Layers of Fear

Layers of Fear is a psychadelic survival horror game developed by Bloober Team for the PC and video game consoles. The game was released on February 16, 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows, OS X and Linux. In Layers of Fear player controls painter trying to complete his magnum opus as he is navigating through a Victorian-era mansion. Gameplay is heavily story-focused and revolves mostly around puzzle-solving and exploration.

Reception

Layers of Fear received mixed to positive reviews. The game has a Metacritic score of 73% on PC and 79% on PlayStation 4 based on 19 and 11 critic reviews respectively.

Leon Hurley praised game in GamesRadar review stating "it’s one of the best horror games I’ve ever played and literally creates a new tool set for interactive scares." He complimented game's art and the "unease from a horror experience" it provides, giving it a maximum score. Nick Monroe recommended the game in The Escapist review noting that "Layers of Fear achieves its goal of making you scared as a player, instead of just existing as something scary" but warned that the game is not recommended to gamers who are seizure prone.

Fear

Fear is a feeling induced by perceived danger or threat that occurs in certain types of organisms, which causes a change in metabolic and organ functions and ultimately a change in behavior, such as fleeing, hiding or freezing from perceived traumatic events. Fear in human beings may occur in response to a specific stimulus occurring in the present, or in anticipation or expectation of a future threat perceived as a risk to body or life. The fear response arises from the perception of danger leading to confrontation with or escape from/avoiding the threat (also known as the fight-or-flight response), which in extreme cases of fear (horror and terror) can be a freeze response or paralysis.

In humans and animals, fear is modulated by the process of cognition and learning. Thus fear is judged as rational or appropriate and irrational or inappropriate. An irrational fear is called a phobia.

Psychologists such as John B. Watson, Robert Plutchik, and Paul Ekman have suggested that there is only a small set of basic or innate emotions and that fear is one of them. This hypothesized set includes such emotions as joy, sadness, fright, dread, horror, panic, anxiety, acute stress reaction and anger.

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