Best Value Psychological Horror Games Under $40
The Psychological 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.
- 1Geometry Dash$0.05/1hr92h92.91%93.04%
- 2Dead by Daylight$0.06/1hr343h78.50%78.43%
- 3Pro Soccer Online$0.06/1hr83h82.72%81.92%
- 4Cruelty Squad$0.11/1hr18h92.84%96.04%
- 5ANEURISM IV$0.16/1hr31h81.59%76.20%
- 6STEINS;GATE$0.16/1hr37h93.75%97.07%
- 7HELLDIVERS 2$0.17/1hr234h75.29%75.20%
- 8Pathologic 2$0.17/1hr40h88.63%91.68%
- 9Prey$0.18/1hr33h89.90%90.82%
- 10Phasmophobia$0.19/1hr106h94.28%94.40%
- 11People Playground$0.20/1hr49h98.04%98.46%
- 12Nothing$0.21/1hr5h89.52%94.15%
- 13Sally Face - Episode One$0.22/1hr13h94.00%97.32%
- 14Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.23/1hr110h85.34%85.61%
- 15STEINS;GATE 0$0.23/1hr31h89.98%96.06%
- 16Tales of the Black Forest$0.23/1hr5h92.52%97.60%
- 17Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.04%95.26%
- 18Lethal Company$0.26/1hr39h96.74%96.97%
- 19WEBFISHING$0.27/1hr19h95.82%97.37%
- 20The Evil Within$0.27/1hr18h85.14%85.20%
- 21Cyber Manhunt$0.29/1hr12h89.51%92.44%
- 22Seen$0.30/1hr3h88.03%91.12%
- 23Monstrum$0.31/1hr12h86.30%90.62%
- 24Need for Speed Rivals$0.32/1hr6h80.14%75.51%
- 25My Summer Car$0.32/1hr47h94.14%94.93%
- 26Library Of Ruina$0.34/1hr87h92.72%94.47%
- 27Matchmaking Inc.$0.35/1hr25h86.48%88.61%
- 28Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.36/1hr69h87.29%95.02%
- 29Nubby's Number Factory$0.37/1hr14h93.03%97.38%
- 30The Evil Within 2$0.42/1hr19h90.34%92.09%
- 31Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation$0.46/1hr54h92.83%94.23%
- 32An alt girl for skoof$0.48/1hr7h83.99%83.33%
- 33That's not my Neighbor$0.49/1hr6h86.08%88.88%
- 34Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.49/1hr12h88.63%98.69%
- 35Tiny Bunny$0.50/1hr15h83.48%83.00%
- 36Inside the Backrooms$0.50/1hr14h80.77%79.87%
- 37Sultan's Game$0.51/1hr49h91.84%93.83%
- 38Lunch Lady$0.51/1hr6h85.20%85.40%
- 39The Quarry$0.52/1hr12h82.90%82.07%
- 40Buckshot Roulette$0.53/1hr6h94.43%95.19%
- 41Hello Neighbor$0.53/1hr11h85.73%85.98%
- 42DRAMAtical Murder$0.57/1hr21h88.77%96.62%
- 43Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair$0.58/1hr35h93.23%95.79%
- 44Escape the Backrooms$0.58/1hr14h89.66%89.95%
- 45OMORI$0.59/1hr34h95.85%97.09%
- 46Rusty Lake Hotel$0.59/1hr3h90.63%96.09%
- 47Gorilla Tag$0.60/1hr33h90.65%91.32%
- 48LISA: The Painful$0.61/1hr20h91.29%95.48%
- 49Changed$0.61/1hr8h85.87%86.37%
- 50Undertale$0.63/1hr16h96.16%96.49%
- 51Cat Goes Fishing$0.65/1hr11h90.66%94.14%
- 52The Texas Chain Saw Massacre$0.66/1hr23h71.80%66.12%
- 53Zup!$0.67/1hr3h89.27%94.13%
- 54Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.68/1hr29h93.70%96.00%
- 55OneShot$0.68/1hr9h96.46%98.25%
- 56Nuclear Nightmare$0.71/1hr10h82.45%81.14%
- 57Darkwood$0.73/1hr27h92.03%94.89%
- 58The Long Drive$0.73/1hr22h87.89%88.42%
- 59Jump King$0.73/1hr18h87.74%89.84%
- 60Trepang2$0.74/1hr13h90.12%92.83%
- 61Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs$0.74/1hr5h76.59%69.68%
- 62ALTF4$0.75/1hr4h82.05%79.61%
- 63Ghostwire: Tokyo$0.76/1hr20h83.50%82.88%
- 64Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$0.76/1hr15h94.09%96.96%
- 65House of Detention$0.76/1hr1h87.88%90.64%
- 66Scarlet Hollow$0.77/1hr24h89.35%97.97%
- 67AI: The Somnium Files$0.80/1hr25h88.12%91.53%
- 68Frostpunk 2$0.81/1hr28h77.56%74.81%
- 69Kindergarten$0.81/1hr6h91.03%96.81%
- 70Chinese Parents$0.81/1hr12h89.59%91.32%
- 71The Room Three$0.82/1hr7h90.93%95.41%
- 72Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.83/1hr10h82.56%82.27%
- 73Outer Wilds$0.83/1hr30h94.69%95.60%
- 74Raging Loop$0.83/1hr36h90.43%95.65%
- 75BOKURA$0.85/1hr6h88.66%91.54%
- 76The Outlast Trials$0.86/1hr47h91.89%92.52%
- 77DEVOUR$0.86/1hr12h89.93%90.50%
- 78Dead Space$0.90/1hr17h89.79%90.49%
- 79Breakout 13$0.92/1hr11h86.22%87.93%
- 80Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony$0.93/1hr43h83.49%82.87%
- 81F.E.A.R.$0.94/1hr11h90.68%93.64%
- 82Receiver 2$0.95/1hr21h86.27%90.63%
- 83Nunholy$0.97/1hr8h86.17%88.99%
- 84FPV Kamikaze Drone$0.98/1hr6h86.21%87.42%
- 85The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.98/1hr10h93.07%94.44%
- 86Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.99/1hr1h86.86%91.77%
- 87Zup! S$1.00/1hr2h92.26%96.79%
- 88DREDGE$1.00/1hr20h94.18%95.83%
- 89Content Warning$1.01/1hr8h93.34%93.86%
- 90Hand Simulator$1.01/1hr3h84.03%83.78%
- 91Alan Wake$1.02/1hr15h89.22%89.94%
- 92Chicory: A Colorful Tale$1.04/1hr19h88.31%97.42%
- 93Demonologist$1.07/1hr19h85.15%85.24%
- 94Observer: System Redux$1.10/1hr7h84.98%85.12%
- 95Spirit Island$1.12/1hr22h85.92%91.82%
- 96Insaniquarium Deluxe$1.13/1hr4h89.74%96.82%
- 97Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$1.13/1hr15h89.80%94.95%
- 98Murky Divers$1.14/1hr8h85.85%87.56%
- 99Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy$1.15/1hr11h76.55%71.08%
- 100Hatred$1.18/1hr5h84.54%84.41%
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.