Dark Fear
Worth it · RPG · 2016
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99.
- Length
- 4.8h 6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 235 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
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
Dark Fear is a pixel horror game with RPG and adventure game elements. Explore a diverse landscape filled with forests, mountains, lakes and deserts. Make allies in the local village, upgrade your weapon and armor, go hunting/fishing and fight your way to the truth by slaying your foes, solving puzzles and helping people with their...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 154 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
58 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tails Noir: Prologue (free, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79).
More about Dark Fear
The press gave it 66; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 28-point gap in the buyer's favour.
The drop-off
86% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 6, 19:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Dark Fear is basically what you'd get if a Sierra adventure game from the 90s got possessed by a demon, and combining its atmospheric horror/adventure with RPG elements together nicely to tell a compelling, yet grizzly tale. Simply booting the game and seeing the floppy disk boot screen alone had me smiling. But you know what else this game reminds me of? Cabin in the Woods. Anyway, combat is fairly simple. There's...
2 more reviews
I loved what I played of it and will definitely be doing a full playthrough of it in the future.
I went in with low expectations and was very pleasantly surprised. This is a really solid horror pnc rpg with some jumpscares. Very king's quest inspired. Well worth at the normal price or sale price
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Cite this score
Dark Fear scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/454160/dark-fearReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.