Fears to Fathom - Home Alone

Fears to Fathom - Home Alone

Fair · Narrative · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.

Length
0.4h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
90% positive
Length
0.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
90%
11,147 reviews, as of Sep 25
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 950 or Radeon HD 7970, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Fears to Fathom is an episodic psychological horror game where each episode unveils a short story narrated by the ones who survived.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length0.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike ($2.49, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Fears to Fathom® - Scratch Creek ($7.99, scores 34).

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Fears to Fathom - Home Alone scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 11,147 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1671340/fears-to-fathom-home-alone
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 25.

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Details

DeveloperRayll
PublisherRayll
GenreNarrative
Released2021
Achievements3