F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Fair · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.11/hr
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 9,579
- Critics
- 79 players 6 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 33% Shooter
Holding it back: Recent reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 70% over the last 30 days against 85% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.1h
- To 100%
- 10.8h 1.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 84 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 April 2024
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 17 now
- Recent reviews
- 70% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 33% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 67% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 84 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 33 percent. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, F.E.A.R. ($9.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats F.E.A.R. 3 ($19.99, scores 22).
More about F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Players rate it 85 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 70 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 578 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 16 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This is probably the best example of the console-ization of gaming awful gameplay barely anything to do with F.E.A.R. and the story feels like it was written by a 13-year-old just a bad game in general there were some peak moments tho it honestly hurts me giving this a bad review
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Call of Duty-ified FEAR. The first game was pretty great, really liked the gunplay and level design. This game just feels like they stripped a lot of what made it unique, made the guns feel worse and put a worse story with a shock ending to get people talking. Playing it years later and after playing the first game for the first time, its just worse. First games worth playing, this games okayish but i'd say just...
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About the game
Assume the role of Special Forces Sgt. Becket as your routine mission quickly turns into a fight for survival against the wrath of Alma Wade. As Alma's terrifying power surges out of control, your squad is forced to battle through an apocalyptic landscape in search of clues for how to destroy her!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Fully DX9-compliant graphics card with 256MB (SM 2.0b). NVIDIA 6800 or ATI X700, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/16450/f-e-a-r-2-project-originReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.