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.
- 1Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.03/1hr393h74.12%73.71%
- 2Dead by Daylight$0.07/1hr274h78.38%78.31%
- 3Left 4 Dead 2$0.12/1hr82h97.41%97.52%
- 4Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 5Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.67%84.61%
- 6Project Zomboid$0.14/1hr182h93.60%93.77%
- 7Generation Zero$0.15/1hr33h74.58%72.03%
- 8Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.19/1hr27h93.37%94.18%
- 9100% Orange Juice$0.19/1hr9h89.61%91.03%
- 10Blood and Bacon$0.20/1hr5h93.14%95.27%
- 11Don't Starve Together$0.21/1hr73h94.74%94.91%
- 12Aseprite$0.21/1hr95h95.30%98.94%
- 13Resident Evil 6$0.21/1hr23h78.18%77.18%
- 14Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.32%
- 15Rain World$0.27/1hr32h92.46%93.70%
- 16Mist Survival$0.28/1hr30h79.65%75.70%
- 17The Long Dark$0.29/1hr69h88.63%88.90%
- 18Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.77%86.98%
- 19Lethal Company$0.30/1hr33h96.74%96.96%
- 20Barotrauma$0.32/1hr55h93.14%94.01%
- 21Resident Evil 0$0.33/1hr15h81.67%80.09%
- 22Resident Evil 4$0.33/1hr30h96.94%97.35%
- 23Dead Space 2$0.33/1hr12h91.80%93.97%
- 24Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.34/1hr15h79.99%78.32%
- 25METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED$0.35/1hr28h83.07%69.39%
- 26Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.39/1hr15h79.75%77.04%
- 27Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$0.41/1hr14h89.76%94.99%
- 28Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.42/1hr14h81.19%79.66%
- 29Resident Evil 2$0.43/1hr18h96.54%97.04%
- 30Resident Evil Revelations$0.45/1hr11h82.69%81.26%
- 31Don't Starve$0.50/1hr20h95.63%96.54%
- 32HumanitZ$0.51/1hr39h78.59%74.25%
- 33Escape the Backrooms$0.53/1hr15h89.51%89.77%
- 34Resident Evil Village$0.54/1hr19h95.00%95.63%
- 35Dead Space (2008)$0.58/1hr14h90.23%91.91%
- 36ZERO Sievert$0.59/1hr34h84.71%84.67%
- 37Choo-Choo Charles$0.59/1hr3h88.81%90.77%
- 38Changed$0.60/1hr8h85.74%86.27%
- 39Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.61/1hr13h94.56%95.29%
- 40House of Detention$0.61/1hr2h87.78%90.60%
- 41Chinese Parents$0.62/1hr16h89.68%91.28%
- 42The Texas Chain Saw Massacre$0.62/1hr24h71.73%66.21%
- 43Inside the Backrooms$0.63/1hr11h80.76%79.78%
- 44Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.67/1hr12h82.62%82.29%
- 45GTFO$0.68/1hr16h84.05%83.86%
- 46DOOM 3$0.68/1hr15h85.54%86.15%
- 47Gorilla Tag$0.68/1hr29h90.71%91.33%
- 48Contagion$0.69/1hr14h77.63%72.73%
- 49The Outlast Trials$0.72/1hr56h91.81%92.39%
- 50Dead Space$0.74/1hr20h89.87%90.51%
- 51Days Gone$0.75/1hr53h92.15%92.73%
- 52Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days$0.77/1hr33h86.98%89.25%
- 53Nuclear Nightmare$0.78/1hr9h82.38%81.13%
- 54Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs$0.79/1hr5h76.48%69.64%
- 55Subnautica$0.79/1hr38h96.79%97.09%
- 56Murky Divers$0.79/1hr6h86.14%87.50%
- 57Monstrum$0.80/1hr4h86.91%90.61%
- 58DEVOUR$0.81/1hr12h89.96%90.48%
- 59IfSunSets$0.84/1hr24h82.76%74.55%
- 60Resident Evil 3$0.85/1hr9h83.57%83.43%
- 61Sons Of The Forest$0.86/1hr35h88.36%88.46%
- 62S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.88/1hr23h93.19%95.69%
- 63The Forest$0.88/1hr23h95.38%95.52%
- 64State of Decay: YOSE$0.88/1hr23h83.44%82.42%
- 65Darkwood$0.89/1hr22h92.15%94.88%
- 66The Evil Within$0.91/1hr22h85.12%85.22%
- 67Pacific Drive$0.92/1hr33h83.73%83.14%
- 68Prey$0.93/1hr32h89.99%90.84%
- 69Gloomwood$0.95/1hr21h89.79%94.99%
- 70Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.96/1hr1h87.38%91.75%
- 71Night of the Dead$0.98/1hr31h80.80%76.92%
- 72Metro Exodus$1.00/1hr30h89.63%89.94%
- 73Pathologic 2$1.07/1hr33h88.84%91.66%
- 74S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$1.07/1hr19h93.07%94.67%
- 75F.E.A.R.$1.07/1hr9h90.84%93.66%
- 76Subnautica: Below Zero$1.10/1hr27h89.66%90.06%
- 77Dead Island Definitive Edition$1.12/1hr18h82.77%81.86%
- 78Ghost Watchers$1.12/1hr13h85.43%85.83%
- 79Alan Wake$1.15/1hr13h89.24%89.89%
- 80Depth$1.16/1hr17h87.35%87.96%
- 81Demonologist$1.18/1hr17h85.25%85.22%
- 82The Infected$1.18/1hr14h84.83%84.11%
- 83Dead Space 3$1.19/1hr17h77.39%72.47%
- 84Killing Floor$1.19/1hr17h93.91%95.15%
- 85World War Z$1.21/1hr23h83.14%82.48%
- 86Backrooms: Escape Together$1.21/1hr8h88.17%88.74%
- 87Content Warning$1.21/1hr7h93.31%93.80%
- 88Lunch Lady$1.22/1hr4h85.12%85.38%
- 89SILENT HILL 2$1.23/1hr23h93.37%94.60%
- 90Pacify$1.24/1hr4h85.90%86.03%
- 91Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.24/1hr4h85.31%85.09%
- 92System Shock$1.25/1hr29h88.20%90.36%
- 93Into the Radius VR$1.29/1hr23h89.41%93.52%
- 94DREDGE$1.34/1hr19h94.26%95.83%
- 95No More Room in Hell 2$1.35/1hr22h64.24%56.72%
- 96Metro: Last Light Redux$1.37/1hr15h90.65%91.30%
- 97Killing Floor 2$1.42/1hr21h88.05%88.26%
- 98Enigma of Fear$1.42/1hr21h90.77%96.60%
- 99BIGFOOT$1.47/1hr14h83.10%82.10%
- 100Outlast$1.49/1hr10h95.70%96.44%
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.