Just a couple of days ago, the people at Bloober Team anticipated the announcement of a new game in the Layers of Fear franchise at Summer Game Fest 2022, and finally the Polish studio has surprised with the announcement of Layers of Fears, a new installment of the franchise that is developed in Unreal Engine 5 and will arrive on Xbox Series X | S, PS5 and PC in early 2023.
Bloober Team is known for its horror games, and now is co-developing Layers of Fears with Anshar Studioswhich released an isometric cyberpunk game called Gamedec in 2021. The developers say that Layers of Fears is “built on the foundations of the original Layers of Fear, Layers of Fear: Inheritance and Layers of Fear 2” (through polygon).
Confirmed Layers of Fears, new installment of the franchise that will arrive in 2023
just as we can see in the first trailer for Layers of Fears, everything seems to us quite familiar and creepy. Apparently, the story will not focus on a single character, but we will have to unravel the dark secrets present throughout different generations, returning to places previously seen in the franchise.
Bloober Team gave up a well-known horror franchise to make Blair Witch
“We are bringing back a franchise that is truly special to us, in a new way that will give players a truly fresh gaming experience and shed new light on the overall story.”said Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno in a press release. “Our plan was to recreate the games, but we didn’t want to make it just a collection of two remastered games. We have come up with a new approach, something that may not be obvious yet. But I can tell you there’s a reason we call it Layers of Fears.”.
Layers of Fears will arrive in 2023 under Unreal Engine 5 for Xbox Series X | S, PS5 and PC.