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.
- 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%
- 10Barotrauma$0.23/1hr77h93.10%94.02%
- 11Blood and Bacon$0.24/1hr4h93.04%95.26%
- 12Lethal Company$0.26/1hr39h96.74%96.97%
- 13Dead Space 3$0.26/1hr15h77.49%72.47%
- 14The Evil Within$0.27/1hr18h85.14%85.20%
- 15The Infected$0.30/1hr53h84.68%84.32%
- 16Monstrum$0.31/1hr12h86.30%90.62%
- 17DOOM 3$0.32/1hr12h85.62%86.18%
- 18Dead Space 2$0.32/1hr12h91.69%93.97%
- 19Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer$0.32/1hr12h85.42%85.68%
- 20Don't Starve Together$0.37/1hr40h94.75%94.93%
- 21Don't Starve$0.38/1hr26h95.61%96.55%
- 22The Evil Within 2$0.42/1hr19h90.34%92.09%
- 23HumanitZ$0.42/1hr48h78.82%74.39%
- 24Mist Survival$0.42/1hr26h79.54%75.77%
- 25ZERO Sievert$0.45/1hr44h84.78%84.68%
- 26Night of the Dead$0.46/1hr65h80.60%76.93%
- 27Green Hell$0.49/1hr18h84.72%84.70%
- 28Inside the Backrooms$0.50/1hr14h80.77%79.87%
- 29Lunch Lady$0.51/1hr6h85.20%85.40%
- 30The Quarry$0.52/1hr12h82.90%82.07%
- 31The Forest$0.53/1hr38h95.38%95.53%
- 32Hello Neighbor$0.53/1hr11h85.73%85.98%
- 33Depth$0.57/1hr35h87.25%87.96%
- 34Escape the Backrooms$0.58/1hr14h89.66%89.95%
- 35Gorilla Tag$0.60/1hr33h90.65%91.32%
- 36Changed$0.61/1hr8h85.87%86.37%
- 37Dead Space (2008)$0.64/1hr13h90.10%91.88%
- 38The Texas Chain Saw Massacre$0.66/1hr23h71.80%66.12%
- 39Nuclear Nightmare$0.71/1hr10h82.45%81.14%
- 40Subnautica$0.72/1hr41h96.78%97.09%
- 41Darkwood$0.73/1hr27h92.03%94.89%
- 42Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs$0.74/1hr5h76.59%69.68%
- 43Sons Of The Forest$0.75/1hr40h88.33%88.43%
- 44Ghostwire: Tokyo$0.76/1hr20h83.50%82.88%
- 45House of Detention$0.76/1hr1h87.88%90.64%
- 46Chinese Parents$0.81/1hr12h89.59%91.32%
- 47100% Orange Juice$0.82/1hr9h89.52%91.04%
- 48Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy$0.83/1hr10h82.56%82.27%
- 49Days Gone$0.83/1hr48h92.11%92.73%
- 50S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl$0.83/1hr24h93.00%94.67%
- 51Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.84/1hr24h93.30%94.15%
- 52The Outlast Trials$0.86/1hr47h91.89%92.52%
- 53DEVOUR$0.86/1hr12h89.93%90.50%
- 54Resident Evil 6$0.90/1hr22h78.21%77.25%
- 55Dead Space$0.90/1hr17h89.79%90.49%
- 56State of Decay: YOSE$0.91/1hr22h83.49%82.38%
- 57S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat$0.93/1hr21h93.09%95.69%
- 58F.E.A.R.$0.94/1hr11h90.68%93.64%
- 59Killing Floor 2$0.94/1hr32h88.04%88.28%
- 60Receiver 2$0.95/1hr21h86.27%90.63%
- 61Generation Zero$0.96/1hr26h74.51%72.03%
- 62S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky$0.97/1hr21h85.18%85.28%
- 63Dead Island Definitive Edition$0.97/1hr21h82.66%81.85%
- 64Rain World$0.97/1hr26h92.41%93.74%
- 65Mister Furry: Hot Muscles$0.99/1hr1h86.86%91.77%
- 66DREDGE$1.00/1hr20h94.18%95.83%
- 67Content Warning$1.01/1hr8h93.34%93.86%
- 68Alan Wake$1.02/1hr15h89.22%89.94%
- 69Resident Evil$1.04/1hr19h90.70%92.30%
- 70Subnautica: Below Zero$1.05/1hr29h89.64%90.08%
- 71Demonologist$1.07/1hr19h85.15%85.24%
- 72Gloomwood$1.11/1hr18h89.53%95.03%
- 73Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition$1.13/1hr15h89.80%94.95%
- 74Ghost Watchers$1.14/1hr13h85.50%85.85%
- 75Murky Divers$1.14/1hr8h85.85%87.56%
- 76Into the Radius VR$1.15/1hr26h89.49%93.52%
- 77Resident Evil 5$1.19/1hr17h86.71%86.97%
- 78Metro Exodus$1.20/1hr25h89.61%89.96%
- 79Resident Evil 0$1.22/1hr16h81.75%80.12%
- 80Backrooms: Escape Together$1.22/1hr8h88.07%88.72%
- 81Pacify$1.24/1hr4h85.86%86.08%
- 82Resident Evil 4$1.24/1hr32h96.90%97.34%
- 83Resident Evil 7 Biohazard$1.24/1hr16h94.54%95.31%
- 84Aliens: Fireteam Elite$1.27/1hr24h81.12%79.70%
- 85Five Nights at Freddy's$1.31/1hr4h92.52%93.81%
- 86Pacific Drive$1.31/1hr23h83.67%83.20%
- 87No More Room in Hell 2$1.31/1hr23h60.58%49.14%
- 88World War Z$1.32/1hr23h83.12%82.55%
- 89Resident Evil Revelations 2$1.34/1hr15h79.86%78.28%
- 90Metro: Last Light Redux$1.38/1hr15h90.56%91.26%
- 91[Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件$1.39/1hr4h85.59%87.63%
- 92System Shock$1.43/1hr25h87.99%90.36%
- 93The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners$1.47/1hr14h85.26%85.58%
- 94Aliens vs. Predator$1.49/1hr10h89.31%91.36%
- 95Killing Floor$1.49/1hr13h93.86%95.16%
- 96Ultimate Zombie Defense$1.51/1hr3h84.99%85.11%
- 97Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.53/1hr13h77.16%71.15%
- 98Scorn$1.54/1hr6h79.49%76.69%
- 99Metro 2033 Redux$1.55/1hr13h91.78%92.27%
- 100Chernobylite Complete Edition$1.55/1hr19h83.17%82.03%
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.