Best Value Survival Horror Games Under $10

The Survival Horror games on Steam games under $10 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. 1Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr
  2. 2Generation Zero$0.19/1hr
  3. 3Green Hell$0.19/1hr
  4. 4Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.20/1hr
  5. 5Resident Evil 6$0.24/1hr
  6. 6Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr
  7. 7Resident Evil$0.26/1hr
  8. 8Resident Evil 4$0.28/1hr
  9. 9Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.28/1hr
  10. 10Lethal Company$0.30/1hr
  11. 11Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr
  12. 12Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$0.31/1hr
  13. 13Call of Cthulhu$0.32/1hr
  14. 14Resident Evil 5$0.33/1hr
  15. 15Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr
  16. 16Resident Evil 2$0.36/1hr
  17. 17Nuclear Nightmare$0.38/1hr
  18. 18Mist Survival$0.39/1hr
  19. 19Inside the Backrooms$0.40/1hr
  20. 20Resident Evil Revelations$0.43/1hr
  21. 21Don't Starve$0.51/1hr
  22. 22Resident Evil Village$0.54/1hr
  23. 23Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.54/1hr
  24. 24Changed$0.59/1hr
  25. 25Little Nightmares$0.63/1hr
  26. 26100% Orange Juice$0.70/1hr
  27. 27DEVOUR$0.73/1hr
  28. 28DOOM 3$0.73/1hr
  29. 29Chinese Parents$0.74/1hr
  30. 30House of Detention$0.74/1hr
  31. 31Contagion$0.74/1hr
  32. 32Murky Divers$0.78/1hr
  33. 33Escape the Backrooms$0.82/1hr
  34. 34Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.87/1hr
  35. 35Resident Evil 3$0.93/1hr
  36. 36F.E.A.R.$1.04/1hr
  37. 37Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$1.04/1hr
  38. 38Content Warning$1.12/1hr
  39. 39CastleMiner Z$1.14/1hr
  40. 40Backrooms: Escape Together$1.17/1hr
  41. 41Pacify$1.17/1hr
  42. 42Five Nights at Freddy's$1.17/1hr
  43. 43Lunch Lady$1.20/1hr
  44. 44Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location$1.48/1hr
  45. 45Choo-Choo Charles$1.55/1hr
  46. 46PILGRIM$1.67/1hr
  47. 47Psychopomp GOLD$1.70/1hr
  48. 48Five Nights at Freddy's 2$1.81/1hr
  49. 49Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.92/1hr
  50. 50Alan Wake's American Nightmare$1.98/1hr
  51. 51Five Nights at Freddy's 3$2.16/1hr
  52. 52[Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件$2.26/1hr
  53. 53FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction$2.99/1hr
  54. 54Five Nights at Freddy's 4$3.50/1hr
  55. 55The Test$3.85/1hr
  56. 56Unplagued$12.62/1hr

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.