Bloober Team had revealed (after much teasing) Layers of Fears back in June, and at Gamescom, they’ve now dropped a new trailer for the upcoming entry. The trailer specifically provides an extended look at “The Final Note,” one of the new storylines created exclusively for Layers of Fears.
In Layers of Fears, “The Final Note” focuses on the Painter’s Wife, a devastated musician whose story has never been fully explored. The trailer also teases a new location that aims to bridge the stories of Layers of Fear and Layers of Fear 2.
Layers of Fears is described as “a psychological horror chronicle built upon the foundations of the original Layers of Fear, Layers of Fear: Inheritance, and Layers of Fear 2.” Powered by Unreal Engine 5, the new entry builds on the foundations of the franchise’s previous entries and “works as a reimagination of the overall narrative structure connecting them all.” Layers of Fears will serve as a nexus where the revised stories of the original Layers of Fear and Layers of Fear 2 coalesce into a single unified experience that is expanded with the addition of new original chapters.
Layers of Fears is currently in development for PC via Steam, PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series, targeting a 2023 release.