Best Value Survival Games Under $40
The Survival 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.
- 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%
- 25Oxygen Not Included$0.17/1hr149h95.96%96.73%
- 26FTL: Faster Than Light$0.17/1hr59h93.96%95.11%
- 27Among Us$0.17/1hr29h91.90%92.00%
- 28ARK: Survival Evolved$0.17/1hr87h83.35%83.33%
- 29Pathologic 2$0.17/1hr40h88.63%91.68%
- 30Mortal Online 2$0.18/1hr218h70.48%60.06%
- 31Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr54h97.41%97.52%
- 32Town of Salem$0.19/1hr27h87.24%87.88%
- 33Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr27h96.92%97.69%
- 34From the Depths$0.19/1hr134h87.36%89.25%
- 35The Long Dark$0.19/1hr103h88.64%88.94%
- 36The Isle$0.20/1hr100h80.52%80.14%
- 37Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.20/1hr59h85.33%86.78%
- 38Miscreated$0.21/1hr146h70.51%65.95%
- 39Quake Live$0.21/1hr14h85.90%86.51%
- 40Planetbase$0.22/1hr69h82.28%79.73%
- 41Myth of Empires$0.22/1hr137h73.86%67.53%
- 42Scrap Mechanic$0.22/1hr132h91.40%91.93%
- 43Card Survival: Fantasy Forest$0.22/1hr100h84.00%75.90%
- 44Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.22/1hr181h79.48%79.02%
- 45Satisfactory$0.22/1hr179h96.83%97.26%
- 46Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.22/1hr112h89.71%90.51%
- 47Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.23/1hr110h85.34%85.61%
- 48Barotrauma$0.23/1hr77h93.10%94.02%
- 49Stationeers$0.23/1hr154h86.15%87.73%
- 50Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.23/1hr87h79.91%78.45%
- 51Picayune Dreams$0.23/1hr22h89.14%98.90%
- 52Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense$0.23/1hr109h85.74%86.26%
- 53Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.04%95.26%
- 54Mindustry$0.24/1hr42h92.86%95.72%
- 55Stoneshard$0.24/1hr68h76.91%74.63%
- 56R.E.P.O.$0.24/1hr42h95.78%96.04%
- 57Stranded: Alien Dawn$0.24/1hr50h84.51%84.35%
- 58Kenshi$0.25/1hr122h94.73%95.57%
- 59Bloons TD 6$0.25/1hr56h96.88%97.19%
- 60Dungeon Defenders$0.26/1hr59h90.27%93.09%
- 61Soulmask$0.26/1hr117h79.59%77.18%
- 6220 Minutes Till Dawn$0.26/1hr19h89.08%90.51%
- 63Valheim$0.26/1hr115h93.82%93.99%
- 64Desperados III$0.26/1hr38h92.16%96.52%
- 65Dead Space 3$0.26/1hr15h77.49%72.47%
- 66Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.27/1hr63h85.11%85.50%
- 67Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.27/1hr44h79.07%78.80%
- 68The Evil Within$0.27/1hr18h85.14%85.20%
- 69Necesse$0.28/1hr27h90.76%92.81%
- 70The Infected$0.30/1hr53h84.68%84.32%
- 71Palworld$0.30/1hr99h94.29%94.49%
- 72RAGE$0.30/1hr13h80.35%77.84%
- 73Sunkenland$0.31/1hr65h81.78%80.45%
- 74Monstrum$0.31/1hr12h86.30%90.62%
- 75Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey$0.31/1hr26h81.71%78.99%
- 76I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h84.87%84.73%
- 77Dwarf Fortress$0.32/1hr76h92.41%94.79%
- 78Enshrouded$0.32/1hr95h85.72%85.80%
- 79DOOM 3$0.32/1hr12h85.62%86.18%
- 80Wartales$0.32/1hr109h85.71%85.92%
- 81Dead Space 2$0.32/1hr12h91.69%93.97%
- 82My Summer Car$0.32/1hr47h94.14%94.93%
- 83Deep Rock Galactic$0.34/1hr89h96.82%97.13%
- 84Bellwright$0.34/1hr89h81.69%80.27%
- 85Remnant: From the Ashes$0.34/1hr24h84.37%84.27%
- 86Cluckmech Oasis$0.34/1hr29h85.82%88.26%
- 87Bloons TD 5$0.35/1hr29h90.23%94.66%
- 88Core Keeper$0.35/1hr58h91.90%92.95%
- 89Outpost: Infinity Siege$0.35/1hr72h73.64%65.34%
- 90The Guild 3$0.35/1hr17h74.00%60.29%
- 91Colony Survival$0.35/1hr71h88.33%92.11%
- 92Captain of Industry$0.35/1hr99h87.77%90.25%
- 93ASKA$0.36/1hr70h82.16%79.85%
- 94Ostranauts$0.36/1hr44h83.44%79.22%
- 95Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.36/1hr69h87.29%95.02%
- 96Don't Starve Together$0.37/1hr40h94.75%94.93%
- 97Going Medieval$0.37/1hr80h87.80%89.14%
- 98ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN$0.38/1hr106h81.90%81.74%
- 99MORDHAU$0.38/1hr79h80.34%79.93%
- 100Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.38/1hr52h90.12%94.37%
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.