The realistic ceiling for Horror games
Two honest views of what Horror games do on Steam: the whole market from a systematic sample, and the games gathered here. Kept separate on purpose.
The Horror games gathered on wishvane
Across the 558 Horror games compared here, a typical one runs ≈ 38k–73k copies (est.), with Dead by Daylight the biggest comparable game at ≈ 36.8M–59.8M. A small, self-selected sample, not the whole market.
- The Horror games gathered here span 1997 to 2026, a long track record.
- Across the Horror games gathered here the median price is $9.99, and the biggest charge more, around $20.
- Dead by Daylight
- Phasmophobia
- The Forest
- Lethal Company
- Dying Light
- R.E.P.O.
- Subnautica
- Ready or Not
- Sons Of The Forest
- Resident Evil 4
- SCP: Secret Laboratory
- Doki Doki Literature Club!
- Resident Evil 2
- Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
- Content Warning
- Escape the Backrooms
- Resident Evil Village
- Inscryption
- Poppy Playtime
- MiSide
- Metro 2033 Redux
- Outlast
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- Killing Floor 2
- Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
- Resident Evil 3
- Buckshot Roulette
- Little Nightmares
- Subnautica: Below Zero
- The Outlast Trials
- The Last of Us™ Part I
- Half-Life: Alyx
- Resident Evil 4 (2005)
- Deceit
- Cookie Clicker
- Barotrauma
- DEVOUR
- Cry of Fear
- Gorilla Tag
- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
- Metro: Last Light Redux
- Friday the 13th: The Game
- INSIDE
- Resident Evil 6
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
- Killing Floor
- Dead Space
- Left 4 Dead
- GTFO
- Resident Evil 5
- Alien: Isolation
- BioShock™ Remastered
- Outlast 2
- SILENT HILL 2
- Ultimate Custom Night
- Five Nights at Freddy's
- Alan Wake
- Little Nightmares II
- Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation
- Prey
and 498 more
Building a Horror game? This genre already ran your experiment. Add the games yours will be compared to and see what's realistic, before you spend months on it.