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$0.02/1hr363h78.36%78.25%
- 2Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.07/1hr410h74.13%73.64%
- 3Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 4Don't Starve Together$0.10/1hr150h94.77%94.89%
- 5Green Hell$0.15/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 6Project Zomboid$0.16/1hr161h93.63%93.75%
- 7Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 8Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.20/1hr10h82.59%82.28%
- 9Left 4 Dead 2$0.20/1hr50h97.43%97.52%
- 10Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr24h93.36%94.19%
- 11Blood and Bacon$0.21/1hr5h93.11%95.28%
- 12F.E.A.R.$0.21/1hr9h90.48%93.65%
- 13Bendy and the Dark Revival$0.23/1hr9h88.98%91.87%
- 14Aseprite$0.24/1hr83h95.38%98.94%
- 15The Long Dark$0.25/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 16Resident Evil 6$0.25/1hr20h78.13%77.15%
- 17HumanitZ$0.27/1hr45h78.37%74.26%
- 18Chernobylite Complete Edition$0.28/1hr22h83.24%81.99%
- 19Alan Wake's American Nightmare$0.28/1hr5h79.16%74.45%
- 20Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.74%86.97%
- 21Resident Evil$0.31/1hr16h90.71%92.31%
- 22Mist Survival$0.31/1hr26h79.18%75.65%
- 23Lethal Company$0.32/1hr32h96.78%96.95%
- 24World War Z$0.33/1hr23h82.86%82.44%
- 25Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.34/1hr17h79.39%77.02%
- 26Resident Evil 0$0.34/1hr14h81.47%80.05%
- 27Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.35/1hr14h79.73%78.33%
- 28Rain World$0.35/1hr32h92.44%93.70%
- 29Back 4 Blood$0.35/1hr17h70.79%68.83%
- 30Amnesia: The Dark Descent$0.38/1hr11h92.53%94.58%
- 31Chinese Parents$0.39/1hr14h89.64%91.29%
- 32Dying Light$0.41/1hr42h95.09%95.23%
- 33Resident Evil 2$0.42/1hr19h96.65%97.03%
- 34The Infected$0.43/1hr17h84.73%84.09%
- 35Resident Evil Revelations$0.44/1hr11h82.32%81.28%
- 36METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED$0.44/1hr23h83.38%69.43%
- 37Don't Starve$0.45/1hr22h95.62%96.54%
- 38Amnesia: The Bunker$0.45/1hr11h89.70%93.28%
- 39ZERO Sievert$0.45/1hr44h84.55%84.73%
- 40The Outlast Trials$0.46/1hr88h91.77%92.36%
- 41The Texas Chain Saw Massacre$0.46/1hr33h71.92%66.32%
- 42Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.46/1hr1h87.02%91.57%
- 43IfSunSets$0.49/1hr29h82.36%74.72%
- 44The Quarry$0.50/1hr12h82.66%82.02%
- 45Layers of Fear (2016)$0.50/1hr4h87.53%88.38%
- 46SOMA$0.51/1hr12h94.15%95.84%
- 47Pacific Drive$0.53/1hr34h83.70%83.14%
- 48Inside the Backrooms$0.55/1hr13h80.72%79.76%
- 49DREDGE$0.56/1hr19h94.25%95.83%
- 50Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon$0.57/1hr56h87.13%87.67%
- 51Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.57/1hr14h94.55%95.29%
- 52Barotrauma$0.59/1hr60h93.13%94.02%
- 53GTFO$0.59/1hr17h84.02%83.85%
- 54Escape the Backrooms$0.60/1hr17h89.49%89.75%
- 55No More Room in Hell 2$0.61/1hr37h64.29%56.97%
- 56100% Orange Juice$0.61/1hr11h89.56%91.01%
- 57The Forest$0.61/1hr33h95.42%95.53%
- 58Changed$0.63/1hr8h85.80%86.30%
- 59Content Warning$0.64/1hr8h93.29%93.79%
- 60Sons Of The Forest$0.69/1hr44h88.49%88.50%
- 61DOOM 3$0.69/1hr14h85.32%86.16%
- 62Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days$0.70/1hr36h86.74%89.26%
- 63Nuclear Nightmare$0.72/1hr10h82.40%81.12%
- 64Days Gone$0.72/1hr55h92.13%92.72%
- 65Contagion$0.73/1hr14h77.21%72.73%
- 66Bendy and the Ink Machine$0.74/1hr8h88.21%89.03%
- 67Generation Zero$0.77/1hr32h74.55%72.04%
- 68Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs$0.82/1hr5h76.25%69.66%
- 69Subnautica$0.83/1hr36h96.86%97.09%
- 70Resident Evil 3$0.83/1hr10h83.58%83.46%
- 71Gorilla Tag$0.84/1hr24h90.70%91.34%
- 72FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction$0.84/1hr1h64.86%18.44%
- 73Night of the Dead$0.86/1hr35h80.67%76.88%
- 74DEVOUR$0.92/1hr11h89.93%90.47%
- 75S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.94/1hr21h93.15%95.68%
- 76The Evil Within$0.94/1hr21h85.23%85.24%
- 77Demonologist$0.95/1hr21h84.94%85.22%
- 78Prey$0.97/1hr31h89.96%90.83%
- 79Gloomwood$1.00/1hr20h89.67%94.99%
- 80Pathologic 2$1.00/1hr35h88.74%91.66%
- 81State of Decay: YOSE$1.01/1hr20h83.20%82.40%
- 82Metro Exodus$1.01/1hr30h89.62%89.95%
- 83Killing Floor$1.04/1hr19h93.89%95.16%
- 84Ghost Watchers$1.07/1hr14h85.23%85.82%
- 85Killing Floor 2$1.11/1hr27h88.04%88.26%
- 86Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.12/1hr4h85.16%85.11%
- 87Backrooms: Escape Together$1.14/1hr9h88.15%88.75%
- 88Dead Island Definitive Edition$1.17/1hr17h82.49%81.86%
- 89S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$1.18/1hr17h93.04%94.68%
- 90Subnautica: Below Zero$1.20/1hr25h89.64%90.05%
- 91Resident Evil 4$1.21/1hr33h97.06%97.38%
- 92Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$1.24/1hr14h89.49%94.97%
- 93Dead Space 3$1.24/1hr16h77.15%72.42%
- 94Pacify$1.24/1hr4h85.86%86.02%
- 95Metro: Last Light Redux$1.24/1hr16h90.64%91.31%
- 96Into the Radius VR$1.31/1hr23h89.17%93.50%
- 97Depth$1.41/1hr14h87.32%87.96%
- 98System Shock$1.41/1hr26h88.10%90.35%
- 99Outlast$1.43/1hr11h95.68%96.44%
- 100City Car Driving$1.44/1hr17h83.25%82.72%
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.