His initial goal is to complete his masterpiece, and the player's role is to figure out how this task should be accomplished. The player takes control of an artist who has returned to his studio. In October 2018, a sequel titled Layers of Fear 2 was announced. A limited physical retail release for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, published by Limited Run Games in North America, will be available starting October 2018. Here the player controls the painter's daughter with the DLC focusing on her apparent relapse into trauma after returning to her old house.Ī definitive port for the Nintendo Switch, entitled Layers of Fear: Legacy, was released on 21 February 2018 and it features, in addition to the Inheritance DLC, Joy-Con, touchscreen, and HD Rumble support.
Layers of Fear: Inheritance was released on 2 August 2016 as a direct follow up to the first game. The gameplay, presented in first person perspective, is heavily story driven and often revolves mostly around puzzle-solving and exploration, as the game intensifies after each level while jump scares occur often.
In Layers of Fear, the player controls a psychologically disturbed painter who is trying to complete his magnum opus, as he navigates through a Victorian mansion, with disturbing secrets about the painter being discovered. Game Review Layers of Fear is a psychological horror video game developed and published by Bloober Team for Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, which was released worldwide on 16 February 2016.