Best Value Survival Horror Games
The Survival Horror games that stretch a budget furthest: median reviewer playtime divided by current price. Pick your currency in the top bar to rank against your local prices.
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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$0.06/1hr343h78.50%78.43%
- 2Project Zomboid$0.13/1hr200h93.68%93.87%
- 3Dying Light$0.13/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 4Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.13/1hr222h74.10%73.71%
- 5Pathologic 2$0.17/1hr40h88.63%91.68%
- 6Prey$0.18/1hr33h89.90%90.82%
- 7Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr54h97.41%97.52%
- 8The Long Dark$0.19/1hr103h88.64%88.94%
- 9Aseprite$0.22/1hr91h95.04%98.94%
- 10DayZ$0.22/1hr223h77.96%77.81%
- 11Barotrauma$0.23/1hr77h93.10%94.02%
- 12Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.04%95.26%
- 13Lethal Company$0.26/1hr39h96.74%96.97%
- 14Dead Space 3$0.26/1hr15h77.49%72.47%
- 15The Evil Within$0.27/1hr18h85.14%85.20%
- 16The Infected$0.30/1hr53h84.68%84.32%
- 17Monstrum$0.31/1hr12h86.30%90.62%
- 18DOOM 3$0.32/1hr12h85.62%86.18%
- 19Dead Space 2$0.32/1hr12h91.69%93.97%
- 20Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer$0.32/1hr12h85.42%85.68%
- 21Don't Starve Together$0.37/1hr40h94.75%94.93%
- 22Don't Starve$0.38/1hr26h95.61%96.55%
- 23The Evil Within 2$0.42/1hr19h90.34%92.09%
- 24HumanitZ$0.42/1hr48h78.82%74.39%
- 25Mist Survival$0.42/1hr26h79.54%75.77%
- 26ZERO Sievert$0.45/1hr44h84.78%84.68%
- 27Night of the Dead$0.46/1hr65h80.60%76.93%
- 28Green Hell$0.49/1hr18h84.72%84.70%
- 29Inside the Backrooms$0.50/1hr14h80.77%79.87%
- 30Lunch Lady$0.51/1hr6h85.20%85.40%
- 31The Quarry$0.52/1hr12h82.90%82.07%
- 32The Forest$0.53/1hr38h95.38%95.53%
- 33Hello Neighbor$0.53/1hr11h85.73%85.98%
- 34Depth$0.57/1hr35h87.25%87.96%
- 35Escape the Backrooms$0.58/1hr14h89.66%89.95%
- 36Gorilla Tag$0.60/1hr33h90.65%91.32%
- 37Changed$0.61/1hr8h85.87%86.37%
- 38Dead Space (2008)$0.64/1hr13h90.10%91.88%
- 39The Texas Chain Saw Massacre$0.66/1hr23h71.80%66.12%
- 40Nuclear Nightmare$0.71/1hr10h82.45%81.14%
- 41Subnautica$0.72/1hr41h96.78%97.09%
- 42Darkwood$0.73/1hr27h92.03%94.89%
- 43Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs$0.74/1hr5h76.59%69.68%
- 44Sons Of The Forest$0.75/1hr40h88.33%88.43%
- 45Ghostwire: Tokyo$0.76/1hr20h83.50%82.88%
- 46House of Detention$0.76/1hr1h87.88%90.64%
- 47Chinese Parents$0.81/1hr12h89.59%91.32%
- 48Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon$0.82/1hr55h87.13%87.76%
- 49100% Orange Juice$0.82/1hr9h89.52%91.04%
- 50Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.83/1hr10h82.56%82.27%
- 51Days Gone$0.83/1hr48h92.11%92.73%
- 52S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$0.83/1hr24h93.00%94.67%
- 53Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.84/1hr24h93.30%94.15%
- 54The Outlast Trials$0.86/1hr47h91.89%92.52%
- 55DEVOUR$0.86/1hr12h89.93%90.50%
- 56Resident Evil 6$0.90/1hr22h78.21%77.25%
- 57Dead Space$0.90/1hr17h89.79%90.49%
- 58State of Decay: YOSE$0.91/1hr22h83.49%82.38%
- 59S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.93/1hr21h93.09%95.69%
- 60F.E.A.R.$0.94/1hr11h90.68%93.64%
- 61Killing Floor 2$0.94/1hr32h88.04%88.28%
- 62Receiver 2$0.95/1hr21h86.27%90.63%
- 63Generation Zero$0.96/1hr26h74.51%72.03%
- 64S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky$0.97/1hr21h85.18%85.28%
- 65Dead Island Definitive Edition$0.97/1hr21h82.66%81.85%
- 66Rain World$0.97/1hr26h92.41%93.74%
- 67Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.99/1hr1h86.86%91.77%
- 68DREDGE$1.00/1hr20h94.18%95.83%
- 69Content Warning$1.01/1hr8h93.34%93.86%
- 70Alan Wake$1.02/1hr15h89.22%89.94%
- 71Resident Evil$1.04/1hr19h90.70%92.30%
- 72Subnautica: Below Zero$1.05/1hr29h89.64%90.08%
- 73Demonologist$1.07/1hr19h85.15%85.24%
- 74Gloomwood$1.11/1hr18h89.53%95.03%
- 75Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$1.13/1hr15h89.80%94.95%
- 76Ghost Watchers$1.14/1hr13h85.50%85.85%
- 77Murky Divers$1.14/1hr8h85.85%87.56%
- 78Into the Radius VR$1.15/1hr26h89.49%93.52%
- 79Resident Evil 5$1.19/1hr17h86.71%86.97%
- 80Metro Exodus$1.20/1hr25h89.61%89.96%
- 81Resident Evil 0$1.22/1hr16h81.75%80.12%
- 82Backrooms: Escape Together$1.22/1hr8h88.07%88.72%
- 83Pacify$1.24/1hr4h85.86%86.08%
- 84Resident Evil 4$1.24/1hr32h96.90%97.34%
- 85Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$1.24/1hr16h94.54%95.31%
- 86Aliens: Fireteam Elite$1.27/1hr24h81.12%79.70%
- 87Five Nights at Freddy's$1.31/1hr4h92.52%93.81%
- 88Pacific Drive$1.31/1hr23h83.67%83.20%
- 89No More Room in Hell 2$1.31/1hr23h60.58%49.14%
- 90World War Z$1.32/1hr23h83.12%82.55%
- 91Resident Evil Revelations 2$1.34/1hr15h79.86%78.28%
- 92Metro: Last Light Redux$1.38/1hr15h90.56%91.26%
- 93[Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件$1.39/1hr4h85.59%87.63%
- 94System Shock$1.43/1hr25h87.99%90.36%
- 95The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners$1.47/1hr14h85.26%85.58%
- 96Aliens vs. Predator$1.49/1hr10h89.31%91.36%
- 97Killing Floor$1.49/1hr13h93.86%95.16%
- 98Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.51/1hr3h84.99%85.11%
- 99Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.53/1hr13h77.16%71.15%
- 100The Last of Us Part II Remastered$1.54/1hr32h90.02%90.96%
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.