Best Value Survival Horror Games Under $5

The Survival Horror games on Steam games under $5 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.

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Median reviewer playtime divided by price. 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.
  1. 1Don't Starve Together62 h/$
  2. 2Don't Starve14 h/$
  3. 3Alan Wake8.8 h/$
  4. 4Green Hell8.8 h/$
  5. 5Alan Wake's American Nightmare5.4 h/$
  6. 6State of Decay: YOSE5.0 h/$
  7. 7Resident Evil 64.7 h/$
  8. 8Resident Evil 4 (2005)4.1 h/$
  9. 9Blood and Bacon3.7 h/$
  10. 10Resident Evil3.6 h/$
  11. 11Resident Evil 53.6 h/$
  12. 12Resident Evil Revelations 23.0 h/$
  13. 13Resident Evil 02.8 h/$
  14. 14Resident Evil Revelations2.3 h/$
  15. 15Content Warning2.0 h/$
  16. 16Changed1.9 h/$
  17. 17Scorn1.7 h/$
  18. 18Murky Divers1.7 h/$
  19. 19House of Detention1.6 h/$
  20. 20Mister Furry: Hot Muscles1.0 h/$
  21. 21Pacify0.9 h/$
  22. 22Ultimate Zombie Defense0.8 h/$
  23. 23Lunch Lady0.7 h/$
  24. 24Five Nights at Freddy's0.6 h/$
  25. 25FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction0.5 h/$
  26. 26The Test0.2 h/$

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.