Best Value Horror Games Under $40
The 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.
- 1YoloMouse - Cursor Changer$0.01/1hr835h86.64%92.40%
- 2Cookie Clicker$0.04/1hr128h95.30%96.42%
- 3Dead by Daylight$0.06/1hr343h78.50%78.43%
- 4Beasts of Bermuda$0.07/1hr268h77.07%68.98%
- 5Fallout 76$0.08/1hr120h72.78%71.91%
- 6Wallpaper Engine$0.10/1hr50h97.45%97.57%
- 7Painkiller: Black Edition$0.12/1hr17h85.72%89.06%
- 8Dying Light$0.13/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 9Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.13/1hr222h74.10%73.71%
- 10Path of Exile 2$0.14/1hr220h75.10%74.66%
- 11Alice: Madness Returns$0.14/1hr18h89.30%90.73%
- 12STEINS;GATE$0.16/1hr37h93.75%97.07%
- 13Prey$0.18/1hr33h89.90%90.82%
- 14Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr54h97.41%97.52%
- 15Phasmophobia$0.19/1hr106h94.28%94.40%
- 16The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth$0.19/1hr78h96.66%96.92%
- 17Murdered: Soul Suspect$0.20/1hr10h85.52%85.85%
- 18The Isle$0.20/1hr100h80.52%80.14%
- 19People Playground$0.20/1hr49h98.04%98.46%
- 20Fallout 3$0.20/1hr12h82.56%81.49%
- 21Bean Battles$0.20/1hr5h89.41%93.83%
- 22Miscreated$0.21/1hr146h70.51%65.95%
- 23Nothing$0.21/1hr5h89.52%94.15%
- 24Sally Face - Episode One$0.22/1hr13h94.00%97.32%
- 25REMNANT II$0.23/1hr55h82.69%82.36%
- 26Barotrauma$0.23/1hr77h93.10%94.02%
- 27Tales of the Black Forest$0.23/1hr5h92.52%97.60%
- 28Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.04%95.26%
- 29R.E.P.O.$0.24/1hr42h95.78%96.04%
- 30Party Hard$0.24/1hr8h87.85%90.16%
- 31LIMBO$0.25/1hr5h91.21%92.22%
- 32DOOM 64$0.25/1hr8h88.46%92.79%
- 33Lethal Company$0.26/1hr39h96.74%96.97%
- 3420 Minutes Till Dawn$0.26/1hr19h89.08%90.51%
- 35Dead Space 3$0.26/1hr15h77.49%72.47%
- 36Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition$0.27/1hr44h79.07%78.80%
- 37The Evil Within$0.27/1hr18h85.14%85.20%
- 38DOOM$0.28/1hr14h95.06%95.52%
- 39Blasphemous$0.28/1hr31h89.19%89.83%
- 40The Infected$0.30/1hr53h84.68%84.32%
- 41RAGE$0.30/1hr13h80.35%77.84%
- 42Monstrum$0.31/1hr12h86.30%90.62%
- 43Quake II$0.31/1hr13h90.08%95.33%
- 44DOOM 3$0.32/1hr12h85.62%86.18%
- 45Dead Space 2$0.32/1hr12h91.69%93.97%
- 46Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer$0.32/1hr12h85.42%85.68%
- 47Phoenix Point$0.33/1hr76h80.02%73.12%
- 48Deep Rock Galactic$0.34/1hr89h96.82%97.13%
- 49Half-Life 2$0.34/1hr30h97.16%97.60%
- 50Remnant: From the Ashes$0.34/1hr24h84.37%84.27%
- 51Library Of Ruina$0.34/1hr87h92.72%94.47%
- 52Blasphemous 2$0.36/1hr31h88.73%90.68%
- 53Quake$0.36/1hr11h91.91%96.46%
- 54KovaaK's$0.37/1hr27h91.40%92.96%
- 55Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.37/1hr30h90.44%94.29%
- 56Nubby's Number Factory$0.37/1hr14h93.03%97.38%
- 57Gears 5$0.37/1hr12h74.76%70.65%
- 58Don't Starve Together$0.37/1hr40h94.75%94.93%
- 59Don't Starve$0.38/1hr26h95.61%96.55%
- 60Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.39/1hr103h72.52%71.62%
- 61The Evil Within 2$0.42/1hr19h90.34%92.09%
- 62HumanitZ$0.42/1hr48h78.82%74.39%
- 63Darkest Dungeon$0.42/1hr59h91.28%91.67%
- 64Mist Survival$0.42/1hr26h79.54%75.77%
- 65DOOM Eternal$0.46/1hr22h91.10%91.38%
- 66Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.46/1hr54h92.83%94.23%
- 67Summon$0.48/1hr1h86.92%92.51%
- 68An alt girl for skoof$0.48/1hr7h83.99%83.33%
- 69That's not my Neighbor$0.49/1hr6h86.08%88.88%
- 70INSIDE$0.49/1hr5h95.58%96.99%
- 71Tiny Bunny$0.50/1hr15h83.48%83.00%
- 72Inside the Backrooms$0.50/1hr14h80.77%79.87%
- 73Grounded$0.51/1hr79h89.26%89.72%
- 74Lunch Lady$0.51/1hr6h85.20%85.40%
- 75The Quarry$0.52/1hr12h82.90%82.07%
- 76Quake 4$0.52/1hr9h85.52%87.64%
- 77Exanima$0.52/1hr29h82.07%80.18%
- 78The Forest$0.53/1hr38h95.38%95.53%
- 79Buckshot Roulette$0.53/1hr6h94.43%95.19%
- 80Hello Neighbor$0.53/1hr11h85.73%85.98%
- 81Batman: Arkham Knight$0.55/1hr36h89.38%89.66%
- 82Depth$0.57/1hr35h87.25%87.96%
- 83Wolfenstein: The Old Blood$0.57/1hr9h88.67%90.26%
- 84CULTIC$0.58/1hr17h90.62%97.29%
- 85Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.58/1hr35h93.23%95.79%
- 86Escape the Backrooms$0.58/1hr14h89.66%89.95%
- 87OMORI$0.59/1hr34h95.85%97.09%
- 88Rusty Lake Hotel$0.59/1hr3h90.63%96.09%
- 89Gorilla Tag$0.60/1hr33h90.65%91.32%
- 90LISA: The Painful$0.61/1hr20h91.29%95.48%
- 91Changed$0.61/1hr8h85.87%86.37%
- 92Thymesia$0.61/1hr10h83.48%82.27%
- 93The Final Station$0.62/1hr6h86.15%87.44%
- 94Undertale$0.63/1hr16h96.16%96.49%
- 95KLETKA$0.64/1hr16h87.33%90.41%
- 96Dead Space (2008)$0.64/1hr13h90.10%91.88%
- 97The Texas Chain Saw Massacre$0.66/1hr23h71.80%66.12%
- 98Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.68/1hr29h93.70%96.00%
- 99The Surge$0.69/1hr22h79.28%74.63%
- 100State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition$0.69/1hr43h83.04%82.77%
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.