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Layers of Fear cover art

Layers of Fear

Anshar Studios · Bloober Team SA · 2023-06-15

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Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 15, 2023 (Mac), Jun 15, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Jun 15, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Jun 15, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The era-defining first-person psychological horror in all its terrifying glory. All of the game’s chapters collected into one convenient package that allows you to plumb the depths of madness in pursuit of artistic revelation.

7
playing now
79%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
75/100
IGDB user rating (25 ratings)
15h
to beat · rushed 14h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Layers of Fear is a horror game developed and published by Bloober Team. It is a remake of the 2016 game Layers of Fear and its sequel Layers of Fear 2 (2019), combining stories from the previous games with new content. The game was released for macOS, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S in June 2023. It was released for the Nintendo Switch 2 on December 19th, 2025. It received generally favourable reviews from critics.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 24% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 34k–77k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,706 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$10.49-65%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$10.49-65%
Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.00 at JoyBuggy (2021-10-16) · bundled 8×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 106 of 148 observed days · $7.49 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

2132026-08-11 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 11 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 17 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 16 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 16 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 10 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 10 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 21 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 11 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 16 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 12 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 14 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 6 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 6 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 10 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 11 players2026-08-27 03:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 12 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 20 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 12 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$0.002019-10-242026-08-302019-10-24 — best price $0.002020-12-03 — best price $22.992021-10-21 — best price $19.992022-01-04 — best price $19.992022-03-11 — best price $3.992023-06-16 — best price $22.202023-08-15 — best price $20.852023-10-16 — best price $29.992023-11-25 — best price $22.982024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-02-05 — best price $29.992024-03-05 — best price $29.992024-04-05 — best price $26.962024-05-08 — best price $29.992024-06-04 — best price $26.112024-07-24 — best price $29.992024-09-17 — best price $17.992024-11-26 — best price $17.992025-01-22 — best price $22.982025-03-13 — best price $17.992025-04-14 — best price $22.982025-05-20 — best price $17.992025-06-20 — best price $17.992025-08-17 — best price $22.982025-09-15 — best price $23.892025-10-24 — best price $22.982025-12-03 — best price $29.992026-02-05 — best price $11.992026-03-26 — best price $11.852026-04-27 — best price $8.452026-05-25 — best price $11.992026-06-21 — best price $12.002026-07-27 — best price $11.992026-08-25 — best price $10.492026-08-30 — best price $10.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

266402026-05-29 — 86 pageviews2026-06-01 — 77 pageviews2026-06-04 — 88 pageviews2026-06-07 — 266 pageviews2026-06-10 — 80 pageviews2026-06-13 — 69 pageviews2026-06-16 — 73 pageviews2026-06-19 — 63 pageviews2026-06-22 — 66 pageviews2026-06-25 — 64 pageviews2026-06-28 — 84 pageviews2026-07-01 — 48 pageviews2026-07-04 — 63 pageviews2026-07-07 — 62 pageviews2026-07-10 — 52 pageviews2026-07-13 — 66 pageviews2026-07-16 — 75 pageviews2026-07-19 — 66 pageviews2026-07-22 — 66 pageviews2026-07-25 — 55 pageviews2026-07-28 — 56 pageviews2026-07-31 — 59 pageviews2026-08-03 — 64 pageviews2026-08-06 — 57 pageviews2026-08-09 — 76 pageviews2026-08-12 — 51 pageviews2026-08-15 — 69 pageviews2026-08-18 — 67 pageviews2026-08-21 — 50 pageviews2026-08-24 — 73 pageviews2026-08-26 — 76 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

52
achievements tracked
93.9%
earned "Something important"
12.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One (Xbox)31,4723%27
PS4 (PlayStation)11,2359%21
PS5 (PlayStation)1,85013%52
Steam (Steam)1,6914%52

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

DarkHorrorMatureMysteryAdventureEmotionalImmersiveStory RichAtmosphericExploration

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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