F.E.A.R.
Fair · Action · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $1.22/hr
- Reviews
- 86% 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
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was July 2026. 8 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. F.E.A.R. ($9.99, scores 67) and F.E.A.R. ($9.99, scores 82) both outscore it.
This site sampled 434 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
Players
10 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
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It's a nice expansion. I was able to finish this one, unlike the other expansion which is broken. The Nightcrawlers are cool. Their voices are neat. Again, as everyone and their mother has said, install the Echopatch. The bonus missions seem like a nice little addition.
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 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/21120/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 23.
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