Like good DLC can do, Inheritance also raised our appreciation for the original game – making this an essential purchase for (future) Layers of Fear players. In terms of character development and storytelling, Bloober Team has taken a small leap forward with Inheritance. This makes the descent into madness more human, but also makes certain scenes scarier than they were before. There is a pervasive feeling of been there, done that from. The original protagonist is no longer just a madman that you may have trouble sympathizing with, he’s now a father, seen through the eyes of a child. Layers of Fear: Inheritance is ranked in the 30th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic. Since you may not have played the original yet we’ll try to steer clear of spoilers, but it’s safe to say that Inheritance shines a new light on the events we played through before.Ī lot of this has to do with the personal connection that’s involved this time around. In the addon, available as DLC content for the main game, you step into the shoes of the daughter of the first game’s protagonist. Inheritance fills this gap, to a degree at least. All this taking place in a large old house that shifts and changes with each. The multiple endings will help to see this relationship. This felt like a shame, because in our minds there was so much potential for truly interesting character development that didn’t need any jump scares. No, Layers of Fear is a horror of the imagination, a descent into paranoia, obsession, and ultimately madness. Layers of Fear s 'Inheritance' DLC gives new insight into the life and motives of the painter and how his daughter really felt about him. When we reviewed the original Layers of Fear, we applauded its visual design and atmosphere as something truly unique, but felt like the game relied a bit too much on cheap jump scares. The Fablelands were by far my favorite part, and I didn’t realize how much I missed the first time I was there.Layers of Fear, Bloober Team’s supernatural horror adventure, has received its first major story addon in the shape of the Inheritance DLC pack. After my first play through, the game was a lot easier to manage when I had a lay of the land and a general idea of what was going on. There are puzzles in rooms that you’ll completely miss, there are times where you’ll die but sometimes you have to die to continue the story, and so on. There is no clear direction, and you just have to explore until a memory pops for you. Out of the three endings, I didn’t really feel fulfilled by any of them. I felt like maybe there was a bigger picture, but there was a lot of beating around the bush and it was lost on me. You experience memories and find notes and drawings that are loosely connected. Not only was it not scary, I felt like the story, or lack of story, in Inheritance didn’t do anything to further the story in Layers of Fear.
I played the game through several times and only remember jumping once. The game just isn’t as scary or intense as its predecessor. Unfortunately, I found the DLC pretty lacking. I was able to get all the endings and achievements in one sitting, and it was pretty cool to experience the game in its entirety. My playthroughs lasted anywhere between 45 minutes to an hour, but it feels like a lot more. It provides a new perspective that made me a little more sympathetic toward the painter.Īnother positive note, I felt like it was the perfect length. I thought this was really smart to get the chance to see the house in a somewhat normal light. In the DLC, you see the toppled over bookshelves with nothing but the wall behind them, and the paintings with codes are torn apart. For example, there are bookcases with “secret passageways” behind them in the office and paintings with special codes in the first game.
As you walk through the home, you immediately see that everything you experienced in Layers of Fear was in the painter’s head. What new horrors will you discover in the mansion? Great AmbianceĪs someone who really enjoyed Layers of Fear, I really appreciated the way they used the environment. In Layers of Fear: Inheritance, you play as the painters’ daughter returning home after her father had passed. Price: $4.99 (After buying Layers of Fear). As he traverses the ever changing mansion, he is constantly finding things related to his past and the true horrors that were committed in this house. You play as a painter slowly descending into madness alone in his home. She finds a hidden room containing a canvas with her fathers unfinished Magnum. For those of you who didn’t play, this is a psychological indie horror game with multiple endings. When turning off the light, she finds her fathers map to her true inheritance. Layers of Fear was one of the best horror games I have played this year.
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