Posted on: April 11, 2018

Yffisch

Spiele: 523 Rezensionen: 55

Extremely scary game!

I've played a couple of horror games and I have not really been "that" scared. Darkness Within series has a very good atmosphere for example, but does not really give you the horror feeling. It's more like a very good Thriller. But I just bought Layers of Fear and got very impressed. First I thought it was a Darkness Within clone ish, but I realized quite early that this was something more. I turned all my lights off, waited until it was dark outside, increased the volume on my speakers (very good speakers since it's important), started the game on my 55" TV and gave it a chance. Darn! I had to take some smaller pauses between the stages since it was totally horrifying. I got caught after 20 minutes when I started understanding stuff and then I could not stop playing. What an incredible masterpiece! Totally worth at least 4.5/5 instead of 4/5. I'm sold! You should really try it out. But it is extremely important to create a good atmosphere in your room and crappy speakers is a big no no. If you have a small screen, then you need to be close to it. I was very impressed with all the confusion the game creates. This is not just a house where you can go back and forth to research stuff and play detective (like Darkness Within which is awesome). This will totally mess up your brain and what you look at may not be there if you turn away from it.

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Posted on: July 9, 2018

shylock.596

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Spiele: 756 Rezensionen: 103

Genuinely Creepy

Layers of Fear is a great game. One that is genuinely creepy and has a great story to explore. Most of it’s negative quirks are not huge and the positives outweigh it. The graphics are overall well done. The lighting and shadows are great and the art direction serves the creepy vibe well. The game is mainly an exploration and puzzle solving game. I still consider it a horror game but by no means a survival horror game. You don’t have to manage your health or ammo and don’t have to worry about dying. The game still managed to put me on edge the further you descend into the protagonist's madness. You are going to want to explore as much as you can as the story is told through items you find such as drawings and mementos which bring flashbacks and memories to you. The game ran really well although it needs a beefy CPU to be able to do that. On my old FX-9590 I was only getting about 40 FPS but with my Ryzen 2600X I was usually 100-144 FPS with the game on highest settings. The game did have a lot of technical issues though. Many times the game would crash at launch. This would happen on multiple versions of the game, different distros, different kernels and different GPU drivers. I was able to finish the game but every time I went to start the game I had to worry if it would launch. The game never crashed if it did load though. The game had a decent number of features and options. There is an FOV slider, two AA levels, a toggle for AF, Vsync, two settings for ambient occlusion and 5 other graphics options. There is support for frame rates above 60 so owners of high refresh monitors can put them to use. The game does use an auto save system instead of manual saves. It saves the game after each room you go through but my issue was that it doesn’t tell you that. I found that out on a forum post from the developer. Some sort of indication the game was saving would have been nice. ALT-Tab didn’t work for me. If you are looking for a horror themed puzzle game such as Conarium then you will probably enjoy this. Blooper Team has really put themselves on the map when it comes to quality exploration/puzzle games that nail their theme such as Layers of Fear with horror or >Observer_ with the Cyberpunk gere. I beat the main game in a little over 3 hours. My rating: 8.5/10 My system: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 18.1.1 | Samsung 850 Evo 250GB | Solus 3 | Kernel 4.17.2-78.current

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Posted on: April 25, 2017

Syphonides

Spiele: 747 Rezensionen: 2

Scary if you're scared of paintings

Let me just come out swinging. This game is terrible. The atmosphere is there, it just never coalesces into something meaningful. The graphics are meh, which is to be expected with Unity powering the entire thing. I was never truly on board with this, sort of hanging off the side for the ride until the baby scene. Without spoilers, let's just say that the ghost baby you chase turns out not to be scary in the least. It was so non-scary that I was on the floor, literally, howling with laughter for 15 minutes. Any mention of the ghost baby in Layers of Fear still reduces me to tears. Pretty sure that's not how your horror game is supposed to leave people.

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Posted on: March 13, 2019

smp152

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Spiele: 37 Rezensionen: 2

Great fun for an evening!

Lots of fun if you plan in the dark with nice headphones! It didn't take me too long to get through it, but it was great listening to the creepy sounds and strange decent into madness! Usually my first reaction is to jump and run whenever something startled me, but then I'm also a completionist so I had to steady myself and keep searching drawers, and I loved it. Also really fun to play with a friend (especially when you know what's coming and get to watch their reactions!) and enjoy an evening wandering through madness. The game looks great, sounds great, and I didn't have any problems with crashing or studdering or anything. Would recommend!

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Posted on: January 30, 2018

allertec

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Spiele: 83 Rezensionen: 1

Lights and music... this is how...

I really enjoyed the game. Pretty impressed with the way how developers managed to acheive in terms of fear :) It appears that you don't have to kill anyone or run before someone to be scared. Very nice.. Will need to play with DLC. Graphics is really nice.

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