Best Value Survival Games Under $40
The Survival 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%
- 2Dead by Daylight$0.05/1hr404h78.51%78.44%
- 3Crosshair X$0.06/1hr159h91.83%93.37%
- 4FTL: Faster Than Light$0.06/1hr54h93.96%95.11%
- 5Kenshi$0.09/1hr138h94.72%95.56%
- 6Among Us$0.09/1hr33h91.90%91.99%
- 7Terraria$0.09/1hr107h97.30%97.38%
- 8My Time at Portia$0.10/1hr62h90.31%91.51%
- 9Brotato$0.10/1hr31h95.18%96.06%
- 10Valheim$0.10/1hr96h93.83%93.99%
- 11Death Road to Canada$0.10/1hr21h88.93%92.73%
- 12theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.11/1hr37h88.88%89.07%
- 13Beasts of Bermuda$0.11/1hr178h77.10%68.97%
- 14Rust$0.12/1hr342h86.81%86.82%
- 15Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.12/1hr243h79.47%79.00%
- 16Trailmakers$0.12/1hr40h90.61%92.09%
- 17Deep Rock Galactic$0.13/1hr71h96.82%97.14%
- 18Factorio$0.13/1hr274h96.99%97.51%
- 19Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.13/1hr51h85.55%86.85%
- 20RimWorld$0.13/1hr269h97.35%97.86%
- 21ARK: Survival Evolved$0.13/1hr114h83.35%83.33%
- 22Eco$0.13/1hr225h82.50%80.73%
- 23Satisfactory$0.14/1hr194h96.83%97.26%
- 24TerraTech$0.15/1hr42h89.55%91.39%
- 25DayZ$0.15/1hr167h77.93%77.77%
- 26This War of Mine$0.15/1hr20h93.02%93.85%
- 27Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr66h95.58%95.99%
- 28Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.15/1hr26h93.74%96.02%
- 29Mortal Online 2$0.17/1hr241h70.52%60.08%
- 30Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.17/1hr36h72.19%70.87%
- 31The Planet Crafter$0.18/1hr65h94.70%96.05%
- 32Crashlands$0.19/1hr28h86.80%89.50%
- 33Left 4 Dead 2$0.19/1hr53h97.41%97.52%
- 34Scrap Mechanic$0.19/1hr154h91.47%92.02%
- 35Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr26h96.92%97.70%
- 36Cluckmech Oasis$0.19/1hr52h85.85%88.29%
- 37V Rising$0.19/1hr81h88.68%88.95%
- 38SKYHILL$0.19/1hr5h82.52%78.23%
- 39Green Hell$0.20/1hr19h84.75%84.72%
- 40Generation Zero$0.20/1hr25h74.52%72.03%
- 41R.E.P.O.$0.20/1hr32h95.80%96.06%
- 42Frostpunk$0.21/1hr22h92.20%92.73%
- 43Space Engineers$0.21/1hr97h88.59%88.86%
- 44Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.21/1hr19h87.23%89.95%
- 45Town of Salem$0.21/1hr24h87.26%87.88%
- 46The Isle$0.21/1hr95h80.53%80.15%
- 47Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr23h93.27%94.12%
- 48Fallout 4$0.21/1hr93h81.27%81.19%
- 49From the Depths$0.22/1hr113h87.38%89.26%
- 50Soulmask$0.23/1hr105h79.63%77.20%
- 51Per Aspera$0.23/1hr32h81.67%75.91%
- 52Project Zomboid$0.23/1hr86h93.81%94.01%
- 53Endzone - A World Apart$0.23/1hr11h80.88%76.75%
- 54Stationeers$0.23/1hr150h86.29%87.72%
- 55Resident Evil 6$0.24/1hr21h78.27%77.31%
- 56Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.24/1hr105h89.71%90.50%
- 5720 Minutes Till Dawn$0.24/1hr12h89.16%90.61%
- 58Ratopia$0.24/1hr54h85.89%87.80%
- 59God Of Weapons$0.25/1hr11h84.69%84.13%
- 60The Long Dark$0.25/1hr79h88.66%88.96%
- 61Subsistence$0.25/1hr42h77.44%71.95%
- 62Far Cry$0.25/1hr12h83.27%81.81%
- 63Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.25/1hr56h90.26%94.39%
- 64Space Haven$0.25/1hr60h85.41%85.80%
- 65Blood and Bacon$0.25/1hr4h93.04%95.25%
- 66Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.30%
- 67No Man's Sky$0.26/1hr93h84.97%84.97%
- 68Picayune Dreams$0.26/1hr19h89.32%98.92%
- 69Mindustry$0.26/1hr39h92.86%95.72%
- 70Terraformers$0.26/1hr31h85.91%88.41%
- 71Planetbase$0.26/1hr57h82.30%79.73%
- 72Resident Evil 4$0.26/1hr38h96.88%97.33%
- 73ASKA$0.27/1hr75h82.17%79.82%
- 74Captain of Industry$0.27/1hr89h87.76%90.22%
- 75Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.28/1hr11h89.81%93.24%
- 76ICARUS$0.28/1hr25h75.82%74.42%
- 77A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr14h92.22%93.25%
- 78Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.28/1hr88h85.41%85.59%
- 79Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.28/1hr21h81.13%79.70%
- 80Palworld$0.29/1hr104h94.18%94.38%
- 81Core Keeper$0.29/1hr48h91.89%92.95%
- 82Dwarf Fortress$0.29/1hr102h92.41%94.79%
- 83The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.30/1hr24h83.20%80.53%
- 84Medieval Dynasty$0.30/1hr58h89.53%90.41%
- 85Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr17h81.81%80.16%
- 86Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide$0.30/1hr10h81.54%79.94%
- 87EVERSPACE$0.30/1hr7h81.41%78.29%
- 88Sunkenland$0.30/1hr66h81.78%80.43%
- 89Stonehearth$0.30/1hr66h79.49%75.28%
- 90The Matchless Kungfu$0.31/1hr33h82.80%80.03%
- 91Bloons TD 6$0.31/1hr45h96.89%97.19%
- 92Oxygen Not Included$0.31/1hr80h95.97%96.74%
- 93Jurassic World Evolution$0.32/1hr39h87.05%87.43%
- 94Timberborn$0.32/1hr77h93.81%95.98%
- 95Resident Evil 5$0.32/1hr15h86.70%86.96%
- 96WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition$0.32/1hr61h92.09%97.52%
- 97Aliens: Dark Descent$0.33/1hr36h86.71%87.65%
- 98Barotrauma$0.33/1hr60h93.10%94.02%
- 99Eden Crafters$0.34/1hr38h85.08%85.46%
- 100Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr15h79.88%78.27%
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.