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The Fabulous Fear Machine

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The Fabulous Fear Machine
Description
The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style, from the creators of Do Not Feed the Monkeys. You’ve just become the newest Master of the Machine, and now you must generate fear and expand your influence by playing Legend cards: those scary stories, urba...
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2023, Fictiorama Studios, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 SP1, 2 GHz Dual Core CPU, 2 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8600 GS, ATI Radeon HD 3470, Version 9....
Time to beat
8.5 hMain
11 h Main + Sides
15 h Completionist
10.5 h All Styles
Description

The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style, from the creators of Do Not Feed the Monkeys. You’ve just become the newest Master of the Machine, and now you must generate fear and expand your influence by playing Legend cards: those scary stories, urban myths, and conspiracy theories that lurk in the dark corners of the mind.

To clear a path for your Legends to grow, you’ll dispatch your Agents to new locations on the map, harvest and manage resources, decide how to deal with events in the simulation, and spy on the operations of your foes.


What are your deepest desires? Power, wealth, glory? Everything you’ve ever dreamed of is within your reach, with The Fabulous Fear Machine.


Pick your poison. From cryptids like the Black Dog, to urban legends like Bloody Mary, to conspiracies like Reptilians—with over 80 Legends to choose from, you’ll craft a custom blend of terror for each city you visit.

Horror evolved. Plant the seeds of fear in fertile ground. Watch and listen to how the media reacts to your Legends. Feed them, then see them grow more powerful and effective.


The job done right. Your strength is in strategizing; leave the dirty work to your Agents. Send them to explore new locations and infiltrate your enemies, making interesting choices along the way.

An equal and opposite reaction. Rivals and the forces of good alike seek to undo the Machine’s influence for their own ends. Plan accordingly, or you may find your own Legends twisted into inspirational stories, mascots, or other sugary-sweet clichés.


A tale as old as time. You’ll direct the stories of several Masters operating in different regions of the world. Along the way, explore the history of the Machine, its enemies, and the Agents who aid you.

Presented by AMC Games and SHUDDER. Early development of the game was supported by Red.es and FEDER (European Regional Development Fund).

The Fabulous Fear Machine™ 2023 Fictiorama Studios SL. All rights reserved.

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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
8.5 hMain
11 h Main + Sides
15 h Completionist
10.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
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Size:
2.7 GB

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Posted on: April 18, 2024

bloodhawkone

Verified owner

Games: 607 Reviews: 3

Good game that ends a little too soon

Bought this game for the art style and interesting premise, was not expecting it to hook onto me like it did! Spent an entire night just plowing through this game (the ol' "1 more turn" problem got me)! This is another classic worker-placement, time management game (think Diner Dash or Cultist Simulator). Took a bit of time to wrap my head around it, and found that if I wasn't on top of thing it could easily lead to a game over, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The one problem I have is that the game is short. Quite short. This problem isn't exactly helped by the fact that it is focused on three separate campaigns. If there were 2-3 more campaigns or a "skirmish mode" that would have been great, but with levels that are focused on the completion of specific missions I can see why this wasn't done. All in all, a good little puzzle game, just wish that I could spend more time with it.


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Posted on: July 16, 2025

Viktor_W

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Games: 111 Reviews: 2

Conspiracy thoeries made game

A very easy and friendly strategic game with conspiracy theories as thecentral piece of the game, awesome art like a comic book from the Silver age Era and you have an awesome game, I have some troubles getting the idea of what to do and how to do some things, but it wasn{t difficult to figureit out; fun & thrilling with great atmosphere, recomended if you like to play as somewhat near as a villain and spread the terror on population to make all your objectives.


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Posted on: June 8, 2024

Fonixary

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Games: 744 Reviews: 243

Simple Game But Full Bugged

At first, Player is NOT allowed to disable the hateful edge scrolling. Then, the game runs slow, used too many resource, stucks in tutorial level, 2d plain graphic slowed machine and crashed the explorer and the game itself, the game lost texture picture during game play. There is some interesting, but uncomfortable control and garbage edge scrolling.


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