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Fear Effect

Implicit Conversions · Limited Run Games · 2025-08-29

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Aug 29, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 29, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 29, 2025 (PlayStation 4), Aug 29, 2025 (PlayStation 5)

Fear Effect, the pioneering cel-shaded cinematic action game, returns!

79%
positive of 98 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
4.67★
PlayStation Store rating (438 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)
Fear Effect is a 2000 action-adventure video game developed by Kronos Digital Entertainment and published by Eidos Interactive for the PlayStation. Set in the year 2050, the player controls three mercenaries in Hong Kong. The game contains elements of survival horror and stealth.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 62% of 13,396 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 98 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
272720252026Week of 2025-08-29: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-08-29: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-05: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-26: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-17: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-21: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-26: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-02: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-13: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-04: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$4.992025-08-292026-07-202025-08-29 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $7.492025-10-13 — best price $9.992025-11-17 — best price $7.492025-11-24 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $6.992026-01-12 — best price $9.992026-02-12 — best price $5.992026-02-19 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $5.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-03-30 — best price $5.992026-04-06 — best price $9.992026-05-11 — best price $5.992026-05-18 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-07-13 — best price $4.992026-07-20 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Input API SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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