Fears to Fathom is a horror franchise centered on a series of episodic anthology-style psychological horror video games featuring allegedly real stories submitted by players of the game. The series is created and published by Indian game developer Mukul Negi, who goes by Rayll on online profiles.
There were five single-player episodes released between 2021 and 2024. The first episode, Home Alone, was released for free on Steam, with later episodes costing around $5-10. The fourth episode, Ironbark Lookout, was released on PlayStation in October 2024 as well.
There are currently co-op episodes being released under Fears to Fathom [Together], with the first co-op episode, Scratch Creek, being released in June 2026.
Episodes
Main series The main Fears to Fathom series consists of five episodes containing stories submitted by players of the game. As the episodes go on they get progressively longer and larger in scale, with the first episode's playtime being twenty minutes and the fifth episode's playtime being two hours.
The first episode, titled Home Alone, was released on 2 July, 2021, and the final episode, titled Woodbury Getaway, was released on 12 September, 2024.
Home Alone (2021) Miles wakes up from a nap late in the evening. Upon leaving his bedroom he walks into his parents' room and looks out the window where he spots a man looking up at the room from outside, but the man quickly turns and walks away.
Miles heats up some lasagna and eats it while watching TV. While watching the TV he sees a pair of feet at the corner of his eye ascend the stairs. Brushing it off, he does his homework and goes to bed.
At 1:16 AM Miles wakes up and goes downstairs to get a drink of water. Before going back to sleep, his mother sends him an image of a man at the front door, which had been sent by Paula, their next-door neighbor. Checking through the blinds to see if anyone is really there, he sees a man standing behind the door. Miles runs upstairs and hides under his bed as he hears a window break in his parents' room. Miles is informed by his mother that Paula is at the door, but when he is about to go downstairs the door to his parents room opens, revealing the man inside. Miles rushes back under his bed until the sound of police sirens could be heard. Miles meets Paula at the door but the fate of the man is unknown.
Norwood Hitchhike (2022) Holly Gardner, having previously ignored her father's advice to buy a plane ticket to a gaming convention she was at, drives the long way home after realising the severity of traffic. Low on fuel, she goes to a fuel station. While she is at the station the cashier warns her of the Norwood Valley Monster, a seemingly ordinary hitchhiker who would hang her victims upside down on trees. Holly attempts to get more information from another man in the store, but he dismisses her. As Holly is about to get back in her car she spots a man walking away from her car and driving off in a white van. Holly drives for a while until her car breaks down in a completely isolated location, forcing her to hitchhike until the customer from the fuel station, who introduces himself as Jason, helps her.
Jason drops Holly off at a motel that would offer roadside assistance as well as a place for her to rest for the night. She pays for a room as well as roadside assistance. When Holly finds her room she encounters Tommy, who does room service for the motel as well as roadside assistance. Tommy prepares the room and sets out to retrieve Holly's car. As Holly is lying in bed she spots a man staring at her through the window, but he scurries away before Holly can get a proper look at him. Beginning to feel paranoid, Holly gets a coffee from the motel's coffee machine, but it turns out that the coffee was spiked, so she stumbles back to her room and into her bed.
Holly is woke up by the telephone on the nightstand ringing, and as she is waking up she hears creaking coming from the closet. Joe, the man from the reception, knocks at the door and informs Holly of several guests' complaints over being woken up by the "goofy noises" Holly made while she was under the influence of the spiked coffee. Joe questions why Holly's eyes are red, and Holly explains the incident with the coffee machine, however Joe claims that the motel doesn't have a coffee machine. Confused, Holly directs Joe to where the coffee machine was, but it's vanished. As Joe is scolding Holly, she sees the man that stared through her window earlier leaving her room; he was in the closet while she was asleep. Joe angrily orders Holly to go back to her room.
Holly tries to go back to sleep, but her paranoia is keeping her awake. As she paces a flash illuminates the room; someone took a picture of her. Moments later, she hears a man at the door pleading for her to open the door. When Holly refuses, the man starts kicking at the door, so she rushes into the closet. The man kicks the door down and begins searching the room, but before he can search the closet he is incapacitated by Joe.
Later that night Tommy arrives back to the motel with the car in tow. Joe refuses to report the incident to the police because he prioritises the motel's reputation and fears that the incident becoming public could cause harm.
Carson House (2023)
Noah Baker is assigned a job by his realtor father to housesit for Roy Carson, one of his clients. Noah agrees to watch the house for the weekend for $100. Upon arriving at the house he finds the key to the house under a fake rock in the backyard.
Shortly after entering the house Noah is assigned his first job from Roy, which is to feed Zeke, Roy's dog. After feeding Zeke, Noah is tasked with ridding Roy's computer of a multitude of viruses. Noah enters Roy's office, which has one of its doors blocked from the inside by a shelf. After removing the viruses Noah gains access to the house's security cameras.
