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Fear Equation

73% positive of 69 Steam reviews

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Released
2016
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam, GOG

Made by Screwfly Studios.

About the game

Fear Equation is a turn-based horror strategy game where you play the engineer of a modified freight train, built to protect its occupants from a deadly fog that brings their nightmares to life. Survival depends on analysing passengers' dreams, crafting defenses, upgrading, scavenging and resource management. Complicating matters, passengers have their own theories as to how the fog was created and will form inter-carriage factions based on their beliefs.

Tagged by players

  • Trains
  • Colony Sim
  • Turn-Based
  • Building
  • Survival Horror
  • Post-apocalyptic
  • Roguelike
  • Management
  • Survival
  • Character Customization
  • Horror
  • Psychological Horror

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    This game is on to something fantastic. All the base concepts and ideas of it are rock solid, new, and refreshing. But for all the fresh and fantastic ideas, the game falls short in execution. You own a train in a world plagued by a hellish fog that causes peoples nightmares to become deadly reality. You are chugging your way from place to place finding survivors and trying to reach a final destination point. You…

    5.8 h played when written. 101 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    I have to say, Fear Equation is my favorite of Screwfly's games. It blends the people management from Zafehouse: Diaries and the mission systemd from Deadnaut, without being super sophisticated. The learning curve is small, and you get the hang of things very quickly. It is very difficult, even with some of the easier engineers (engineers are the person you play as). I was a little hesitant at the beginning worrying…

    4.7 h played when written. 35 found it helpful.

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