I loved Layers Of Fear 1 and 2, and I'm excited for 3, but I have to say I am unimpressed with this remake of 1. What I do like is the new world, it looks great, the voice acting is nice and I enjoy the new puzzles. What I do not like are the game breaking bugs, changes to the first story to force in new mechanics. What made 1 different from 2 big spoilers ahead is that the monster couldn't hurt you, but you are still scared because of the phycological aspect. They completely remove that for generic run from the monster time which even scary. In this remake you are forced to fight your wife (and turn her to goo??) or repeat the same part of the story the 2016 version is better from a story perspective. "tip the scales" to me is a cheap replacement for the emotional weight of the decisions you make in 1 to get the wife and daughter ending. imo if you want the best experience play the 2016 version for The Painters story. The og id give a 7-8 outa 10 but this remake is easily a 3 out of 10, they ruined it. play the 2016 version instead I can not stress it enough.

I for the absolute life of me cannot get this game to run on Mac, even though it's "mac compatible". I've never, ever had issues such as getting basic functions to run properly (even for a single second, such as looking in a direction or walking). Because I payed for it I tried an hour straight to work around these issues, but the game is unplayable for me. I get stuck walking in a certain direction any time I try to move (with a 3 second lag), it glitches every time I try to look somewhere (again, 3 second lag), and I exhausted all options.

This game runs as expected without performance issues under Proton Experimental, though in order to prevent it from freezing intermittently it was necessary to disable raytracing. This can be done from the in-game settings, though if you encounter freezing before you can reach that menu, you can also add the argument "-noraytracing" to the game's launch options.

HDR functioned correctly. Enabling DLSS caused some ghosting of text on the UI, but nothing too distracting.