His talent started to slowly decay and his vision for painting became twisted, and he began to drive away his friends by painting gory and horrific works for simple jobs, including a set of illustrations for Little Red Riding Hood.
The dog may have later been killed by him. He attached a muzzle to the dog, but is soon plagued by rats, likely a figment of his schizophrenia. After buying a dog for his family, he started to have drinking problems due to constant stress and noise outside his workshop. After she gave birth, he decided to spend more time working on his paintings, leaving only his wife to care for their child. Soon his wife became pregnant and she bore a daughter. The man was an ambitious young painter who used his pianist wife as a model for his painting. After he adds the first layer, he starts having hallucinations about his past encounters. After briefly exploring his empty house, he goes to his workshop to start working on his "magnum opus". Set in the 1920s United States, the unnamed protagonist returns home from a court hearing.
While completing the painting, there is a letter that is slowly pieced together, which shows the origin of his masterpiece, and objects which explain the secret of the painter through dialogue flashbacks. The game is heavily dimmed, and there are objects that uncover certain aspects of the painter's history. The game is divided into six chapters with various items for the player to find in order to complete his work. These changes in the environment provide scaffolding for the puzzles and provide regular jump scares common to games of this genre. The house appears straightforward at first, but it changes around the player as they explore it in first person. The challenge comes from puzzles which require the player to search the environment for visual clues. His initial goal is to complete his masterpiece, and the player's role is to figure out how this task should be accomplished. The player takes control of an artist who has returned to his studio. In October 2018, a sequel titled Layers of Fear 2 was announced. A limited physical retail release for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, published by Limited Run Games in North America, will be available starting October 2018. Here the player controls the painter's daughter with the DLC focusing on her apparent relapse into trauma after returning to her old house.Ī definitive port for the Nintendo Switch, entitled Layers of Fear: Legacy, was released on 21 February 2018 and it features, in addition to the Inheritance DLC, Joy-Con, touchscreen, and HD Rumble support. Layers of Fear: Inheritance was released on 2 August 2016 as a direct follow up to the first game. The gameplay, presented in first person perspective, is heavily story driven and often revolves mostly around puzzle-solving and exploration, as the game intensifies after each level while jump scares occur often. In Layers of Fear, the player controls a psychologically disturbed painter who is trying to complete his magnum opus, as he navigates through a Victorian mansion, with disturbing secrets about the painter being discovered. Layers of Fear is a psychological horror video game developed and published by Bloober Team for Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, which was released worldwide on 16 February 2016.
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