Best Value Open World Survival Craft Games Under $40
The Open World Survival Craft games on Steam games under $40 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.
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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%
- 19Smalland: Survive the Wilds$0.20/1hr35h83.35%81.61%
- 20Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 21Ostranauts$0.22/1hr91h82.51%77.13%
- 22Outpath$0.23/1hr17h86.78%92.65%
- 23The Long Dark$0.25/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 24Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.25/1hr100h86.78%94.97%
- 25Starbound$0.25/1hr59h89.78%89.92%
- 26Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.26/1hr155h79.53%79.05%
- 27The Planet Crafter$0.27/1hr54h94.74%96.03%
- 28Satisfactory$0.28/1hr145h96.94%97.26%
- 29Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.28/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 30Necesse$0.29/1hr52h90.77%92.68%
- 31ASKA$0.31/1hr82h82.33%80.00%
- 32Mist Survival$0.31/1hr26h79.18%75.65%
- 33SurrounDead$0.32/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 34Sunkenland$0.32/1hr62h81.57%80.44%
- 35Eden Crafters$0.32/1hr31h85.06%85.47%
- 36Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.33/1hr77h89.75%90.51%
- 37Occupy Mars: The Game$0.33/1hr91h81.24%69.78%
- 38Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.34/1hr17h79.39%77.02%
- 39The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria$0.35/1hr43h82.47%81.03%
- 40Dinkum$0.36/1hr56h90.09%91.78%
- 41Deadside$0.36/1hr69h77.44%75.53%
- 42Soulmask$0.39/1hr78h79.52%77.00%
- 43Stationeers$0.39/1hr90h86.42%87.76%
- 44Rising World$0.40/1hr37h84.82%85.75%
- 45Craftopia$0.40/1hr37h78.98%75.91%
- 46The Front$0.41/1hr25h75.58%66.63%
- 47Dying Light$0.41/1hr42h95.09%95.23%
- 48Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.41/1hr29h87.35%94.21%
- 49Abiotic Factor$0.42/1hr84h94.25%95.78%
- 50The Infected$0.43/1hr17h84.73%84.09%
- 51Arctico$0.43/1hr2h81.41%70.22%
- 52Raft$0.43/1hr46h92.85%92.97%
- 53Don't Starve$0.45/1hr22h95.62%96.54%
- 54Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.45/1hr62h84.61%85.37%
- 55Forever Skies$0.46/1hr26h81.37%78.17%
- 56ICARUS$0.48/1hr74h76.02%74.69%
- 57IfSunSets$0.49/1hr29h82.36%74.72%
- 58Nova Lands$0.51/1hr18h86.66%89.17%
- 59DUCKSIDE$0.58/1hr26h81.40%72.16%
- 60Stranded Deep$0.59/1hr14h76.05%74.15%
- 61Castle Story$0.59/1hr17h75.16%65.19%
- 62Grounded$0.61/1hr66h89.32%89.75%
- 63The Forest$0.61/1hr33h95.42%95.53%
- 64TerraTech$0.62/1hr40h89.33%91.35%
- 65RuneScape: Dragonwilds$0.64/1hr33h81.94%80.91%
- 66ASTRONEER$0.65/1hr46h91.45%91.90%
- 67Forager$0.66/1hr30h88.68%89.47%
- 68Longvinter$0.70/1hr29h77.31%67.11%
- 69Days Gone$0.72/1hr55h92.13%92.72%
- 70I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.73/1hr27h84.30%84.38%
- 71Voidtrain$0.76/1hr20h78.83%73.38%
- 72Crashlands$0.77/1hr19h86.39%89.52%
- 73Volcanoids$0.80/1hr25h83.46%82.61%
- 74Aloft$0.81/1hr31h84.00%83.28%
- 75Subnautica$0.83/1hr36h96.86%97.09%
- 76Night of the Dead$0.86/1hr35h80.67%76.88%
- 77Survive the Nights$0.97/1hr21h76.72%65.59%
- 78Wildmender$1.03/1hr24h84.87%84.49%
- 79METAL GEAR SURVIVE$1.18/1hr25h78.49%65.74%
- 80Subnautica: Below Zero$1.20/1hr25h89.64%90.05%
- 81Far Cry Primal$1.28/1hr23h86.15%86.38%
- 82Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey$1.32/1hr30h81.83%79.04%
- 83Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.49/1hr13h76.79%71.07%
- 84DeadPoly$1.59/1hr6h81.72%77.63%
- 85Len's Island$1.64/1hr15h82.70%79.59%
- 86How to Survive$1.97/1hr8h83.60%82.67%
- 87Nightingale$2.40/1hr13h72.55%66.06%
- 88Welcome 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.