Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout
Worth it · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99, a BANGER if it drops to $3.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $3.00/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 40% off today.
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($4.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB | AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Jack Nelson, a 24-year-old fire lookout, transferred to a new outpost. As he settled into his new home, he couldn't shake the feeling that something was off, little did he know what was transpiring down in Ironbark State Park.
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
The value story
February 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.49. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 12 in the 3 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart. Today's $5.99 at 40 percent off still sits 33 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history. The math puts its BANGER price at $3.99. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
At full price it scores 69. The current cut is what makes it a 78.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fears to Fathom - Carson House ($3.49, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway ($6.99, scores 63).
This site sampled 757 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 33 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,656 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 123 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 1,552 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
55% start to 20% 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
19 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 13:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
To be honest, this game is up there with Carson House as one of the best Fears to Fathom games so far. There's just something so terrifying about these games being based on real stories.
This game made me paranoid 💀 Bro, Ironbark Lookout is actually so creepy 😭 The whole forest atmosphere is insane. You're just sitting up there in the lookout tower, looking around and slowly realizing that something is definitely NOT right. What I really like is that it doesn't need monsters jumping in your face all the time. It's mostly the atmosphere, the sounds and the feeling of being completely alone in the...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2506160/fears-to-fathom-ironbark-lookoutReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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