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.
- 1Crosshair X$0.03/1hr296h91.92%93.37%
- 2FTL: Faster Than Light$0.04/1hr46h93.99%95.09%
- 3Rust$0.05/1hr392h86.72%86.73%
- 4Terraria$0.07/1hr152h97.30%97.38%
- 5Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr29h93.79%95.97%
- 6Deep Rock Galactic$0.07/1hr129h96.81%97.11%
- 7Space Engineers$0.07/1hr142h88.57%88.81%
- 8Brotato$0.07/1hr42h95.11%95.93%
- 9Dead by Daylight$0.07/1hr274h78.38%78.31%
- 10RimWorld$0.08/1hr369h97.36%97.85%
- 11theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.09/1hr34h88.91%89.08%
- 12Fallout 4$0.09/1hr211h81.27%81.17%
- 13Town of Salem$0.11/1hr44h87.32%87.87%
- 14Oxygen Not Included$0.12/1hr212h95.98%96.72%
- 15Myth of Empires$0.12/1hr248h74.04%67.57%
- 16Left 4 Dead 2$0.12/1hr82h97.41%97.52%
- 17ICARUS$0.12/1hr72h76.03%74.67%
- 18R.E.P.O.$0.12/1hr53h95.76%96.00%
- 19Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 20Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.67%84.61%
- 21Wartales$0.13/1hr73h85.54%85.60%
- 22Project Zomboid$0.14/1hr182h93.60%93.77%
- 23ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr108h83.36%83.33%
- 24Subsistence$0.14/1hr99h77.65%72.08%
- 25Mortal Online 2$0.15/1hr271h70.62%59.91%
- 26Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr67h95.59%95.98%
- 27Portal Knights$0.15/1hr20h84.00%83.37%
- 28Generation Zero$0.15/1hr33h74.58%72.03%
- 29Eco$0.15/1hr195h82.64%80.67%
- 30Dungeon Defenders$0.16/1hr95h90.44%93.09%
- 31Army of Ruin$0.16/1hr25h85.99%88.05%
- 32Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.16/1hr62h84.98%85.44%
- 33Bloons TD 6$0.16/1hr87h96.89%97.18%
- 3420 Minutes Till Dawn$0.16/1hr15h89.04%90.31%
- 35Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.17/1hr116h79.96%78.39%
- 36Mindustry$0.18/1hr56h92.99%95.72%
- 37God Of Weapons$0.18/1hr33h84.94%84.03%
- 38Valheim$0.18/1hr165h93.74%93.89%
- 39Starbound$0.18/1hr82h89.59%89.94%
- 40Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense$0.18/1hr136h85.90%86.27%
- 41Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.19/1hr27h93.37%94.18%
- 42Blood and Bacon$0.20/1hr5h93.14%95.27%
- 43Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.20/1hr25h96.95%97.70%
- 44Factorio$0.20/1hr171h97.02%97.51%
- 45Among Us$0.21/1hr24h91.93%92.02%
- 46Don't Starve Together$0.21/1hr73h94.74%94.91%
- 47Frostpunk$0.21/1hr29h92.24%92.74%
- 48Resident Evil 6$0.21/1hr23h78.18%77.18%
- 49The Planet Crafter$0.21/1hr56h94.76%96.03%
- 50ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN$0.22/1hr184h81.89%81.71%
- 51Settlement Survival$0.22/1hr24h85.20%85.04%
- 52No Man's Sky$0.22/1hr107h85.19%85.19%
- 53Soulmask$0.22/1hr87h79.60%77.04%
- 54ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.23/1hr64h84.77%84.76%
- 55Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.24/1hr105h89.76%90.50%
- 56Palworld$0.24/1hr124h94.38%94.57%
- 57The Isle$0.25/1hr82h80.57%80.17%
- 58Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.25/1hr101h87.17%94.99%
- 59Timberborn$0.25/1hr99h93.91%95.97%
- 60Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.25/1hr81h90.38%94.30%
- 61Ostranauts$0.25/1hr80h83.35%77.27%
- 62Satisfactory$0.25/1hr160h96.85%97.27%
- 63Per Aspera$0.26/1hr29h81.88%75.91%
- 64Necesse$0.26/1hr58h90.82%92.70%
- 65Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.32%
- 66Deadside$0.26/1hr96h77.46%75.52%
- 67Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.27/1hr45h85.73%86.61%
- 68Captain of Industry$0.27/1hr92h88.03%90.29%
- 69Scrap Mechanic$0.27/1hr108h91.32%91.81%
- 70MORDHAU$0.27/1hr22h80.34%79.90%
- 71This War of Mine$0.27/1hr19h93.04%93.83%
- 72Mind Over Magic$0.27/1hr93h85.72%86.58%
- 73Rain World$0.27/1hr32h92.46%93.70%
- 74ANEURISM IV$0.27/1hr36h81.48%75.33%
- 75Picayune Dreams$0.27/1hr18h89.67%98.88%
- 76Mist Survival$0.28/1hr30h79.65%75.70%
- 77The Binding of Isaac$0.28/1hr18h93.34%94.62%
- 78Stoneshard$0.28/1hr89h77.02%74.69%
- 79Welcome to ParadiZe$0.28/1hr11h82.72%67.24%
- 80Planetbase$0.29/1hr53h82.52%79.75%
- 81Kenshi$0.29/1hr104h94.78%95.59%
- 82The Long Dark$0.29/1hr69h88.63%88.90%
- 83Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.77%86.98%
- 84Total War: ATTILA$0.30/1hr67h83.05%82.44%
- 85ASKA$0.30/1hr66h82.37%79.94%
- 86They Are Billions$0.30/1hr98h85.16%85.13%
- 87From the Depths$0.31/1hr82h87.57%89.26%
- 88Ratopia$0.31/1hr72h86.13%87.75%
- 89Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.31/1hr98h80.16%78.71%
- 90The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.31/1hr23h83.44%80.52%
- 91Fallout 76$0.31/1hr128h72.80%71.91%
- 92I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h85.05%84.45%
- 93Barotrauma$0.32/1hr55h93.14%94.01%
- 94Resident Evil 0$0.33/1hr15h81.67%80.09%
- 95Resident Evil 4$0.33/1hr30h96.94%97.35%
- 96Dead Space 2$0.33/1hr12h91.80%93.97%
- 97Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.33/1hr120h79.54%79.05%
- 98Trailmakers$0.34/1hr75h90.71%92.08%
- 99Occupy Mars: The Game$0.34/1hr88h81.59%69.74%
- 100Rising World$0.34/1hr33h85.13%85.71%
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.