Psychedelic first-person horror Layers of Fear is now available in VR
Developer Bloober Team's wonderfully surreal first-person horror game Layers of Fear has been given the VR treatment and is now available on Steam and the Oculus Store.
Layers of Fear, which originally released in 2016, tells the tale of a tortured painter as he attempts to complete his masterpiece - a creative process that sees him drawn deeper and deeper into a hallucinatory fever, causing his strange, gothic home to warp impossibly as troubling memories begin to resurface.
It's an experience that received some fairly mixed reviews at launch, but one that's still adored by many horror fans. It's undoubtedly hokey, piling on the hoary old genre cliches - from lank-haired lady ghosts to haunted dolls - and it unquestionably leans a little too heavily on YouTube-baiting jump scares at times. However, it serves up a wonderful slice of gothic melodrama, and there's a surprising amount of intelligence and emotional heft beneath the surface.
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