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Tales of Fear - Episode Zero
Can you tell the difference between truth and tale? Experience three short horror stories and gather clues as to which are true and which are just part of our imagination. Immerse yourself in the protagonist's perspective and discover eerie tales from around the world.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Even though I was skeptical at first, I really enjoyed this short game in the end. It has a great horror vibe, and at the end, you're left guessing if the story actually happened. Give it a shot. t's free.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“What a great premise for a horror series. I LOVED the videos at the end explaining the lore and what it was based on. Please release 10000 of these.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“How is this game completely free?! An absolute masterpiece and I am genuinely blown away. Huge W to @MediaTale for delivering an experience with this much effort, care, and polish for zero cost. Why you need to play this: 1.Concept & Story: Fresh, unique, and deeply engaging…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players, self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-19.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Thank You & Big Announcement!
Tales of Fear - Episode One is coming 2027! We’d like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to everyone who played it, showed interest in it, and, above all, left an honest review on Steam.
Patch: Fixed Japanese & Chinese Fonts
Fixed: Addressed a memory issue that caused Chinese and Japanese characters to display as squares after extended playtime UI Update: Increased the font size for the Chinese localization to improve rea
Tales of Fear - Episode Zero OUT NOW!
Hello everyone! The time has finally come: after about 10 months of development, the first episode of Tales of Fear is finally available! As previously announced, the first episode (actually Episode Z
Release Date Announcement
Hello everyone! It’s been quite a while now that we’ve been able to work intensively on Tales of Fear Episode Zero. Development on all three cases is complete, and we’re currently in the fine-tuning p
June Devlog
Hello everyone! In this update, we’ll give you a glimpse into the development of Tales of Fear and our small indie game studio in general. We’ve finished Case 02: Alice & Bob and are currently working
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Adventure · Horror · Mystery · Atmospheric · Exploration · Psychological Horror · Supernatural · First-Person · Realistic · Free to Play · Dark · Action-Adventure (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Camera Comfort · Playable without Timed Input · Stereo Sound · Subtitle Options · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Turkish, Czech * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 10 |
| Official site | http://www.mediatale.games |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64Bit Processor: Intel Core i5-4570 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or equivalent Storage: 5 GB available space