Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike
Worth it · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.49, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 50%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 1.1h
- Value
- $2.26/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($2.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 80% ($0.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 7730, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Holly Gardner, a 19 year old on an interstate drive experiences unusual happenings that leads to an unplanned stay at a motel, little did she know what was transpiring down in Norwood Valley.
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
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in March 2026. 14 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 17 weeks apart. Today's $2.49 at 50 percent off still sits 152 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 61. The current cut is what makes it a 71.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is cheaper than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fears to Fathom - Carson House ($3.49, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats THRESHOLD ($4.99, scores 60).
Of the 710 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 19 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,656 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 66 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 2,232 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 70 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
89% start to 13% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
10 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 23:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I like this one a lot. It's still a little short for my liking, but it's a great short horror game to play, just like Episode 1. 6/10
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike scores 71/100 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/1763050/fears-to-fathom-norwood-hitchhikeReviews 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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