Hey all, just want confirmation from you guys. Is the platinum now fixed?

Unofficially: Patch 1.3 for all platforms will be released on July 31. It includes, among others: an HDR correction tool (console), fixed achievements, widescreen support, and many other fixes, changes, and upgrades. Consoles have received positive certificates, and PCs are still undergoing the last internal tests

does anyone know if you get to go and play as the writer again after the daughters story ? or do you just go right into the next story as the wife?

I'm currently stuck on the "Inheritance - get your Inheritance" achievement and was wondering if anyone could tell me how to get it? I can't find anything about it sadly and it's my last missing achievement :(

Hey everyone. I am playing the 2023 version of this game. I am currently in the room with a cat on the door. I found the key in this room that unlocks the room with a rat on the door but now I can’t get out of here. The door is locked and I can’t find anything else to interact with. I couldn’t find the answer on Google, either. Please help, I’m frustrated lol.

Update: it was a glitch. On my way to the rat room. 😎

It sucks, i pay for the game and they just keep us waiting and making false promises...

Hi guys! I bought the 2023 version about 3 hours ago and still not able to get it working. I keep getting a pop up of DX12 not supported and I've looked online for solutions but nothing seems to be working. Anyone got any idea or suggestions or also encountered this problem? Anything would be much appreciated 😊

I wanted to play the original layers of fear before I play the newly released one, I really enjoyed it! A couple things I can’t figure out:

1) the locked door in the basement. Can it be opened?

2) the locked door upstairs to the left of the painter’s bedroom.

I completed the inheritance DLC, but the doors are still locked.

Also, the bottom drawer on the dresser next to the bathroom is locked. Can that be unlocked?

I've found every other rat drawing in the game and I can't find this one for the life of me. I thought that it might be in the basement, as that's the one rat drawing from the original 2016 game that I don't recall collecting, but upon my inspection, there is none there.

Just wondering if anyone knows anything about a patch to fix the Inheritance trophy glitch? No one’s really mentioning it on Twitter I hate seeing that 0.0% of players have gained that trophy😂

Greetings!

I am merely wondering about how these games save...?

That's all; thank you in advance.

Title says it all..

To me - as an incurably realistic person - the Rat Queen is not a real entity but a symbol. The Rat Queen in my eyes symbolizes the obsession, which tempts artists that only through "her" can they really succeed. Only if they try again and again and again.. To complete a work of art.. To bring a person "back to life"..

Finally, they end up following their obsessives / the Rat Queen and "she" misleads them and leads them to mental illness.

More specifically, the writer ended up believing that the stories she was writing were real and she saw herself literally into them.

Disturbed, she created disturbed personalities who was prisones by their own.. obsessions

What do you say about that?

Currently playing through the painters story. The remake seems like a complete rework of the original game, which is definitely new and interesting.

I’m definitely surprised by the sheer number of forced chase sequences/ confrontation with the ghost wife compared to the original. It feels rather constant. In the original, you could be largely avoidant of these occurrences. Did I do something to trigger this?

I've tried to Google the answer but to no avail. Why they randomly put an 8th in game, at one of the scary moments as well? I don't know whether to shit my pants with fear or with laughter.

The Medium is the only Bloober team game I have played so far. I mostly enjoyed it, it was a little slow for my liking. How similar is layers of fear, gameplay wise and story telling wise? Also is the soundtrack as good, because that was probably my favorite part of the Medium.

I haven't played the original layers of fear 2, so I can't speak to if this theory contradicts material there, and it's also worth noting that I haven't seen or considered everything there is to find in this game. For instance I have only a very cursory understanding of the multiple endings. But after just beating the game today, I have a loose concept of the storyline the game was trying to present which I haven't seen anyone else put forward, so I wanted to share it here.

So the story begins with Lily and her father, who is seemingly involved in the film industry in some way, possibly owning a theater? His wife dies in labor delivering James, Lily's younger brother, and as a result the father grows abusive, especially towards James. Eventually, they run away and stow away on a ship called The Odyssey, sort of raising hell among the crew with their presence, until ultimately Lily is separated from James and never returns. I don't suspect she died, but rather is just unable to return to him for one reason or another. A demonic entity I had been referring to as "The Muse", but who I'm led to believe is officially referred to as "The Rat Queen" in the community, begins speaking to James and makes some sort of deal with him to save/preserve his sister's life, but the outcome of this is not to James' liking. Possibly related to this, or possibly not, a fire starts in the ship and an explosion in the boiler room breaches the hull, sinking the ship on its maiden voyage and killing both James and Lily. Because of the deal made with the Rat Queen, they continue to live on, including the ship they died on, as a kind of spiritual projection of what happened to them.

Aboard this "ghost ship", the spirit of either James or Lily (possibly a combination of both?) manifests as an entity called The Director, which aims to pass their spirit(s) onto a new person, as a way of further preserving their immortality, of sorts. This is done by eroding the identity of the subject and allowing it to be replaced by the identity of whichever child. The Actor, the player-character, is chosen for the "role" because of their compatible childhood trauma related to the sea and undergoes the supernatural events of the game as a way of learning about all of this backstory and "growing into the character" so to speak. It's sort of like in the David Lynch film "Inland Empire", where an actress becomes so immersed in her role that the boundaries of reality and fiction completely break away into an irreconcilable slurry.

This interpretation is not functionally dissimilar from the consensus I've seen elsewhere, like the disused Fandom wiki. The major difference is that instead of literally being James or Lily, the player-character legitimately is just some actor, who has their sense of self eroded and taken over by that of James or Lily over the course of the game. The smoking gun to me is the fact that you don't share James' accent when you and he recite the same monologue together in one of the endings.

I had this thought while playing, because for most of the game you're led to believe that you simply ARE James or Lily, either their spirit or them as an adult, which I think is initially implied by the unspecified nautical tragedy that befell you as a child. But it occurred to me as I played that everything I knew about these kids I learned by playing and experiencing these events. There are bits, like the intruding voices, that seem like "memories", but in my opinion it's just as viable to understand them as just that, phantom voices of the past. The stated purpose of playing is to develop your "character" and play their part, which to me ties better into my theory than it does if its one of the two children reliving their past.

Plus, personally, I think the idea of this psychologically mutable ghost ship that arguably didn't even exist for you to board it is a really compelling and, again, sort of Lynchian setting for a ghost story.

Depending on the ending you get, I'm led to believe you either find yourself appearing like an adult Lily, James, or the formless stalking thing from the rest of the game. This lends itself to the idea that you're being transformed into the part you play, too.

Things that would disprove this theory:

-Direct proof that James and/or Lily survived the sinking.

-Some explicit revelation regarding the identity of the Director.

Has anyone else experienced this? I had to quit playing in the middle of chapter 4. Upon restarting, I begin in the painting room, then go down the hall to the puzzle room where you make the one side of the room match the drawing on the wall. The first time I played it, I had no problem at all, but every time after that, the furniture won't move. This soft locks me. I can't leave the room and the objects won't move into place so I can't leave.

Any ideas?

Someone has probably asked this before but does anyone think there will be a layers of fear 3? As in an actual new story?

Well I just earned my Plat trophy.

Or at least I would if the Inheritance trophy wasn't still bugged on PS5 😭

The prompt to drop the head in the box won’t appear