Silent Hill 2 Remake Developer Bloober Team Announces Layers of Fear 3 – IGN
Bloober Team has officially taken the wraps off its next psychological horror project: Layers of Fear 3. The reveal arrived during a livestream marking ten years of the franchise, where studio head Piotr Babieno thanked longtime fans before dropping the announcement. Release timing and platforms remain under wraps.
A decade of dread
Layers of Fear has grown into one of the studio’s signature series, beginning with the original title in 2016, followed by a sequel in 2021, and a reimagined edition in 2023 that stitched together the saga with modern tech and storytelling tweaks. The third mainline entry now looks to push the series’ obsession with art, memory, and madness even further.
The unsettling first tease
Bloober debuted a live-action teaser instead of traditional gameplay footage. Set in an ornate hall, a man recites William Blake’s The Sick Rose while the camera lingers on two unsettling portraits: one of a woman—likely the titular “rose”—and another of a deteriorating, human-like figure with its mouth sewn shut. A shadowy presence drifts by, and the woman’s painting crashes to the floor. The narrator shrugs it off, blaming a “little friend” who is “trying to help” but hasn’t quite mastered the rules of the afterlife. Before the clip ends, he issues a pointed Valentine’s Day caution and flips a sand timer. The project’s tagline delivers the final chill: “Some Things Never Leave The Walls. They Only Learn To Wait.”
What we know—and don’t
- No launch window or target platforms have been announced.
- The tone leans heavily into haunted spaces, unreliable narration, and recurring motifs of art and obsession.
- Live-action elements suggest Bloober may further blend filmic storytelling with its trademark first-person psychological horror.
Bloober Team’s busy slate
The announcement arrives as the studio continues work on its high-profile remake of Silent Hill 2. Alongside flagship projects, the company’s subsidiary, Broken Mirror Games, is nurturing several smaller titles, including a mysterious Nintendo Switch exclusive known internally as Project M. Recent years have seen the Polish developer broaden its portfolio with self-published releases such as Cronos: The New Dawn and The Medium, signalling an ambition to balance prestige horror with experimental projects.
Why this matters for horror fans
Layers of Fear helped define a wave of narrative-driven horror that prioritizes atmosphere, symbolism, and psychological unease over brute-force scares. A third entry offers a chance to refine that formula while exploring new storytelling devices hinted at in the teaser. If the live-action framing and literary allusions carry into the final game, expect a tighter interplay between theme, space, and player perspective.
For now, the waiting begins—appropriately enough for a series obsessed with the ghosts that cling to our walls and our memories.
