Layers of Fear (2016) News

The latest chapter in Layers of Fear awaits. What is the Final Prologue? Is it a stand-alone story, or another piece of the puzzle that makes up the complete story of Layers of Fear? The answer lies in the game itself, but does its name reveal part of the secret?

Take a peek behind the scenes of the latest chapter of our game and watch the interview with Dawid Kocurek, creative director of Anshar Studios (co-developers of Layers of Fear), to find out more.

The Final Prologue is now available for free, playable as a separate chapter in Layers of Fear. Step into the Director’s seat as you seek to unravel the mysteries at the heart of a troubled Hollywood production. Strive to complete your final masterpiece, even as the set around you devolves into chaos.

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An artist’s descent into madness. The eerie mysteries of the spirit world. A witch-infested forest. The horror of being imprisoned within a machine.

Explore all the different facets of fear by taking advantage of BlooberTeam’s Anniversary Sale, featuring some of the biggest discounts in our history. Currently live on Steam and on other gaming platforms.

Artsy horror series Layers of Fear might have called it a wrap with this year's game, but it turns out there's one more treat in this bag of tricks: a new free DLC chapter. 'The Final Prologue' delivers yet another tale of artistic temperament gone all creepy and wrong, this time in the medium of film direction. The unexpected epilogue is part of a double celebration; it's nearly Halloween, obviously, but it's also there to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the founding of creator studio Bloober Team on November 6th.

For the uninitiated, the new Layers of Fear shares its title with the 2016 original, but is neither a straightforward sequel nor a remaster, nor quite a remake. Instead, the latest game reimagines the first 2.5 titles in the series as scenarios in biographical novels being written by the new protagonist, The Writer. This provides a nice excuse to replay the stories of The Painter, The Daughter, and The Actor in spiffed-up and rejigged forms, as well as introducing a new framing narrative that serves to close out the trilogy.

Given that the human antagonist of 2019's Layers of Fear 2 was known simply as The Director, it seems likely that this new chapter will share his side of the sequel's story. 'The Final Prologue' isn't the first gaiden entry into the series: this year's game launched with a brand-new side chapter to the first title called 'The Final Note', which retold The Painter's narrative from the point of view of his wife and adversary The Musician.

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New Layers of Fear is out now. It's series crowning work, the reimagined story that made Bloober Team a well-known creator of psychological horror. One of the first games and first psychological horror to utilize the power of Unreal Engine 5 and advanced technological tools: The Lumen, Ray Tracing, and Niagara effects.

Discover the reimagined world of Layers of Fear, the complete story of the people whose dreams, ambitions, and desires drove them to the bottom of madness. Delve deep into their personal dramas and witness the intertwining of reality, obsession, and delusion. Reveal the path of a malevolent, hidden between layers of fear, a terrifying entity that thrives on human misery.

In addition, we are pleased to offer an exclusive discount for players who have previously purchased Layers of Fear (2016) and/or Layers of Fear 2. The discount is valid on Steam for 2 weeks from the release date.

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When the Layers of Fear remake was first announced, I didn't understand the need for it. Whilst the original game is seven years old now, it still looks great and it's still as scary as ever—so why bother? Especially when developer and publisher Bloober Team is already hard at work on Silent Hill 2, a rather more hotly anticipated remake. After playing through it, though, I get it. I understand why the developers felt they had to remake this, and why they felt it was important to do it now more than ever...
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Layers of Fear (2023) brings together the stories of Layers of Fear (2016) and Layers of Fear 2 (2019), remastering the two horror titles in Unreal Engine 5 to deliver a seamless, puzzling trip into the psyche of creatives-gone-mad. Sadly, this remake represents the best and worst of Bloober Team.

This time around you’ll start out as The Writer, a new character destined to pen the disturbing tales of The Artist and The Actor, while encountering your own unusual goings-on in the Lighthouse you’re holed up in. After having won a competition to write a book about ‘one of the most mysterious and tragic figures in the history of modern art,’ you’ll be exploring winding corridors and tending to a ringing phone that is eerily reminiscent of that in the game’s inspiration, P.T.

Soon, you’re whisked into the grandiose home of The Painter and his family, and things begin to look familiar again. A home in complete disarray, burning candles and dimly lit lamps in each room, even the letter from pest control threatening us with lawyers if we contact them again, are still here. The only stark difference is in quality; built in Unreal Engine 5, Layers of Fear (2023) looks ridiculously good, at the best of times, anyway.

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