Best Value Survival Horror Games Under $40
The Survival 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.
- 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%
- 20DayZ$0.14/1hr173h78.10%77.89%
- 21Blood and Bacon$0.15/1hr5h93.11%95.28%
- 22Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$0.15/1hr13h76.79%71.07%
- 23Metro 2033 Redux$0.15/1hr13h91.83%92.29%
- 24The Forest$0.15/1hr28h95.42%95.52%
- 25100% Orange Juice$0.15/1hr11h89.56%91.01%
- 26Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 27Night of the Dead$0.17/1hr35h80.67%76.88%
- 28Dead Island 2$0.17/1hr29h79.43%77.49%
- 29Prey$0.19/1hr31h89.96%90.83%
- 30Subnautica$0.20/1hr37h96.86%97.09%
- 31Pathologic 2$0.20/1hr35h88.74%91.66%
- 32Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr24h93.36%94.19%
- 33F.E.A.R.$0.21/1hr9h90.48%93.65%
- 34The Long Dark$0.23/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 35Lethal Company$0.24/1hr42h96.78%96.95%
- 36The Evil Within$0.24/1hr21h85.23%85.24%
- 37Dead Space 3$0.25/1hr16h77.15%72.42%
- 38Resident Evil 6$0.25/1hr20h78.13%77.15%
- 39Sons Of The Forest$0.25/1hr35h88.47%88.48%
- 40State of Decay: YOSE$0.25/1hr20h83.20%82.40%
- 41The Beast Inside$0.25/1hr10h83.32%82.54%
- 42HumanitZ$0.27/1hr45h78.37%74.26%
- 43DOOM 3$0.28/1hr14h85.32%86.16%
- 44Chernobylite Complete Edition$0.28/1hr22h83.24%81.99%
- 45Alan Wake's American Nightmare$0.28/1hr5h79.16%74.45%
- 46Demonologist$0.29/1hr21h84.94%85.22%
- 47Days Gone$0.29/1hr55h92.13%92.72%
- 48Pacific Drive$0.29/1hr34h83.70%83.14%
- 49Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.74%86.97%
- 50Barotrauma$0.29/1hr60h93.13%94.02%
- 51Subnautica: Below Zero$0.30/1hr25h89.64%90.05%
- 52Resident Evil$0.31/1hr16h90.71%92.31%
- 53Mist Survival$0.31/1hr26h79.18%75.65%
- 54ZERO Sievert$0.32/1hr44h84.55%84.73%
- 55Resident Evil 4$0.32/1hr32h97.06%97.37%
- 56World War Z$0.33/1hr23h82.86%82.44%
- 57Call of Cthulhu$0.33/1hr9h81.34%79.25%
- 58City Car Driving$0.33/1hr17h83.25%82.72%
- 59Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.34/1hr17h79.39%77.02%
- 60Resident Evil 0$0.34/1hr14h81.47%80.05%
- 61Resident Evil Revelations 2$0.35/1hr14h79.73%78.33%
- 62Rain World$0.35/1hr32h92.44%93.70%
- 63Dead Space 2$0.35/1hr11h91.54%93.97%
- 64Depth$0.35/1hr14h87.32%87.96%
- 65Back 4 Blood$0.35/1hr17h70.79%68.83%
- 66Aliens vs. Predator$0.36/1hr8h89.65%91.43%
- 67Outlast$0.36/1hr11h95.68%96.44%
- 68Amnesia: The Dark Descent$0.38/1hr11h92.53%94.58%
- 69Chinese Parents$0.39/1hr14h89.64%91.29%
- 70Aliens: Fireteam Elite$0.40/1hr15h80.90%79.66%
- 71Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon$0.40/1hr56h87.13%87.67%
- 72IfSunSets$0.42/1hr29h82.36%74.72%
- 73Resident Evil 2$0.42/1hr19h96.66%97.04%
- 74Ultimate Zombie Defense$0.42/1hr4h85.16%85.11%
- 75Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$0.43/1hr14h89.49%94.97%
- 76The Evil Within 2$0.43/1hr18h90.38%92.06%
- 77Resident Evil Revelations$0.44/1hr11h82.32%81.28%
- 78METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED$0.44/1hr23h83.38%69.43%
- 79Amnesia: The Bunker$0.45/1hr11h89.70%93.28%
- 80System Shock$0.46/1hr26h88.10%90.35%
- 81The Texas Chain Saw Massacre$0.46/1hr33h71.92%66.32%
- 82DEVOUR$0.46/1hr11h89.93%90.47%
- 83Resident Evil Village$0.47/1hr21h95.00%95.64%
- 84Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.47/1hr1h87.19%91.63%
- 85Escape the Backrooms$0.48/1hr17h89.49%89.75%
- 86How to Survive$0.49/1hr8h83.60%82.67%
- 87The Quarry$0.50/1hr12h82.66%82.02%
- 88Inside the Backrooms$0.50/1hr13h80.72%79.76%
- 89Detention$0.50/1hr5h90.87%95.69%
- 90SOMA$0.51/1hr12h94.15%95.84%
- 91DREDGE$0.52/1hr19h94.25%95.83%
- 92Ghost Watchers$0.53/1hr14h85.23%85.82%
- 93Pacify$0.53/1hr4h85.86%86.02%
- 94Alien: Isolation$0.54/1hr22h92.08%93.12%
- 95Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days$0.56/1hr36h86.74%89.26%
- 96Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$0.57/1hr14h94.55%95.29%
- 97The Infected$0.57/1hr17h84.73%84.09%
- 98Zombie Army Trilogy$0.59/1hr8h85.16%85.64%
- 99Outlast 2$0.59/1hr9h90.08%90.83%
- 100Dead Space$0.59/1hr20h89.85%90.51%
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.