Gold-Plated Games

Rise of Insanity captures little of the horror magic, opting to string together brief snippets of story between bland setpieces and meandering note-searches.

For a monster so celebrated and storied, Slender: The Arrival fails to make Slenderman interesting, frightening, or much of a presence at all.

Coma: Mortuary might be the king of vapid walking sims, a game so bereft of substance that it could be mistaken for a screensaver with button prompts.

Holy Mountains of Flesh is an appropriate end to the Doorways saga, another attempt at atmospheric horror that never really gets fleshed out.

There’s nothing worth seeing here in the Underworld, just some cheap scares and decent atmosphere propping up empty halls and lacking gameplay.

Ultimately, Layers of Fear is a horror game with an incredibly promising base and a painfully inept structure built upon it.