Fears to Fathom® - Scratch Creek
Skip · Multiplayer · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Length
- 2.9h
- Value
- $2.76/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 580 or Intel Arc A380, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.
After noticing bone-chilling similarities to an episode of Fears to Fathom, Tessa and Marcus decide to share their own experience. Scratch Creek is an exclusively online co-op experience.
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
- Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was June 2026. In 4 months of price history it has never once been discounted.
On value it sits in the top 33 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 69 percent of its genre. On the same math Fears to Fathom - Home Alone (free, scores 67) and Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike ($2.49, scores 71) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 25 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 123 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 14 of the 25 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 524 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
80% start to 9% 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
134 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 12:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Fears to Fathom® - Scratch Creek scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 8,331 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4121170/fears-to-fathom-scratch-creekReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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