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$0.01/1hr779h86.18%92.50%
- 2Cookie Clicker$0.02/1hr123h95.33%96.41%
- 3Left 4 Dead 2$0.02/1hr81h97.43%97.52%
- 4Dead by Daylight$0.03/1hr289h78.39%78.28%
- 5Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.04/1hr321h74.20%73.70%
- 6The Outlast Trials$0.05/1hr88h91.77%92.36%
- 7Don't Starve Together$0.05/1hr102h94.78%94.90%
- 8The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth$0.06/1hr191h96.63%96.81%
- 9Darkest Dungeon$0.06/1hr61h91.45%91.65%
- 10Fallout 76$0.06/1hr155h72.80%71.92%
- 11Bean Battles$0.07/1hr7h89.53%93.83%
- 12Dying Light$0.07/1hr36h95.09%95.23%
- 13Warhammer 40,000: Darktide$0.07/1hr141h72.53%71.62%
- 14The Surge$0.07/1hr27h79.58%74.54%
- 15People Playground$0.07/1hr137h97.40%97.69%
- 16Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr27h93.88%95.96%
- 17Beyond: Two Souls$0.08/1hr12h86.99%87.61%
- 18Rising Storm 2: Vietnam$0.08/1hr31h86.77%87.04%
- 19Blasphemous$0.09/1hr28h89.24%89.85%
- 20Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 21Half-Life 2$0.09/1hr21h97.27%97.60%
- 22Batman: Arkham Knight$0.10/1hr42h89.45%89.72%
- 237 Days to Die$0.10/1hr257h87.01%86.98%
- 24Deep Rock Galactic$0.10/1hr93h96.88%97.10%
- 25The Walking Dead$0.10/1hr15h95.99%97.33%
- 26Metro Exodus$0.10/1hr30h89.62%89.95%
- 27Killing Floor$0.10/1hr19h93.89%95.16%
- 28Library Of Ruina$0.10/1hr97h92.79%94.47%
- 29Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.11/1hr79h92.89%94.24%
- 30Killing Floor 2$0.11/1hr27h88.04%88.26%
- 31Don't Starve$0.11/1hr22h95.62%96.54%
- 32Generation Zero$0.12/1hr32h74.55%72.04%
- 33Dead Island Definitive Edition$0.12/1hr17h82.49%81.86%
- 34Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.12/1hr10h82.59%82.28%
- 35Metro: Last Light Redux$0.12/1hr16h90.64%91.31%
- 36Curse of the Dead Gods$0.13/1hr32h84.33%83.40%
- 37SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 38Alice: Madness Returns$0.14/1hr18h89.40%90.77%
- 39Nuclear Nightmare$0.14/1hr10h82.40%81.12%
- 40DayZ$0.14/1hr173h78.10%77.89%
- 41Beasts of Bermuda$0.15/1hr137h77.13%68.88%
- 42Blood and Bacon$0.15/1hr5h93.11%95.28%
- 43Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr13h76.79%71.07%
- 44Metro 2033 Redux$0.15/1hr13h91.83%92.29%
- 45The Forest$0.15/1hr28h95.42%95.52%
- 46Undertale$0.16/1hr16h96.27%96.51%
- 47Nothing$0.16/1hr3h89.62%94.08%
- 48Menace from the Deep$0.16/1hr31h85.51%84.47%
- 49The Long Drive$0.17/1hr24h87.83%88.29%
- 50Phoenix Point$0.17/1hr68h80.48%73.14%
- 51Vampyr$0.17/1hr24h79.82%77.46%
- 52Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 53AI: The Somnium Files$0.17/1hr24h88.12%91.49%
- 54Dead Island 2$0.17/1hr29h79.43%77.49%
- 55State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition$0.17/1hr43h83.03%82.73%
- 56Phasmophobia$0.17/1hr80h94.29%94.37%
- 57Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.18/1hr45h83.52%82.81%
- 58Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition$0.18/1hr17h95.22%96.37%
- 59Thief$0.18/1hr16h77.86%74.57%
- 6020 Minutes Till Dawn$0.18/1hr14h88.98%90.28%
- 61The Isle$0.19/1hr71h80.56%80.18%
- 62The Room Three$0.19/1hr8h90.62%95.34%
- 63Painkiller: Black Edition$0.19/1hr11h85.88%88.86%
- 64Quake$0.19/1hr21h92.19%96.45%
- 65Wallpaper Engine$0.19/1hr21h97.46%97.55%
- 66Prey$0.19/1hr31h89.96%90.83%
- 67RAGE$0.20/1hr20h80.11%77.85%
- 68Nubby's Number Factory$0.20/1hr13h93.21%97.31%
- 69Ruined King: A League of Legends Story$0.20/1hr38h87.13%88.86%
- 70DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT$0.20/1hr50h91.31%92.20%
- 71Subnautica$0.20/1hr37h96.86%97.09%
- 72DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition$0.20/1hr3h89.24%93.09%
- 73REMNANT II$0.20/1hr49h82.71%82.35%
- 74Murdered: Soul Suspect$0.20/1hr10h85.49%85.85%
- 75An alt girl for skoof$0.21/1hr7h84.51%83.31%
- 76Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr24h93.36%94.19%
- 77F.E.A.R.$0.21/1hr9h90.48%93.65%
- 78Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.21/1hr38h93.31%95.77%
- 79Left 4 Dead$0.22/1hr9h94.95%96.39%
- 80BioShock 2 Remastered$0.22/1hr13h75.38%72.15%
- 81SUNLESS SEA$0.22/1hr29h84.13%83.02%
- 82Salt and Sanctuary$0.22/1hr20h88.15%89.36%
- 83Dungeons 3$0.22/1hr27h91.03%94.15%
- 84CONTROL Ultimate Edition$0.22/1hr27h85.93%86.05%
- 85R.E.P.O.$0.22/1hr29h95.82%95.99%
- 86Tales of the Black Forest$0.23/1hr5h92.72%97.59%
- 87The Room Two$0.23/1hr4h93.36%97.53%
- 88Blasphemous 2$0.23/1hr33h89.13%90.67%
- 89Party Hard$0.23/1hr9h87.53%90.11%
- 90Lethal Company$0.24/1hr42h96.78%96.95%
- 91The Evil Within$0.24/1hr21h85.23%85.24%
- 92LIMBO$0.24/1hr5h91.22%92.20%
- 93STEINS;GATE$0.24/1hr38h93.62%97.07%
- 94Kindergarten$0.24/1hr6h90.72%96.78%
- 95Path of Exile 2$0.24/1hr123h75.62%75.06%
- 96DOOM 64$0.24/1hr8h88.69%92.66%
- 97Dead Space 3$0.25/1hr16h77.15%72.42%
- 98Resident Evil 6$0.25/1hr20h78.13%77.15%
- 99Hatred$0.25/1hr5h84.65%84.47%
- 100BioShock 2$0.25/1hr12h86.91%88.68%
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.