Bloober Team has finally raised the curtain on its mysterious Project Méliès, revealing it to be Layers of Fear 2.
The original Layers of Fear released in 2016, and while it’s debatable how effective it is as a pure horror game, it’s a wonderfully woozy experience, full of all sorts of strikingly inventive, spatially impossible set-pieces – all occurring in spooky old house where a tortured artist slowly succumbs to madness.
Given the focus on wayward artistry in the first game, Project Méliès ultimate reveal as Layers of Fear 2 was pretty obvious in retrospect. There’ve been links to the early days of cinema throughout its previous teases, and the full reveal strongly suggests that Bloober’s Layers of Fear sequel will tell the story of a fading star of the silver screen.
Source: Eurogamer Observer developer unveils its classic-cinema-themed horror Layers of Fear 2