Enigma of Fear
Worth it · Action · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $28.87.
- Length
- 19.8h
- Value
- $1.51/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce 9600GT+ | AMD HD 6570+, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 16 in the 2 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $28.87 BANGER line 13 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Case of the Golden Idol ($8.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Supernormal ($7.99, scores 30).
85 from critics against 97 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 19.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 8 of the 444 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 213 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
86% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 19.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
73 players online when we last checked, on Sep 25, 23:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Game didn't do anything for me, neither story nor gameplay were anywhere near interesting
nope.. i wanted to like the game but there are plenty of bugs and its 2 years old.. so its unfixed?! game starts in brasilian language.. native should be english.. international you know? i cant move after finding some notes in grannies room and need to restart to fix the problem... now i need to play a lot of rooms again.. you stuck when the dog is in your way and want go up or down on stairs..
👍 Recomendado Entrei procurando um jogo de terror. Saí com um caderno cheio de anotações, uma teoria da conspiração na cabeça e uma necessidade absurda de uma DLC. 100% concluído. Agora só resta esperar o Cellbit apertar o botão de "lançar mais conteúdo". 🔎 10/10 enigmas. 🐶 Lupi merece um aumento.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Enigma of Fear scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1507580/enigma-of-fearReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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