{"id":40215,"date":"2013-04-26T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T09:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=40215"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:29:10","slug":"download-cry-of-fear-a-free-horror-game-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/download-cry-of-fear-a-free-horror-game-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Download Cry of Fear, a free horror game for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/223710\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Cry of Fear<\/strong><\/a> is a free <a href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/windows\/terror\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>horror game<\/strong><\/a>, and it&#8217;s available to download from <a href=\"http:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Steam<\/strong><\/a>. It was originally a mod for Half Life 2, but has now been released as a stand alone game you can download free.<\/p>\n<p>A survival horror game, you play Simon, a character scarred by being alone most of his life, who wakes up after a car crash. Soon you discover something is not quite right any more, and a darkness is spreading, filled with horrific monsters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40216\" title=\"Cry of Fear\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/cryoffear.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/cryoffear.png 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/cryoffear-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unlike last year&#8217;s free horror hit <a href=\"http:\/\/slender.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Slender: The Eight Pages<\/strong><\/a>, Cry of Fear has a fleshed out story, as you discover more about Simon and the horror that surrounds him. The <a href=\"http:\/\/half-life-2.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Half Life 2<\/strong><\/a> engine might be aging, but this is a surprisingly good looking game, and it&#8217;s certainly scary. Play this one with the lights off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/223710\/\"><strong>Cry of Fear<\/strong><\/a> is Windows only, and runs on XP, Vista, and Windows 7 or 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cry of Fear is a free horror game, and it&#8217;s available to download from Steam. It was originally a mod for Half Life 2, but has now been released as a stand alone game you can download free. A survival horror game, you play Simon, a character scarred by being alone most of his life, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/download-cry-of-fear-a-free-horror-game-for-windows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Download Cry of Fear, a free horror game for Windows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-40215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333028,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40215\/revisions\/333028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40215"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=40215"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=40215"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=40215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}