Three short horror stories, and the game asks you to decide which ones actually happened.

Tales of Fear – Episode Zero is a free first-person horror anthology from MediaTale. Some of its cases are fiction and some are based on real events, and after playing you guess which is which and compare your answers with other players.

Chart credential: #10 on the Steam 250 seven-day chart (down 7 places), score 7.68 from 139 reviews. Released September 1, 2026.

Key features

The truth-or-tale guess is the horror mechanic

Anthology horror usually leans on variety. This leans on doubt: because you know one of the three cases may be a documented event, you read every detail as potential evidence rather than set dressing. That is a cheap trick in the best sense — it costs the developer nothing and changes how the player pays attention.

Three cases with three different fears

Enfield Encounter is a creature story built from a well-known haunting. Alice and Bob is a night shift in a tech company where an AI experiment goes too well. Doai Station is a Japanese railway story about a phone call from a train that had already left hours earlier. Three tones, three locations, no shared cast.

Recreated real locations and a dynamic audio system

The locations are handcrafted recreations rather than generic corridors, and the audio is dynamic. In first-person horror that pairing matters more than visual fidelity, because a room you can half-recognise and cannot quite hear correctly does most of the work.

Where to find Tales of Fear – Episode Zero

• Play on Steam — free
• Official site: mediatale.games

Windows only. Episode Zero is a prologue — three short cases, not a full-length game — and Steam flags it for graphic violence and mature themes.

Frequently asked questions

Is Tales of Fear – Episode Zero out yet?

Tales of Fear – Episode Zero is available now on Steam.

Who made Tales of Fear – Episode Zero?

MediaTale.

What kind of game is Tales of Fear – Episode Zero?

It is a adventure game for PC on Steam.