Best Rated Survival Horror Games Under $40
The best rated Survival Horror games on Steam for games under $40. Scores are weighted by review volume, so small-sample flukes stay off the list.
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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
- 1Left 4 Dead 21,048,79597.41%97.52%
- 2Resident Evil 4268,03696.88%97.33%
- 3Subnautica377,30096.78%97.09%
- 4Lethal Company509,83796.75%96.98%
- 5Resident Evil 2218,63996.52%97.05%
- 6Outlast137,67595.67%96.44%
- 7Don't Starve113,23295.61%96.55%
- 8The Forest678,90895.38%95.53%
- 9Aseprite26,37895.11%98.95%
- 10Dying Light491,91795.03%95.23%
- 11Resident Evil Village151,56094.96%95.62%
- 12Blender89,48894.90%96.01%
- 13Don't Starve Together539,86094.76%94.95%
- 14Resident Evil 7 Biohazard124,54394.53%95.30%
- 15DREDGE55,78594.18%95.83%
- 16SOMA52,06894.11%95.87%
- 17Little Nightmares116,30493.98%94.76%
- 18SIGNALIS33,66793.95%96.61%
- 19Killing Floor68,80693.86%95.16%
- 20Project Zomboid461,78193.81%94.01%
- 21Ultimate Custom Night62,50793.43%94.79%
- 22Content Warning161,81693.37%93.89%
- 23SILENT HILL 263,01593.35%94.68%
- 24Resident Evil 4 (2005)97,08693.27%94.12%
- 25S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat31,37893.10%95.69%
- 26Barotrauma88,39793.10%94.02%
- 27Blood and Bacon36,39393.04%95.25%
- 28S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl48,04793.00%94.67%
- 29The Test20,13892.82%96.72%
- 30Five Nights at Freddy's58,80292.52%93.81%
- 31Amnesia: The Dark Descent35,53492.47%94.58%
- 32Rain World55,36992.43%93.77%
- 33Days Gone115,83892.11%92.73%
- 34Alien: Isolation66,20692.07%93.14%
- 35Darkwood24,66692.05%94.92%
- 36The Outlast Trials108,99591.93%92.57%
- 37Metro 2033 Redux139,08291.77%92.26%
- 38Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator33,09291.72%93.75%
- 39Dead Space 229,42591.69%93.96%
- 40Source Filmmaker43,64191.45%92.93%
- 41Five Nights at Freddy's 225,93591.26%93.68%
- 42FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED13,08291.08%95.75%
- 43Enigma of Fear10,20690.85%96.61%
- 44SCP: Secret Laboratory232,39590.83%91.08%
- 45Crow Country7,92290.76%98.06%
- 46Detention11,77590.75%95.65%
- 47F.E.A.R.19,33890.70%93.65%
- 48Resident Evil35,77090.70%92.30%
- 49Gorilla Tag84,88290.66%91.33%
- 50Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit10,88390.58%95.72%
- 51Metro: Last Light Redux80,53090.54%91.24%
- 52The Evil Within 230,76990.36%92.11%
- 53Dead Space (2008)29,01890.12%91.89%
- 54Outlast 263,95290.08%90.88%
- 55Five Nights at Freddy's 416,76589.95%92.92%
- 56DEVOUR87,88189.94%90.50%
- 57Prey54,24289.92%90.83%
- 58Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition9,36889.80%94.95%
- 59Escape the Backrooms157,36889.76%90.06%
- 60Subnautica: Below Zero107,84189.67%90.10%
- 61Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion15,49589.64%92.64%
- 62Metro Exodus134,31189.61%89.96%
- 63Chinese Parents26,86089.60%91.33%
- 64Amnesia: The Bunker12,17689.57%93.35%
- 65100% Orange Juice30,08689.54%91.06%
- 66Gloomwood8,26689.53%95.04%
- 67Into the Radius VR11,26789.50%93.52%
- 68The Test: Final Revelation5,37189.47%97.82%
- 69Bendy and the Dark Revival15,89689.43%92.22%
- 70Psychopomp GOLD5,25989.38%97.53%
- 71No More Room in Hell76,22489.34%89.92%
- 72Aliens vs. Predator21,36089.32%91.35%
- 73Alan Wake58,74889.23%89.95%
- 74Choo-Choo Charles17,32688.71%90.86%
- 75The Long Dark122,95088.66%88.96%
- 76Pathologic 212,10888.64%91.67%
- 77Cry of Fear85,88688.35%88.74%
- 78Sons Of The Forest315,47488.32%88.42%
- 79VTube Studio7,15888.22%92.75%
- 80Bendy and the Ink Machine36,45688.16%89.03%
- 81Killing Floor 2129,14588.05%88.29%
- 82Backrooms: Escape Together46,91388.03%88.69%
- 83System Shock12,80488.00%90.36%
- 84House of Detention10,63487.89%90.63%
- 85Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location12,55987.82%90.08%
- 86Five Nights at Freddy's 311,25387.75%90.21%
- 87Poppy Playtime140,70687.73%87.93%
- 88Layers of Fear (2016)27,59787.50%88.42%
- 89Dark Deception23,99387.44%88.47%
- 90WORLD OF HORROR9,80687.32%89.71%
- 91Depth32,93187.27%87.97%
- 92Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon33,96487.18%87.82%
- 93Resident Evil 3: Raccoon City Demo10,06687.09%89.18%
- 94Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition2,81487.07%94.49%
- 95Mister Furry: Hot Muscles4,41487.05%91.73%
- 96The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes10,83787.05%88.95%
- 97Resident Evil 566,17086.70%86.96%
- 98Monstrum3,74186.51%90.59%
- 99Receiver 23,05486.29%90.57%
- 100Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach69,54086.27%86.46%
