Born Into Fear
Fair · Narrative · 2022
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.1h 5.1h to 100%
- Value
- $1.93/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 281 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.87 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Born Into Fear is a first-person horror game set in an evacuated neighborhood. You'll have to complete task and avoid enemies to destroy the evil Buffer.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: GTX 1030 2GB. Windows only.
The value story
48 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication ($24.99, scores 58) and Dreamcore ($17.99, scores 53).
More about Born Into Fear
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 260 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
51% start to 27% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
It's an interesting story with a creepy and tense atmosphere. I loved all the jumpscares, especially the ones I missed during my first playthrough.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Born Into Fear scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1705930/born-into-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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.