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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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DeMignon: Hehe, horror game release at midnight. Someone is taking their night shift seriously ;-D
I'm trying my hardest not too look at any of the artwork before I go to bed ;_;
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DeMignon: Hehe, horror game release at midnight. Someone is taking their night shift seriously ;-D
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B0SC0: I'm trying my hardest not too look at any of the artwork before I go to bed ;_;
Casual.
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DeMignon: Hehe, horror game release at midnight. Someone is taking their night shift seriously ;-D
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B0SC0: I'm trying my hardest not too look at any of the artwork before I go to bed ;_;
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mecharma: Casual
That applies to the both of you.
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toxicTom: PS: and three blue posts after another. this must mean something... the holy three? B0SC0 - The Maiden? mecharma - The Mother? JudasIscariot - The Crone?
It's the other way around...
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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?
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
Layers of Fear 2spooky4me.
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mrkgnao: Yes. Those Rayman Rabbids are the worst.
Dunno, I always thought that this stare: https://www.gog.com/game/unmechanical
is the creepiest :)
Post edited February 17, 2016 by Thiev
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mrkgnao: Yes. Those Rayman Rabbids are the worst.
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Thiev: Dunno, I always thought that this stare: https://www.gog.com/game/unmechanical
is the creepiest :)
You are STILL triggered by that? :P
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IAmSinistar: That rat/human person on the game's carousel banner here is naggingly familiar. I would swear that I had seen something like that before. An illustration of a rat-like vampire perhaps, or an alien from some graphic novel. Not saying the devs appropriated the image from elsewhere, just vexing me with a familiarity that I can't place.
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Aspyr-Blair: Much of the wall art in the game is altered paintings from the 12th century through the victorian era, so there should be a slight familiarity with everything. Thats something that really haunted me at least.

The "wolf baby" painting however is an actual portrait 0.0

Bloober has several MFA's on the art team, so a deep understanding of art history went into the game.
Any chance there will be an expansion into the Black Paintings? :)
Post edited February 18, 2016 by JudasIscariot
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JudasIscariot: Any chance there will be an expansion into the Black Paintings? :)
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LynetteC: I've spotted [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Paintings#/media/File:Francisco_de_Goya,_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_%281819-1823%29_crop.jpg]Saturn Devouring His Son [/url] at several points in the game and I'm only up to chapter 4. :-)
Ah very cool :) I haven't had the chance to play the game yet (long backlog and lots of releases...) hence my question :)