I took dozens of screenshots during my play through of this just out of momentary instinct. Afterwards, sifting through them, I realized that like its predecessor, these images meant nothing. They stood for no greater or fulfilling purpose outside of thin, superficial aesthetic. With all its black and white filters, sepia tones, ornate set dressing, and cruise ship surroundings, Bloober Team has the talent to create visually stimulating games, but beyond that surface level appeal it falls dead in the water in literally every other department from its half baked retread in Amnesia/PT-esque gameplay tropes to its banal exploration of "themes". Somehow this rings even more hollow than its predecessor despite its attempt at this surreal profundity, opting for a more slow burn build than the first. While I can take Layers of Fear's constant lame jump scares if only for how they livened the otherwise deadening pacing, the glacial unfolding of plot (and exceedingly overlong length) here only exacerbates Bloober Team's lack of talent in creating suspense and manifesting tension. For something that is otherwise this developer's most creatively ambitious title from what I've played, the lack of focus, tact and originality to back up the thinly striking images they present only continues to expose Bloober Team as a hack exhibitor of empty aesthetics. If something like this is the future of psychological horror gameplay, god help us.

I had high hopes for this game, turns out it wasn't really good.

They kept the good things from their previous game, the amazing atmosphere and the beautiful carefuly crafted scenary.

But somehow, they messed up gameplay quite bad, they added your typical horror game puzzle of "pick thing, put there" which I find as fun as doing chores.

Also, for some reason the games runs like shit, and I mean it. I don't know if that has something to do with my GPU being Radeon, but the game couldn't give over 8fps in certain parts, not even in the lowest graphics

Provavelmente vou perder minha carteirinha gamer por dar 3.0 (isso é muito bom considerando a média) pra Layers of Fear 2, mas muito do meu sentimento sobre o jogo vem justamente das minhas expectativas e como enxergo a franquia, e outros jogos da Bloober Team.

Eu não vejo Layers of Fear 2 como um "jogo de terror", pra mim é mais como uma experiência visual jogável (quem jogou o Kid Amnesia Exhibition, Dear Esther, e alguns Walking Simulators tá ligado), e vendo dessa forma, LOF é interessante.

A direção de arte do jogo é belíssima, um espetáculo dentro de suas limitações orçamentárias. A história no geral é boa, nada demais, mas faz algumas coisas diferentes pelo menos.

I loathed this game. It simultaneously repeated itself constantly and yet starts with a reference to an obscure character which is never explained. It is full of movie references that add nothing to the story, as well as the same cheap jumpscares, doors that shut behind you, and areas changing when you turn around that got overdone in the first game. It hurt me to play, and yet I played it all. I couldn't even think of a review funnier than "Credit Rembrandt You Cowards".

Bloober team are also shitty to disabled people and women in the writing, and don't properly warn you about some of the more... tasteless suicide imagery in the game. I got genuinely mad about how poorly it handled this. It is astounding that this team is being trusted with a Silent Hill 2 remake, considering that their core weaknesses are core themes in that game.

It gets half a star because I can flush the toilet repeatedly and the 3d models are quite pretty.

I really like the first Layers of Fear, from its theme to its way of showing terror, but this one is much inferior unfortunately.

It could have been an interesting idea for him to be set on a ship, if the story had been a little better done, in addition to having more explanation (it's crazy).

There is also the fact that there are many jumpscares that after seeing them so much you get used to them.

Anyway, just a game that could have been really good.

I think I'm just not meant to "get" the Layers of Fear games. Having now played both of them, I just found them utterly boring. I realized with this one that they really are less "games" and more digital haunted houses. I wish that the stories they told could be delivered in a more interesting, less obtuse & flowery way. The story in this one seems like it could be something, but it's told in such a boring way that it falls flat for me. Not to mention, I also didn't once find this game frightful--it abuses jump scares instead of crafting genuine horror. Hopefully they're completely rethinking this series for the sequel, because if it's anything like these two then I will also find it boring.