Steam tag
Estimated revenue, market economics, and the top games tagged Survival Horror on Steam.
For developers
Total estimated revenue of Survival Horror games, grouped by the year they launched — a release-cohort trend, not a live time-series. Recent years are still accumulating revenue after launch.
Leaderboard
| # | Game | Est. revenue | Reviews | Score | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DayZ | $292.9M | 384.8K | 78% | $49.99 |
| 2 | Resident Evil Requiem | $266.2M | 179.4K | 96% | $69.99 |
| 3 | The Forest | $216.9M | 577.4K | 96% | $19.99 |
| 4 |
| Year | Releases | Median rev | $100k+ | $1M+ | Total genre revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 23 | $661.7K | 96% | 35% | $360.2M |
| 2025 | 56 | $673.8K | 84% | 45% | $354.4M |
| 2024 | 59 | $630.8K | 78% | 42% | $338.2M |
| 2023 | 43 | $390.2K | 77% | 37% | $521.5M |
| 2022 | 37 | $553.4K | 70% | 35% | $137.1M |
| 2021 | 39 | $473.9K | 74% | 33% | $230.4M |
| 2020 | 45 | $245.6K | 64% | 33% | $106.9M |
| 2019 | 35 | $523.4K | 71% | 40% | $263M |
| 2018 | 17 | $780.5K | 71% | 47% | $705.4M |
| 2017 | 28 | $824.8K | 68% | 43% | $261.7M |
| 2016 | 31 | $925.4K | 87% | 48% | $278.4M |
| 2015 | 26 | $420.1K | 73% | 42% | $233.4M |
Median beats average here: genre revenue is hit-driven, so the median shows what the typical Survival Horror launch actually earned. Recent years accumulate revenue for a while after launch.
| $200.9M |
| 314.8K |
| 88% |
| $29.99 |
| 5 | Project Zomboid | $181.2M | 349.3K | 94% | $19.99 |
| 6 | Don't Starve Together | $164.6M | 539.4K | 95% | $14.99 |
| 7 | Subnautica | $162.4M | 376.9K | 97% | $29.99 |
| 8 | Dying Light | $149.6M | 370.3K | 95% | $24.99 |
| 9 | Resident Evil 4 | $136M | 266.6K | 97% | $39.99 |
| 10 | Left 4 Dead 2 | $121.5M | 806.5K | 98% | $9.99 |
| 11 | Resident Evil 2 | $114.8M | 218.1K | 97% | $39.99 |
| 12 | The Last of Us™ Part I | $102.6M | 106.4K | 84% | $59.99 |
| 13 | Dead Space | $92M | 60.8K | 91% | $59.99 |
| 14 | Hunt: Showdown 1896 | $80.3M | 211K | 75% | $29.99 |
| 15 | Subnautica 2 | $71.1M | 123.1K | 91% | $29.99 |
| 16 | Days Gone | $67.5M | 81.7K | 93% | $39.99 |
| 17 | Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach | $62.3M | 64.8K | 87% | $39.99 |
| 18 | Escape from Tarkov | $60M | 58.2K | 49% | $37.49 |
| 19 | Lethal Company | $58.9M | 509.7K | 97% | $9.99 |
| 20 | The Long Dark | $58.3M | 122.9K | 89% | $19.99 |
| 21 | The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered | $55.3M | 52.7K | 91% | $49.99 |
| 22 | Metro Exodus | $53.1M | 134.1K | 90% | $29.99 |
| 23 | The Callisto Protocol™ | $52.3M | 43.5K | 65% | $59.99 |
| 24 | Killing Floor 2 | $49.7M | 86.9K | 89% | $29.99 |
| 25 | Metro 2033 Redux | $49.4M | 138.7K | 92% | $19.99 |
| 26 | Call of Duty®: Ghosts | $46.9M | 32K | 65% | $59.99 |
| 27 | Alien: Isolation | $42.7M | 48K | 93% | $39.99 |
| 28 | Subnautica: Below Zero | $42.7M | 107.8K | 90% | $29.99 |
| 29 | PEAK | $42.1M | 338.2K | 95% | $7.99 |
| 30 | Little Nightmares | $39.5M | 116.3K | 95% | $19.99 |
| 31 | Resident Evil 7 Biohazard | $39.3M | 124.2K | 95% | $19.99 |
| 32 | Resident Evil 4 (2005) | $36.9M | 96.9K | 94% | $19.99 |
| 33 | Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon | $34.4M | 33.5K | 88% | $44.99 |
| 34 | Don't Starve | $33.6M | 113.2K | 97% | $9.99 |
| 35 | DREDGE | $32.6M | 55.7K | 96% | $24.99 |
| 36 | Killing Floor | $31.3M | 68.8K | 95% | $19.99 |
| 37 | City Car Driving | $29.8M | 35.7K | 83% | $24.99 |
| 38 | Prey | $29.5M | 54.2K | 91% | $29.99 |
| 39 | Resident Evil 6 | $29.5M | 69.7K | 77% | $19.99 |
| 40 | Barotrauma | $28.5M | 60.8K | 94% | $19.99 |
| 41 | Gorilla Tag | $28.4M | 84.7K | 91% | $19.99 |
| 42 | Resident Evil 5 | $27.9M | 65.9K | 87% | $19.99 |
| 43 | Sultan's Game | $26.9M | 34.6K | 94% | $24.99 |
| 44 | The Evil Within 2 | $24.3M | 30.8K | 92% | $39.99 |
| 45 | Pacific Drive | $24M | 26.4K | 83% | $29.99 |
| 46 | S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl | $23.7M | 48K | 95% | $19.99 |
| 47 | Ghostwire: Tokyo | $23.1M | 20.6K | 83% | $59.99 |
| 48 | SILENT HILL f | $21.8M | 28K | 80% | $34.99 |
| 49 | Hello Neighbor | $21.8M | 31.7K | 86% | $29.99 |
| 50 | Zombie Army Trilogy | $21.8M | 18.6K | 86% | $44.99 |