Best Value Psychological Horror Games Under $40

The Psychological 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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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. 1Dead by Daylight$0.02/1hr
  2. 2Geometry Dash$0.05/1hr
  3. 3Pro Soccer Online$0.07/1hr
  4. 4People Playground$0.08/1hr
  5. 5Darkwood$0.09/1hr
  6. 6HELLDIVERS 2$0.10/1hr
  7. 7Phasmophobia$0.16/1hr
  8. 8Undertale$0.16/1hr
  9. 9Alan Wake$0.17/1hr
  10. 10Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.20/1hr
  11. 11DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition$0.20/1hr
  12. 12Blood and Bacon$0.21/1hr
  13. 13F.E.A.R.$0.21/1hr
  14. 14CONTROL Ultimate Edition$0.22/1hr
  15. 15ANEURISM IV$0.23/1hr
  16. 16Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.23/1hr
  17. 17Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.25/1hr
  18. 18Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League$0.26/1hr
  19. 19Sally Face - Episode One$0.26/1hr
  20. 20Seen$0.27/1hr
  21. 21Alan Wake's American Nightmare$0.28/1hr
  22. 22Matchmaking Inc.$0.31/1hr
  23. 23Library Of Ruina$0.31/1hr
  24. 24WEBFISHING$0.31/1hr
  25. 25Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.31/1hr
  26. 26Lethal Company$0.32/1hr
  27. 27Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.32/1hr
  28. 28Nothing$0.32/1hr
  29. 29Vigil: The Longest Night$0.33/1hr
  30. 30My Summer Car$0.34/1hr
  31. 31The Sinking City Remastered$0.35/1hr
  32. 32Sherlock Holmes The Awakened$0.35/1hr
  33. 33Buckshot Roulette$0.38/1hr
  34. 34Outer Wilds$0.38/1hr
  35. 35Amnesia: The Dark Descent$0.38/1hr
  36. 36Chinese Parents$0.39/1hr
  37. 37Nubby's Number Factory$0.40/1hr
  38. 38METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED$0.44/1hr
  39. 39Max Payne$0.45/1hr
  40. 40Amnesia: The Bunker$0.45/1hr
  41. 41The Outlast Trials$0.46/1hr
  42. 42The Texas Chain Saw Massacre$0.46/1hr
  43. 43Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.46/1hr
  44. 44Sultan's Game$0.47/1hr
  45. 45The Quarry$0.50/1hr
  46. 46Layers of Fear (2016)$0.50/1hr
  47. 47SOMA$0.51/1hr
  48. 48That's not my Neighbor$0.53/1hr
  49. 49Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.53/1hr
  50. 50Cat Goes Fishing$0.55/1hr
  51. 51Inside the Backrooms$0.55/1hr
  52. 52Impostor Factory$0.55/1hr
  53. 53DREDGE$0.56/1hr
  54. 54RUSSIAPHOBIA$0.57/1hr
  55. 55Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.57/1hr
  56. 56We Were Here Forever$0.58/1hr
  57. 57Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition$0.58/1hr
  58. 58Rusty Lake Hotel$0.60/1hr
  59. 59Escape the Backrooms$0.60/1hr
  60. 60OMORI$0.61/1hr
  61. 61Changed$0.63/1hr
  62. 62Content Warning$0.64/1hr
  63. 63The Long Drive$0.66/1hr
  64. 64Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days$0.70/1hr
  65. 65Nuclear Nightmare$0.72/1hr
  66. 66Trepang2$0.72/1hr
  67. 67We Were Here Too$0.73/1hr
  68. 68Bendy and the Ink Machine$0.74/1hr
  69. 69Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.75/1hr
  70. 70The Room Three$0.76/1hr
  71. 71Tales of the Black Forest$0.76/1hr
  72. 72Cyber Manhunt$0.77/1hr
  73. 73Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion$0.79/1hr
  74. 74STEINS;GATE$0.79/1hr
  75. 75Kindergarten$0.80/1hr
  76. 76Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs$0.82/1hr
  77. 77Nunholy$0.82/1hr
  78. 78Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.82/1hr
  79. 79Insaniquarium Deluxe$0.83/1hr
  80. 80Tiny Bunny$0.83/1hr
  81. 81Gorilla Tag$0.84/1hr
  82. 82FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction$0.84/1hr
  83. 83AI: The Somnium Files$0.84/1hr
  84. 84Raging Loop$0.87/1hr
  85. 85Wanderstop$0.88/1hr
  86. 86Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.88/1hr
  87. 87An alt girl for skoof$0.89/1hr
  88. 88DEVOUR$0.92/1hr
  89. 89The Evil Within$0.94/1hr
  90. 90LISA: The Painful$0.95/1hr
  91. 91Demonologist$0.95/1hr
  92. 92Prey$0.97/1hr
  93. 93DRAMAtical Murder$0.97/1hr
  94. 94FPV Kamikaze Drone$0.99/1hr
  95. 95BOKURA$0.99/1hr
  96. 96Pathologic 2$1.00/1hr
  97. 97Metro Exodus$1.01/1hr
  98. 98AI2U: With You 'Til The End$1.04/1hr
  99. 99The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$1.06/1hr
  100. 100Cruelty Squad$1.06/1hr

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.