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.
- 1Rust$0.05/1hr392h86.72%86.73%
- 2Terraria$0.07/1hr152h97.30%97.38%
- 3Space Engineers$0.07/1hr142h88.57%88.81%
- 4Myth of Empires$0.12/1hr248h74.04%67.57%
- 5ICARUS$0.12/1hr72h76.03%74.67%
- 6Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 7Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.67%84.61%
- 8Project Zomboid$0.14/1hr182h93.60%93.77%
- 9ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr108h83.36%83.33%
- 10Subsistence$0.14/1hr99h77.65%72.08%
- 11Eco$0.15/1hr195h82.64%80.67%
- 12Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.16/1hr62h84.98%85.44%
- 13Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.17/1hr116h79.96%78.39%
- 14Valheim$0.18/1hr165h93.74%93.89%
- 15Starbound$0.18/1hr82h89.59%89.94%
- 16Don't Starve Together$0.21/1hr73h94.74%94.91%
- 17The Planet Crafter$0.21/1hr56h94.76%96.03%
- 18No Man's Sky$0.22/1hr107h85.19%85.19%
- 19Soulmask$0.22/1hr87h79.60%77.04%
- 20Outpath$0.23/1hr16h87.09%92.70%
- 21Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.24/1hr105h89.76%90.50%
- 22Palworld$0.24/1hr124h94.38%94.57%
- 23Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.25/1hr101h87.17%94.99%
- 24Ostranauts$0.25/1hr80h83.35%77.27%
- 25Satisfactory$0.25/1hr160h96.85%97.27%
- 26Necesse$0.26/1hr58h90.82%92.70%
- 27Deadside$0.26/1hr96h77.46%75.52%
- 28Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.27/1hr45h85.73%86.61%
- 29Mist Survival$0.28/1hr30h79.65%75.70%
- 30Stoneshard$0.28/1hr89h77.02%74.69%
- 31Welcome to ParadiZe$0.28/1hr11h82.72%67.24%
- 32The Long Dark$0.29/1hr69h88.63%88.90%
- 33ASKA$0.30/1hr66h82.37%79.94%
- 34I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h85.05%84.45%
- 35Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.33/1hr120h79.54%79.05%
- 36Occupy Mars: The Game$0.34/1hr88h81.59%69.74%
- 37Rising World$0.34/1hr33h85.13%85.71%
- 38Stationeers$0.35/1hr101h86.50%87.75%
- 39Core Keeper$0.35/1hr57h91.95%92.94%
- 40SurrounDead$0.36/1hr33h89.48%91.02%
- 41Sunkenland$0.37/1hr54h81.86%80.40%
- 42Dinkum$0.38/1hr53h90.15%91.80%
- 43Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.39/1hr15h79.75%77.04%
- 44Castle Story$0.41/1hr24h74.98%65.18%
- 45Abiotic Factor$0.41/1hr85h94.27%95.78%
- 46Raft$0.43/1hr47h92.80%92.99%
- 47Forever Skies$0.45/1hr30h81.97%78.23%
- 48Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.46/1hr26h87.70%94.19%
- 49Don't Starve$0.50/1hr20h95.63%96.54%
- 50Forager$0.53/1hr38h88.71%89.48%
- 51Grounded$0.58/1hr69h89.33%89.75%
- 52Eden Crafters$0.63/1hr32h85.38%85.56%
- 53The Front$0.66/1hr30h75.77%66.68%
- 54ASTRONEER$0.68/1hr44h91.47%91.91%
- 55The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria$0.70/1hr43h82.95%81.04%
- 56Wildmender$0.75/1hr33h85.18%84.46%
- 57Days Gone$0.75/1hr53h92.15%92.73%
- 58Crashlands$0.78/1hr19h87.03%89.53%
- 59DUCKSIDE$0.78/1hr19h81.80%72.20%
- 60TerraTech$0.79/1hr32h89.64%91.36%
- 61Subnautica$0.79/1hr38h96.79%97.09%
- 62Volcanoids$0.80/1hr25h84.02%82.62%
- 63Craftopia$0.81/1hr31h79.06%75.92%
- 64IfSunSets$0.84/1hr24h82.76%74.55%
- 65RuneScape: Dragonwilds$0.86/1hr35h82.32%81.31%
- 66Nova Lands$0.86/1hr23h86.33%89.16%
- 67The Forest$0.88/1hr23h95.38%95.52%
- 68Miscreated$0.89/1hr34h70.61%65.95%
- 69Voidtrain$0.92/1hr20h79.16%73.47%
- 70Night of the Dead$0.98/1hr31h80.80%76.92%
- 71Aloft$1.00/1hr25h84.42%83.46%
- 72The Survivalists$1.06/1hr24h80.72%76.15%
- 73Smalland: Survive the Wilds$1.07/1hr33h83.42%81.60%
- 74Subnautica: Below Zero$1.10/1hr27h89.66%90.06%
- 75Survive the Nights$1.17/1hr17h77.05%65.62%
- 76Tribes of Midgard$1.17/1hr17h78.90%76.37%
- 77The Infected$1.18/1hr14h84.83%84.11%
- 78Longvinter$1.21/1hr17h77.10%67.14%
- 79Far Cry Primal$1.25/1hr24h86.17%86.38%
- 80DeadPoly$1.44/1hr7h82.01%77.56%
- 81Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey$1.48/1hr27h81.94%79.04%
- 82Stranded Deep$1.53/1hr13h76.08%74.14%
- 83Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.60/1hr12h77.27%71.08%
- 84Len's Island$1.67/1hr15h82.85%79.63%
- 85Breathedge$2.19/1hr11h82.51%80.96%
- 86Nightingale$2.53/1hr12h72.94%66.08%
- 87Survive on Raft$2.54/1hr6h82.91%63.43%
- 88Arctico$4.65/1hr2h81.82%70.21%
- 89The 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.