Remember—let me see here—one week ago? When 2005 survival horror shooter Cold Fear disappeared from Steam completely out of the blue? Well, disregard that entirely. It’s back in GOG Preservation Program form.
In other words, GOG’s done some work on this one. “The new GOG release of Cold Fear isn’t just a reappearance on a storefront—it’s a quality re-release with extensive under-the-hood work,” reads the blurb.
That means Windows 10/11 support, support for 4K and high refresh rates, modern controller support, and patches for common crashes and glitches—just generally the gubbins you need to launch a game with confidence on a PC in 2025. You can find the full changelog on GOG.
This all shoots my theories to shreds, anyhow. When Cold Fear disappeared from Steam, I theorised that—given that the licence had just been picked up by Nightdive parent company Atari—we might be due a gussied-up Nightdive-ification of the venerable old horror game. I guess we kind of were! It just wasn’t Nightdive doing it—it was GOG. I should’ve tossed a coin.
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