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