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Blood and Bacon vs Cry of Fear

Blood and Bacon is an FPS horror game from Big Corporation (2016) while Cry of Fear is an FPS horror game from Team Psykskallar (2013).

Blood and Bacon

2016 · Big Corporation

8.2GamingPickz Score

$0.69

Steam: Overwhelmingly Positive

Cry of Fear

2013 · Team Psykskallar

8.0GamingPickz Score

Free

Steam: Very Positive

What each one is

Steam files Blood and Bacon under FPS and Horror. In contrast, it files Cry of Fear under FPS and Horror.

Blood and Bacon

This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

Description from its Steam store page

Cry of Fear

Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.

Description from its Steam store page

At a glance

Blood and BaconCry of Fear
GamingPickz Score8.2/108.0/10
Steam ratingOverwhelmingly Positive (95%, 36,517)Very Positive (89%, 86,945)
Critic aggregateNo aggregateNo aggregate
Price$0.69Free
Install size0.29 GB
Steam Deckunsupportedunsupported
Released20162013
DeveloperBig CorporationTeam Psykskallar

Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.

Blood and Bacon vs Cry of Fear, point by point

Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.

  1. Genre and premise

    Blood and BaconFPS horror game
    Cry of FearFPS horror game

    What each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.

  2. How it plays

    Blood and BaconGore, Funny, Shooter
    Cry of FearHorror, Free to Play, Psychological Horror

    The tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.

  3. Reception

    Blood and BaconScore 8.2 · 95% on Steam
    Cry of FearScore 8.0 · 89% on Steam

    The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.

  4. Content and scale

    Blood and Bacon36,517 reviews · 0.29 GB
    Cry of Fear86,945 reviews

    Reach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.

  5. Price

    Blood and Bacon$0.69
    Cry of FearFree

    Read live from Steam and subject to change.

  6. On a Steam Deck

    Blood and BaconUnsupported
    Cry of FearUnsupported

    Valve's own Deck compatibility rating.

Across the rounds a number can settle, it is level at 1 each. Which one is "better" is the part no figure decides, so we leave it to what you want from the two.

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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.

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Which to pick, by what you want

  • The higher-rated of the two: Blood and Bacon (GamingPickz Score 8.2)
  • The cheaper right now: Cry of Fear (Free)
  • The safer bet by weight of reviews: Cry of Fear (86,945 reviews)

What they have in common

Both are tagged by Steam players with:

MultiplayerShooterActionFPSHorrorCo-opOnline Co-OpFirst-Person

Where they differ

Blood and Bacon is also

GoreFunnyBloodMemesIlluminatiNudity

Cry of Fear is also

Free to PlayAtmosphericPsychologicalZombiesModMassively Multiplayer

Tags players apply to one game and not the other.

Difficulty and who each is for

By the tags players apply, Blood and Bacon is middle-of-the-road on difficulty. Cry of Fear is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.

System requirements, side by side

Blood and BaconCry of Fear
Minimum GPUShader Model 3.0128MB Video Card with OpenGL support
Minimum CPU1.2 GHz Pentium 4 Minimum1 ghz
Minimum RAM0.6 GB1 GB
Install size0.29 GB

Can your PC run them? Check each against your own kit: Blood and Bacon · Cry of Fear.

Accessibility features

Steam store pages declare 1 accessibility feature for Blood and Bacon and 0 for Cry of Fear. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

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Common questions

How different are Blood and Bacon and Cry of Fear in scope?

Blood and Bacon has drawn 36,517 Steam reviews and installs in 0.29 GB. Cry of Fear has drawn 86,945 Steam reviews.

Is Blood and Bacon or Cry of Fear better?

By the GamingPickz Score, Blood and Bacon rates higher (8.2 to 8.0). That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, not our taste. "Better" also depends on price, length and platform, which the table above lays out.

Which is cheaper, Blood and Bacon or Cry of Fear?

Cry of Fear is cheaper right now at Free, against $0.69. Prices move, so this is read live from Steam and can change.

Do you rank one above the other for a fee?

No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.

How we compare, and what we will not do

The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.

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