Best Value Survival Horror Games Under $40
The Survival 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$0.05/1hr364h78.51%78.44%
- 2Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.07/1hr176h74.11%73.70%
- 3DayZ$0.15/1hr172h77.94%77.77%
- 4Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr55h97.41%97.52%
- 5Generation Zero$0.19/1hr26h74.61%72.03%
- 6Green Hell$0.19/1hr19h84.79%84.72%
- 7Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.20/1hr25h93.32%94.12%
- 8Project Zomboid$0.20/1hr99h93.82%94.00%
- 9The Long Dark$0.23/1hr85h88.70%88.96%
- 10Resident Evil 6$0.24/1hr21h78.33%77.31%
- 11Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.14%95.25%
- 12Aseprite$0.26/1hr77h95.24%98.95%
- 13Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.81%92.30%
- 14Barotrauma$0.26/1hr76h93.14%94.01%
- 15Resident Evil 4$0.28/1hr36h96.90%97.33%
- 16Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.28/1hr21h81.13%79.70%
- 17Lethal Company$0.30/1hr34h96.76%96.98%
- 18Resident Evil 0$0.30/1hr17h81.81%80.16%
- 19Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$0.31/1hr16h89.80%94.95%
- 20Call of Cthulhu$0.32/1hr9h81.67%79.27%
- 21Resident Evil 5$0.33/1hr15h86.76%86.96%
- 22Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr15h79.88%78.27%
- 23Resident Evil 2$0.36/1hr23h96.54%97.05%
- 24Nuclear Nightmare$0.38/1hr7h82.48%81.15%
- 25Mist Survival$0.39/1hr22h79.61%75.84%
- 26Inside the Backrooms$0.40/1hr17h80.92%79.95%
- 27Night of the Dead$0.41/1hr30h80.64%76.97%
- 28Don't Starve Together$0.43/1hr35h94.77%94.94%
- 29Resident Evil Revelations$0.43/1hr11h82.58%81.27%
- 30Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon$0.45/1hr50h87.27%87.81%
- 31Pacific Drive$0.45/1hr33h83.84%83.23%
- 32Don't Starve$0.51/1hr20h95.65%96.55%
- 33Resident Evil Village$0.54/1hr19h94.99%95.62%
- 34Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.54/1hr15h94.57%95.31%
- 35ZERO Sievert$0.55/1hr36h84.78%84.65%
- 36HumanitZ$0.57/1hr35h78.89%74.43%
- 37Changed$0.59/1hr8h86.07%86.40%
- 38Little Nightmares$0.63/1hr8h94.02%94.75%
- 39Killing Floor 2$0.63/1hr48h88.08%88.28%
- 40Gorilla Tag$0.65/1hr31h90.71%91.33%
- 41Dying Light$0.66/1hr38h95.04%95.23%
- 42100% Orange Juice$0.70/1hr10h89.66%91.06%
- 43DEVOUR$0.73/1hr14h89.98%90.50%
- 44Darkwood$0.73/1hr27h92.18%94.91%
- 45DOOM 3$0.73/1hr14h85.66%86.22%
- 46Chinese Parents$0.74/1hr14h89.73%91.33%
- 47House of Detention$0.74/1hr1h88.12%90.63%
- 48Rain World$0.74/1hr29h92.50%93.77%
- 49Contagion$0.74/1hr13h77.50%72.75%
- 50State of Decay: YOSE$0.76/1hr26h83.51%82.38%
- 51Murky Divers$0.78/1hr6h85.89%87.62%
- 52Subnautica$0.78/1hr39h96.79%97.09%
- 53Depth$0.81/1hr25h87.38%87.96%
- 54Ghost Watchers$0.81/1hr18h85.53%85.86%
- 55Escape the Backrooms$0.82/1hr12h89.78%90.05%
- 56Sons Of The Forest$0.83/1hr36h88.33%88.42%
- 57Gloomwood$0.84/1hr18h89.79%95.04%
- 58The Forest$0.84/1hr24h95.39%95.53%
- 59Days Gone$0.85/1hr47h92.15%92.73%
- 60Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.87/1hr9h82.62%82.28%
- 61S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$0.90/1hr22h93.08%94.67%
- 62The Outlast Trials$0.93/1hr43h91.97%92.57%
- 63Prey$0.93/1hr32h89.99%90.83%
- 64Resident Evil 3$0.93/1hr9h83.53%83.38%
- 65Pathologic 2$0.94/1hr37h88.86%91.67%
- 66S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.95/1hr21h93.21%95.68%
- 67S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky$0.97/1hr21h85.19%85.28%
- 68Subnautica: Below Zero$1.00/1hr30h89.70%90.10%
- 69F.E.A.R.$1.04/1hr10h90.70%93.65%
- 70Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$1.04/1hr1h87.39%91.76%
- 71Receiver 2$1.06/1hr19h86.29%90.57%
- 72Alan Wake$1.07/1hr14h89.29%89.95%
- 73The Evil Within$1.08/1hr18h85.26%85.20%
- 74Demonologist$1.11/1hr18h85.17%85.25%
- 75Content Warning$1.12/1hr7h93.39%93.88%
- 76No More Room in Hell 2$1.13/1hr26h60.51%48.99%
- 77CastleMiner Z$1.14/1hr5h83.02%81.27%
- 78SIGNALIS$1.15/1hr12h94.05%96.60%
- 79Backrooms: Escape Together$1.17/1hr9h88.12%88.69%
- 80Pacify$1.17/1hr4h85.97%86.09%
- 81Five Nights at Freddy's$1.17/1hr4h92.60%93.81%
- 82Dead Space 3$1.18/1hr17h77.55%72.53%
- 83Metro Exodus$1.20/1hr25h89.65%89.96%
- 84Lunch Lady$1.20/1hr4h85.23%85.42%
- 85DREDGE$1.24/1hr20h94.25%95.82%
- 86The Texas Chain Saw Massacre$1.26/1hr12h71.91%66.05%
- 87Dead Island Definitive Edition$1.30/1hr15h82.67%81.84%
- 88Into the Radius VR$1.38/1hr22h89.50%93.52%
- 89Killing Floor$1.38/1hr14h93.93%95.16%
- 90SILENT HILL 2$1.44/1hr19h93.41%94.67%
- 91Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location$1.48/1hr5h87.82%90.08%
- 92System Shock$1.51/1hr24h88.21%90.36%
- 93Enigma of Fear$1.54/1hr20h90.85%96.61%
- 94Choo-Choo Charles$1.55/1hr5h88.71%90.86%
- 95Dead Space (2008)$1.56/1hr13h90.12%91.89%
- 96BIGFOOT$1.57/1hr13h82.99%82.10%
- 97Chernobylite Complete Edition$1.61/1hr19h83.37%82.02%
- 98Metro 2033 Redux$1.61/1hr12h91.81%92.26%
- 99Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.62/1hr12h77.17%71.13%
- 100PILGRIM$1.67/1hr5h80.26%67.96%
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.