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Layers of Fear: Inheritance

Layers of Fear: Inheritance expands the plot from Layers of Fear and tells the story of the painter’s daughter, who comes back to her childhood home to face her past. Lead the daughter through what’s left of…

78 2 August 2016

Layers of Fear: Inheritance is an adventure developed by Bloober Team, released 2 August 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac. The main story takes about 1 hrs to finish.

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What Layers of Fear: Inheritance is

Layers of Fear: Inheritance is an adventure game developed by Bloober Team and released in 2016. It was published by Aspyr Media. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

I’m home, Father. Time takes its toll on everything that surrounds us. It destroys what is physical, crumbling even the sturdiest foundations, and it destroys our minds—our memories—shaping and twisting them into something new. You are never ready to face the past, but the past never lets you go. And so I find myself at the door, the handle disturbingly cold to the touch. I pull it open and enter what was once a place of solitude turned nightmare. I’m home, Father. Layers of Fear: Inheritance expands the plot from Layers of Fear and tells the story of the painter’s daughter, who comes back to her childhood home to face her past. Can she forgive her father, or will she resent all that has…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Layers of Fear: Inheritance holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 1 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core2 Quad Q8400, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1GB / Radeon R7 250X 1GB. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB.

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What it launched against

Layers of Fear: Inheritance launched on 2 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu and Overcooked!. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu, Overcooked!.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Layers of Fear: Inheritance — frequently asked questions

When did Layers of Fear: Inheritance come out?
Layers of Fear: Inheritance was released on 2 August 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Layers of Fear: Inheritance?
At minimum, Layers of Fear: Inheritance needs Intel Core2 Quad Q8400, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1GB / Radeon R7 250X 1GB graphics, 5 GB available space of storage.
How long does it take to beat Layers of Fear: Inheritance?
The main story of Layers of Fear: Inheritance takes around 1 hrs.
How many GB is Layers of Fear: Inheritance?
The PC version needs about 5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("5 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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