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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.
Nope.
Looks nice, but I don't why the image of this game reminds me of Chumley the Walrus. :D
Midnight launch, not something usually seen around here.... Then again, game rather fitting for a midnight launch... If not necessarily for sleeping after glancing at the front page. Oy!
Couldn`t sleep, took a look into the forum and BLAM, a release. At night. Without warning. Not my type of game, but a nice surprise.
I've noticed a bit of inconsistency there regarding genre tags:

Among the Sleep - Adventure, FPP, Horror
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs - Adventure, FPP, Horror
Kholat - Adventure, FPP, Horror
SOMA - Adventure, FPP, Horror
Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Adventure, FPP, Horror
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - Action, Adventure, Horror
Layers of Fear - Simulation, FPP, Horror

Having just played through The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, I can confirm that it isn't any more of an action game than the others above; in fact, it would probably still be more appropriate to tag a game like Amnesia: The Dark Descent with "Action" than Ethan Carter (it is FPP as well though). And I'm not familiar with Layers of Fear yet, but is it that different from the other titles? What makes it more of a simulation than, say, Kholat or Among the Sleep? Wouldn't "Adventure" be a more helpful tag, if it's all about the story? Searching for "Simulation", I'd traditionally expect business sims like Sim Hospital or flight sims like Falcon Collection to turn up among the results, not story-oriented horror exploration games ...
Post edited February 16, 2016 by Leroux
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Leroux: I've noticed a bit of inconsistency there regarding genre tags:
As I've probably mentioned many times before, inconsistency is GOG's trademark. This is the one principle they will never abandon.

See for example:
Ironclad Tactics - Strategy - Turn-based - Tactical (It's a real-time game, not a turn-based one)
Forgotten Realms Archives Collection Two - Role-playing - Action - Fantasy (Action? it's the prime example of turn-based RPGs)

And there's more.

P.S. Even Witcher 2 and Witcher 3 are different, but I haven't played them yet, so I am not qualified to comment.
Post edited February 16, 2016 by mrkgnao
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Leroux: I've noticed a bit of inconsistency there regarding genre tags:
Yes, I agree. Hopefully it doesn't get as bad as netflix!

I've looked at this game a bit more than the cursory look I gave it earlier.

DAMN it looks tasty! now near the top of my to-get list!
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Leroux: I've noticed a bit of inconsistency there regarding genre tags:
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drealmer7: Yes, I agree. Hopefully it doesn't get as bad as netflix!
Well, I don`t know much about Netflix, but if they are really so bad, I guess they flag Titanic as Action Movie and Rambo as a Romantic Comedy!!!!
Great to see the game here. Already have it on Steam, but will get it here when it's on sale.
Seems like an "enjoyable" walking simulator. I'll wait for more reviews and maybe a sale but I'll keep it under my radar.
Looks amazing, will definitely get this!
Layers of Fear 2spooky4me.
Looks good added to my wishlist as i am now trying to stop buying games and actually play some of the many i have bought over the years and xcom 2 is eating up me time bloody aliens
Looks nice, pretty Amnesia-ish.
If it's not all jump scares and/or running from monsters, I'm interested.
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Smannesman: Looks nice, pretty Amnesia-ish.
If it's not all jump scares and/or running from monsters, I'm interested.
From what I've looked/gathered about it, it doesn't seem anything like Amnesia to me (which was a game I couldn't STAND playing for more than 20 minutes I thought it was so bad.)

Not reliant on jump scares, no running from anything. Story heavy explorative adventure.
Post edited February 16, 2016 by drealmer7