F.E.A.R. 3
Skip · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 5.8h
- Value
- $3.45/hr
- Reviews
- 71% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: NVIDIA 8800 GT 512MB RAM, ATI 3850HD 512Mb RAM or better. Windows only.
F.E.A.R. 3 delivers all the hallmarks that define the F.E.A.R. brand: terrifying paranormal experience, frenetic combat and a dramatic storyline.
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 $3.99, set in April 2024. It has been discounted 82 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition ($29.99, scores 26) beats it on value, while it beats Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection ($29.99, scores 8).
3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 1,032 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.8 hours. Doing everything runs 18, 3.1 times as long.
The drop-off
75% start to 2% 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
36 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
Compared to the previous two games, this one looks like budget crap. Terrible controls. The story has been twisted into nonsense. Too many useless and annoying cutscenes. Pointless score system. It is difficult to see properly through the SMG collimator because of the reflections. There are sections where your speed is reduced or your vision is impaired. Nonsense enemies like the invisible "Creep" (boo!) or kind of...
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.
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F.E.A.R. 3 scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/21100/f-e-a-r-3The 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 Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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