Best Value Survival Horror Games Under $20
The Survival Horror games on Steam games under $20 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.
- 1Left 4 Dead 2$0.02/1hr81h97.43%97.52%
- 2Dead by Daylight$0.03/1hr289h78.39%78.28%
- 3Hunt: Showdown 1896$0.04/1hr321h74.20%73.70%
- 4The Outlast Trials$0.05/1hr88h91.77%92.36%
- 5Don't Starve Together$0.05/1hr102h94.78%94.90%
- 6Dying Light$0.07/1hr36h95.09%95.23%
- 7Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 8Metro Exodus$0.10/1hr30h89.62%89.95%
- 9Project Zomboid$0.10/1hr162h93.64%93.75%
- 10Killing Floor$0.10/1hr19h93.89%95.16%
- 11Killing Floor 2$0.11/1hr27h88.04%88.26%
- 12Don't Starve$0.11/1hr22h95.62%96.54%
- 13Generation Zero$0.12/1hr32h74.55%72.04%
- 14Dead Island Definitive Edition$0.12/1hr17h82.49%81.86%
- 15Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.12/1hr10h82.59%82.28%
- 16Metro: Last Light Redux$0.12/1hr16h90.64%91.31%
- 17Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 18Nuclear Nightmare$0.14/1hr10h82.40%81.12%
- 19Aseprite$0.14/1hr83h95.38%98.94%
- 20Blood and Bacon$0.15/1hr5h93.11%95.28%
- 21Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr13h76.79%71.07%
- 22Metro 2033 Redux$0.15/1hr13h91.83%92.29%
- 23The Forest$0.15/1hr28h95.42%95.52%
- 24100% Orange Juice$0.15/1hr11h89.56%91.01%
- 25Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 26Night of the Dead$0.17/1hr35h80.67%76.88%
- 27Dead Island 2$0.17/1hr29h79.43%77.49%
- 28Prey$0.19/1hr31h89.96%90.83%
- 29Subnautica$0.20/1hr37h96.86%97.09%
- 30Pathologic 2$0.20/1hr35h88.74%91.66%
- 31Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr24h93.36%94.19%
- 32F.E.A.R.$0.21/1hr9h90.48%93.65%
- 33The Long Dark$0.23/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 34Lethal Company$0.24/1hr42h96.78%96.95%
- 35The Evil Within$0.24/1hr21h85.23%85.24%
- 36Dead Space 3$0.25/1hr16h77.15%72.42%
- 37Resident Evil 6$0.25/1hr20h78.13%77.15%
- 38Sons Of The Forest$0.25/1hr35h88.47%88.48%
- 39State of Decay: YOSE$0.25/1hr20h83.20%82.40%
- 40The Beast Inside$0.25/1hr10h83.32%82.54%
- 41HumanitZ$0.27/1hr45h78.37%74.26%
- 42DOOM 3$0.28/1hr14h85.32%86.16%
- 43Chernobylite Complete Edition$0.28/1hr22h83.24%81.99%
- 44Alan Wake's American Nightmare$0.28/1hr5h79.16%74.45%
- 45Demonologist$0.29/1hr21h84.94%85.22%
- 46Days Gone$0.29/1hr55h92.13%92.72%
- 47Pacific Drive$0.29/1hr34h83.70%83.14%
- 48Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.74%86.97%
- 49Barotrauma$0.29/1hr60h93.13%94.02%
- 50Subnautica: Below Zero$0.30/1hr25h89.64%90.05%
- 51Resident Evil$0.31/1hr16h90.71%92.31%
- 52Mist Survival$0.31/1hr26h79.18%75.65%
- 53ZERO Sievert$0.32/1hr44h84.55%84.73%
- 54Resident Evil 4$0.32/1hr32h97.06%97.37%
- 55World War Z$0.33/1hr23h82.86%82.44%
- 56Call of Cthulhu$0.33/1hr9h81.34%79.25%
- 57City Car Driving$0.33/1hr17h83.25%82.72%
- 58Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.34/1hr17h79.39%77.02%
- 59Resident Evil 0$0.34/1hr14h81.47%80.05%
- 60Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.35/1hr14h79.73%78.33%
- 61Rain World$0.35/1hr32h92.44%93.70%
- 62Dead Space 2$0.35/1hr11h91.54%93.97%
- 63Depth$0.35/1hr14h87.32%87.96%
- 64Back 4 Blood$0.35/1hr17h70.79%68.83%
- 65Aliens vs. Predator$0.36/1hr8h89.65%91.43%
- 66Outlast$0.36/1hr11h95.68%96.44%
- 67Amnesia: The Dark Descent$0.38/1hr11h92.53%94.58%
- 68Chinese Parents$0.39/1hr14h89.64%91.29%
- 69Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.40/1hr15h80.90%79.66%
- 70IfSunSets$0.42/1hr29h82.36%74.72%
- 71Resident Evil 2$0.42/1hr19h96.66%97.04%
- 72Ultimate Zombie Defense$0.42/1hr4h85.16%85.11%
- 73Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$0.43/1hr14h89.49%94.97%
- 74The Evil Within 2$0.43/1hr18h90.38%92.06%
- 75Resident Evil Revelations$0.44/1hr11h82.32%81.28%
- 76METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED$0.44/1hr23h83.38%69.43%
- 77Amnesia: The Bunker$0.45/1hr11h89.70%93.28%
- 78System Shock$0.46/1hr26h88.10%90.35%
- 79The Texas Chain Saw Massacre$0.46/1hr33h71.92%66.32%
- 80DEVOUR$0.46/1hr11h89.93%90.47%
- 81Resident Evil Village$0.47/1hr21h95.00%95.64%
- 82Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.47/1hr1h87.19%91.63%
- 83Escape the Backrooms$0.48/1hr17h89.49%89.75%
- 84How to Survive$0.49/1hr8h83.60%82.67%
- 85The Quarry$0.50/1hr12h82.66%82.02%
- 86Inside the Backrooms$0.50/1hr13h80.72%79.76%
- 87Detention$0.50/1hr5h90.87%95.69%
- 88SOMA$0.51/1hr12h94.15%95.84%
- 89DREDGE$0.52/1hr19h94.25%95.83%
- 90Ghost Watchers$0.53/1hr14h85.23%85.82%
- 91Pacify$0.53/1hr4h85.86%86.02%
- 92Alien: Isolation$0.54/1hr22h92.08%93.12%
- 93Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days$0.56/1hr36h86.74%89.26%
- 94Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.57/1hr14h94.55%95.29%
- 95The Infected$0.57/1hr17h84.73%84.09%
- 96Zombie Army Trilogy$0.59/1hr8h85.16%85.64%
- 97Outlast 2$0.59/1hr9h90.08%90.83%
- 98Dead Space$0.59/1hr20h89.85%90.51%
- 99Hello Neighbor$0.60/1hr10h86.07%86.16%
- 100Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer$0.61/1hr7h85.30%85.37%
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.