Layers of Fear, QUBE 2 currently free on the Epic Games Store
Epic continues to dish out the freebies this week, gifting Blooper Team's surreal haunted house horror Layers of Fear and Toxic Games' first-person puzzler QUBE 2 to anyone willing to deploy their mouse finger and clicky-button them into their Epic Games Store library.
Layers of Fear isn't exactly fresh to the freebie scene, but the 2016 spook-'em-up is well worth checking out if you haven't done so already. It might not be particularly terrifying - its over-reliance on clatter-bangy jumpfrights puts pay to that pretty early on - but it's a wonderfully woozy experience, and a bit of a personal favourite for all its faults.
What it lacks in sustained horror, it makes up for in sheer hallucinatory spectacle, constantly reassembling the gorgeous gothic interiors of its spooky old house into ever-more disorientating, gleefully surreal configurations, as you, a tortured artist, slowly unravel.
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