Best Value Open World Survival Craft Games
The Open World Survival Craft 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.
- 1Myth of Empires$0.03/1hr224h73.97%67.60%
- 2SCUM$0.03/1hr526h74.83%74.01%
- 3Subsistence$0.08/1hr104h77.22%72.12%
- 4Terraria$0.09/1hr106h97.31%97.37%
- 5Don't Starve Together$0.10/1hr150h94.77%94.89%
- 6Space Engineers$0.14/1hr145h88.56%88.81%
- 7Rust$0.14/1hr287h86.68%86.67%
- 8Eco$0.15/1hr204h82.55%80.69%
- 9Green Hell$0.15/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 10Valheim$0.15/1hr200h93.39%93.49%
- 11Project Zomboid$0.16/1hr161h93.63%93.75%
- 12Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 13Stoneshard$0.17/1hr101h76.97%74.67%
- 14ARK: Survival Evolved$0.18/1hr85h83.40%83.34%
- 15Core Keeper$0.18/1hr65h91.93%92.94%
- 16Palworld$0.19/1hr111h94.47%94.60%
- 17Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.19/1hr103h79.91%78.37%
- 18The Survivalists$0.20/1hr25h80.20%76.18%
- 197 Days to Die$0.20/1hr224h86.97%86.94%
- 20Smalland: Survive the Wilds$0.20/1hr35h83.35%81.61%
- 21Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 22Ostranauts$0.22/1hr91h82.51%77.13%
- 23Outpath$0.23/1hr17h86.78%92.65%
- 24The Long Dark$0.25/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 25Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.25/1hr100h86.78%94.97%
- 26Starbound$0.25/1hr59h89.78%89.92%
- 27Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.26/1hr155h79.53%79.05%
- 28The Planet Crafter$0.27/1hr54h94.74%96.03%
- 29Satisfactory$0.28/1hr145h96.94%97.26%
- 30Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.28/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 31Necesse$0.29/1hr52h90.77%92.68%
- 32ASKA$0.31/1hr82h82.33%80.00%
- 33Mist Survival$0.31/1hr26h79.18%75.65%
- 34SurrounDead$0.32/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 35Sunkenland$0.32/1hr62h81.57%80.44%
- 36Eden Crafters$0.32/1hr31h85.06%85.47%
- 37Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.33/1hr77h89.75%90.51%
- 38Occupy Mars: The Game$0.33/1hr91h81.24%69.78%
- 39Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.34/1hr17h79.39%77.02%
- 40The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria$0.35/1hr43h82.47%81.03%
- 41Dinkum$0.36/1hr56h90.09%91.78%
- 42Deadside$0.36/1hr69h77.44%75.53%
- 43Soulmask$0.39/1hr78h79.52%77.00%
- 44Stationeers$0.39/1hr90h86.42%87.76%
- 45Rising World$0.40/1hr37h84.82%85.75%
- 46Craftopia$0.40/1hr37h78.98%75.91%
- 47The Front$0.41/1hr25h75.58%66.63%
- 48Dying Light$0.41/1hr42h95.09%95.23%
- 49Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.41/1hr29h87.35%94.21%
- 50Abiotic Factor$0.42/1hr84h94.25%95.78%
- 51The Infected$0.43/1hr17h84.73%84.09%
- 52Arctico$0.43/1hr2h81.41%70.22%
- 53Raft$0.43/1hr46h92.85%92.97%
- 54Don't Starve$0.45/1hr22h95.62%96.54%
- 55Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.45/1hr62h84.61%85.37%
- 56Forever Skies$0.46/1hr26h81.37%78.17%
- 57ICARUS$0.48/1hr74h76.02%74.69%
- 58IfSunSets$0.49/1hr29h82.36%74.72%
- 59No Man's Sky$0.49/1hr123h85.37%85.31%
- 60Nova Lands$0.51/1hr18h86.66%89.17%
- 61DUCKSIDE$0.58/1hr26h81.40%72.16%
- 62Stranded Deep$0.59/1hr14h76.05%74.15%
- 63Castle Story$0.59/1hr17h75.16%65.19%
- 64Grounded$0.61/1hr66h89.32%89.75%
- 65The Forest$0.61/1hr33h95.42%95.53%
- 66TerraTech$0.62/1hr40h89.33%91.35%
- 67RuneScape: Dragonwilds$0.64/1hr33h81.94%80.91%
- 68ASTRONEER$0.65/1hr46h91.45%91.90%
- 69Forager$0.66/1hr30h88.68%89.47%
- 70Longvinter$0.70/1hr29h77.31%67.11%
- 71Days Gone$0.72/1hr55h92.13%92.72%
- 72I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.73/1hr27h84.30%84.38%
- 73Voidtrain$0.76/1hr20h78.83%73.38%
- 74Crashlands$0.77/1hr19h86.39%89.52%
- 75DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2$0.79/1hr63h88.41%92.40%
- 76Volcanoids$0.80/1hr25h83.46%82.61%
- 77Aloft$0.81/1hr31h84.00%83.28%
- 78Subnautica$0.83/1hr36h96.86%97.09%
- 79Night of the Dead$0.86/1hr35h80.67%76.88%
- 80Survive the Nights$0.97/1hr21h76.72%65.59%
- 81Wildmender$1.03/1hr24h84.87%84.49%
- 82METAL GEAR SURVIVE$1.18/1hr25h78.49%65.74%
- 83Subnautica: Below Zero$1.20/1hr25h89.64%90.05%
- 84Far Cry Primal$1.28/1hr23h86.15%86.38%
- 85Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey$1.32/1hr30h81.83%79.04%
- 86Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.49/1hr13h76.79%71.07%
- 87DeadPoly$1.59/1hr6h81.72%77.63%
- 88Len's Island$1.64/1hr15h82.70%79.59%
- 89How to Survive$1.97/1hr8h83.60%82.67%
- 90Nightingale$2.40/1hr13h72.55%66.06%
- 91Welcome to ParadiZe$2.56/1hr12h82.21%67.39%
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.