The Fabulous Fear Machine
The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style. As the Machine's new Master, you must sow fear and expand your influence by creating Legends, harvesting resources, manipulating events, and spying on your enemies.
- Price:$8.99
- Release Date:10/4/2023
- Developer:Fictiorama Studios
- Publisher:AMC Games
- Last Updated:12/20/2024
- Steam App Id:1540350
The Fabulous Fear Machine
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- Steam Deck (Playable)
Steam Charts, Stats, and Live Player Count
At the moment, The Fabulous Fear Machine has 9 concurrent players online and in-game. This is 97% lower than its previous all-time peak of 261 players achieved on 9/2/2024.
Review History Chart
Track historical review trends and overall ratings for The Fabulous Fear Machine. It has received a total of 488 reviews on the Steam store and achieved a Player Score of 85 (Very Positive).
Price History Chart
Track historical price changes and trends for The Fabulous Fear Machine. Right now, it costs $8.99 in the Steam Store.
Community Hub Members & Followers Chart
Explore the cumulative breakdown of Steam community hub members for The Fabulous Fear Machine and its growth over time. It currently has 4,346 followers on its community page.
About The Fabulous Fear Machine
The Fabulous Fear Machine is a Simulation, Indie, and Strategy game developed by Fictiorama Studios. On 10/4/2023, it was released on the Steam Store by AMC Games.
Players have rated The Fabulous Fear Machine as "Very Positive" out of 488 total reviews on the Steam Store. These are split between 444 positive reviews and 44 negative reviews — an overall 91% positive review rating. Additionally, The Fabulous Fear Machine has earned a metascore of 77 on Metacritic.
It is available for gamers to download and play for $8.99 which is a 50% discount off its base price. It can also be purchased through Fear the Monkeys, Control the Future, and Dark Strategy which give a discount off its base price.
It can be played and ran on both Windows and Mac systems. At the moment, it is possible to play The Fabulous Fear Machine on the Steam Deck but some functionaliy may not be fully supported.
It also supports 5 languanges in-game including English, German, Spanish (Spain), Russian, and Chinese (Simplified). Each language comes with varying levels of support for the in-game interface, audio, and fully translated subtitles.
According to Steam’s category system, The Fabulous Fear Machine supports the following features:
- Family Sharing
- Steam Cloud
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Trading Cards
- Single-player
- Captions available
From the Steam community, The Fabulous Fear Machine has been tagged with the following user tags:
- Card Game
- Management
- Difficult
- Strategy RPG
- Atmospheric
- Story Rich
- Stylized
- Dark Humor
- Choices Matter
- Psychological Horror
- Simulation
- Horror
- Conspiracy
- Top-Down
- Strategy
- Outbreak Sim
- Indie
- Villain Protagonist
- Singleplayer
- 2D
Media & Sceenshots
Watch the featured video for The Fabulous Fear Machine and see the latest screenshots from the Steam Store.
Related Bundles
The Fabulous Fear Machine is included in 3 bundles in the Steam Store.
| Image | Name | Apps | Packages | Price | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Fear the Monkeys | 2 | 2 | $30.58 | View |
 | Control the Future | 2 | 2 | $14.16 | View |
 | Dark Strategy | 3 | 3 | $45.87 | View |
Related Packages
The Fabulous Fear Machine is referenced by 1 package in the Steam Store.
| Name | Price | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| The Fabulous Fear Machine | $15.29 | View |
Supported Languages
The Fabulous Fear Machine is available in 5 different languages with varying levels of support for the in-game interface, audio, and fully translated subtitles.
| Name | Interface | Audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| German | Yes | No | Yes |
| Spanish (Spain) | Yes | No | Yes |
| Russian | Yes | No | Yes |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Yes | No | Yes |
Frequently Asked Questions
Soures & References
Steambase has best-in-class data powered directly by Steam, our data partners, and in-house experts. Data is enriched, cleansed, verified, and updated in realtime to ensure we surface the most up-to-date information. Learn more about the Steambase approach to data collection.
The Fabulous Fear Machine data has been sourced from:
- Valve Corporation. (2024, December 20). The Fabulous Fear Machine on Steam. Steam Store. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1540350
- Valve Corporation. (2024, December 20). The Fabulous Fear Machine. Steam Community Hub. https://steamcommunity.com/app/1540350
- Metacritic. (2024, December 20). The Fabulous Fear Machine for PC Reviews. Metacritic. https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-fabulous-fear-machine
- Fictiorama Studios. (2023, July 13). The Fabulous Fear Machine. The Fabulous Fear Machine. https://games.amc.com/game/fearmachine/