Layers of Fear does a brilliant job of warping, changing, and reusing the rooms and areas of the house to tell its tale.

You are plunged into a world of looping, cyclical horrors. Stepping out, everything has changed, and you must attempt to complete your work. Normally this wouldn't be something worth mentioning, but as you take in the words, the room begins to contorts, with a new message “Finish it” appearing above the room's entrance. Pulling the sheet down reveals the foundations of a painting, and a Steam Achievement pops-up “It was covered for a reason”. The artists torture is clear, the sheet covered canvas at the center of the room. While the room is mostly in good order, but messages are on the walls and paint is flecked everywhere. Wine bottles everywhere, small notes, sounds, running water, all subtly trying to reveal the events of the house and its one time inhabitants.įinding the key you enter your workshop and it becomes clear where your dread has emanating from. Tiny things like this permeate the whole experience to create a rich, but obscure, narrative. You feel physically invested in the effort of movement, while the scrawled on receipt for the leg also reveals your character's volatile impatience. It's a tiny point, but serves to do so much. Sifting through the houses many cupboards and draws, using tactile controls similar to those of Amnesia, you discover this is because your character has an ill-fitted artificial leg.

And you should take this opportunity to investigate, because these rooms are the canvas on which Layers of Fear creates its fear.

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