Bloober Workforce has introduced Layers of Fears, a “psychedelic horror chronicle” made in Unreal Engine 5 and coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Collection X/S in early 2023.
Introduced at Summer time Recreation Fest, the sport is seemingly pitched someplace between a remaster and a sequel. Bloober guarantees that it’ll ‘construct on the foundations’ of the unique Layers of Worry, Layers of Worry: Inheritance, and Layers of Worry 2, however will “embrace an expanded plotline and gameplay path.”
A trailer confirmed off what remade variations of scenes from all of the Layers of Worry video games, however it was exhausting to get a way of what the gameplay adjustments may be, nor how they are going to be tied collectively. We’ll make sure to ask Bloober Workforce what these may be once we can.
In a press launch, Bloober CEO Piotr Babieno mentioned: “We’re bringing again a franchise that’s actually particular for us, in a brand new type that can give gamers a very recent gaming expertise and that can shed new gentle on the general story. Our plan was to recreate the video games, however we didn’t need to make it a easy assortment of two remastered video games. We’ve labored out a brand new strategy, one thing that’s possibly not but apparent. However I can let you know there’s a cause why we referred to as it Layers of Worry’s’.”
The corporate has beforehand teased some form of return to its Layers of Worry sequence, and mentioned that it could be made utilizing Unreal Engine 5. We awarded 2019’s Layers of Worry 2 a 9/10 evaluation, saying, “with distinctive puzzles and professional pacing, Layers of Worry 2 is a harrowing and persistently thrilling endeavor.”
Bloober made its identify with horror video games reminiscent of Layers of Worry, Observer, Blair Witch and, most not too long ago, The Medium. The compny is at the moment engaged on two main initiatives, and one is a recreation made with Konami, which many consider to be a brand new Silent Hill recreation of some sort.
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