FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water
Skip · Shooter · 2021
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 39, under the fair line, at $39.99. Fair at $16.24, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2021 (lowest $27.99, Oct 2023).
- Length
- 7.5h
- Value
- $5.33/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($27.99)
- Last discount ended
- 9 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or over, AMD Radeon RX 550 or over, 1280x720, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
“FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water” comes to Steam for the first time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the horror-adventure series FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO. The game is set on sacred Mt. Hikami, a site of many mysterious and terrifying incidents.
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
October 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $27.99. 23 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse ($49.99, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats SUCCUBUS ($24.99, scores 30).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 231 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 1,513 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
Players
10 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 03:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1732190/fatal-frame-project-zero-maiden-of-black-waterReviews 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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