
A masterclass in adventure design, Fear & Hunger delivers an unforgettable experience from start to finish.
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Verdict
94%
Steam
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IGDB
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Very Positive on Steam (94% positive from 21K reviews)
Standout indie gem
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Fear & Hunger is a 2018 survival horror role-playing video game developed by Finnish game developer Miro Haverinen, also known as orange online. Taking place in an anachronistic dark fantasy setting mixing Medieval and early modern environments, Fear & Hunger follows one of four playable characters as they delve into the Dungeon of Fear and Hunger, facing off against deadly traps, puzzles and monsters as they make their way deeper, in order to find the mercenary leader Le’garde.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 18d ago
When I was little I tried putting my finger up my anus just to see what it felt like. This game feels like if my finger got stuck really deep and I couldn't pull it out. It's like an inflated colon after eating taco bell. It's like sticking barbed wire into your uterus and giving yourself a manbortion. This game is like chewing on a car door. It's kind of like stubbing your toe with a toothpick in the nail bed. Playing fear and hunger is the second most miserable experience next to filling out employment papers. This game is like breaking your arm with a pair of pliers. This game is like a DIY tonsil surgery. It's like that old trick with the string and the door except instead of baby teeth its your testicles. It's like biting into an apple but instead of an apple its a car door. Pretty good but a little bit buggy.
This is a cruel game that makes you angry, sad, terrifed and disgusted, dealing with some pretty awful themes. You will game over a lot, losing hours of progress, and sometimes it's because of some bad RNG and there was nothing you could have done to avoid it, specially when you start trying this on hard mode. It's a game for masochists and I can't recommend it enough, it's an amazing horror RPG experience!
I can highly, highly recommend this game. It's cheap and has a few dozen hours worth of content. The atmosphere is great and you can immerse yourself into it quite well. The gameplay is well uh, it's a basic RPGMaker game, but there's tons of depth and unique enemies to face, each with their own gimmick. The story and characters are what brings this game to the podium to me, there's just so much to explore, with so many endings available and new items to find to help you on your next run. It gets quite complex and yeah, I resorted to guides a lot, but it's great. As for my complaints, this game gets quite unintuitive. Like, so seriously horribly complex without any pointers to help you, without external guides you'd drop this game before bothering to find all the hidden stuff. How to recruit Nashrash, how to unlock the Penance Armor, how to save the Gaunt Knight... Also, I don't know why, but I had serious stuttering issues near the end of the game, in the Void. Nonetheless, I enjoyed getting a handful of the endings, namely ending A, C, D, E and Ending S of Ragnvald, and I could probably squeeze out a few more runs to do ending B and endings S of other characters. But I got bored of the gameplay after these 19 hours and preferred to watch a youtube summary, rather than watch a guide how to reach whatever I was after to experience it first-hand. I only wish the developer went back to introduce achievements. Nonetheless, purely in terms of enjoyment, it's a great game to get into.
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