Layers of Fear VR
Skip · Narrative · 2019
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 21, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $10.00/hr
- Reviews
- 72% of 275 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Enter a tangibly horrifying Virtual Reality and explore a mansion of horror as an artist falling into the depths of insanity. Will you find the muse for your masterpiece... or madness?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 480, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 47 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 72 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Narcosis ($14.99, scores 34) and Granny ($7.99, scores 62) both outscore it.
More about Layers of Fear VR
Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 121 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
56% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
𖤐 I have played through the normal Layers of Fear multiple times in the past so I was really looking forward to experiencing it in VR however this game was ported to VR very poorly. I can't speak for other headsets but it is almost unplayable on the Metaquest. My hands were at first not visible until I found a work around in the controller settings, interacting with objects and doors was janky and didn't even work...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Alternate title: door opening simulator. Horror is near comedy level with how dumb it gets. Hard to believe these guys did the Silent Hill remake. If you are going to play and have a Quest 3S make sure to use VDXR or else you won't have any hands in the game.
Layers of Fear VR is a disturbing psychological horror adventure that transforms an artist's descent into madness into an intensely immersive experience. Developed by Incuvo S.A. and published by Bloober Team SA, the game places players inside a constantly changing Victorian mansion where reality becomes increasingly unreliable. Rather than emphasizing combat or traditional survival mechanics, it builds its identity...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Layers of Fear VR scores 21/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1183030/layers-of-fear-vrReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.