Bloober Team Says Layers of Fear 3 Will Be Made With an External Partner as Cronos Team Moves to New IP
Bloober Team has offered a clearer picture of its near term pipeline, and one of the biggest takeaways is that Layers of Fear 3 will not be developed by one of the studio’s internal first party teams. In the investor update, Bloober said the newly announced horror sequel is being developed with an external partner, while the company remains heavily involved as the owner and original creator of the franchise. That follows the game’s official reveal during the series’ 10th anniversary event in February 2026.
That distinction matters because it confirms Bloober’s internal teams are focused elsewhere. According to the same investor update, CEO Piotr Babieno said the company’s 2 main content teams are currently committed to large scale projects. One of those is widely understood to be the already announced Silent Hill remake project with Konami, while the other is Project H, a brand new original title now in pre production.
The second part of that update is especially notable for anyone who followed Cronos: The New Dawn. The team behind Cronos is now working on Project H, which Babieno reportedly described as the most ambitious game that team has attempted so far, with the strongest commercial potential as well. At the same time, the investor comments suggest Bloober is trying to keep that ambition under tighter budget discipline rather than scaling costs upward without control.
For Layers of Fear 3, the most important nuance is that Bloober has not publicly named the partner studio yet. That means any claim about exactly who is building the game remains speculative for now. What is confirmed is that the project exists, it was officially announced on February 16, 2026, and Bloober is choosing a co development structure instead of assigning one of its headline internal teams to handle it directly.
From a business perspective, this is a smart portfolio move. Bloober gets to keep one of its recognizable horror brands active while preserving internal bandwidth for higher priority projects with bigger upside. For fans, though, the tradeoff is obvious. Layers of Fear 3 is still coming, but it will not be the next full internal showcase for the studio in the way some players may have assumed after the anniversary reveal.
Are you more interested in seeing what Bloober does with its new Project H, or do you still see Layers of Fear 3 as the studio’s most important upcoming horror release?
