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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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.
- 1Dead by Daylight$0.05/1hr404h78.51%78.44%
- 2Geometry Dash$0.06/1hr86h92.92%93.05%
- 3Pro Soccer Online$0.09/1hr55h82.75%81.94%
- 4Phasmophobia$0.12/1hr115h94.30%94.41%
- 5Undertale$0.17/1hr15h96.16%96.50%
- 6HELLDIVERS 2$0.18/1hr217h75.24%75.16%
- 7The Room Three$0.19/1hr8h90.98%95.48%
- 8Sally Face - Episode One$0.23/1hr13h93.99%97.30%
- 9Blood and Bacon$0.25/1hr4h93.04%95.25%
- 10Resident Evil 4$0.26/1hr38h96.88%97.33%
- 11Adorables$0.27/1hr9h83.99%76.73%
- 12The Room Two$0.28/1hr4h93.58%97.55%
- 13Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.28/1hr88h85.41%85.59%
- 14WEBFISHING$0.29/1hr17h95.83%97.38%
- 15Nothing$0.30/1hr3h89.53%94.14%
- 16Lethal Company$0.30/1hr33h96.75%96.98%
- 17Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$0.31/1hr16h89.80%94.95%
- 18People Playground$0.31/1hr32h98.05%98.47%
- 19Call of Cthulhu$0.32/1hr9h81.67%79.27%
- 20Seen$0.35/1hr3h88.06%91.15%
- 21ANEURISM IV$0.37/1hr27h81.77%76.55%
- 22Sherlock Holmes The Awakened$0.37/1hr11h84.39%82.34%
- 23My Summer Car$0.37/1hr41h94.15%94.94%
- 24Nuclear Nightmare$0.38/1hr7h82.48%81.15%
- 25Library Of Ruina$0.38/1hr79h92.71%94.47%
- 26Inside the Backrooms$0.41/1hr17h80.85%79.96%
- 27Matchmaking Inc.$0.42/1hr21h86.49%88.58%
- 28Nubby's Number Factory$0.44/1hr11h93.14%97.42%
- 29CLANNAD$0.45/1hr35h91.96%98.43%
- 30Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.48/1hr52h87.32%95.05%
- 31Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.48/1hr52h92.82%94.22%
- 32Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.50/1hr12h88.63%98.65%
- 33ALTF4$0.50/1hr6h82.19%79.61%
- 34Resident Evil Village$0.51/1hr20h94.96%95.62%
- 35Content Warning$0.51/1hr8h93.37%93.89%
- 36Amnesia: The Bunker$0.52/1hr10h89.57%93.35%
- 37Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.52/1hr38h93.23%95.80%
- 38We Were Here Too$0.56/1hr4h81.44%78.26%
- 39Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.58/1hr14h94.53%95.30%
- 40SOMA$0.58/1hr10h94.11%95.87%
- 41Rusty Lake Hotel$0.59/1hr3h90.65%96.10%
- 42Little Nightmares$0.59/1hr8h93.98%94.76%
- 43We Were Here Forever$0.60/1hr12h88.66%90.64%
- 44Changed$0.60/1hr8h85.90%86.40%
- 45That's not my Neighbor$0.60/1hr5h86.18%88.80%
- 46Sultan's Game$0.61/1hr41h91.85%93.83%
- 47ULTIMATE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3$0.63/1hr8h87.93%91.74%
- 48Zup!$0.65/1hr3h89.30%94.14%
- 49House of Detention$0.65/1hr2h87.89%90.63%
- 50Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.66/1hr31h93.71%96.01%
- 51Gorilla Tag$0.66/1hr30h90.66%91.33%
- 52Cat Goes Fishing$0.67/1hr10h90.69%94.18%
- 53Tiny Bunny$0.67/1hr16h83.48%82.99%
- 54OMORI$0.68/1hr30h95.85%97.09%
- 55Office Life$0.70/1hr28h85.63%88.76%
- 56Buckshot Roulette$0.72/1hr4h94.45%95.22%
- 57Darkwood$0.74/1hr27h92.05%94.92%
- 58Chinese Parents$0.75/1hr13h89.60%91.33%
- 59DEVOUR$0.76/1hr13h89.94%90.50%
- 60Murky Divers$0.78/1hr6h85.89%87.62%
- 61The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.79/1hr9h93.09%94.45%
- 62Outer Wilds$0.79/1hr32h94.69%95.61%
- 63Tales of the Black Forest$0.79/1hr5h92.62%97.60%
- 64STEINS;GATE$0.79/1hr38h93.76%97.08%
- 65AI: The Somnium Files$0.82/1hr24h88.15%91.55%
- 66Kindergarten$0.83/1hr6h91.04%96.81%
- 67Escape the Backrooms$0.86/1hr12h89.76%90.06%
- 68Cyber Manhunt$0.86/1hr12h89.55%92.48%
- 69Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.89/1hr9h82.57%82.28%
- 70The Long Drive$0.90/1hr18h87.93%88.46%
- 71DRAMAtical Murder$0.91/1hr22h88.79%96.64%
- 72Zup! S$0.92/1hr2h92.26%96.79%
- 73METAL GEAR SURVIVE$0.92/1hr20h78.02%65.79%
- 74Raging Loop$0.92/1hr33h90.42%95.62%
- 75Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.92/1hr43h83.53%82.90%
- 76BOKURA$0.93/1hr6h88.66%91.52%
- 77LISA: The Painful$0.93/1hr22h91.30%95.48%
- 78Prey$0.93/1hr32h89.92%90.83%
- 79INMOST$0.93/1hr5h87.46%90.84%
- 80The Outlast Trials$0.93/1hr43h91.93%92.57%
- 81Spirit Island$0.94/1hr27h85.93%91.73%
- 82Insaniquarium Deluxe$0.98/1hr5h89.76%96.84%
- 83Hand Simulator$0.98/1hr3h84.03%83.77%
- 84Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.99/1hr13h77.31%72.25%
- 85Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$1.01/1hr1h87.05%91.73%
- 86Pathologic 2$1.02/1hr34h88.64%91.67%
- 87Jump King$1.04/1hr13h87.77%89.87%
- 88OneShot$1.04/1hr10h96.46%98.26%
- 89F.E.A.R.$1.04/1hr10h90.70%93.65%
- 90Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$1.04/1hr14h94.08%96.96%
- 91Receiver 2$1.06/1hr19h86.29%90.57%
- 92An alt girl for skoof$1.07/1hr5h84.17%83.39%
- 93Alan Wake$1.07/1hr14h89.23%89.95%
- 94Chicory: A Colorful Tale$1.07/1hr19h88.51%97.39%
- 95SIGNALIS$1.08/1hr13h93.95%96.61%
- 96Cruelty Squad$1.10/1hr18h92.86%96.07%
- 97The Evil Within$1.11/1hr18h85.15%85.20%
- 98Demonologist$1.11/1hr18h85.17%85.25%
- 99Miss Neko 3$1.12/1hr3h87.50%92.81%
- 100Breakout 13$1.13/1hr9h86.23%87.91%
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.