Bloober Team Unveils Their Latest Masterpiece: Layers of Fears

09 June 2022

Your Fears Will Return on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S in early 2023

Bloober Team and co-developer Anshar Studios are proud to unveil their latest masterpiece: Layers of Fears. This project was originally teased last year, giving fans a glimpse of the experience to come.

Today, they’re announcing that Layers of Fears is a psychological horror chronicle built upon the foundations of the original Layers of Fear, Layers of Fear: Inheritance, and Layers of Fear 2. The psychedelic experience fans know and love will include an expanded plotline and gameplay direction all created in Unreal Engine 5.

Layers of Fears will be launching simultaneously on PC (on Steam and Epic Game Store), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S in 2023. Check out the official reveal trailer featuring a closer look at the updated graphics, gameplay, and the setting for the new story chapter.

Watch the Layers of Fears Official Reveal Trailer

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Piotr Babieno, Bloober Team’s CEO, provides a peek behind the curtain to offer some insight on their choice of name:

We are bringing back a franchise that is really special for us, in a new form that will give players a truly fresh gaming experience and that will shed new light on the overall story. Our plan was to recreate the games, but we didn’t want to make it a simple collection of two remastered games. We’ve worked out a new approach, something that is maybe not yet obvious. But I can tell you there’s a reason why we called it Layers of Fear”s”.

Piotr Babieno, Bloober Team's CEO

Players who seek mature stories with hidden meanings should prepare for an exquisite horror experience thanks to the expanded plot lines that will cast a new light on the overarching narrative. They will face spine-chilling madness that extends over generations. Those who are looking for even more visceral thrills will enjoy the CORSAIR’s iCUE Integration system, providing dynamic lighting effects that will turn their desktop into a fully synchronized, real-time visualization of in-game actions.

The first Layers of Fear, released in 2016, made waves in the gaming industry with its unique take on the first-person psychological horror experience told from the point of view of a painter obsessively trying to finish his Magnum Opus—no matter the cost. This award-winning title successfully created a new direction for both the Bloober Team studio and the psychological horror genre that increased its popularity in the mainstream gaming community. Layers of Fear was later expanded with a story DLC titled Inheritance.

In 2019, Bloober Team released an indirect sequel, Layers of Fear 2, telling the story of a Hollywood actor who heeds the call of a despotic director (voiced by horror legend Tony Todd) to star in a film shot aboard an ocean liner.

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About Bloober Team

Established in 2008, Bloober Team is an independent game development studio based in Krakow, Poland with nearly 200 people strong. Best known for acclaimed horror games including Blair Witch, Layers of Fear, Observer: System Redux and The Medium (Polish Game of The Year, Digital Dragons 2021) the company has made its name as creators of chilling yet memorable experiences with deep storylines and atmospheric set-pieces. www.blooberteam.com

About Anshar Studios

Craftsmanship is our way. We follow the radical truthfulness philosophy to communicate and, as a result, bring impactful, first-party ideas to life and deliver third-party projects perfected. Skilled team, well-crafted portfolio, and ambition to grow. We’re hungry for making good games, we specialize in narrative RPG games so check one of ours or let us help you create one for you. Anshar Studios was founded in 2012 and since then has worked on dozens of commercially released titles on multiple platforms using different technologies. We employ over 120 skilled professionals and game enthusiasts from the video game industry, which are helping out companies from all around the world to develop their games. Apart from that we also develop games as 1st party – we created Gamedec - an adaptive, isometric, cyberpunk, RPG game. Our VR experience was closed with the releases of Detached and Telefrag VR.