Layers of Fear (2016)
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.88/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 27,847
- Critics
- 73 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 19% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 77% over the last 30 days against 88% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.55 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.4h
- To 100%
- 11.6h 3.4x the story
- Finish
- 8% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 56 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 36 now
- Recent reviews
- 77% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
52% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 56 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 13 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. The nearest things to it, >observer_ ($29.99, scores 35) and Blair Witch ($29.99, scores 34), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Layers of Fear (2016)
73 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Players rate it 88 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 77 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 2,399 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
3.4 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 13 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Psychologically terrifying game with very little gore and little to no violence depending on ending.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's a really good horror scary game. But when I thought I completed it, I ended up going back to playing it months later. I saw the words finish it instead of continue above new game which it confused me. But also the second end after playing through the chapters again threw me off completely but in a good way. And I also find the story very intriguing. But also I highly recommend this game! ^~^
I like me some good walking simulators and i LOVE horror games. This one bored me so much after only two hours that i had to quit. The whole gameplay consists of running through the same rearranged room assets, opening drawers and desks and getting a cheap jump scare every three minutes. This quickly went from moody to scary to funny to tiresome. The story about a mad painter losing his wife was nothing to write...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1GB / Radeon R7 250X 1GB, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Layers of Fear (2016) scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/391720/layers-of-fear-2016Reviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.