Fear of the Light
A survival horror game where light is scarier than darkness. Use your radar and other tools to stay out of the light, sneak around dangers, explore the quarantined ship, and find a way to escape. But be careful, monsters are hunting you and are aware of your every mistake!
- Release Date:11/7/2024
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- Last Updated:2/28/2025
- Steam App Id:3126140
Fear of the Light
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
Steam Charts, Stats, and Live Player Count
At the moment, Fear of the Light has 1 concurrent player online and in-game. This is 91% lower than its previous all-time peak of 11 players achieved on 11/24/2024.
Review History Chart
Track historical review trends and overall ratings for Fear of the Light. It has received a total of 44 reviews on the Steam store and achieved a Player Score of 76 (Positive).
Community Hub Members & Followers Chart
Explore the cumulative breakdown of Steam community hub members for Fear of the Light and its growth over time. It currently has 365 followers on its community page.
About Fear of the Light
Fear of the Light is a Free to Play game developed by Astrid Pehrsson Ankarstrand, Isak Åslund, Karl Lindblom, Douglas Gavelin, Jakob Ferenius, Filip Clavin, Ella Östbergh, Lena Louise Elkins, Adrian-Robert Baluta, Zongying Liu, and Vincent Allinggård. On 11/7/2024, it was released on the Steam Store by Team Fuve, and Jakob Ferenius.
Players have rated Fear of the Light as "Positive" out of 44 total reviews on the Steam Store. These are split between 39 positive reviews and 5 negative reviews — an overall 89% positive review rating.
It can be played and ran on Windows systems. At the moment, there is no confirmed information regarding Steam Deck support for this game.
According to Steam’s category system, Fear of the Light supports the following features:
- Single-player
From the Steam community, Fear of the Light has been tagged with the following user tags:
- Space
- Exploration
- Survival Horror
- Immersive Sim
- Atmospheric
- Aliens
- Realistic
- 3D
- Psychological Horror
- First-Person
- Linear
- Stealth
- Action-Adventure
- Simulation
- Horror
- Survival
- Action RPG
- Sci-fi
- Adventure
- Action
Media & Sceenshots
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Soures & References
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Fear of the Light data has been sourced from:
- Valve Corporation. (2025, February 28). Fear of the Light on Steam. Steam Store. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3126140
- Valve Corporation. (2025, February 28). Fear of the Light. Steam Community Hub. https://steamcommunity.com/app/3126140