Fear Effect

If you want to play Fear Effect on Steam in 2025, this will get the job done. It's not a fancy remaster, it's not a remake. It's a port with quicksaving and rewinding and widescreen. Controls are still ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up, enemies are still BS.

Really impressive game from the PS1 era

Fear Effect is one of those cult classic PS1 titles that got released around the time Resident Evil came out as its fixed camera angle gameplay was something a lot of developers wanted to capitilize on and few managed to stand out like Fear Effect without being labeled as "Resident Evil Clone", while I would love sit here and admire this game for this entire review I have to take into account that this is an emulation YES not a part but an emulation [h3]What this version Brings to the table[/h3] Since its an emulation there is sadly no upscaled models or anything like that, it pretty much runs the game like an emulator and gives you the ability to use Widescreen, CRT filters, save states and rewind which are all pretty handy though I personally only used widescreen and played the game as it intended these options are great for players to have but feels low key lazy since I can do this by setting up a regular emulator myself [h3]The Game Itself[/h3] Fear Effect is a cult classic action horror title that focuses on puzzle solving and occasionally killing bunch of enemies, its uniquness comes from 3 things, an all anti hero cast, game only healing you at certain points and being one of the rare fixed camera titles where enemies are actually ranged Puzzles are fun and well thought out and combat...functinoal but very easy to exploit lets just say that all in all making a really fun experience with my two complaints being combat is bit too easy to exploit at times and the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PS1 jank that requires you to play the game on a certain diffuculty to get its best ending honestly one of the best things that is left behind as games evolved Overall If this was a port or a remaster I would say get it at full price but its not so If you plan to play Fear Effect in its most accessible version in this day and age then I say wait for a sale as this is straight up an emulation