F.E.A.R.
Worth it · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it 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
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hourA
- $1.22/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 19,775
- Critics
- 88 players 6 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Shooter
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.2h
- To 100%
- 12.2h 1.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 55 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 43d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 48 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
55 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $8.43 BANGER line 37 times.
Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin ($14.99, scores 55) and Trepang2 ($29.99, scores 55).
More about F.E.A.R.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 1,602 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 11 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 $1.99 (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
very good for a game made in 2005, I was a little confused by the story and some parts in the middle got stale with just moving and shooting countless soldiers but overall a short and sweet game todays triple AAA companies should go back to these types of games and see what made them special and fun instead of how many microtransactions and empty hours of content they can put in their games
2 more reviews
Alma cute <3 I've always been a big fan of ghost girls ever since Octobers of ages past. The shooter gameplay is quite advanced as well for the time of release, I was surprised that I'd somehow managed to miss this title up til now
Every good thing you've heard about it is an understatement. What a masterclass in game design
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 17 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
F.E.A.R. scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/21090/f-e-a-rReviews 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.