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Fear Equation

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App ID 428350
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Screwfly Studios
Franchise Screwfly Studios
Supported Systems Windows macOS Linux
Technologies Unity Engine
Last Changenumber 29691823
Last Record Update 22 June 2025 – 17:16:24 UTC ()
Release Date 15 January 2016 – 18:00:33 UTC ()
❓ 69.42%
92 reviews
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In-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.

Additional Information

Developer Screwfly Studios
metacritic_name Fear Equation
community_visible_stats Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Screwfly Studios
eulas
0 ↴
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nameFear Equation EULA
urlhttp://store.steampowered.com//eula/428350_eula_0
Store Release Date 15 January 2016 – 08:00:00 UTC ()
osarch empty string
community_hub_visible Yes
Primary Genre Strategy (2)
Store Genres Indie (23), RPG (3), Simulation (28), Strategy (2)
Steam Release Date 15 January 2016 – 18:00:33 UTC ()
Original Release Date 15 January 2016 – 08:00:00 UTC () (1452844800)
Store Asset Modification Time 28 October 2022 – 23:53:10 UTC () (1667001190)
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review_score 6
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Detected Technologies (?) Unity Engine
Content Descriptors General Mature Content (5)
First seen on SteamDB 14 December 2015 – 17:14:22 UTC (), in changelist #1607837
Content Descriptors (Including DLC) General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

1 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes Yes

Tags

😱 Horror 👻 Roguelike 🖥️ Simulation 🏠 Building 🛖 Colony Sim 💡 Strategy 🌲 Survival 💼 Management 🎲 RPG 🎲 Turn-Based 🌫 Atmospheric 🕴 Psychological Horror 🎒 Survival Horror 🦹 Character Customization 👩 Female Protagonist 🚂 Trains 👤 Singleplayer ☢️ Post-apocalyptic 🌱 Indie 🌎 Immersive Sim

Categories

Single-player Steam Achievements Steam Trading Cards Family Sharing

Assets

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timestamp9 February 2024 – 00:17:27 UTC
Trailers
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Depots

ID Configuration Size DL.
428351 Windows Fear Equation - Windows 866.88 MiB 468.07 MiB
428352 macOS Fear Equation - OS X 859.21 MiB 468.78 MiB
428353 Linux Fear Equation - Linux 855.09 MiB 468.79 MiB

Total size on disk is 2.52 GiB and total download size is 1.37 GiB.

Total size on disk is 866.88 MiB and total download size is 468.07 MiB, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name Description Build ID Time Updated
public 2315595 25 November 2017 – 10:42:04 UTC
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