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 · Poland over the last 30 days: the 21 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 12 places towards #1, and the 2,501 moves with no price cut behind them went 1 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 949 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Terror psicológico que aposta tudo na atmosfera e acerta bastante. A mansão vitoriana que muda de layout constantemente enquanto você anda pelos corredores é um dos melhores usos desse tipo de mecânica que já vi, sempre deixando você meio desorientado sem saber o que é real. A narrativa sobre a obsessão do pintor com sua obra-prima é bem contada através dos ambientes e objetos espalhados pela casa, sem precisar de exposição forçada, e o design sonoro ajuda muito a manter a tensão constante mesmo sem muitos jump scares baratos. O ritmo pode ser lento demais pra quem prefere terror mais visceral/ação, e a história fica um pouco confusa/aberta demais na interpretação pra quem gosta de resposta mais direta no final. Pra quem curte terror mais psicológico e atmosférico ao invés de puro susto, é uma experiência bem imersiva e artisticamente competente.
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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 949 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
为了打结局通关了六遍 每次都有新的感悟。 在游戏营造的恐怖氛围之下，体现的是一个家庭的伤痛 游戏中隐藏着许多暗喻：破败的场景、不断崩塌的环境、会攻击人的家具、以及不时传来的婴儿的哭声......都反映出画家精神的失常和家庭关系的逐渐破裂。 无论是陷入轮回、彻底迷失于执念之中，还是在无尽的悔恨与自责中选择自焚，哪个都算不上一个好结局 曾经带给他人的伤害是不可逆的，后劲很大。
GOOD GAME
Was soll ich sagen. Jumpscares sind gut wenn sie aufgebaut werden und die Spannung mit einem großen Knall lösen. Dieses Spiel wirft mit ihnen nur so um sich, ist eher ein langweiliger walking simulator, nicht aufregend oder spannend. Würde ich nicht empfehlen. Story hat mich auch nicht wirklich gepackt, wobei die wohl das beste an dem Game war.
Mild story spoilers, no endings. I have a very hard time deciding if I should recommend it or not. The level design is something that I liked. And maybe that's where it starts and where it ends. The story is... ehm... a narcissistic alcoholic causes his wife to take her life and their daughter to be taken into social care, while he obsessively paints his masterpiece. I do not sympathize with these kinds of people, nor do I have mercy upon them. If one of your family members is struck by a tragedy and you can't look upon them because they are not beautiful anymore, you are ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up in the head, and you're a pathetic excuse for a human being. In terms of horror, there are a few good jumpscares, I guess... But I am much older than the target audience for this game, so. Overall, I would give it 6/10. It is not going to make you physically recoil, but you won't be happy. The game wants multiple playthroughs without a guide, or you have to be lucky not to touch an item that will screw your definitive ending, which makes the game tedious rather than something innovative.
心理恐怖类型的代表作，但事实上，与其说它是一部恐怖游戏，不如说它是一部优秀的视听体验作品，它并不会吓到你，反而是刺激出你的好奇心，驱动你继续一探究竟，看看还有怎样的视听表现
神了
I freaking love the story of this game, I definetely did not start freaking out when walking around and being gaslit by this game, 10/10.
我操!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!这个6块钱太他妈值了啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊我去给我下死了，人生中最值的6块钱！！！！！！！！！！
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