Layers of Fears Returns in 2023, Fourth Game Coming to PC and Consoles

Bloober Team’s most iconic franchise, Layers of Fears, is getting another game next year. The Polish studio teased the game earlier this week and released the official reveal trailer during the Summer Game Fest live show. Co-developed with Anshar Studios, the next Layers of Fears game will be launched in early 2023 on PC (via Steam and Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.

Along with the reveal trailer, developers announced that the next psychedelic experience in the Layers of Fears series will include an expanded plotline and gameplay direction created in Unreal Engine 5. The trailer offers a look at the updated graphics, gameplay, and the setting for the new story chapter.

“We are bringing back a franchise that is really special for us, in a new form that will give players a truly fresh gaming experience and that will shed new light on the overall story. Our plan was to recreate the games, but we didn’t want to make it a simple collection of two remastered games. We’ve worked out a new approach, something that is maybe not yet obvious. But I can tell you there’s a reason why we called it Layers of Fears,” said Piotr Babieno, Bloober Team’s CEO

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The next Layers of Fears game will benefit from the CORSAIR iCUE Integration system, which provides dynamic lighting effects meant to turn your desktop into a fully synchronized, real-time visualization of in-game actions.

This would be the fourth Layers of Fears game after the original’s release back in 2016. Since then, Bloober Team launched two more games, Layers of Fear: Inheritance and Layers of Fear 2, but neither raised to the quality of first one, at least according to critics and many of the franchise’s fans. Hopefully, the upcoming title will mark the return to the roots for the Layers of Fear series.