🎨 Polish horror developer Bloober Team has revealed Layers of Fear 3 in a video marking the franchise’s 10-year anniversary, teasing the new installment with a William Blake poetry reading and related promotional clips 24. The announcement brings the studio’s original horror series back into the spotlight 3.
Bloober Team also put out a live-action trailer that leans on uneasy mood more than concrete details about the game 4.
The reveal lands as the studio’s profile rises on the back of its work on the Silent Hill 2 remake 2.
Sources
- Bloober Team’s February 15 Announcement Is Layers of Fear 3 [gameranx.com] (2026-02-16)
- Silent Hill 2 remake devs Bloober Team reveal Layers of Fear 3 via creepy poetry reading [rockpapershotgun.com] (2026-02-16)
- Layers of Fear 3 Is What Bloober Team Was Teasing All This Time [pushsquare.com] (2026-02-16)
- Layers Of Fear 3 Announced With A Spooky Live-Action Trailer [gamespot.com] (2026-02-16)
Highlights
- Two-video rollout: Bloober Team spread the reveal across multiple promos—first a moody anniversary video that drops the title at the end, then a separate live-action trailer—while sharing few specifics 34
- Tease paid off: After pointing to a mid-February announcement tied to the anniversary, the studio confirmed the project as Layers of Fear 3 13
Still alive, still evolving, and still finding new ways to haunt
— Piotr Babieno, Bloober Team CEO — GameSpot
Perspectives
Rock Paper Shotgun: The outlet highlighted Bloober Team’s use of William Blake poetry as a particularly unsettling way to announce a game, arguing that poetry’s constraints can make the message feel inherently eerie.
Push Square: The PlayStation-focused outlet called Bloober Team a horror specialist, pointing to the studio’s steady commitment to psychological horror since the original 2016 release.
GameSpot: The publication described the trailer as more about setting the tone than revealing details, with an unsettling atmosphere rather than overt scares.