Best Value Survival Games
The Survival 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.
- 1Crosshair X$0.03/1hr359h91.81%93.35%
- 2Rust$0.05/1hr394h86.78%86.80%
- 3Fallout: New Vegas$0.05/1hr91h95.58%95.98%
- 4Dead by Daylight$0.06/1hr343h78.50%78.43%
- 5Terraria$0.07/1hr148h97.30%97.38%
- 6Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands$0.07/1hr34h79.52%79.02%
- 7Beasts of Bermuda$0.07/1hr268h77.07%68.98%
- 8Space Engineers$0.08/1hr254h88.57%88.84%
- 9Fallout 4$0.08/1hr100h81.29%81.20%
- 10Fallout 76$0.08/1hr120h72.78%71.91%
- 11Brotato$0.09/1hr57h95.15%96.02%
- 12Starbound$0.10/1hr157h89.60%89.97%
- 13RimWorld$0.11/1hr246h97.35%97.85%
- 14Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.12/1hr65h80.13%78.77%
- 15Eco$0.12/1hr186h82.48%80.73%
- 16Project Zomboid$0.13/1hr200h93.68%93.87%
- 17Dying Light$0.13/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 18Outward Definitive Edition$0.14/1hr35h75.66%72.69%
- 19Factorio$0.14/1hr252h97.00%97.51%
- 20Deadside$0.15/1hr69h77.38%75.51%
- 21Bomber Crew$0.16/1hr15h86.54%87.57%
- 22ANEURISM IV$0.16/1hr31h81.59%76.20%
- 23Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.16/1hr19h85.14%85.27%
- 24Settlement Survival$0.16/1hr33h84.96%85.30%
- 257 Days to Die$0.17/1hr271h87.20%87.26%
- 26Oxygen Not Included$0.17/1hr149h95.96%96.73%
- 27FTL: Faster Than Light$0.17/1hr59h93.96%95.11%
- 28Among Us$0.17/1hr29h91.90%92.00%
- 29ARK: Survival Evolved$0.17/1hr87h83.35%83.33%
- 30Pathologic 2$0.17/1hr40h88.63%91.68%
- 31Mortal Online 2$0.18/1hr218h70.48%60.06%
- 32Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr54h97.41%97.52%
- 33Town of Salem$0.19/1hr27h87.24%87.88%
- 34Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr27h96.92%97.69%
- 35From the Depths$0.19/1hr134h87.36%89.25%
- 36The Long Dark$0.19/1hr103h88.64%88.94%
- 37The Isle$0.20/1hr100h80.52%80.14%
- 38Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 39Miscreated$0.21/1hr146h70.51%65.95%
- 40Quake Live$0.21/1hr14h85.90%86.51%
- 41Planetbase$0.22/1hr69h82.28%79.73%
- 42Myth of Empires$0.22/1hr137h73.86%67.53%
- 43Scrap Mechanic$0.22/1hr132h91.40%91.93%
- 44Card Survival: Fantasy Forest$0.22/1hr100h84.00%75.90%
- 45Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.22/1hr181h79.48%79.02%
- 46Satisfactory$0.22/1hr179h96.83%97.26%
- 47Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.22/1hr112h89.71%90.51%
- 48DayZ$0.22/1hr223h77.96%77.81%
- 49Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.23/1hr110h85.34%85.61%
- 50Barotrauma$0.23/1hr77h93.10%94.02%
- 51Stationeers$0.23/1hr154h86.15%87.73%
- 52Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.23/1hr87h79.91%78.45%
- 53Picayune Dreams$0.23/1hr22h89.14%98.90%
- 54Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense$0.23/1hr109h85.74%86.26%
- 55Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.04%95.26%
- 56Mindustry$0.24/1hr42h92.86%95.72%
- 57Stoneshard$0.24/1hr68h76.91%74.63%
- 58R.E.P.O.$0.24/1hr42h95.78%96.04%
- 59Stranded: Alien Dawn$0.24/1hr50h84.51%84.35%
- 60Kenshi$0.25/1hr122h94.73%95.57%
- 61SCUM$0.25/1hr182h74.99%74.20%
- 62Bloons TD 6$0.25/1hr56h96.88%97.19%
- 63Dungeon Defenders$0.26/1hr59h90.27%93.09%
- 64Soulmask$0.26/1hr117h79.59%77.18%
- 6520 Minutes Till Dawn$0.26/1hr19h89.08%90.51%
- 66Valheim$0.26/1hr115h93.82%93.99%
- 67Desperados III$0.26/1hr38h92.16%96.52%
- 68Dead Space 3$0.26/1hr15h77.49%72.47%
- 69Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.27/1hr63h85.11%85.50%
- 70Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.27/1hr44h79.07%78.80%
- 71The Evil Within$0.27/1hr18h85.14%85.20%
- 72Necesse$0.28/1hr27h90.76%92.81%
- 73The Infected$0.30/1hr53h84.68%84.32%
- 74Palworld$0.30/1hr99h94.29%94.49%
- 75RAGE$0.30/1hr13h80.35%77.84%
- 76Sunkenland$0.31/1hr65h81.78%80.45%
- 77Monstrum$0.31/1hr12h86.30%90.62%
- 78Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey$0.31/1hr26h81.71%78.99%
- 79I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h84.87%84.73%
- 80Dwarf Fortress$0.32/1hr76h92.41%94.79%
- 81Enshrouded$0.32/1hr95h85.72%85.80%
- 82DOOM 3$0.32/1hr12h85.62%86.18%
- 83Wartales$0.32/1hr109h85.71%85.92%
- 84Dead Space 2$0.32/1hr12h91.69%93.97%
- 85My Summer Car$0.32/1hr47h94.14%94.93%
- 86Deep Rock Galactic$0.34/1hr89h96.82%97.13%
- 87Bellwright$0.34/1hr89h81.69%80.27%
- 88Remnant: From the Ashes$0.34/1hr24h84.37%84.27%
- 89Cluckmech Oasis$0.34/1hr29h85.82%88.26%
- 90Bloons TD 5$0.35/1hr29h90.23%94.66%
- 91Core Keeper$0.35/1hr58h91.90%92.95%
- 92Outpost: Infinity Siege$0.35/1hr72h73.64%65.34%
- 93The Guild 3$0.35/1hr17h74.00%60.29%
- 94Colony Survival$0.35/1hr71h88.33%92.11%
- 95Captain of Industry$0.35/1hr99h87.77%90.25%
- 96ASKA$0.36/1hr70h82.16%79.85%
- 97Ostranauts$0.36/1hr44h83.44%79.22%
- 98Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.36/1hr69h87.29%95.02%
- 99Don't Starve Together$0.37/1hr40h94.75%94.93%
- 100Going Medieval$0.37/1hr80h87.80%89.14%
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.