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.

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.
  1. 1Starbound$0.04/1hr
  2. 2Dead by Daylight$0.05/1hr
  3. 3Crosshair X$0.06/1hr
  4. 4FTL: Faster Than Light$0.06/1hr
  5. 5Kenshi$0.09/1hr
  6. 6Among Us$0.09/1hr
  7. 7Terraria$0.09/1hr
  8. 8My Time at Portia$0.10/1hr
  9. 9Brotato$0.10/1hr
  10. 10Valheim$0.10/1hr
  11. 11Death Road to Canada$0.10/1hr
  12. 12theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.11/1hr
  13. 13Beasts of Bermuda$0.11/1hr
  14. 14Rust$0.12/1hr
  15. 15Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.12/1hr
  16. 16Trailmakers$0.12/1hr
  17. 17Deep Rock Galactic$0.13/1hr
  18. 18Factorio$0.13/1hr
  19. 19Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.13/1hr
  20. 20RimWorld$0.13/1hr
  21. 21ARK: Survival Evolved$0.13/1hr
  22. 22Eco$0.13/1hr
  23. 23Satisfactory$0.14/1hr
  24. 24TerraTech$0.15/1hr
  25. 25DayZ$0.15/1hr
  26. 26This War of Mine$0.15/1hr
  27. 27Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr
  28. 28Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.15/1hr
  29. 29Mortal Online 2$0.17/1hr
  30. 30Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.17/1hr
  31. 31The Planet Crafter$0.18/1hr
  32. 32Crashlands$0.19/1hr
  33. 33Left 4 Dead 2$0.19/1hr
  34. 34Scrap Mechanic$0.19/1hr
  35. 35Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr
  36. 36Cluckmech Oasis$0.19/1hr
  37. 37V Rising$0.19/1hr
  38. 38SKYHILL$0.19/1hr
  39. 39Green Hell$0.20/1hr
  40. 40Generation Zero$0.20/1hr
  41. 41R.E.P.O.$0.20/1hr
  42. 42Frostpunk$0.21/1hr
  43. 43Space Engineers$0.21/1hr
  44. 44Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.21/1hr
  45. 45Town of Salem$0.21/1hr
  46. 46The Isle$0.21/1hr
  47. 47Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr
  48. 48Fallout 4$0.21/1hr
  49. 49From the Depths$0.22/1hr
  50. 50Soulmask$0.23/1hr
  51. 51Per Aspera$0.23/1hr
  52. 52Project Zomboid$0.23/1hr
  53. 53Endzone - A World Apart$0.23/1hr
  54. 54Stationeers$0.23/1hr
  55. 55Resident Evil 6$0.24/1hr
  56. 56Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.24/1hr
  57. 5720 Minutes Till Dawn$0.24/1hr
  58. 58Ratopia$0.24/1hr
  59. 59God Of Weapons$0.25/1hr
  60. 60The Long Dark$0.25/1hr
  61. 61Subsistence$0.25/1hr
  62. 62Far Cry$0.25/1hr
  63. 63Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.25/1hr
  64. 64Space Haven$0.25/1hr
  65. 65Blood and Bacon$0.25/1hr
  66. 66Resident Evil$0.26/1hr
  67. 67No Man's Sky$0.26/1hr
  68. 68Picayune Dreams$0.26/1hr
  69. 69Mindustry$0.26/1hr
  70. 70Terraformers$0.26/1hr
  71. 71Planetbase$0.26/1hr
  72. 72Resident Evil 4$0.26/1hr
  73. 73ASKA$0.27/1hr
  74. 74Captain of Industry$0.27/1hr
  75. 75Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.28/1hr
  76. 76ICARUS$0.28/1hr
  77. 77A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr
  78. 78Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.28/1hr
  79. 79Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.28/1hr
  80. 80Palworld$0.29/1hr
  81. 81Core Keeper$0.29/1hr
  82. 82Dwarf Fortress$0.29/1hr
  83. 83The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.30/1hr
  84. 84Medieval Dynasty$0.30/1hr
  85. 85Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr
  86. 86Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide$0.30/1hr
  87. 87EVERSPACE$0.30/1hr
  88. 88Sunkenland$0.30/1hr
  89. 89Stonehearth$0.30/1hr
  90. 90The Matchless Kungfu$0.31/1hr
  91. 91Bloons TD 6$0.31/1hr
  92. 92Oxygen Not Included$0.31/1hr
  93. 93Jurassic World Evolution$0.32/1hr
  94. 94Timberborn$0.32/1hr
  95. 95Resident Evil 5$0.32/1hr
  96. 96WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition$0.32/1hr
  97. 97Aliens: Dark Descent$0.33/1hr
  98. 98Barotrauma$0.33/1hr
  99. 99Eden Crafters$0.34/1hr
  100. 100Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr

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.