Fear of Clowns

Fear of Clowns

Skip · Action · 2017

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 14, under the fair line, at $0.99.

Length
1.1h
Value
$0.90/hr
Reviews
63% of 204 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 379 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

Raising the score
Value$0.90/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews63% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 64% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 85 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

You woke up in the middle of the night from the doorbell's sound. Someone wants to play with you...
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB RAM (with Pixel Shader 3.0 support), 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

33 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 54 weeks ago.

It is cheaper than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ratty Catty ($4.49, scores 15) beats it on value, while it beats Pankapu ($11.99, scores 12).

More about Fear of Clowns

Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 71 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

This game is so bad but there's something I love about it. Maybe it's just the fact that it's goofy, or made in FPS Creator, idk. It feels very homemade and I wish it was good. 4/10 Yes baby - A good variety of enemies, some of which are pretty funny - Looks great graphically - Has a style of sorts that I like - Some fun gimmicks Bogus - Dumb story - Constant crashes - Horrendous combat - Annoying blurscreen effects...
BumpyNot recommendedafter 1.2hJun 2024Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Do I wanna go easy on this one or should I be unforgiving Information up ahead: The game was released on 2015 under a different name by the same person called dead darkness on some internet platform for fanmade games with FPS Creator. Bear with me for a few minutes in order to understand my question. The game was made with the FPS Creator. For those who dont know what that is. On Steam you can find to software...
MooRicherNot recommendedafter 2.8hJan 2024Read on Steam
Fear of Clowns is a small-scale indie horror experience that relies on a familiar and deeply rooted fear to generate tension: being hunted by something grotesque in the dark with little power to fight back. Developed and published by Mikhail Nevsky, the game takes a minimalist approach to horror design, favoring atmosphere, confinement, and unease over complex mechanics or elaborate storytelling. It is a title that...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 11hFeb 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Fear of Clowns scores 14/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/619490/fear-of-clowns
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Reviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperMikhail Nevsky
PublisherMikhail Nevsky
GenreAction
Released2017
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate