Free Horror Shooter Is Worth A Play While You Wait For Silent Hill Townfall

While you wait for Silent Hill Townfall, coming later this year, it’s a good time to go back through your gaming backlog and pick out a few titles that’ll give you a good taster of what’s to come.

Konami has released a few bangers over the last few years, with Silent Hill f being one of 2025’s best horror game releases, and Silent Hill 2 remake doing pretty much the same the year before that.

With September locked in for a pretty chaotic release schedule in terms of everything coming up, now’s a good time to check out some older horror games you may have missed.

One of these games is Cry of Fear, an old Half-Life mod that was spun-off into its own thing in 2013.

Cry of Fear is a psychological horror shooter with single-player and co-op functionality, where you play as a teenager who wakes up in an alternate dimension version of Sweden.

This world is populated by strange creatures that you must fight, all while trying to make your way home.

Available for free from Steam, Cry of Fear has around 8 hours of gameplay where you can utilise 24 different weapons.

Depending on your choices, there are multiple endings for you to reach and 20 different unlockables, so you have a reason to do repeat playthroughs as time goes on.

In terms of other things that’ll keep you playing, there’s an unlockable extra campaign which you can get for beating single-player, and this is all playable with four-player co-op.

There’s also strong modding support, which is a given, I guess, considering the game’s origins as a Half-Life mod. The game comes with 12 custom campaigns already included to demonstrate this, with additional examples of custom levels you can install.

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Cry Of Fear Is An Excellent Free Horror Game If You Have A PC

The main hook here is that it’s free, and something that you’ll want to check out ahead of the release of Silent Hill Townfall later this year. Both Silent Hill and Resident Evil remain big inspirations for Cry of Fear, which makes it a good alternative for horror fans.

Indeed, reviews over on Steam also back this up. It currently has an all-time positive rating of 88%.

“The atmosphere, locales, gunplay, everything is top-notch with very few downsides; not to mention how radically this game modifies the GoldSrc engine, making it damn near unrecognisable from the games it shipped with. It does what many AAA devs, both at release and now, struggle to do: making a genuinely scary horror game. Impressive still is the dozen-member dev team that crafted this masterpiece over the span of four years. (five if you count the Steam release),” reads one Steam review for it with 86 hours logged.

“Simple and short: It's not about just shooting and jumpscares. It's not even about Simon's story. It's depressing... the hopeless atmosphere, the sad music, the mental instability, the loneliness feels like the game hates you, yet you are still not ready to leave because the final piece of the puzzle remains,” another review reads.

Download Cry of Fear now for free over on Steam.

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