Best Rated Open World Survival Craft Games Under $40
The best rated Open World Survival Craft games on Steam for games under $40. Scores are weighted by review volume, so small-sample flukes stay off the list.
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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
- 1Terraria1,540,01997.30%97.38%
- 2Satisfactory276,23196.83%97.26%
- 3Subnautica377,30096.78%97.09%
- 4Don't Starve113,23295.61%96.55%
- 5The Forest678,90895.38%95.53%
- 6Dying Light491,91795.03%95.23%
- 7Don't Starve Together539,86094.76%94.95%
- 8The Planet Crafter72,16294.70%96.05%
- 9Abiotic Factor57,48694.20%95.80%
- 10Palworld453,70094.18%94.38%
- 11Valheim538,63493.83%93.99%
- 12Project Zomboid461,78193.81%94.01%
- 13Raft376,04692.81%93.02%
- 14Days Gone115,83892.11%92.73%
- 15Core Keeper65,64991.89%92.95%
- 16ASTRONEER138,75991.46%91.93%
- 17Necesse27,58690.91%93.07%
- 18Dinkum28,98590.09%91.85%
- 19SurrounDead26,01289.73%91.56%
- 20Stormworks: Build and Rescue59,32789.71%90.50%
- 21Subnautica: Below Zero107,84189.67%90.10%
- 22Starbound123,17989.63%90.00%
- 23TerraTech24,83989.55%91.39%
- 24Grounded95,11089.27%89.72%
- 25Forager43,85988.67%89.52%
- 26The Long Dark122,95088.66%88.96%
- 27Space Engineers134,09888.59%88.86%
- 28Terminus: Zombie Survivors4,45487.82%94.19%
- 29Card Survival: Tropical Island3,02887.32%95.05%
- 30Outpath3,08486.85%92.90%
- 31Rust1,383,80086.81%86.82%
- 32Crashlands6,73586.80%89.50%
- 33Dig or Die4,28086.62%90.47%
- 34Open World Game: the Open World Game2,53686.59%92.94%
- 35Walking Zombie 213,25286.39%87.45%
- 36Stationeers9,15886.29%87.72%
- 37Nova Lands3,49086.09%89.26%
- 38Far Cry Primal40,76986.07%86.34%
- 39Crashlands 22,43585.57%88.01%
- 40Survivalist: Invisible Strain4,43285.55%86.85%
- 41Feel The Snow3,05785.51%87.24%
- 42Rising World5,94785.26%85.72%
- 43Survival: Fountain of Youth4,43885.12%85.42%
- 44Eden Crafters2,58685.08%85.46%
- 45No Man's Sky412,45584.97%84.97%
- 46I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival4,61084.90%84.73%
- 47Wildmender2,20284.89%84.47%
- 48Green Hell100,15984.75%84.72%
- 49The Infected6,96684.70%84.31%
- 50Aloft3,65884.66%83.79%
- 51Lighthouse Keeper47484.62%77.00%
- 52Ostranauts2,71384.04%80.58%
- 53Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper2,34884.02%79.94%
- 54Card Survival: Fantasy Forest1,15284.00%75.52%
- 55Survivalist2,56883.97%80.06%
- 56Volcanoids9,31783.87%82.68%
- 57Badiya: Desert Survival34283.77%48.54%
- 58How to Survive17,09783.52%82.67%
- 59Salt2,24883.43%76.51%
- 60Winter Survival77183.40%62.91%
- 61ARK: Survival Evolved773,67683.35%83.33%
- 62Smalland: Survive the Wilds10,35283.32%81.72%
- 63Above Snakes1,98683.26%74.57%
- 64Breathedge16,40483.13%82.00%
- 65CastleMiner Z11,15783.02%81.27%
- 66The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria12,23582.86%81.13%
- 67Len's Island7,84082.68%79.74%
- 68Survive on Raft1,25282.57%63.34%
- 69Eco13,97182.50%80.73%
- 70CryoFall6,45782.38%78.35%
- 71Niffelheim2,33682.36%71.15%
- 72DeadPoly6,09082.22%77.68%
- 73Mirthwood2,35682.21%70.46%
- 74Forever Skies8,58982.20%78.97%
- 75ASKA11,96582.17%79.82%
- 76Force of Nature4,20482.16%75.45%
- 77RuneScape: Dragonwilds28,13982.07%81.04%
- 78DUCKSIDE3,06282.04%72.44%
- 79Arctico2,51882.03%70.29%
- 80FortressCraft Evolved!3,05882.00%72.24%
- 81Stars End1,42582.00%61.05%
- 82Spirit of the Island1,89581.95%65.96%
- 83Among Trees2,22981.91%68.15%
- 84Sunkenland23,61681.78%80.43%
- 85Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey11,80381.76%79.03%
- 86Cubic Castles4,27381.75%74.19%
- 87Wurm Unlimited3,13781.74%71.41%
- 88Boundless2,77081.62%69.49%
- 89Occupy Mars: The Game3,11581.43%70.05%
- 90Night of the Dead11,83980.64%76.97%
- 91The Survivalists10,07280.60%76.25%
- 92Wurm Online2,55380.39%62.44%
- 93Empyrion - Galactic Survival34,33579.92%78.45%
- 94Frozen Flame2,98479.84%62.63%
- 95This Land Is My Land4,63579.69%68.28%
- 96Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition20,48579.65%77.05%
- 97Soulmask22,05779.63%77.20%
- 98Mist Survival14,25379.61%75.84%
- 99BEACHED3,69279.48%64.60%
- 100Conan Exiles Enhanced116,78879.47%79.00%
