Layers of Fear

This is a game that genuinely tried to scare me by throwing a bunch of garlic in my general direction. THE BAD Here's how the plot of this kind of games is structured. 1. You launch the title. 2. You know that everything that happens around you is a visual metaphor for one of the following (because it always is): you being dead you dying right now you being an, ahem, bad person your family/children/loved one being dead your family/children/loved one dying right now your family/children/loved one being, ahem, bad people you having killed someone you having killed yourself you planning to kill yourself you being in denial about a traumatizing memory trying to resurface 3. You then play the game, eliminating the wrong options and thus arriving at which inevitable MINDBLOWING AND UNEXPECTED twist this particular one features. (In case you're curious, in LoF's case it's

As an amateur of painting and art history in general, I was obviously attracted to this game where you play the role of a painter. Although the description given on the store page speaks of 19th century masterpieces this is not correct at all. The collection includes paintings from the Renaissance (15th century) and Mannerism (16th century), mainly Early Netherlandish painting, and Baroque paintings (17th and early 18th centuries) as well. In fact most of the works are not from the 19th century. Anyway I think it's an excellent selection for what the game is. As expected Goya's paintings abound, obviously from his darkest period, Black Paintings series and Rembrandt's as well. The inclusion of Bosch is appreciated, unavoidable. I would say the game is psychedelic rather than horror, which personally is not bad in my opinion. Graphics, soundtrack and ambience in general are very good. You

I have never seen so many interesting "scare mechanics" in one game before. The whole game plays like you are walking through a haunted house, and it is GREAT. Every time you walk into a new room, you never know what to expect. Bear in mind however, this game is VERY dark, and I'm not talking about brightness settings. Some themes in this game can be very disturbing. A very short but very good horror game with a dark and interesting storyline. Highly Recommended.

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about l

This is a great horror game: 1. It's not build up on jump scares, there are some jump scares, but not to the point where it gets annoying. 2. The graphics is very very decent 3. The controls are okish, but could be awkward sometimes 4. The music and sound effect... OMG! 5. The way the atmosphere and sense of horror builds up gets scarier and scarier as you play. Man, this is some true horror 6. You can actually get killed 7. The story is good and very rewarding as you reveal it.

I picked up Layers of Fear after I noticed it had come out of early access. I refuse to buy games in early access anymore, so I just add them to my wish lish and wait for them to be "finished". I am posting this review after I played and beat the game. Layers of fear is kind of an interactive story, puzzle, survival horror kind of game. You play as an artist returning home to work on his opus magnum. At what first appears to be a basic jaunt around his home, quickly turns into a psychological horror, the house appears to be (possibly) haunted as the layouts change, you are confronted by visions of your dead wife and other various paranormal-esc situations. Along the way, you'll collect notes and other memorabilia within the house that offers quick glimpses into the painter's past life, his family and even the state of his mental health. The game isn't as "scary" as other games of t