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.
- 1Geometry Dash$0.06/1hr79h92.88%93.00%
- 2Pro Soccer Online$0.07/1hr74h82.75%81.81%
- 3Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr29h93.79%95.97%
- 4Dead by Daylight$0.07/1hr274h78.38%78.31%
- 5AI: The Somnium Files$0.16/1hr25h88.04%91.51%
- 6Undertale$0.18/1hr14h96.18%96.50%
- 7Blood and Bacon$0.20/1hr5h93.14%95.27%
- 8People Playground$0.21/1hr47h98.04%98.44%
- 9Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.25/1hr101h87.17%94.99%
- 10Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.25/1hr48h83.59%82.81%
- 11Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.25/1hr40h93.35%95.77%
- 12HELLDIVERS 2$0.27/1hr151h75.65%75.56%
- 13ANEURISM IV$0.27/1hr36h81.48%75.33%
- 14Sally Face - Episode One$0.28/1hr11h94.15%97.33%
- 15An alt girl for skoof$0.29/1hr8h84.36%83.36%
- 16WEBFISHING$0.29/1hr17h95.84%97.33%
- 17Lethal Company$0.30/1hr33h96.74%96.96%
- 18Library Of Ruina$0.31/1hr98h92.81%94.47%
- 19Matchmaking Inc.$0.31/1hr29h86.79%88.67%
- 20Phasmophobia$0.31/1hr64h94.27%94.37%
- 21The Sinking City Remastered$0.31/1hr19h81.41%75.49%
- 22Resident Evil 4$0.33/1hr30h96.94%97.35%
- 23METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED$0.35/1hr28h83.07%69.39%
- 24Sherlock Holmes The Awakened$0.35/1hr11h84.19%82.23%
- 25Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.36/1hr70h85.53%85.61%
- 26My Summer Car$0.37/1hr41h94.17%94.92%
- 27Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$0.37/1hr17h76.00%69.96%
- 28Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.39/1hr65h92.91%94.23%
- 29Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.40/1hr15h88.95%98.68%
- 30Nothing$0.40/1hr3h89.70%94.09%
- 31Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$0.41/1hr14h89.76%94.99%
- 32BOKURA$0.47/1hr6h88.81%91.48%
- 33Nubby's Number Factory$0.49/1hr10h93.06%97.30%
- 34Seen$0.51/1hr2h87.93%91.08%
- 35Cat Goes Fishing$0.52/1hr13h90.83%94.16%
- 36Sultan's Game$0.52/1hr48h91.95%93.83%
- 37Escape the Backrooms$0.53/1hr15h89.51%89.77%
- 38Resident Evil Village$0.54/1hr19h95.00%95.63%
- 39NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD$0.57/1hr9h93.01%94.33%
- 40We Were Here Too$0.57/1hr4h81.23%78.09%
- 41We Were Here Forever$0.58/1hr12h88.67%90.44%
- 42Choo-Choo Charles$0.59/1hr3h88.81%90.77%
- 43That's not my Neighbor$0.59/1hr5h86.47%88.88%
- 44Changed$0.60/1hr8h85.74%86.27%
- 45Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.61/1hr13h94.56%95.29%
- 46House of Detention$0.61/1hr2h87.78%90.60%
- 47Chinese Parents$0.62/1hr16h89.68%91.28%
- 48Miss Neko 3$0.62/1hr2h87.36%92.76%
- 49The Texas Chain Saw Massacre$0.62/1hr24h71.73%66.21%
- 50Inside the Backrooms$0.63/1hr11h80.76%79.78%
- 51Office Life$0.64/1hr31h86.00%88.74%
- 52Ready or Not$0.64/1hr39h78.96%78.78%
- 53Rusty Lake Hotel$0.65/1hr3h90.55%96.00%
- 54OMORI$0.66/1hr30h95.89%97.08%
- 55Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.67/1hr12h82.62%82.29%
- 56OneShot$0.68/1hr9h96.52%98.24%
- 57Gorilla Tag$0.68/1hr29h90.71%91.33%
- 58Buckshot Roulette$0.69/1hr4h94.39%95.11%
- 59The Outlast Trials$0.72/1hr56h91.81%92.39%
- 60Observer: System Redux$0.73/1hr10h84.83%85.02%
- 61RUSSIAPHOBIA$0.74/1hr1h77.92%68.78%
- 62Dead Space$0.74/1hr20h89.87%90.51%
- 63Turing Complete$0.75/1hr21h89.19%95.93%
- 64The Room Three$0.75/1hr8h90.84%95.35%
- 65Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days$0.77/1hr33h86.98%89.25%
- 66Tiny Bunny$0.77/1hr14h83.44%83.00%
- 67Nuclear Nightmare$0.78/1hr9h82.38%81.13%
- 68Outer Wilds$0.78/1hr32h94.74%95.61%
- 69STEINS;GATE$0.78/1hr38h93.75%97.07%
- 70Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs$0.79/1hr5h76.48%69.64%
- 71Murky Divers$0.79/1hr6h86.14%87.50%
- 72The Long Drive$0.79/1hr20h87.88%88.33%
- 73Monstrum$0.80/1hr4h86.91%90.61%
- 74Kindergarten$0.81/1hr6h90.96%96.77%
- 75DEVOUR$0.81/1hr12h89.96%90.48%
- 76Tales of the Black Forest$0.83/1hr5h92.56%97.59%
- 77Vigil: The Longest Night$0.84/1hr26h85.57%86.00%
- 78FPV Kamikaze Drone$0.85/1hr7h86.18%87.27%
- 79Cyber Manhunt$0.86/1hr12h89.64%92.33%
- 80Raging Loop$0.88/1hr34h90.53%95.65%
- 81Darkwood$0.89/1hr22h92.15%94.88%
- 82The Evil Within$0.91/1hr22h85.12%85.22%
- 83Frostpunk 2$0.92/1hr24h77.64%74.80%
- 84Prey$0.93/1hr32h89.99%90.84%
- 85The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.95/1hr11h93.12%94.42%
- 86Insaniquarium Deluxe$0.96/1hr5h90.00%96.81%
- 87Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.96/1hr1h87.38%91.75%
- 88Metro Exodus$1.00/1hr30h89.63%89.94%
- 89Trepang2$1.00/1hr10h90.30%92.78%
- 90Labyrinthine$1.02/1hr10h84.47%84.30%
- 91LISA: The Painful$1.03/1hr19h91.20%95.43%
- 92DRAMAtical Murder$1.03/1hr19h88.72%96.65%
- 93Little Nightmares II$1.04/1hr9h91.86%92.98%
- 94Pathologic 2$1.07/1hr33h88.84%91.66%
- 95F.E.A.R.$1.07/1hr9h90.84%93.66%
- 96Scarlet Hollow$1.08/1hr22h89.69%97.93%
- 97STEINS;GATE 0$1.08/1hr32h89.92%96.00%
- 98REKA$1.11/1hr18h84.60%82.48%
- 99Hatred$1.12/1hr5h84.70%84.44%
- 100Alan Wake$1.15/1hr13h89.24%89.89%
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.