Indeed, this Layers of Fear vintage 2023 begins in a lighthouse that a writer has won the right to live in for a while as part of a strange competition. However, its organizers are counting on it to sign other stories on the spot. The not very reassuring discovery of a painting will thus inspire him with a first story, which is of course that of the painter of the Layers of Fear of 2016. An alcoholic artist, having visibly lost his inspiration, gradually descends into madness and sees his relationship with his pianist wife crumble as he tries to create a new painting. Note that it will not be necessary to close this first adventure to return to the lighthouse, since we are entitled to an interlude after the third chapter, that is to say half of the inaugural game, and there will be others before then in the middle of the second story, which makes us embody a movie star “directed” by a mysterious director aboard a transatlantic liner, while evoking the story of two children embarked clandestinely. And of course, each time you return (briefly) to the lighthouse, things get weirder and scarier, until a very short and enigmatic epilogue. Nevertheless, it must be added Inheritancethe DLC of the first Layers of Fear focused on the point of view of the protagonist’s daughter, accessible by touching a book from the writer’s office in the lighthouse, alongside a second volume offering an unpublished chapter centered on the mother, The Final Note. And since the level design of the first game has been redesigned (and enriched it seems), you should spend at least fifteen hours there knowing that each story offers several endings and heaps of objects to find – it is Moreover, it is possible to redo the chapters already completed from the main menu.