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.
- 1Starbound$0.04/1hr120h89.63%90.00%
- 27 Days to Die$0.07/1hr635h86.71%86.76%
- 3Terraria$0.09/1hr107h97.30%97.38%
- 4Valheim$0.10/1hr96h93.83%93.99%
- 5Rust$0.12/1hr342h86.81%86.82%
- 6Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.12/1hr243h79.47%79.00%
- 7Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.13/1hr51h85.55%86.85%
- 8ARK: Survival Evolved$0.13/1hr114h83.35%83.33%
- 9Eco$0.13/1hr225h82.50%80.73%
- 10Satisfactory$0.14/1hr194h96.83%97.26%
- 11TerraTech$0.15/1hr42h89.55%91.39%
- 12The Planet Crafter$0.18/1hr65h94.70%96.05%
- 13Crashlands$0.19/1hr28h86.80%89.50%
- 14Green Hell$0.20/1hr19h84.75%84.72%
- 15Space Engineers$0.21/1hr97h88.59%88.86%
- 16SCUM$0.21/1hr216h74.98%74.18%
- 17Soulmask$0.23/1hr105h79.63%77.20%
- 18Project Zomboid$0.23/1hr86h93.81%94.01%
- 19Stationeers$0.23/1hr150h86.29%87.72%
- 20Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.24/1hr105h89.71%90.50%
- 21Outpath$0.25/1hr18h86.85%92.90%
- 22The Long Dark$0.25/1hr79h88.66%88.96%
- 23Subsistence$0.25/1hr42h77.44%71.95%
- 24No Man's Sky$0.26/1hr93h84.97%84.97%
- 25ASKA$0.27/1hr75h82.17%79.82%
- 26ICARUS$0.28/1hr25h75.82%74.42%
- 27Palworld$0.29/1hr104h94.18%94.38%
- 28Core Keeper$0.29/1hr48h91.89%92.95%
- 29Sunkenland$0.30/1hr66h81.78%80.43%
- 30Eden Crafters$0.34/1hr38h85.08%85.46%
- 31Stoneshard$0.35/1hr71h76.92%74.62%
- 32Abiotic Factor$0.37/1hr93h94.20%95.80%
- 33Don't Starve Together$0.38/1hr40h94.76%94.95%
- 34Mist Survival$0.39/1hr22h79.61%75.84%
- 35Ostranauts$0.40/1hr51h84.04%80.58%
- 36Myth of Empires$0.40/1hr75h73.87%67.51%
- 37Rising World$0.40/1hr25h85.26%85.72%
- 38Night of the Dead$0.41/1hr30h80.64%76.97%
- 39Crashlands 2$0.41/1hr36h85.57%88.01%
- 40Necesse$0.42/1hr36h90.91%93.07%
- 41Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.43/1hr32h87.82%94.19%
- 42Deadside$0.44/1hr57h77.40%75.53%
- 43Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.44/1hr45h79.92%78.45%
- 44SurrounDead$0.47/1hr26h89.73%91.56%
- 45Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.48/1hr52h87.32%95.05%
- 46Dinkum$0.48/1hr42h90.09%91.85%
- 47ASTRONEER$0.50/1hr60h91.46%91.93%
- 48Don't Starve$0.51/1hr20h95.61%96.55%
- 49Raft$0.54/1hr37h92.81%93.02%
- 50Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.54/1hr51h85.12%85.42%
- 51Grounded$0.57/1hr70h89.27%89.72%
- 52Occupy Mars: The Game$0.58/1hr51h81.43%70.05%
- 53Forever Skies$0.61/1hr33h82.20%78.97%
- 54Forager$0.63/1hr32h88.67%89.52%
- 55Dying Light$0.66/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 56The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria$0.67/1hr45h82.86%81.13%
- 57I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.68/1hr29h84.90%84.73%
- 58Miscreated$0.68/1hr44h70.51%65.93%
- 59Wildmender$0.73/1hr34h84.89%84.47%
- 60Subnautica$0.74/1hr41h96.78%97.09%
- 61Aloft$0.76/1hr25h84.66%83.79%
- 62Nova Lands$0.82/1hr24h86.09%89.26%
- 63Voidtrain$0.83/1hr22h79.43%73.70%
- 64The Forest$0.84/1hr24h95.38%95.53%
- 65Days Gone$0.85/1hr47h92.11%92.73%
- 66DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2$0.91/1hr55h88.27%92.37%
- 67METAL GEAR SURVIVE$0.92/1hr20h78.02%65.79%
- 68Castle Story$0.93/1hr11h74.73%65.06%
- 69RuneScape: Dragonwilds$0.94/1hr32h82.07%81.04%
- 70Longvinter$0.95/1hr21h77.39%67.42%
- 71Tribes of Midgard$1.01/1hr20h79.00%76.43%
- 72Subnautica: Below Zero$1.08/1hr28h89.67%90.10%
- 73Volcanoids$1.14/1hr18h83.87%82.68%
- 74Far Cry Primal$1.14/1hr26h86.07%86.34%
- 75CastleMiner Z$1.14/1hr5h83.02%81.27%
- 76Smalland: Survive the Wilds$1.18/1hr30h83.32%81.72%
- 77DUCKSIDE$1.22/1hr12h82.04%72.44%
- 78Craftopia$1.27/1hr20h79.09%76.17%
- 79Breathedge$1.32/1hr19h83.13%82.00%
- 80The Front$1.35/1hr15h75.63%66.93%
- 81Survive the Nights$1.36/1hr15h77.26%65.70%
- 82Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey$1.37/1hr29h81.76%79.03%
- 83Stranded Deep$1.50/1hr13h76.06%74.19%
- 84Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.62/1hr12h77.17%71.13%
- 85The Survivalists$1.65/1hr15h80.60%76.25%
- 86Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$1.99/1hr15h79.65%77.05%
- 87Nightingale$2.18/1hr14h73.06%66.44%
- 88Arctico$2.23/1hr4h82.03%70.29%
- 89Len's Island$2.25/1hr11h82.68%79.74%
- 90DeadPoly$2.97/1hr3h82.22%77.68%
- 91Badiya: Desert Survival$4.43/1hr5h83.77%48.54%
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.