The realistic ceiling for Survival horror games
Two honest views of what Survival horror games do on Steam: the whole market from a systematic sample, and the games gathered here. Kept separate on purpose.
The Survival horror games gathered on wishvane
Across the 456 Survival horror games compared here, the middle one runs ≈ 264k–405k copies (est.), with Dead by Daylight the biggest comparable game at ≈ 38.7M–62.9M. These are the games people chose to compare, not a sample of the genre, so they run far larger than the market figures above.
- The Survival horror games gathered here span 2006 to 2026, and 110 of the 456 of them shipped in the last two years.
- The biggest Survival horror games here share nothing more specific than the genre; individually they lead with Exploration and Female Protagonist.
- Across the Survival horror games gathered here the median price is $9.99, and the biggest charge more, around $20.
- Dead by Daylight
- The Forest
- Lethal Company
- Dying Light
- Sons Of The Forest
- Resident Evil 4
- SCP: Secret Laboratory
- Resident Evil 2
- Content Warning
- Escape the Backrooms
- Resident Evil Village
- Poppy Playtime
- Outlast
- Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
- Resident Evil 3
- The Outlast Trials
- Resident Evil 4 (2005)
- Barotrauma
- DEVOUR
- Cry of Fear
- Friday the 13th: The Game
- Dead Space
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
- GTFO
- Alien: Isolation
- Outlast 2
- SILENT HILL 2
- Ultimate Custom Night
- Five Nights at Freddy's
- SOMA
- Backrooms: Escape Together
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
- Inside the Backrooms
- The Callisto Protocol™
- Pacify
- Bendy and the Ink Machine
- Resident Evil
- City Car Driving
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- SIGNALIS
- The Evil Within
- Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
- Hello Neighbor
- Resident Evil Revelations 2
- The Evil Within 2
- Dead Space™ 2
- Dead Space (2008)
- Dead Frontier 2
- Pacific Drive
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2
- Darkwood
- No More Room in Hell 2
- Dark Deception
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- BIGFOOT
- Propnight
- Resident Evil 0
- Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer
- Nuclear Nightmare
- Resident Evil Revelations
and 396 more
Building a Survival 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.