F.E.A.R. 3

Buy71%

Mostly Positive · 14k player reviews · High confidence

Worth it for the right player.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows

Day 1 Studios · FPS · Jun 21, 2011

Player review score
71%
Mostly Positive
Price
$19.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
50
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
9
Full audio5 of 9
Subtitles0 of 9

Should I buy F.E.A.R. 3?

Buy it if you like
  • Co-op: 117 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 103 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Combat: 88 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Story: 122 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Difficulty: 19 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 12 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 14k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
59% of themes are praise8% are divided33% are complaints
Co-op
Players who bring up Co-op mostly praise it.
117 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Furthermore there are a lot of fun co-op game modes you can play together with your friend as well like base defence or wave survival whatever you like to call it.
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
103 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Ultimately there's not that many negatives, as far as the solid gameplay is concerned anyway, F.E.A.R. 3 is a solid shooter.
Combat
Players who bring up Combat mostly praise it.
88 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Then there is the same slow-mo mechanism which existed in the previous F.E.A.R games, you will have to use slow-mo a lot of times to get out of tricky situations and improvise your moves to outsmart the enemy AI, no weapon is overpowered in this game the weapons are very well balanced and you have to use your intelligence and out of the box thinking sometimes to outsmart the enemy AI.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
42 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics are really amazing and surprisingly I could run this game on my really bad laptop with Intel's Integrated HD Graphics with more than 60 Frames/second and that too at High preset
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
30 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Multiplayer is surprisingly engaging, with fun unique game modes like 'JUST F**KING RUN' where you and your team are being chased by a fog of screaming death and your goal is to just keep running towards the goal while taking out enemy obstacles in your path!
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
16 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The sound design is commendable though with the weapons giving off great punch and music, while not as remarkable as Nathan Grigg's work, gives off a higher budget feel to the game that slightly unnerves and spooks players, but not inherently scare players at all.

+1 more players loved

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Co-op117 reviews
Gameplay103 reviews
Combat88 reviews
Graphics42 reviews
Multiplayer30 reviews
Audio16 reviews
Performance15 reviews
Divided opinion
Characters
88% still recommend
Players complain
Story
57% still recommend
Difficulty
68% still recommend
Crashes
33% still recommend
Controls
57% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Co-op
  • Multi-player
  • Single-player

Controller

  • Partial Controller Support

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Leaderboards

Platforms

  • Windows

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$19.99

The lowest we've tracked is $3.99.

4 points recordedtoday · $19.99