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.
- 1Dead by Daylight$0.06/1hr343h78.50%78.43%
- 2Dying Light$0.13/1hr38h95.03%95.23%
- 3Pathologic 2$0.17/1hr40h88.63%91.68%
- 4Prey$0.18/1hr33h89.90%90.82%
- 5Left 4 Dead 2$0.18/1hr54h97.41%97.52%
- 6The Long Dark$0.19/1hr103h88.64%88.94%
- 7Aseprite$0.22/1hr91h95.04%98.94%
- 8Barotrauma$0.23/1hr77h93.10%94.02%
- 9Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.04%95.26%
- 10Lethal Company$0.26/1hr39h96.74%96.97%
- 11Dead Space 3$0.26/1hr15h77.49%72.47%
- 12The Evil Within$0.27/1hr18h85.14%85.20%
- 13The Infected$0.30/1hr53h84.68%84.32%
- 14Monstrum$0.31/1hr12h86.30%90.62%
- 15DOOM 3$0.32/1hr12h85.62%86.18%
- 16Dead Space 2$0.32/1hr12h91.69%93.97%
- 17Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer$0.32/1hr12h85.42%85.68%
- 18Don't Starve Together$0.37/1hr40h94.75%94.93%
- 19Don't Starve$0.38/1hr26h95.61%96.55%
- 20The Evil Within 2$0.42/1hr19h90.34%92.09%
- 21HumanitZ$0.42/1hr48h78.82%74.39%
- 22Mist Survival$0.42/1hr26h79.54%75.77%
- 23ZERO Sievert$0.45/1hr44h84.78%84.68%
- 24Green Hell$0.49/1hr18h84.72%84.70%
- 25Inside the Backrooms$0.50/1hr14h80.77%79.87%
- 26Lunch Lady$0.51/1hr6h85.20%85.40%
- 27The Quarry$0.52/1hr12h82.90%82.07%
- 28The Forest$0.53/1hr38h95.38%95.53%
- 29Hello Neighbor$0.53/1hr11h85.73%85.98%
- 30Depth$0.57/1hr35h87.25%87.96%
- 31Escape the Backrooms$0.58/1hr14h89.66%89.95%
- 32Gorilla Tag$0.60/1hr33h90.65%91.32%
- 33Changed$0.61/1hr8h85.87%86.37%
- 34Dead Space (2008)$0.64/1hr13h90.10%91.88%
- 35The Texas Chain Saw Massacre$0.66/1hr23h71.80%66.12%
- 36Nuclear Nightmare$0.71/1hr10h82.45%81.14%
- 37Darkwood$0.73/1hr27h92.03%94.89%
- 38Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs$0.74/1hr5h76.59%69.68%
- 39Ghostwire: Tokyo$0.76/1hr20h83.50%82.88%
- 40House of Detention$0.76/1hr1h87.88%90.64%
- 41Chinese Parents$0.81/1hr12h89.59%91.32%
- 42100% Orange Juice$0.82/1hr9h89.52%91.04%
- 43Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.83/1hr10h82.56%82.27%
- 44S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$0.83/1hr24h93.00%94.67%
- 45Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.84/1hr24h93.30%94.15%
- 46DEVOUR$0.86/1hr12h89.93%90.50%
- 47Resident Evil 6$0.90/1hr22h78.21%77.25%
- 48Dead Space$0.90/1hr17h89.79%90.49%
- 49State of Decay: YOSE$0.91/1hr22h83.49%82.38%
- 50S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.93/1hr21h93.09%95.69%
- 51F.E.A.R.$0.94/1hr11h90.68%93.64%
- 52Receiver 2$0.95/1hr21h86.27%90.63%
- 53S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky$0.97/1hr21h85.18%85.28%
- 54Dead Island Definitive Edition$0.97/1hr21h82.66%81.85%
- 55Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.99/1hr1h86.86%91.77%
- 56DREDGE$1.00/1hr20h94.18%95.83%
- 57Content Warning$1.01/1hr8h93.34%93.86%
- 58Alan Wake$1.02/1hr15h89.22%89.94%
- 59Resident Evil$1.04/1hr19h90.70%92.30%
- 60Demonologist$1.07/1hr19h85.15%85.24%
- 61Gloomwood$1.11/1hr18h89.53%95.03%
- 62Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$1.13/1hr15h89.80%94.95%
- 63Ghost Watchers$1.14/1hr13h85.50%85.85%
- 64Murky Divers$1.14/1hr8h85.85%87.56%
- 65Resident Evil 5$1.19/1hr17h86.71%86.97%
- 66Resident Evil 0$1.22/1hr16h81.75%80.12%
- 67Backrooms: Escape Together$1.22/1hr8h88.07%88.72%
- 68Pacify$1.24/1hr4h85.86%86.08%
- 69Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$1.24/1hr16h94.54%95.31%
- 70Five Nights at Freddy's$1.31/1hr4h92.52%93.81%
- 71Resident Evil Revelations 2$1.34/1hr15h79.86%78.28%
- 72Metro: Last Light Redux$1.38/1hr15h90.56%91.26%
- 73[Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件$1.39/1hr4h85.59%87.63%
- 74The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners$1.47/1hr14h85.26%85.58%
- 75Aliens vs. Predator$1.49/1hr10h89.31%91.36%
- 76Killing Floor$1.49/1hr13h93.86%95.16%
- 77Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.51/1hr3h84.99%85.11%
- 78Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.53/1hr13h77.16%71.15%
- 79Scorn$1.54/1hr6h79.49%76.69%
- 80Metro 2033 Redux$1.55/1hr13h91.78%92.27%
- 81WORLD OF HORROR$1.56/1hr13h87.27%89.65%
- 82SIGNALIS$1.59/1hr13h93.94%96.60%
- 83BIGFOOT$1.63/1hr12h82.98%82.09%
- 84Outlast$1.71/1hr9h95.66%96.44%
- 85Psychopomp GOLD$1.73/1hr5h89.32%97.56%
- 86Resident Evil Revelations$1.74/1hr12h82.56%81.26%
- 87Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location$1.83/1hr4h87.79%90.05%
- 88PILGRIM$1.91/1hr4h80.21%67.79%
- 89Five Nights at Freddy's 2$1.93/1hr4h91.26%93.69%
- 90Alan Wake's American Nightmare$1.93/1hr5h79.46%74.32%
- 91Amnesia: The Dark Descent$1.98/1hr10h92.47%94.59%
- 92Call of Cthulhu$2.14/1hr9h81.64%79.24%
- 93Bendy and the Dark Revival$2.23/1hr9h89.36%92.12%
- 94Outlast 2$2.27/1hr9h90.07%90.87%
- 95Five Nights at Freddy's 3$2.30/1hr3h87.73%90.20%
- 96Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit$2.39/1hr8h90.57%95.73%
- 97Little Nightmares$2.45/1hr8h93.98%94.75%
- 98Crow Country$2.49/1hr8h90.79%98.05%
- 99Bendy and the Ink Machine$2.51/1hr8h88.14%89.01%
- 100Detention$2.60/1hr5h90.74%95.66%
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.