Silent Hill 2 Remake and Cronos: The New Dawn developer Bloober Team is working on a number of new projects, including a Nintendo Switch 2 version of its disorientating horror Layers of Fear, Layers of Fear: The Final Masterpiece Edition, and a number of smaller games from its subsidiary, Broken Mirror Games, which include a mysterious Switch exclusive, codenamed Project M.
We don’t quite know exactly when The Masterpiece Edition will land — it’s still labelled as coming in 2025 despite the fact we’re running down the clock of what’s left of the year — but as reported in the firm’s recent investor briefing, it’s described as a “complete edition,” presumably bundling the base game with subsequent content and the refreshed visuals we saw in 2023’s Layers of Fears.
As for Broken Mirror’s offering? Here, we can expect isometric horror I Hate This Place based on the 80s comic of the same name that’s still listed as releasing next month, but has been delayed to January 29, 2026. But there are also two codenamed games in development, too: Project M and Project F.
We know next to nothing about Project F, but Project M is thought to release next year. While the live-action teaser we saw earlier this year gives away very little — other than the M could stand for “Marionette”, perhaps?! — Bloober confirms it will be available exclusively on both Switch 2 and the OG console.
And of course, after the phenomenal success of Silent Hill 2 Remake, Bloober is also remaking the first game in the franchise. There’s not much to go on, unfortunately, but we did get a brief tease during June’s Konami Press Start Live showcase that included the Silent Hill logo and its iconic music. No release date was mentioned, unfortunately, but it followed news in February that Bloober Team had signed a deal with Konami to make a new game based on the Japanese company’s IP.
We thought 2023’s Layers of Fear remake was ‘Okay,’ awarding it 6/10, writing: “Layers of Fear is an atmospheric tour through the shattered psyches of some seriously tortured artists, but predictable shock tactics fail to provide more than a handful of genuine scares, let alone layers of them.”
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