Cry of Fear
Worth it · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 88,469
- Genre rank
- Top 7% Shooter
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.5h
- To 100%
- 21.9h 2.6x the story
Players and genre
- Online
- 567 now
- Recent reviews
- 86% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 80% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 80 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SCP: Secret Laboratory (free, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Evil Inside - Prologue (free, scores 18).
It is still busy. 567 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 5, 17:45 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.
More about Cry of Fear
Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.5 hours; clearing it takes 22, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
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
About the game
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128MB Video Card with OpenGL support, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Cry of Fear scores 77/100 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/223710/cry-of-fearReviews 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 Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.