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. 2Crosshair X$0.05/1hr
  3. 3Dead by Daylight$0.05/1hr
  4. 4FTL: Faster Than Light$0.07/1hr
  5. 5Beasts of Bermuda$0.09/1hr
  6. 6Kenshi$0.09/1hr
  7. 7My Time at Portia$0.09/1hr
  8. 8Terraria$0.10/1hr
  9. 9Death Road to Canada$0.10/1hr
  10. 10Brotato$0.10/1hr
  11. 11Among Us$0.11/1hr
  12. 12Deep Rock Galactic$0.11/1hr
  13. 13Trailmakers$0.11/1hr
  14. 14Factorio$0.12/1hr
  15. 15Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.13/1hr
  16. 16theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.13/1hr
  17. 17Rust$0.13/1hr
  18. 18RimWorld$0.13/1hr
  19. 19ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr
  20. 20DayZ$0.15/1hr
  21. 21Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr
  22. 22TerraTech$0.15/1hr
  23. 23Mortal Online 2$0.15/1hr
  24. 24This War of Mine$0.15/1hr
  25. 25Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.15/1hr
  26. 26Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.15/1hr
  27. 27Eco$0.17/1hr
  28. 28Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.17/1hr
  29. 29R.E.P.O.$0.18/1hr
  30. 30Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr
  31. 31Crashlands$0.19/1hr
  32. 32Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr
  33. 33The Planet Crafter$0.19/1hr
  34. 34Scrap Mechanic$0.19/1hr
  35. 35Cluckmech Oasis$0.19/1hr
  36. 36Generation Zero$0.19/1hr
  37. 37SKYHILL$0.19/1hr
  38. 38Green Hell$0.19/1hr
  39. 39Fallout 4$0.20/1hr
  40. 40Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.20/1hr
  41. 41Satisfactory$0.20/1hr
  42. 42Project Zomboid$0.20/1hr
  43. 43Town of Salem$0.20/1hr
  44. 44Frostpunk$0.21/1hr
  45. 45Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.21/1hr
  46. 46The Isle$0.21/1hr
  47. 47From the Depths$0.22/1hr
  48. 48Space Engineers$0.23/1hr
  49. 49Stationeers$0.23/1hr
  50. 50Soulmask$0.23/1hr
  51. 51The Long Dark$0.23/1hr
  52. 52Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.23/1hr
  53. 53Resident Evil 6$0.24/1hr
  54. 5420 Minutes Till Dawn$0.24/1hr
  55. 55Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr
  56. 56Ratopia$0.24/1hr
  57. 57Per Aspera$0.24/1hr
  58. 58Subsistence$0.25/1hr
  59. 59Far Cry$0.25/1hr
  60. 60Mindustry$0.25/1hr
  61. 61No Man's Sky$0.26/1hr
  62. 62Picayune Dreams$0.26/1hr
  63. 63Planetbase$0.26/1hr
  64. 64Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.26/1hr
  65. 65Captain of Industry$0.26/1hr
  66. 66Endzone - A World Apart$0.26/1hr
  67. 67Resident Evil$0.26/1hr
  68. 68Barotrauma$0.26/1hr
  69. 69ASKA$0.27/1hr
  70. 70Space Haven$0.27/1hr
  71. 71Palworld$0.28/1hr
  72. 72A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr
  73. 73Resident Evil 4$0.28/1hr
  74. 74Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.28/1hr
  75. 75God Of Weapons$0.29/1hr
  76. 76Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.29/1hr
  77. 77Dwarf Fortress$0.29/1hr
  78. 78Medieval Dynasty$0.30/1hr
  79. 79Oxygen Not Included$0.30/1hr
  80. 80Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr
  81. 81Sunkenland$0.30/1hr
  82. 82The Matchless Kungfu$0.31/1hr
  83. 83Terraformers$0.31/1hr
  84. 84Jurassic World Evolution$0.32/1hr
  85. 85Aliens: Dark Descent$0.32/1hr
  86. 86Eden Crafters$0.32/1hr
  87. 87Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom$0.32/1hr
  88. 88WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition$0.32/1hr
  89. 89The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.33/1hr
  90. 90Resident Evil 5$0.33/1hr
  91. 91Timberborn$0.33/1hr
  92. 92Stonehearth$0.34/1hr
  93. 93Valheim$0.34/1hr
  94. 94Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr
  95. 95Stoneshard$0.35/1hr
  96. 96Bloons TD 5$0.35/1hr
  97. 97Resident Evil 2$0.36/1hr
  98. 98SULFUR$0.36/1hr
  99. 99EVERSPACE$0.36/1hr
  100. 100My Summer Car$0.36/1hr

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.