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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.

The Fabulous Fear Machine is a outbreak sim, horror and indie game developed by Fictiorama Studios and published by AMC Games.
Released on October 04th 2023 is available on Windows and MacOS in 5 languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 519 reviews of which 469 were positive and 50 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 17.49€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Fabulous Fear Machine into these genres:

Outbreak Sim Horror Indie Simulation Strategy 2D Story Rich Difficult Singleplayer Choices Matter Top-Down Strategy RPG Psychological Horror Atmospheric Conspiracy Stylized Management Dark Humor Villain Protagonist Card Game

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 SP1
  • Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 8600 GS, ATI Radeon HD 3470
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 5 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound Card with Latest Drivers
  • Additional Notes: If you match the Minimum Requirements, we recommend using minimal settings in order to avoid low frame rates.
MacOS
  • OS: Mojave 10.14 or Big Sur 11.7.10
  • Processor: 1.4GhZ Intel Core i7 or Apple M1
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: HD Graphics 615 1536 MB
  • Storage: 5 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: If you match the Minimum Requirements, we recommend using minimal settings in order to avoid low frame rates.

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025
The game isn’t bad. It has great visuals and sound, and the storyline is pretty interesting. However, it does have a fairly challenging learning curve. Personally, it’s not my cup of tea, but if you’re someone who enjoys strategy games, you’ll probably like this one.
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Dec. 2024
A great little strategy game that is a combination of a pulp fiction comic and an episode of Twilight Zone. The story is about 3 people seeking out 'the machine' a mysterious carnival attraction looking machine that gives the person who finds and inserts a coin 1 wish but much like a Djinn perverting a wish with hubris 'the machine' gives the wishers what they want but not the way the wanted it and with severe consequences. Initial game play is that you start a stage usually with 6 cards that have different fear inducing effects. Cards like 'Black Helicopters' 'Killer Video Games' 'Snakes in the Toilets' so on. The point of the game is to spread enough fear so that your characters will be done and they start to get their wish. Game play starts nice and simple and slowly starts to introduce new elements on each map of a stage as well as new strategies in the 2nd and 3rd story such as twisting ideal things into bad things like twisting 'Perfect Waters' into 'Chemical Dumping Ground' and in the 3rd story you can copy fears into other regions to stack fears. All in all a great little indie game with awesome art, an interesting careful what you wish for story and a fun strategy game with some replay value if you want to fill out the album of cards.
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Aug. 2024
An honest to goodness hidden gem. I only know about this game because I follow a thread of new steam releases. I wish it had made a bigger splash because I think it's really fun. This game combines four things I love - map painting, urban legends, four-color comic style art, and penny dreadful morality plays. The narrator is an evil wish-granting machine that ties together the story of three protagonists who trade ethics for power through spreading fear and panic, then of course get their just rewards. Great stuff. If I had to nitpick I'd say the second story felt a bit short, and the legend cloning mechanic in the third story felt unnecessary. I also wish the nature of the legends you used played into events and such more. But those are minor concerns, the only real letdown to this game is that it's a shorter, smaller scale game that will leave you wishing there was a part two to play more of. I think it's priced fairly as is, but it goes on sale for 40% off during major sales if you prefer to wishlist and wait.
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Aug. 2024
This game was a lot of fun, and I had a fantastic time 100%ing it. The art gave me a strong hit of nostalgia for my wayward youth sneaking off to read horror comics, and I loved the "evil Zoltan" stand-in for our beloved Crypt Keeper. Overall, it's a pretty simple game, with mechanics that look complex at first but are not too hard to master. Some elements (namely the audio 'scream' when a legend gets evolved) got really, REALLY old by the time I had chased down my last legend. However, the game itself is short enough not to overstay its welcome, and the fun of the lurid pulp tales kept me engaged. I hope the devs consider making an expansion. There are so many more spine-tingling tales of vice and villainy, death and depravity, magic, monsters, and mayhem to play with!
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Aug. 2024
Really enjoying this game, it's been hard to walk away from. If you enjoyed Cultist Simulator or similar games, you'll find a great deal of enjoyment in this game. The stories are interesting, the strategy enthralling, and the game just has a great sense of style over-all. Hope to see some DLC expansions for this game.
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Frequently Asked Questions

The Fabulous Fear Machine is currently priced at 17.49€ on Steam.

The Fabulous Fear Machine is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 17.49€ on Steam.

The Fabulous Fear Machine received 469 positive votes out of a total of 519 achieving a rating of 8.42.
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The Fabulous Fear Machine was developed by Fictiorama Studios and published by AMC Games.

The Fabulous Fear Machine is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Fabulous Fear Machine is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

The Fabulous Fear Machine is not playable on Linux.

The Fabulous Fear Machine is a single-player game.

The Fabulous Fear Machine does not currently offer any DLC.

The Fabulous Fear Machine does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Fabulous Fear Machine does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Fabulous Fear Machine is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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The Fabulous Fear Machine
17.49€
8.4
469
50
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Fictiorama Studios
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AMC Games
Release 04 Oct 2023
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