F.E.A.R.
Worth it · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.42.
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $1.22/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 17 GB of storage. Windows only.
Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in November 2024. 53 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $8.42 BANGER line 35 times.
On value it sits in the top 6 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 56) and Trepang2 ($29.99, scores 56).
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.
Players
87 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Every good thing you've heard about it is an understatement. What a masterclass in game design
I've never played fear, but damn it absolutely incredible how good this game is. It puts modern audience fps to shame. If the game crashes or freezes in the options menu there is a setting i dont remember the name but it will reload all assets and such every checkpoint, its what helped me.
fear is one of my all time favorite fps games of all time it has the right amount of jumpscares
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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F.E.A.R. scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/21090/f-e-a-rThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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