Layers Of Fears looks a lot like a remaster of the first two games

I’m mostly afraid of spelling it wrong

Summer Game Fest just got scary with the announcement of psychological horrorLayers Of Fears, the next instalment in Bloober Team’s jump-fest series that might really be a remaster, sort of? Bloober say it’s the “psychedelic experience fans know and love” and has “an expanded plotline”, so this doesn’t sound like an entirely new game. The freshly revealed Layers Of Fears is being built in Unreal Engine 5. As such, the trailer makes for pleasantly unpleasant viewing.

Layers Of Fears is being co-developed by fellow Polish developers Anshar Studios, who’ve previously worked with Larian onDivinity: Original Sin 2andBaldur’s Gate 3. The devs say this outing is “built upon the foundations” of Layers Of Fear, Layers Of Fear 2 and DLC pack Inheritance, which presumably means it’ll be keeping the jump scares and much talk of insanity from those. I can’t wait for the eventual remake of Layers Of Fears, Layers Ofs Fears. Sorry, Bloober Team.

What we thought might be called Layers Of Fear 3 wasteased last year, so it’s been known for a while that Bloober were mucking about with the new Unreal Engine. Comments from Bloober Team’s CEO Piotr Babieno seem to indicate Layers Of Fears was originally meant to be a more straightforward next-gen rebundling of the first two games, but they’ve decided to meddle with the formula in some way. Babieno says: