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.
- 1Terraria1,540,26597.30%97.38%
- 2Satisfactory276,33696.85%97.26%
- 3Subnautica377,35296.79%97.09%
- 4Don't Starve113,24095.65%96.55%
- 5The Forest678,98395.39%95.53%
- 6Dying Light491,98295.04%95.23%
- 7Don't Starve Together539,94494.77%94.94%
- 8The Planet Crafter72,21294.75%96.04%
- 9Abiotic Factor57,52894.27%95.80%
- 10Palworld455,17894.20%94.39%
- 11Valheim538,74893.84%93.99%
- 12Project Zomboid462,04093.82%94.00%
- 13Raft376,10892.82%93.02%
- 14Days Gone115,87192.15%92.73%
- 15Core Keeper65,67291.96%92.95%
- 16ASTRONEER138,77191.50%91.93%
- 17Necesse27,59291.04%93.07%
- 18Dinkum28,98790.21%91.85%
- 19Stormworks: Build and Rescue59,33789.77%90.50%
- 20SurrounDead26,01289.73%91.56%
- 21Subnautica: Below Zero107,86089.70%90.10%
- 22Starbound123,18589.66%90.00%
- 23TerraTech24,83989.55%91.39%
- 24Grounded95,12489.32%89.72%
- 25Forager43,86188.76%89.51%
- 26The Long Dark122,97388.70%88.96%
- 27Space Engineers134,10788.62%88.85%
- 28Terminus: Zombie Survivors4,45487.82%94.19%
- 29Card Survival: Tropical Island3,02887.32%95.05%
- 30Outpath3,08486.85%92.90%
- 31Rust1,384,08786.81%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%
- 35Stationeers9,16386.54%87.72%
- 36Walking Zombie 213,25286.39%87.45%
- 37Far Cry Primal40,77986.16%86.34%
- 38Nova Lands3,49086.09%89.26%
- 39Survivalist: Invisible Strain4,43985.87%86.82%
- 40Crashlands 22,43585.57%88.01%
- 41Feel The Snow3,05785.51%87.24%
- 42Eden Crafters2,58885.45%85.43%
- 43Rising World5,94785.26%85.72%
- 44I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival4,61185.22%84.71%
- 45Survival: Fountain of Youth4,43885.12%85.42%
- 46The Infected6,96685.00%84.34%
- 47No Man's Sky412,54684.98%84.97%
- 48Wildmender2,20284.89%84.47%
- 49Green Hell100,20484.79%84.72%
- 50Aloft3,65884.66%83.79%
- 51Lighthouse Keeper47484.62%77.00%
- 52Ostranauts2,71484.41%80.55%
- 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%
- 58Smalland: Survive the Wilds10,35583.56%81.73%
- 59How to Survive17,09783.52%82.67%
- 60Salt2,24883.43%76.51%
- 61Winter Survival77183.40%62.91%
- 62ARK: Survival Evolved773,79183.36%83.33%
- 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%
- 67Niffelheim2,33682.74%71.15%
- 68Eco13,97382.70%80.73%
- 69Len's Island7,84082.68%79.74%
- 70CryoFall6,45682.66%78.35%
- 71Survive on Raft1,25282.57%63.34%
- 72Stars End1,42582.41%61.05%
- 73ASKA11,97282.39%79.83%
- 74DeadPoly6,09082.22%77.68%
- 75Mirthwood2,35682.21%70.46%
- 76Forever Skies8,58982.20%78.97%
- 77RuneScape: Dragonwilds28,18782.20%81.05%
- 78Force of Nature4,20482.16%75.45%
- 79DUCKSIDE3,06282.04%72.44%
- 80Arctico2,51882.03%70.29%
- 81FortressCraft Evolved!3,05882.00%72.24%
- 82Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey11,80681.97%79.03%
- 83Spirit of the Island1,89581.95%65.96%
- 84Among Trees2,22981.91%68.15%
- 85Occupy Mars: The Game3,11681.79%70.03%
- 86Sunkenland23,61681.78%80.43%
- 87Cubic Castles4,27381.75%74.19%
- 88Wurm Unlimited3,13781.74%71.41%
- 89Boundless2,77081.62%69.49%
- 90Night of the Dead11,83980.64%76.97%
- 91The Survivalists10,07280.60%76.25%
- 92Wurm Online2,55380.39%62.44%
- 93Empyrion - Galactic Survival34,33580.03%78.45%
- 94Frozen Flame2,98479.84%62.63%
- 95Soulmask22,06379.77%77.19%
- 96This Land Is My Land4,63579.69%68.28%
- 97Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition20,48579.65%77.05%
- 98Mist Survival14,25379.61%75.84%
- 99Conan Exiles Enhanced116,81379.50%78.99%
- 100BEACHED3,69279.48%64.60%
