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Fear of the blank.



<span class="bold">Layers of Fear</span>, a horror adventure where you brush against your most creative nightmares, is available now for Windows, Mac, and Linux, DRM-free on GOG.com.

What is art if not a gut-wrenching battle between the established and the proposed, the innovative and the classic, the bold and the conventional. Does the artist captivate his subjects or does he set them free? Does he reshape his surroundings using his paintbrush as a carving knife or do they reshape him, hacking off pieces and peeling back layers until his very soul lays bare? Once you're faced with a blank canvas, all these questions come crushing down on you and you'll have to draw your own exit if you are ever going to reach salvation before you reach the bottom.

Finishing your masterpiece threatens to be your undoing as Layers of Fear keep stacking on your psyche. Your most dependable source of inspiration, the 19th century paintings hanging on every wall, are now turning on you, playing tricks on your fragile mind. The foreboding mansion shifts, spins, and bleeds in the blink of an eye, leading your mind astray with its impossible architecture and walls covered in horrible markings. Horrors that you thought you had buried forever now come shambling out of the woodwork. This is how the mind of a deranged artist looks like. Can you peel back the insanity and unearth the terrible secrets that lie beneath?



Paint your greatest sins in the color of madness and finish your masterpiece before you are consumed by <span class="bold">Layers of Fear</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com.
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toxicTom: Scary... a release in the dead of the night...

That one's for the wishlist (which is also scary enough...) since there were just too many good offers lately and I'm OOM...

PS: and three blue posts after another. this must mean something... the holy three? B0SC0 - The Maiden? mecharma - The Mother? JudasIscariot - The Crone?
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B0SC0: I wanted company for the late night release and the two were kind enough to oblige... Well, Mecharm was, Judas just happened to be roaming the GOG halls XD
Love this post, although I'm sad to say bringing Stubbs back to life is extremely unlikely.
Holy BALLS, YES! :| I genuinely did not expect to see this gem on GOG. Thank you so much! :)
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tfishell: Aspyr's first release? Hopefully the future holds the KOTORII update finally, and Mac versions of current games.

Oh, and of course I never would have guessed a 6pm EST release. :-P
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Grargar: Huh... you are right. Maybe they could also bring Stubbs the Zombie.
Ha, I beat ya to it! *steals some smugness*

Seriously though, it goes w/o saying but Stubbs would be very nice.

I noticed that, on Steam, Aspyr has (at least) three different publisher entries: something like Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Mac, Linux), and Aspyr. Hopefully that doesn't matter on GOG, though.

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B0SC0: I wanted company for the late night release and the two were kind enough to oblige... Well, Mecharm was, Judas just happened to be roaming the GOG halls XD
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Aspyr-Blair: Love this post, although I'm sad to say bringing Stubbs back to life is extremely unlikely.
Noooo :(

Is there at least hope for the Knights of the Old Republic 2 Update, and Mac versions of games already here?
Post edited February 16, 2016 by tfishell
If anyone wants to know more about this game, Jim Sterling has a Squirty Play video of it (back when it was on Steam EA) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLdcL0I52WQ

IMO, he didn't think much of it, and from the gameplay shown it doesn't look like much either.
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mecharma: It's the other way around...
Ok, that explains a lot... At least that Judas is online ~20 hours per day... Are you preserving him for some special ritual?
This looks wicked awsome.
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Aspyr-Blair: Love this post, although I'm sad to say bringing Stubbs back to life is extremely unlikely.
Hello there! Is a release unlikely because of technical or legal reasons?
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tfishell: I noticed that, on Steam, Aspyr has (at least) three different publisher entries: something like Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Mac, Linux), and Aspyr. Hopefully that doesn't matter on GOG, though.
It won't. On Steam it just emphasizes that Aspyr is the publisher for the Mac and Linux versions of the game in question.
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rampancy: If anyone wants to know more about this game, Jim Sterling has a Squirty Play video of it (back when it was on Steam EA) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLdcL0I52WQ

IMO, he didn't think much of it, and from the gameplay shown it doesn't look like much either.
Like most reviews in the genre (whether film or games), we expected wildly different views. For example GamesRadar lauded it as "one of the best horror games ever made" while IGN US gave it a 5.8 (strangely all other international IGN sites had much higher scores).

We happen to love horror, and believe Layers is an excellent addition to the genre. Thats why we jumped in and are so excited to be a part of this launch.
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rampancy: If anyone wants to know more about this game, Jim Sterling has a Squirty Play video of it (back when it was on Steam EA) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLdcL0I52WQ

IMO, he didn't think much of it, and from the gameplay shown it doesn't look like much either.
My thoughts exactly. But given the "Overwhelmingly Positive" ratio of reviews on Steam, I'll just give it the benefit of the doubt: to the wishlist it goes!
Bought it :)

There's not nearly enough good looking horror games these days. It's also many months until Outlast 2 and I'm not aware of what else is coming out this year.

Can't wait to play it! Thanks for the Monday evening release!
Post edited February 16, 2016 by JinseiNGC224
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Aspyr-Blair: Love this post, although I'm sad to say bringing Stubbs back to life is extremely unlikely.
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Grargar: Hello there! Is a release unlikely because of technical or legal reasons?
I'm guessing legal reasons. Aspyr published Stubbs the Zombie; the IP presumably was owned by Wideload Studios. The thing was, Disney bought them out in 2009 and shut them down in 2014. So who owns the rights to the game? Disney, or Alexander Seropian (co-founder of Bungie and the founder of Wideload)? In 2012, Seropian left and formed his own company (Industrial Toys)...so that means possibly negotiating between Industrial Toys/Seropian, and Disney.

I also remember hearing that the game is a real bitch to get working with newer versions of Windows.
sure looks nice, but i'll wait for a discount
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Grargar: Hello there! Is a release unlikely because of technical or legal reasons?
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rampancy: I'm guessing legal reasons. Aspyr published Stubbs the Zombie; the IP presumably was owned by Wideload Studios. The thing was, Disney bought them out in 2009 and shut them down in 2014. So who owns the rights to the game? Disney, or Alexander Seropian (co-founder of Bungie and the founder of Wideload)? In 2012, Seropian left and formed his own company (Industrial Toys)...so that means possibly negotiating between Industrial Toys/Seropian, and Disney.
Pretty darn close! Also, remember how crazy the soundtrack was.
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Aspyr-Blair: Pretty darn close! Also, remember how crazy the soundtrack was.
I see. Thanks for the confirmation.
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Aspyr-Blair: ...
Welcome to GOG, Aspyr! As a Mac gamer, I've had a lot of fond memories of your company -- I still have many of your original physical releases of your ports. (When I saw that my local Mac software store had your original port of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri in stock waaaay back in 2000, I bought it the first chance I got.) While I'm not holding my breath, I'm hoping this means we'll be seeing your Mac ports of your Star Wars games soon...
Post edited February 16, 2016 by rampancy