1hr35h75.46%66.87%
- 56Forager$0.58/1hr34h88.66%89.51%
- 57Eden Crafters$0.60/1hr33h84.84%85.45%
- 58Castle Story$0.63/1hr16h74.71%65.07%
- 59Longvinter$0.65/1hr31h77.21%67.41%
- 60Nova Lands$0.65/1hr31h85.95%89.26%
- 61The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria$0.69/1hr43h82.83%81.11%
- 62Crashlands 2$0.71/1hr35h85.53%87.97%
- 63The Survivalists$0.72/1hr21h80.57%76.24%
- 64Subnautica$0.72/1hr41h96.78%97.09%
- 65RuneScape: Dragonwilds$0.74/1hr41h82.14%81.17%
- 66Tribes of Midgard$0.82/1hr24h78.89%76.39%
- 67Days Gone$0.83/1hr48h92.11%92.73%
- 68Aloft$0.97/1hr26h84.63%83.77%
- 69Volcanoids$0.98/1hr20h83.84%82.67%
- 70Nightingale$1.02/1hr29h73.01%66.39%
- 71Subnautica: Below Zero$1.05/1hr29h89.64%90.08%
- 72Smalland: Survive the Wilds$1.11/1hr31h83.23%81.73%
- 73Wildmender$1.12/1hr22h84.85%84.47%
- 74Far Cry Primal$1.16/1hr26h86.07%86.35%
- 75Voidtrain$1.29/1hr23h79.38%73.68%
- 76Starbase$1.32/1hr26h72.94%55.55%
- 77Len's Island$1.41/1hr18h82.64%79.72%
- 78Stranded Deep$1.43/1hr14h76.04%74.18%
- 79Craftopia$1.45/1hr17h79.01%76.07%
- 80Survive the Nights$1.45/1hr14h77.22%65.71%
- 81Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.53/1hr13h77.16%71.15%
- 82Arctico$2.12/1hr5h82.00%70.36%
- 83Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$2.27/1hr13h79.63%77.04%
- 84DeadPoly$2.34/1hr4h82.16%77.61%
- 85ICARUS$3.87/1hr9h75.88%74.53%
- 86Badiya: Desert Survival$4.43/1hr5h83.74%48.54%
- 87Breathedge$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.