With new visuals, innovative gameplay, and character narratives, Layers of Fear will take a fresh look at the psychological horror game.
Bloober Team, renowned for creating spooky video games like Observer and Blair Witch, as well as Anshar Studios, responsible for Dead By Daylight and Observer: System Redux, are teaming together to create a brand new Layers of Fear game. Check out all the info that’s available at this point!
Layers of Fear, which has been described as neither a sequel nor a remake, blends components of the original game with new features and a fresh story to give players a completely unique experience.
The usage of Unreal Engine 5 in Bloober’s return to the Layers of Fear series will also result in greatly enhanced visuals, and features like dynamic lighting, resulting in a far more visceral horror experience.
Fans of the series will find Layers of Fear to be a “definitive experience,” according to Bernas, who also revealed that the studio’s motivation for returning to the brand was a desire to reconnect with its origins.
The game will still be a first-person narrative horror experience where art is the main theme.
Exploring the various unsettling environments is the focus of the game rather than slaying monsters in order to learn more about the protagonists’ backstories.
The main plot of Layers of Fear largely continues the troubled artist fans already know all too well.
However, it appears that they will also introduce a completely new character and setting: a writer who has just arrived for work at an old, unsettling lighthouse.
Three distinct game sections were shown in-game during the preview event, starting with the much anticipated introduction of the new character.
Following a call with her son, the character in this first section starts to explore the lighthouse.
The new setting unquestionably maintains the deeply unsettling atmosphere for which the Layers of Fear series is renowned.
Kocurek noted that the writer “will have to face her own demons” in the lighthouse, which is a “dark and mysterious place,” and that her story serves as a connecting thread for the other characters in the game.
The painter from the first Layers of Fear game was the focus of the subsequent segment of the video, which opened with him in a burning chamber.
The guy is once again troubled by the fate of his family and his struggle to complete his magnum opus painting; in this scene, frightening speech is spoken about separating the flesh from the bone and then grinding the bone into paint.
In this scenario, a brand-new lantern item that works somewhat similarly to Alan Wake’s flashlight mechanism is also introduced; he uses it to direct focused light at an enigmatic black blob until it vanishes.
The third and last portion of the Layers of Fear preview briefly described how the painter’s encounters with his wife have changed.
The same lantern was featured during this sequence as well.
More precisely, the painter can be seen using the light from the lantern to envelop his wife’s ghost in flames.
The story of the painter’s wife and their daughter will also be elaborated upon in the game, the developers stated, providing more from their perspective.
The developers confirmed that Layers of Fear would also be longer than the original and it appears that the game will deepen the in-game universe in a number of fresh and intriguing ways as well!
Whether this also means that Layers of Fear’s many potential outcomes will be expanded is currently unknown, but regardless of how the game ends, it is obvious that players will gain a much deeper understanding of its characters along the way.