Primal Fears
Skip · Multiplayer · 2013
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 5, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.5h 17.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 58% of 309 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Due to a chemical known as pharGONe, the world has been turned upside down. Battle your way through multiple levels, earning upgrades, competing against your friends and more, and find the truth about what has happened to the world.Use a variety of weapons to stop the mutated population, and save yourself from being another victim.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 113 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 89 percent. Nation Red ($2.99, scores 77) outscores it, and so does Crimsonland ($13.99, scores 77). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Primal Fears
HowLongToBeat players log 3.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 18, 5.1 times as much.
The drop-off
84% start to 4% 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
What players say
I had fun with this game back in the day. Didn't have friends to play with though. Still don't because I'm still the ONLY ONE that owns it. You don't need them though. Solid game. Nice music. Cool creatures. Can be challenging. 6/10.
2 more reviews
Just recommending this game for co-op, otherwise singleplayer is utterly nonsense and repetitive. Though if you have bunch of jobless friends to play with, this could be pretty fun, dealing with nasty creatures who keep on spamming your screen.
Mediocre game but not bad. It reminds me the game "How to survive" but in worse version. 5/10 Mediocre
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Primal Fears scores 5/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/211280/primal-fearsReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.