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$0.04/1hr120h89.66%90.00%
- 2Crosshair X$0.05/1hr196h91.91%93.37%
- 3Dead by Daylight$0.05/1hr364h78.51%78.44%
- 4FTL: Faster Than Light$0.07/1hr53h94.02%95.11%
- 5Beasts of Bermuda$0.09/1hr226h77.34%68.97%
- 6Kenshi$0.09/1hr127h94.76%95.56%
- 7My Time at Portia$0.09/1hr63h90.40%91.51%
- 8Terraria$0.10/1hr105h97.30%97.38%
- 9Death Road to Canada$0.10/1hr23h89.17%92.75%
- 10Brotato$0.10/1hr29h95.22%96.05%
- 11Among Us$0.11/1hr28h91.91%91.99%
- 12Deep Rock Galactic$0.11/1hr82h96.84%97.14%
- 13Trailmakers$0.11/1hr44h90.70%92.09%
- 14Factorio$0.12/1hr299h97.01%97.51%
- 15Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.13/1hr240h79.50%78.99%
- 16theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.13/1hr31h88.90%89.07%
- 17Rust$0.13/1hr311h86.81%86.82%
- 18RimWorld$0.13/1hr262h97.37%97.86%
- 19ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr110h83.36%83.33%
- 20DayZ$0.15/1hr172h77.94%77.77%
- 21Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr69h95.60%95.99%
- 22TerraTech$0.15/1hr42h89.55%91.39%
- 23Mortal Online 2$0.15/1hr269h70.72%60.09%
- 24This War of Mine$0.15/1hr20h93.07%93.85%
- 25Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.15/1hr43h85.87%86.82%
- 26Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.15/1hr26h93.84%96.02%
- 27Eco$0.17/1hr181h82.70%80.73%
- 28Tom Clancy’s The Division$0.17/1hr35h72.24%70.87%
- 29R.E.P.O.$0.18/1hr37h95.81%96.06%
- 30Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr55h97.41%97.52%
- 31Crashlands$0.19/1hr28h86.80%89.50%
- 32Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.19/1hr27h96.95%97.70%
- 33The Planet Crafter$0.19/1hr63h94.75%96.04%
- 34Scrap Mechanic$0.19/1hr151h91.50%92.00%
- 35Cluckmech Oasis$0.19/1hr52h85.85%88.29%
- 36Generation Zero$0.19/1hr26h74.61%72.03%
- 37SKYHILL$0.19/1hr5h82.83%78.23%
- 38Green Hell$0.19/1hr19h84.79%84.72%
- 39Fallout 4$0.20/1hr101h81.29%81.19%
- 40Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.20/1hr25h93.32%94.12%
- 41Satisfactory$0.20/1hr199h96.85%97.26%
- 42Project Zomboid$0.20/1hr99h93.82%94.00%
- 43Town of Salem$0.20/1hr24h87.36%87.88%
- 44Frostpunk$0.21/1hr22h92.23%92.73%
- 45Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.21/1hr19h87.23%89.95%
- 46The Isle$0.21/1hr95h80.57%80.16%
- 47From the Depths$0.22/1hr111h87.59%89.26%
- 48Space Engineers$0.23/1hr89h88.62%88.85%
- 49Stationeers$0.23/1hr153h86.54%87.72%
- 50Soulmask$0.23/1hr104h79.77%77.19%
- 51The Long Dark$0.23/1hr85h88.70%88.96%
- 52Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.23/1hr108h89.77%90.50%
- 53Resident Evil 6$0.24/1hr21h78.33%77.31%
- 5420 Minutes Till Dawn$0.24/1hr13h89.28%90.60%
- 55Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.14%95.25%
- 56Ratopia$0.24/1hr54h86.21%87.80%
- 57Per Aspera$0.24/1hr31h81.98%75.92%
- 58Subsistence$0.25/1hr42h77.44%71.95%
- 59Far Cry$0.25/1hr12h83.27%81.81%
- 60Mindustry$0.25/1hr40h92.99%95.72%
- 61No Man's Sky$0.26/1hr93h84.98%84.97%
- 62Picayune Dreams$0.26/1hr19h89.65%98.92%
- 63Planetbase$0.26/1hr58h82.54%79.73%
- 64Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.26/1hr54h90.46%94.38%
- 65Captain of Industry$0.26/1hr95h87.98%90.23%
- 66Endzone - A World Apart$0.26/1hr10h81.12%76.76%
- 67Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.81%92.30%
- 68Barotrauma$0.26/1hr76h93.14%94.01%
- 69ASKA$0.27/1hr75h82.39%79.83%
- 70Space Haven$0.27/1hr55h85.64%85.81%
- 71Palworld$0.28/1hr108h94.20%94.39%
- 72A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr14h92.28%93.25%
- 73Resident Evil 4$0.28/1hr36h96.90%97.33%
- 74Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.28/1hr21h81.13%79.70%
- 75God Of Weapons$0.29/1hr9h84.99%84.09%
- 76Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.29/1hr86h85.55%85.59%
- 77Dwarf Fortress$0.29/1hr102h92.53%94.79%
- 78Medieval Dynasty$0.30/1hr58h89.60%90.40%
- 79Oxygen Not Included$0.30/1hr83h96.00%96.74%
- 80Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr17h81.81%80.16%
- 81Sunkenland$0.30/1hr66h81.78%80.43%
- 82The Matchless Kungfu$0.31/1hr33h82.80%80.03%
- 83Terraformers$0.31/1hr26h86.25%88.41%
- 84Jurassic World Evolution$0.32/1hr39h87.12%87.43%
- 85Aliens: Dark Descent$0.32/1hr37h86.87%87.64%
- 86Eden Crafters$0.32/1hr40h85.45%85.43%
- 87Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom$0.32/1hr37h84.43%83.51%
- 88WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition$0.32/1hr61h92.30%97.53%
- 89The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.33/1hr21h83.48%80.54%
- 90Resident Evil 5$0.33/1hr15h86.76%86.96%
- 91Timberborn$0.33/1hr75h93.90%95.98%
- 92Stonehearth$0.34/1hr59h79.70%75.28%
- 93Valheim$0.34/1hr88h93.84%93.99%
- 94Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr15h79.88%78.27%
- 95Stoneshard$0.35/1hr72h77.02%74.62%
- 96Bloons TD 5$0.35/1hr28h90.25%94.66%
- 97Resident Evil 2$0.36/1hr23h96.54%97.05%
- 98SULFUR$0.36/1hr35h86.38%87.35%
- 99EVERSPACE$0.36/1hr6h81.63%78.30%
- 100My Summer Car$0.36/1hr41h94.18%94.94%
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.