While Noah is watching a show with his girlfriend Evelyn Cooper, he is instructed by Roy to collect groceries. Noah gets on a bicycle that belongs to Roy's son Alec and heads to Knuck's Convenience Store. While at the grocery store he bumps into his classmates, Turner and Andy. Turner tells Noah that his ex-girlfriend Cara was at the store moments earlier and bought a massive amount of beer. Noah and Andy try to dismiss it, Noah had broken up with Cara due to a falling out over her heavy drinking and drug addiction, and Noah prefers to not talk about her. Once their conversation ends Noah continues shopping and stops thinking about the conversation.
Back at the house Noah gets a text from Andy suggesting that he look up the "Roy Carson divorce". When Noah looks it up he finds an article stating that Roy Carson's ex-wife was a former actress whose fans were coming to Roy's home and threatening him over alleged adultery. As Noah's paranoia is building the doorbell rings. Noah checks the security cameras and finds that it's a pizza delivery man, although Noah never ordered any pizza. After Noah takes the pizza Roy reveals that he ordered the pizza himself, to the relief of Noah. As Noah is eating the pizza he hears the doorbell ring again, but this time there's no answer from the other side. Noah checks the security cameras and sees that a bouquet of flowers was left at the front door. Noah then gets a message from an unknown sender asking what he had for dinner. Noah was slightly unnerved but dismissed it as a wrong number.
As he is doing study work the power suddenly cuts off. Thinking somebody is deliberately messing with him, Noah confronts the unknown sender, believing it to be Turner. Noah then promptly goes outside and switches the power back on. As Noah continues his studying he checks the cameras again and finds that the door to Roy's filming room is open and the equipment is knocked over. Noah then hears something coming from the kitchen, and on the cameras he sees that the oven is on. Now sick of Turner's tricks, Noah texts Andy and tells him to tell Turner to stop messing in the house, but Andy replies saying that Turner is at his house. Noah's worry transforms into horror as he looks at the cameras and sees Cara walking around upstairs, searching for him until she's right outside the blocked door to the office. Cara knows that Noah is in the room, because she talks to him from the outside. She demands a second chance at their relationship and threatens to kill both him and Evelyn. Noah sneaks into the laundry room across the hall before Cara reaches the door to the room and he escapes once she is out of sight.
Noah's father calls the police and she is arrested and sentenced to prison time after authorities see the camera footage of her breaking into the house and taking a knife from the kitchen.
Ironbark Lookout (2023) Jack Nelson works as a fire lookout in Ironhorse State Park as he is in dire financial straits and needs a salary to make ends meet. One day Jack is transferred to tower 11 at Ironbark State Park, so he gets in his RV and begins his two-hour journey to the new location. During Jack's journey he stops by a small fast food restaurant recommended by his sister Kayla.
Upon Jack's arrival he meets Billy, the gate operator, who he is told by his employer, Mitch, to present his ID to. Billy hands Jack the keys to tower 11 as well as a flashlight and welcomes him to the park. After a lengthy walk Jack reaches the tower, where he watches an instructional video explaining the job: keeping watch for fires, record wind speed and temperature, keep campers out of unregistered camp grounds and take good care of the camp. After watching the video he hears the voice of another ranger talking to him through the radio. The ranger introduces himself as Connor Hawkins of tower 12, and he reminds Jack to light a fire and record the weather for the night. After recording the weather Jack goes to sleep, but he's awoken in the middle of the night by the sound of static coming from the radio, although he hears no speaking. While urinating off the balcony Jack sees someone shine a light at him before disappearing into the woods.
The following evening Connor alerts Jack to campfire smoke in an unregistered camping area. When Jack arrives to the location of the smoke he hears a man scream but he sees no one. While investigating he hears someone whistling and sees a figure looking at him from behind a tree, but it disappears before Jack can get a closer look. Jack reports the empty campsite and the scream to Connor, but he brushes it off as a conspiracy related to some kids who went missing in the area. While getting wood to light a fire for the night Jack hears the same whistling he heard at the campsite, as if he was followed back to his tower.
Jack once again wakes up in the middle of the night, still hearing the whistling. As his eyes drift open he sees the shadow of what looks like a cloaked figure with antlers. The figure then begins walking around the balcony before stopping right at the door, then it continues to walk down the stairs. Jack opens the door to find an animal skull illuminated by candles with an inverted pentagram drawn on its forehead. Jack reports the incident to Connor, but once again Connor brushes it off as kids pulling an elaborate prank and agrees to send someone to check on him the next day. Jack reluctantly goes to sleep, still shaken by the events of the past few hours.