Download Hints

Get quick and convenient access to just the hints you need for F.E.A.R., without staying on our website. Just download a free trial version of our UHS Reader software and a copy of these hints. You will get the same gradual hints you see here -- unlike ordinary cheats or a walkthrough that can spoil your game.

You can also buy the full version of the UHS Reader for Windows or macOS. For just $14.95, you get full access to hints for hundreds of games and 1 year of free updates. You can also search, decode, or print an entire game's worth of hints at once.

Ask the Author

If you have questions about a puzzle that aren't answered anywhere in these hints, you may contact the author.

F.E.A.R. Hints

Find a way back up into the main building

  • 1 of 9: After you get out of the water, go along the walkway until you come to a dead end with two locked fence doors.
  • 2 of 9: Move along until you reach some large pipes going along a wall.
  • 3 of 9: Find the crouch-only crawlway that the pipes go into.
  • 4 of 9: Past the crawlway, find a medkit on a wall down a short side area, then head down the main pathway to get to a long catwalk.
  • 5 of 9: After you get up the ladder on the other side of that catwalk, move along until you come to a room with a fallen-down walkway along one wall, two large blue machines marked "Stephens Unit #1561," and a trench with a tiny amount of water in it. 
  • 6 of 9: From there, you need to go to the room that the broken walkway used to lead to.
  • 7 of 9: Since there's no way you can get up there now, you'll have to find an alternate route.
  • 8 of 9: Specifically, you'll need to use the trench.
  • 9 of 9: Once you're in the room on the other side of the trench, you're stuck again since the fence door on the lower floor is blocked, and the upper floor only leads back to the room with the two blue machines and the start of the trench.