I'm surprised to find myself giving a negative review of Layers of Fear. As an artist who loves horror games, haunted houses, and literally wrote the Wikipedia page "List of reportedly haunted paintings," you'd think this would be exactly my jam. Unfortunately, it did not live up to expectations. I played for an hour and a half, and while there were indeed some spooky paintings as promised, almost everything legitimately creepy was either a reskin or literal copy of one of Goya's Black Paintings (or one of a few other already famous works of art).
Outside of that, the story itself felt flimsy, and the other scares were (at least as far as I got up to) incredibly cheap. Think loud noises accompanied by a piece of furniture being thrown at you. Many of the setpieces are so dark that it's more eye-straining than scary.
The gameplay was more-or-less nonexistent, which would fine if there was anything else to back it up. The architecture of the house quickly dissolves into single rooms and almost-identical hallways laid out in an impossible geometry, which instead of feeling haunted or lovecraftian gives a sense of modularity and sameness broken only by the occasional bloody scrawl or whatever. Perhaps this game gets better later on, but if I have to wait longer than a feature-length film to get to anything legitimately interesting, that's not great!

funni paint man

A fair game