Layers of Fear Reviews

Layers of Fear is ranked in the 60th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Impulsegamer
Blake Supple
Top Critic
2.5 / 5.0
Oct 15, 2018

Layers of Fear is Scary Beautiful But Scary Boring!

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4 / 10.0
Feb 20, 2016

A beautiful and potentially fantastic horror story squandered by cheap scares presented at a breakneck pace.

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Fextralife
Lanzen
Top Critic
8 / 10
Apr 2, 2016

A brief but compelling horror story presented in a creatively designed experience. Thought provoking, inferred not explicitly stated, with an effectively unpleasant undertone. Strange key mapping choices on consoles but otherwise fit for purpose. This is a game about exploration and your choices of where to go.

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3 / 5.0
Feb 14, 2016

Layers of Fear almost feels like two different games smashed together to make up a single experience.

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9.5 / 10.0
Feb 15, 2016

Truly, Layers of Fear is a masterpiece to behold. Buy it. Play it. Buy it and have a friend play it while you watch if you're faint-of-heart.

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Feb 20, 2016

Suspense is an important tool, in horror. Suspense is what makes scares work. Five, ten, fifteen minutes of excruciating emptiness makes the eventual jump scare effective because we're lulled into complacency. The pacing in Layers of Fear is numbing, with "scares" coming at you so often they quickly lose their potency.

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games(TM)
games™ Team
Top Critic
6 / 10
Apr 13, 2016

Creepy location, poor pacing

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9 / 10
Apr 7, 2016

This is a burgeoning sub-genre but Layers of Fear has to be a high-point, and it deserves to be seen as a standard bearer.

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8 / 10.0
Feb 14, 2016

Layers of Fear isn't a perfect marathon with its range of terrifying developments but the significance of its events will last longer than most horror sprints.

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Unscored
Mar 1, 2016

Layers Of Fear aims for arty horror, but its strength is simple scares

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10 / 10
Feb 26, 2016

In my preview of Layers of Fear I wrote that "psychedelic" was assuredly the single best word to describe the game, and if I was to build on that at all my only other words would be "perfect balance." A perfectly balanced psychedelic acid trip through the mind of a delusional and less-than quintessentially tortured artist. At its core that's what makes Layers of Fear such an evocatively thrilling horror game: it strikes a fantastic balance between narrative, gameplay, atmospheric immersion, and evolving horror themes. If P.T. provided the inspiration for this new genre of atmospheric horror games, Layers of Fear has undoubtedly begun its perfection.

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Gamers Heroes
Johnny Hurricane
Top Critic
7 / 10
Mar 1, 2016

Overall Layers Of Fear is a creepy game that misses the scary mark. The experience is worth going through if you have the extra cash but don’t expect to be scared out of your mind by it.

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7 / 10
Mar 6, 2016

Layers of Fear's psychedelic atmosphere manages to mess with your mind for a few hours. But after that, It's all jump-scare after jump-scare.

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7.8 / 10.0
Jul 13, 2016

All in all Layers of Fear was a fun experience and honestly was a bit of fresh air compared to the multitude of horror games that have been coming out lately (not that I'm complaining).

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Feb 14, 2016

'Layers of Fear' is an imaginative and exquisite horror gem, wrapped up in Victorian madness and medieval art. Traits that might normally be denounced in other games, like the length and low interactivity, only serve to accentuate its dread. Bloober has crafted a delightful nightmare.

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8.8 / 10.0
Mar 19, 2017

Layers of Fear is a Psychological horror Game with amazing story that takes you deep and deeper in every steps of the game and shows you fear in the layers of art. It's a game that Definitely worth trying and even Replaying. if you are a fan of horror Game with amazing Story, Layers of Fear is one of the best choices for you that you shouldn't miss. Go and find the fears of an artist in layers of his brain..

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7.5 / 10.0
Feb 20, 2016

+ Awesome atmosphere and great detail

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GameSpew
Top Critic
8 / 10
Feb 26, 2016

You'll get the most that Layers of Fear can offer you when you're brave enough to delve into all of its nooks and crannies

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Digitally Downloaded
Lindsay M.
Top Critic
Mar 4, 2016

Does it create emotion or stir up old memories? Fear. Pure fear. The most primal of emotions is the overwhelming one while playing Layers of Fear.

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66 / 100
Mar 2, 2016

Moments like these make Layers of Fear worth playing. Yet as beautifully disorienting as the game can be, it ultimately has little interesting to say about artists and less to say about art. Stomaching the jump scares and heavily recycled horror imagery will earn you a handful of mesmerizing vistas, but Layers of Fear fails to challenge or transform its central trope.

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