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.
- 1Rust$0.05/1hr392h86.72%86.73%
- 2Terraria$0.07/1hr152h97.30%97.38%
- 3Space Engineers$0.07/1hr142h88.57%88.81%
- 4SCUM$0.10/1hr459h74.89%74.07%
- 57 Days to Die$0.12/1hr372h86.98%87.02%
- 6Myth of Empires$0.12/1hr248h74.04%67.57%
- 7ICARUS$0.12/1hr72h76.03%74.67%
- 8Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 9Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.67%84.61%
- 10Project Zomboid$0.14/1hr182h93.60%93.77%
- 11ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr108h83.36%83.33%
- 12Subsistence$0.14/1hr99h77.65%72.08%
- 13Eco$0.15/1hr195h82.64%80.67%
- 14Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.16/1hr62h84.98%85.44%
- 15Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.17/1hr116h79.96%78.39%
- 16Valheim$0.18/1hr165h93.74%93.89%
- 17Starbound$0.18/1hr82h89.59%89.94%
- 18Don't Starve Together$0.21/1hr73h94.74%94.91%
- 19The Planet Crafter$0.21/1hr56h94.76%96.03%
- 20No Man's Sky$0.22/1hr107h85.19%85.19%
- 21Soulmask$0.22/1hr87h79.60%77.04%
- 22Outpath$0.23/1hr16h87.09%92.70%
- 23Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.24/1hr105h89.76%90.50%
- 24Palworld$0.24/1hr124h94.38%94.57%
- 25Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.25/1hr101h87.17%94.99%
- 26Ostranauts$0.25/1hr80h83.35%77.27%
- 27Satisfactory$0.25/1hr160h96.85%97.27%
- 28Necesse$0.26/1hr58h90.82%92.70%
- 29Deadside$0.26/1hr96h77.46%75.52%
- 30Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.27/1hr45h85.73%86.61%
- 31Mist Survival$0.28/1hr30h79.65%75.70%
- 32Stoneshard$0.28/1hr89h77.02%74.69%
- 33Welcome to ParadiZe$0.28/1hr11h82.72%67.24%
- 34The Long Dark$0.29/1hr69h88.63%88.90%
- 35ASKA$0.30/1hr66h82.37%79.94%
- 36I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h85.05%84.45%
- 37Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.33/1hr120h79.54%79.05%
- 38Occupy Mars: The Game$0.34/1hr88h81.59%69.74%
- 39Rising World$0.34/1hr33h85.13%85.71%
- 40Stationeers$0.35/1hr101h86.50%87.75%
- 41Core Keeper$0.35/1hr57h91.95%92.94%
- 42SurrounDead$0.36/1hr33h89.48%91.02%
- 43Sunkenland$0.37/1hr54h81.86%80.40%
- 44Dinkum$0.38/1hr53h90.15%91.80%
- 45Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.39/1hr15h79.75%77.04%
- 46Castle Story$0.41/1hr24h74.98%65.18%
- 47Abiotic Factor$0.41/1hr85h94.27%95.78%
- 48Raft$0.43/1hr47h92.80%92.99%
- 49Forever Skies$0.45/1hr30h81.97%78.23%
- 50Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.46/1hr26h87.70%94.19%
- 51Don't Starve$0.50/1hr20h95.63%96.54%
- 52Forager$0.53/1hr38h88.71%89.48%
- 53Grounded$0.58/1hr69h89.33%89.75%
- 54Eden Crafters$0.63/1hr32h85.38%85.56%
- 55The Front$0.66/1hr30h75.77%66.68%
- 56ASTRONEER$0.68/1hr44h91.47%91.91%
- 57The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria$0.70/1hr43h82.95%81.04%
- 58Wildmender$0.75/1hr33h85.18%84.46%
- 59Days Gone$0.75/1hr53h92.15%92.73%
- 60Crashlands$0.78/1hr19h87.03%89.53%
- 61DUCKSIDE$0.78/1hr19h81.80%72.20%
- 62TerraTech$0.79/1hr32h89.64%91.36%
- 63Subnautica$0.79/1hr38h96.79%97.09%
- 64Volcanoids$0.80/1hr25h84.02%82.62%
- 65Craftopia$0.81/1hr31h79.06%75.92%
- 66IfSunSets$0.84/1hr24h82.76%74.55%
- 67DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2$0.84/1hr59h88.49%92.39%
- 68RuneScape: Dragonwilds$0.86/1hr35h82.32%81.31%
- 69Nova Lands$0.86/1hr23h86.33%89.16%
- 70The Forest$0.88/1hr23h95.38%95.52%
- 71Miscreated$0.89/1hr34h70.61%65.95%
- 72Voidtrain$0.92/1hr20h79.16%73.47%
- 73Night of the Dead$0.98/1hr31h80.80%76.92%
- 74Aloft$1.00/1hr25h84.42%83.46%
- 75The Survivalists$1.06/1hr24h80.72%76.15%
- 76Smalland: Survive the Wilds$1.07/1hr33h83.42%81.60%
- 77Subnautica: Below Zero$1.10/1hr27h89.66%90.06%
- 78Survive the Nights$1.17/1hr17h77.05%65.62%
- 79Tribes of Midgard$1.17/1hr17h78.90%76.37%
- 80The Infected$1.18/1hr14h84.83%84.11%
- 81Longvinter$1.21/1hr17h77.10%67.14%
- 82Far Cry Primal$1.25/1hr24h86.17%86.38%
- 83DeadPoly$1.44/1hr7h82.01%77.56%
- 84Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey$1.48/1hr27h81.94%79.04%
- 85Stranded Deep$1.53/1hr13h76.08%74.14%
- 86Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.60/1hr12h77.27%71.08%
- 87Len's Island$1.67/1hr15h82.85%79.63%
- 88Breathedge$2.19/1hr11h82.51%80.96%
- 89Nightingale$2.53/1hr12h72.94%66.08%
- 90Survive on Raft$2.54/1hr6h82.91%63.43%
- 91Arctico$4.65/1hr2h81.82%70.21%
- 92The Wild Eight$6.02/1hr4h77.68%68.26%
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.