A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.
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Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Availability
We put this game to every storefront we collect. A market that answered not sold has told us something about the game; a market we never asked has not, and the two are never drawn the same.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.14/day in the week to Aug 25 → 3.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,515 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
The legendary game where it all started. Kickstarting an award-winning series in style, Layers of Fear plunges you into a tale of madness and artistic compulsion as you take on the role of The Painter determined to complete his magnum opus at all costs.
As you roam the painter’s decaying home, the world warps to reflect his crumbling sanity. Memories blur into sinister visions, rooms twist into nightmares, and each discovery draws you closer to the truth behind his masterpiece – and the obsession that destroyed him.
Created by the modern-day masters of horror – Bloober Team – the original Layers of Fear is renowned for this immersive and tense atmosphere. Prepare for a haunting journey into the depths of the human psyche.
Psychedelic Horror – The unstable environment reacts to your fragile state of mind, reshaping itself when you look away.
Victorian Setting – Explore a game world inspired by iconic paintings, architecture and décor from the 19th century.
Original and Classic Art – Numerous pieces of original art and music flesh out the game’s storyline and its richly-detailed locations.
Genres
Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, GOG publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 27.7Kreviews | 88% | — | $9.2M |
| $22.99 | 8.9Kratings | 89% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 945 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
像一个艺术作品好玩的
不愧是老游戏，老艺术家手搓。渲染和暗示还是很牛逼的。好玩。
Honest to God, one of the very few games that has made me jump out of my chair while playing it. My roommates at the time were concerned... Great story and terrifying!!
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14 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.
14 on sale1 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask
The 1 “not sold” market is read from the Steam price pass of Sep 14: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price there. The 14 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, Italian, Polish, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Korean*languages with full audio support
| $1.99−90% |
| 278ratings |
| 74% |
| #85 |
| not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 945 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Годное ходилке бродилке про шизика-художника на 3 часа
维多利亚老宅心理恐怖，画家的精神崩溃叙事。人物全部靠环境叙事，没有太多角色对白，情绪内敛压抑，是偏向艺术氛围的作品，不是爽感向恐怖游戏。 本作核心恐怖来自空间的扭曲异变，回头就改变的走廊、不断重组的房间，心理压迫感十分独特。油画、人偶、昏暗宅邸的美术氛围渲染顶级，音效、环境音烘托情绪，戴上耳机游玩的沉浸感和外放完全是两个游戏。 遗憾的是玩法过于单薄，本质就是开门走路模拟器，解谜难度极低，大部分时间就是顺着走廊往前走，喜欢解谜、操作的玩家会觉得乏味。 没有战斗、没有死亡机制，全程就是行走、找道具、阅读文档，手残也可以完整通关，多结局设计，不同选择解锁不一样的画家故事。 叙事偏向碎片化，大量背景藏在信件、绘画、环境细节里，不仔细看文本，很容易看不懂整个悲剧故事。
Игра не оправдывает ваших ожиданий мои дорогие, она совсем устарела и не умеет пугать должным образом. Даже заканчивать не стал, не знаю что люди нашли в ней, ещё и пролагивать умудряется.
游戏总体不算特别恐怖，少量突脸主要以心理恐怖为主，画面不错且艺术性颇高，转场神中神游玩过程中还能看到当年寂静岭pt的影子，可玩性不高流程短，但是这6元真的很香（注：游玩过程中一定要关闭镜头抖动不然会晕3d）
剧情没太玩明白，隐约有关婚育事业与心理挣扎。 玩法上视角的转换的玩法很值得品鉴，有种超阈限空间的玄秘感。 恐惧氛围浓烈，跳脸不多但重在营造平静外边下心理的癫狂。主角的每一步都合乎常理，也在维持与外界的联系，但又饱受孤独侵害。 总的来讲是很不错的游戏，推荐游玩（跟寂静岭坐一桌doge）
The game is one of the best horror games—suspenseful, with a great story; a work of art.
Вот это считаю показательным хоррором. Хорошая атмосфера, графика, местами довольно оригинальные и действительно пугающие скримеры. Классная работа с локациями и окружением, когда там все постоянно меняется, исчезает, переносит тебя куда-то, напомнило прей 2006. Невероятно понравились картины, которые рисует гг, художнику мое глубочайшее почтение, готов скупить и повесить себе на стену. Сюжет подается довольно абстрактно, но даже после одного прохождения основные идеи нетрудно уловить. Не считаю его хорошим или плохим, просто норм. Из минусов: 1. Получение концовок сделали как-то муторно и очень туманно, игра не объясняет что конкретно триггерит концовку. Потом читаешь гайды в гугле и желание перепроходить резко сходит на нет, тем более что при повторном прохождении не меняется вообще ничего. Перепроходить всю игру лишь для того, чтобы изменилась сценка на пару секунд в конце? Ну такое... 2. Собирание шашек в 6 главе. Пиксель хантинг в кромешной тьме?! Дайте два! Максимально портит впечатление от игры под конец, кроме чувства фрустрации ничего не вызывает.
Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
Players also reviewed
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