Can I Run Layers of Fear 2?
Layers of Fear 2 is an adventure casual game from Bloober Team SA, released in 2019. Bloober Team SA both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Being 7 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Steam lists support for 9 languages. Its Steam review count passes 2 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It carries 32 achievements. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Metacritic places it at 70.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-3470 (3.2 GHz) / AMD A8-7600 (3.1 GHz) |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 265 |
| RAM | 5 GB |
| Storage | 14 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6500 (3.2 GHz) / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD Radeon RX 590 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 14 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in an unsettling psychological setting, moving through environments built to be read rather than fought through. The publisher supplies 6 storefront screenshots of these environments. It is played from a first person view.
Why Layers of Fear 2 is demanding
Layers of Fear 2 sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD Radeon RX 590, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. Disk footprint is light, near 14 GB. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Layers of Fear 2 scales hard with the hardware you give it.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Layers of Fear 2?
Layers of Fear 2 is light on hardware. Its minimum, GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 265, 5 GB RAM, about 14 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.73x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.98x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Layers of Fear 2's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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Can my PC run Layers of Fear 2?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Layers of Fear 2?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 (3.2 GHz) / AMD A8-7600 (3.1 GHz); GPU: GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 265; 5 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7.
How much storage does Layers of Fear 2 need?
Layers of Fear 2 needs about 14 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Layers of Fear 2?
The RTX 3060 runs Layers of Fear 2 comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Layers of Fear 2?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Layers of Fear 2 is the GPU.