It was an advanced first-person shooter at the time. With time dilation and smart opponents. Similar games to F.E.A.R. exist, I've made a selection below, but they're all worse than the original, of course.

7 Games Like F.E.A.R. For PC (Steam, EGS, GOG)

7. Dead Space

similar games to Dead Space
  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 20 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Horrors
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The classic sci-fi survival horror returns: the game has been rebuilt from the ground up and offers an even deeper dive into the enveloping atmosphere of dead space. The remake features improved graphics, sound and gameplay, while retaining the original's cantankerousness.

Dead Space screenshot

6. Control


A corruptive presence has invaded the Federal Bureau of Control…Only you have the power to stop it. The world is now your weapon in an epic fight to annihilate an ominous enemy through deep and unpredictable environments. Containment has failed, humanity is at stake. Will you regain control?

Control screenshot

5. Singularity

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 76
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: First Person Shooter
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY. Discover the truth hidden behind a major cover-up in the form of the catastrophic Singularity, a time-shifting event that threatens the world as we know it.

Singularity screenshot

4. TimeShift

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 70
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2007
  • Game play time: 12 hours
  • Genre: First Person Shooter
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Master time to become the ultimate weapon! Dr. Aiden Krone has made a Time Jump across the space-time continuum - a reckless act with frightening consequences. Now, a disturbing alternate reality has evolved within the bleak and rain-soaked Alpha District.

TimeShift screenshot

3. Max Payne (series)

similar games to Max Payne
  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2001 - 2012
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Police service is left behind for Max. Hoping to break with the past, he moves from New York to São Paulo and gets a job as a bodyguard for a wealthy family. Max Payne 3 Complete Edition includes the game itself and all downloadable add-ons for it.

Max Payne screenshot

2. Quantum Break

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 77
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 12 hours
  • Genre: Third-person action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.

Quantum Break screenshot

1. Trepang2

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 79
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: First Person Shooter
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Trepang2, a crazy bloody first-person shooter set in a world of the distant future, will make you a tough nut to crack. Enemies will wish they were born when they see you dodging bullets and leaving behind only destruction in this frantic shooter not for the faint of heart.

Trepang2 screenshot

4 Games Like F.E.A.R. On PlayStation 5

4. Dead Space

similar games to Dead Space
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 20 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Horrors
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The classic sci-fi survival horror returns: the game has been rebuilt from the ground up and offers an even deeper dive into the enveloping atmosphere of dead space. The remake features improved graphics, sound and gameplay, while retaining the original's cantankerousness.

Dead Space screenshot

3. Control

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 82
  • Similarity: 30 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A corruptive presence has invaded the Federal Bureau of Control…Only you have the power to stop it. The world is now your weapon in an epic fight to annihilate an ominous enemy through deep and unpredictable environments. Containment has failed, humanity is at stake. Will you regain control?

Control screenshot

2. Max Payne (series)

similar games to Max Payne
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2001 - 2012
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Police service is left behind for Max. Hoping to break with the past, he moves from New York to São Paulo and gets a job as a bodyguard for a wealthy family. Max Payne 3 Complete Edition includes the game itself and all downloadable add-ons for it.

Max Payne screenshot

1. Trepang2

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 79
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: First Person Shooter
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Trepang2, a crazy bloody first-person shooter set in a world of the distant future, will make you a tough nut to crack. Enemies will wish they were born when they see you dodging bullets and leaving behind only destruction in this frantic shooter not for the faint of heart.

Trepang2 screenshot

5 Games Like F.E.A.R. On Xbox Series X|S

5. Dead Space

similar games to Dead Space
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 20 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Horrors
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The classic sci-fi survival horror returns: the game has been rebuilt from the ground up and offers an even deeper dive into the enveloping atmosphere of dead space. The remake features improved graphics, sound and gameplay, while retaining the original's cantankerousness.

Dead Space screenshot

4. Control

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 82
  • Similarity: 30 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A corruptive presence has invaded the Federal Bureau of Control…Only you have the power to stop it. The world is now your weapon in an epic fight to annihilate an ominous enemy through deep and unpredictable environments. Containment has failed, humanity is at stake. Will you regain control?

Control screenshot

3. TimeShift

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 70
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2007
  • Game play time: 12 hours
  • Genre: First Person Shooter
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Master time to become the ultimate weapon! Dr. Aiden Krone has made a Time Jump across the space-time continuum - a reckless act with frightening consequences. Now, a disturbing alternate reality has evolved within the bleak and rain-soaked Alpha District.

TimeShift screenshot

2. Max Payne (series)

similar games to Max Payne
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2001 - 2012
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Police service is left behind for Max. Hoping to break with the past, he moves from New York to São Paulo and gets a job as a bodyguard for a wealthy family. Max Payne 3 Complete Edition includes the game itself and all downloadable add-ons for it.

Max Payne screenshot

1. Quantum Break

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 77
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 12 hours
  • Genre: Third-person action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.

Quantum Break screenshot

1 Games Like F.E.A.R. For Switch

1. Control

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 82
  • Similarity: 30 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A corruptive presence has invaded the Federal Bureau of Control…Only you have the power to stop it. The world is now your weapon in an epic fight to annihilate an ominous enemy through deep and unpredictable environments. Containment has failed, humanity is at stake. Will you regain control?

Control screenshot