Games like The Fabulous Fear Machine
If The Fabulous Fear Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Aether Oblivion, The Outer Frame and Southern Lights: Broken Frequency — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and hypnotic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About 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.
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Steam players who put hours into The Fabulous Fear Machine also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Aether Oblivion
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Top pick for The Fabulous Fear Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Aether Oblivion is a story-driven, tactical turn based strategy game set in 2490 during the rule of the Stellconian Empire. Command your fleet, manage resources, and lead High Admiral Caelus on his mission to uncover the conspiracy behind the late Emperor's demise.
The Outer Frame
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Second-strongest match for The Fabulous Fear Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Dual role as detective and fixer, commanding the perfect cover-up from your desk. Intercept calls, stay ahead of the media, gather intel, and decide the fate of everyone involved before the masses catch on. Try again and again to reshape the narrative in this choice-driven mystery. Or you are fired.
Southern Lights: Broken Frequency
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Third-strongest match for The Fabulous Fear Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Lead a stranded Antarctic research station where every decision matters. Manage your crew and its scarce resources while an unseen cosmic threat slowly tightens its grip.
Unspoken
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Ranked #4 for The Fabulous Fear Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Unspoken is a turn-based strategy RPG game set in a world ravaged by corrupting forces. Build your characters, survive battles, explore untold secrets. But never look back.
怪異対策特異機関ー幻視天研所ー
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Ranked #5 for The Fabulous Fear Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
【Uncover the Unknown. Suppress the Anomalies.】 Anomalies are beyond human comprehension. Use ATTACK, TALK, WAIT, and RETREAT to find how to suppress them. A mistake can cost your Personnel their lives. Learn through death and failure, and ultimately suppress the Anomaly without a single casualty.
Warranted Humanity
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Ranked #6 for The Fabulous Fear Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter. Fight different infected and rival factions, scavenge, skill up, craft, manage your shelter and other survivors, all in a race against time to ensure humanity’s survival before everyone is irreversibly infected.
Plague Inc: Evolved
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Ranked #7 for The Fabulous Fear Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.
Cultist Simulator
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Ranked #8 for The Fabulous Fear Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
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Plague Inc: Evolved
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Reviewers of The Fabulous Fear Machine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.
Tales from the Borderlands
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Reviewers of The Fabulous Fear Machine cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
Do Not Feed the Monkeys
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Shares resource management and a dark mood with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Reviewers of The Fabulous Fear Machine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Fabulous Fear Machine at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~72% under The Fabulous Fear Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~44% under The Fabulous Fear Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~44% under The Fabulous Fear Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~72% under The Fabulous Fear Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
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Priced ~56% under The Fabulous Fear Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~58% under The Fabulous Fear Machine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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More from Fictiorama Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Fictiorama Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Do Not Feed the Monkeys
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a dark mood with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Another title from Fictiorama Studios, the studio behind The Fabulous Fear Machine. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!
Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Another title from Fictiorama Studios, the studio behind The Fabulous Fear Machine. Shares Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
A dying reality, a universe that’s fading away. A merciless world thatgets sick and vanishes. No past, no present, no future; only the impending moment of “dead synchronicity” ahead. Will you be able to stop it?Because, otherwise... what will you do when Time dissolves itself?
Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Another title from Fictiorama Studios, the studio behind The Fabulous Fear Machine. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Fabulous Fear Machine.
Spy on strangers through security cameras, invade their privacy and discover their secrets in this digital voyeur simulator. Welcome to the future of The Primate Observation Club. Even in 2099 the rule about messing with your unlucky subjects still remains in this sequel: DO NOT feed the monkeys!
Frequently asked about The Fabulous Fear Machine
- Does The Fabulous Fear Machine run on Steam Deck?
- The Fabulous Fear Machine is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Fabulous Fear Machine cost?
- The Fabulous Fear Machine is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Fabulous Fear Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Fabulous Fear Machine are Aether Oblivion, The Outer Frame, Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.
- Who developed The Fabulous Fear Machine?
- The Fabulous Fear Machine was developed by Fictiorama Studios and published by AMC Games.
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