Layers of Fear 2 is an adventure developed by Bloober Team, released 28 May 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 7 hrs to finish.
What Layers of Fear 2 is
Layers of Fear 2 is an adventure game developed by Bloober Team and released in 2019. It was published by Gun Interactive. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The cameras are all focused on you; the center of the scene. Not just in character, you are the character. The part to play is singularly yours. Written just for you.You are met with silence. No barking orders from the director. No call to action that you need to become this version of yourself. The demand to act fills your mind, but the script pages hold no words. Your past has helped to mold you into what you are, forced upon you the skills required to hone your craft. That same past has scraped deep furrowing scars into you, not on the outside where the world can see, but in a place buried so deep within that it has become shapeless. You push those memories down but let the experiences…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 32 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Layers of Fear 2 holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 66, across 75 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-3470 (3.2 GHz) / AMD A8-7600 (3.1 GHz), 5 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 265. An 5GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 14GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Layers of Fear 2 launched on 28 May 2019, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and Rage 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Rage 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Layers of Fear 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
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Characters
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Dlc
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Quick answers
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