Best Value Horror Games Under $40

The Horror 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

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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. 1YoloMouse - Cursor Changer$0.01/1hr
  2. 2Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.03/1hr
  3. 3Cookie Clicker$0.04/1hr
  4. 4Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr
  5. 5Deep Rock Galactic$0.07/1hr
  6. 6Dead by Daylight$0.07/1hr
  7. 7The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth$0.07/1hr
  8. 8Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.09/1hr
  9. 9Bean Battles$0.12/1hr
  10. 10Left 4 Dead 2$0.12/1hr
  11. 11R.E.P.O.$0.12/1hr
  12. 12Curse of the Dead Gods$0.12/1hr
  13. 13Dying Light$0.12/1hr
  14. 14Generation Zero$0.15/1hr
  15. 15AI: The Somnium Files$0.16/1hr
  16. 1620 Minutes Till Dawn$0.16/1hr
  17. 17DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.18/1hr
  18. 18Undertale$0.18/1hr
  19. 19Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.19/1hr
  20. 20KovaaK's$0.19/1hr
  21. 21Blood and Bacon$0.20/1hr
  22. 22Don't Starve Together$0.21/1hr
  23. 23Wallpaper Engine$0.21/1hr
  24. 24Resident Evil 6$0.21/1hr
  25. 25People Playground$0.21/1hr
  26. 26Party Hard$0.22/1hr
  27. 27Path of Exile 2$0.22/1hr
  28. 28The Isle$0.25/1hr
  29. 29Darkest Dungeon$0.25/1hr
  30. 30Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.25/1hr
  31. 31Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.25/1hr
  32. 32Resident Evil$0.26/1hr
  33. 33Mist Survival$0.28/1hr
  34. 34Sally Face - Episode One$0.28/1hr
  35. 35An alt girl for skoof$0.29/1hr
  36. 36Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr
  37. 37Valfaris$0.30/1hr
  38. 38Phoenix Point$0.30/1hr
  39. 39Lethal Company$0.30/1hr
  40. 40Library Of Ruina$0.31/1hr
  41. 41Phasmophobia$0.31/1hr
  42. 42Fallout 76$0.31/1hr
  43. 43The Sinking City Remastered$0.31/1hr
  44. 44Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.31/1hr
  45. 45Barotrauma$0.32/1hr
  46. 46Resident Evil 0$0.33/1hr
  47. 47Resident Evil 4$0.33/1hr
  48. 48Dead Space 2$0.33/1hr
  49. 49Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr
  50. 50Beasts of Bermuda$0.35/1hr
  51. 51Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition$0.35/1hr
  52. 52Axiom Verge$0.35/1hr
  53. 53Sherlock Holmes The Awakened$0.35/1hr
  54. 54Aliens: Dark Descent$0.36/1hr
  55. 55Mortal Kombat 11$0.37/1hr
  56. 56Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden$0.38/1hr
  57. 57Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.38/1hr
  58. 58Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.39/1hr
  59. 59Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.39/1hr
  60. 60Nothing$0.40/1hr
  61. 61Unheard - Voices of Crime$0.41/1hr
  62. 62Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$0.41/1hr
  63. 63The Darkness II$0.42/1hr
  64. 64Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.42/1hr
  65. 65Half-Life 2$0.42/1hr
  66. 66Exanima$0.43/1hr
  67. 67Resident Evil 2$0.43/1hr
  68. 68Mortal Kombat 1$0.45/1hr
  69. 69Resident Evil Revelations$0.45/1hr
  70. 70Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.46/1hr
  71. 71Quake$0.48/1hr
  72. 72Nubby's Number Factory$0.49/1hr
  73. 73Don't Starve$0.50/1hr
  74. 74HumanitZ$0.51/1hr
  75. 75Prototype$0.51/1hr
  76. 76Escape the Backrooms$0.53/1hr
  77. 77Resident Evil Village$0.54/1hr
  78. 78We Were Here Too$0.57/1hr
  79. 79Grounded$0.58/1hr
  80. 80Dead Space (2008)$0.58/1hr
  81. 81We Were Here Forever$0.58/1hr
  82. 82Alice: Madness Returns$0.58/1hr
  83. 83Lunacid$0.58/1hr
  84. 84The Surge$0.59/1hr
  85. 85Choo-Choo Charles$0.59/1hr
  86. 86Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines$0.59/1hr
  87. 87That's not my Neighbor$0.59/1hr
  88. 88RAGE$0.59/1hr
  89. 89Changed$0.60/1hr
  90. 90Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.61/1hr
  91. 91DOOM 64$0.61/1hr
  92. 92The Forever Winter$0.61/1hr
  93. 93House of Detention$0.61/1hr
  94. 94Batman: Arkham Knight$0.62/1hr
  95. 95The House of Da Vinci$0.62/1hr
  96. 96Painkiller: Black Edition$0.62/1hr
  97. 97Chinese Parents$0.62/1hr
  98. 98The Texas Chain Saw Massacre$0.62/1hr
  99. 99Inside the Backrooms$0.63/1hr
  100. 100The Final Station$0.63/1hr

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.