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
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.
- 1YoloMouse - Cursor Changer$0.01/1hr899h86.68%92.45%
- 2Wallpaper Engine$0.01/1hr338h97.45%97.58%
- 3Cookie Clicker$0.04/1hr119h95.30%96.42%
- 4Dead by Daylight$0.05/1hr404h78.51%78.44%
- 5Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.07/1hr166h74.10%73.70%
- 6Bean Battles$0.09/1hr6h89.42%93.80%
- 7Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.10/1hr26h86.72%87.02%
- 8The Surge$0.10/1hr18h79.31%74.62%
- 9Beasts of Bermuda$0.11/1hr178h77.10%68.97%
- 10Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.11/1hr88h72.46%71.54%
- 11Path of Exile 2$0.11/1hr263h74.97%74.53%
- 12Phasmophobia$0.12/1hr115h94.30%94.41%
- 13Deep Rock Galactic$0.13/1hr71h96.82%97.14%
- 14Vampyr$0.14/1hr28h79.61%77.46%
- 15DayZ$0.15/1hr167h77.93%77.77%
- 16Undertale$0.17/1hr15h96.16%96.50%
- 17The Room Three$0.19/1hr8h90.98%95.48%
- 18Left 4 Dead 2$0.19/1hr53h97.41%97.52%
- 19SKYHILL$0.19/1hr5h82.52%78.23%
- 20Generation Zero$0.20/1hr25h74.52%72.03%
- 21R.E.P.O.$0.20/1hr32h95.80%96.06%
- 22The Isle$0.21/1hr95h80.53%80.15%
- 23Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr23h93.27%94.12%
- 24Curse of the Dead Gods$0.23/1hr17h84.27%83.50%
- 25Sally Face - Episode One$0.23/1hr13h93.99%97.30%
- 26Resident Evil 6$0.24/1hr21h78.27%77.31%
- 2720 Minutes Till Dawn$0.24/1hr12h89.16%90.61%
- 28Far Cry$0.25/1hr12h83.27%81.81%
- 29Blood and Bacon$0.25/1hr4h93.04%95.25%
- 30Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.30%
- 31Resident Evil 4$0.26/1hr38h96.88%97.33%
- 32The Room Two$0.28/1hr4h93.58%97.55%
- 33The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth$0.28/1hr54h96.69%96.96%
- 34A Plague Tale: Innocence$0.28/1hr14h92.22%93.25%
- 35Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.28/1hr21h81.13%79.70%
- 36Mortal Kombat 11$0.28/1hr18h87.82%88.06%
- 37KovaaK's$0.28/1hr33h91.41%92.98%
- 38The Room$0.29/1hr3h94.68%97.75%
- 39Nothing$0.30/1hr3h89.53%94.14%
- 40Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr17h81.81%80.16%
- 41Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide$0.30/1hr10h81.54%79.94%
- 42Lethal Company$0.30/1hr33h96.75%96.98%
- 43Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$0.31/1hr16h89.80%94.95%
- 44Mortal Kombat X$0.31/1hr13h86.08%86.26%
- 45People Playground$0.31/1hr32h98.05%98.47%
- 46Call of Cthulhu$0.32/1hr9h81.67%79.27%
- 47Resident Evil 5$0.32/1hr15h86.70%86.96%
- 48Aliens: Dark Descent$0.33/1hr36h86.71%87.65%
- 49Barotrauma$0.33/1hr60h93.10%94.02%
- 50Dungeons 3$0.34/1hr18h90.97%94.18%
- 51Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr15h79.88%78.27%
- 52Resident Evil 2$0.36/1hr23h96.52%97.05%
- 53Sherlock Holmes The Awakened$0.37/1hr11h84.39%82.34%
- 54Axiom Verge$0.37/1hr14h87.04%90.19%
- 55Don't Starve Together$0.38/1hr40h94.76%94.95%
- 56Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition$0.38/1hr8h78.33%72.19%
- 57Nuclear Nightmare$0.38/1hr7h82.48%81.15%
- 58Library Of Ruina$0.38/1hr79h92.71%94.47%
- 59The Darkness II$0.39/1hr8h89.46%91.59%
- 60Mist Survival$0.39/1hr22h79.61%75.84%
- 61Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.40/1hr28h90.35%94.29%
- 62Half-Life 2$0.40/1hr25h97.16%97.60%
- 63The Room 4: Old Sins$0.41/1hr5h93.68%98.47%
- 64Inside the Backrooms$0.41/1hr17h80.85%79.96%
- 65Phoenix Point$0.42/1hr60h80.05%73.14%
- 66Darkest Dungeon$0.43/1hr59h91.28%91.67%
- 67Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.43/1hr32h87.82%94.19%
- 68Mortal Kombat 1$0.43/1hr23h74.48%72.32%
- 69Resident Evil Revelations$0.43/1hr11h82.58%81.27%
- 70Nubby's Number Factory$0.44/1hr11h93.14%97.42%
- 71Fallout 76$0.46/1hr87h72.79%71.92%
- 72Castlevania Anniversary Collection$0.47/1hr17h84.36%81.61%
- 73Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.48/1hr52h92.82%94.22%
- 74Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2$0.50/1hr16h84.90%84.79%
- 75Resident Evil Village$0.51/1hr20h94.96%95.62%
- 76Content Warning$0.51/1hr8h93.37%93.89%
- 77Don't Starve$0.51/1hr20h95.61%96.55%
- 78Amnesia: The Bunker$0.52/1hr10h89.57%93.35%
- 79RAGE$0.52/1hr19h80.40%77.89%
- 80Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.52/1hr38h93.23%95.80%
- 81Exanima$0.53/1hr28h82.18%80.15%
- 82CULTIC$0.55/1hr18h90.62%97.26%
- 83Atomic Heart$0.56/1hr27h81.49%80.79%
- 84We Were Here Too$0.56/1hr4h81.44%78.26%
- 85HumanitZ$0.57/1hr35h78.89%74.43%
- 86Grounded$0.57/1hr70h89.27%89.72%
- 87Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.58/1hr14h94.53%95.30%
- 88SOMA$0.58/1hr10h94.11%95.87%
- 89Batman: Arkham Knight$0.59/1hr34h89.35%89.63%
- 90Rusty Lake Hotel$0.59/1hr3h90.65%96.10%
- 91Little Nightmares$0.59/1hr8h93.98%94.76%
- 92We Were Here Forever$0.60/1hr12h88.66%90.64%
- 93Changed$0.60/1hr8h85.90%86.40%
- 94That's not my Neighbor$0.60/1hr5h86.18%88.80%
- 95Alice: Madness Returns$0.62/1hr16h89.27%90.69%
- 96House of Detention$0.65/1hr2h87.89%90.63%
- 97Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.66/1hr31h93.71%96.01%
- 98Dying Light$0.66/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 99Killing Floor 2$0.66/1hr46h88.05%88.29%
- 100Gorilla Tag$0.66/1hr30h90.66%91.33%
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.