Bloober Teamrose to prominence with the launch of Layers of Fear, a rather loose interpretation of Picture of Dorian Gray. Since then, the team has become most well-known for the horror games it has made though Layers of Fear was the studio already a few games deep.
With Silent Hill 2 Remake now held as the best game in its portfolio, it seems like an appropriate time to look back at every game they’ve made since its founding in 2008. Here is every one of Bloober’s games, ranked on just how good we think they are.
Bloober Team has a few extra games credited to the studio as it later absorbed the developers that created them. These games are not included.
14Hospital Havoc
The very first game made by Bloober Team was a mobile game in the style of Diner Dash, but for a hospital. There’s really nothing much to say for this game. It exists as a game that feels like an exercise in actually creating a functional game than anything with deep artistic merit.
It’s all up for here though, even in the games that don’t quite have the greatest execution.
13Music Master: Chopin
You may have heard of the famed composer, Frédéric Chopin. Born in Poland as Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, he spent much of his life in France and across various parts of Europe, becoming a famed composer before his early death at 39.
He is a massively famous figure in Polish history, and so Bloober Team made Music Master: Chopin to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth in 2010. The game is a relatively simple rhythm game, though with a classical twist.
12Basement Crawl
Basement Crawl was made and released by Bloober Team in 2014, just two years before Layers of Fear. At this point, they had a pretty firm handle on the whole game-making thing, having made a few other games that were kind of meh, but still decent.
Basement Crawl was not that. While at its base was an interesting form of gameplay, it didn’t do much to differentiate itself from its Bomberman inspirations, and had next to no content to actually play.
So reviled was it that Bloober remade the game a short while later into the much more well-recieved Brawl.
11A-Men
A-Men is a pretty simple game, a single-player puzzle-platformer attempting to channel the difficulty of earlier games of the genre, such as Lemmings by its own store description. So is it any good? Eh.
It feels more in line with Worms in some of its visuals, and markets itself as a game not for casuals. It’s a niche market, though it’s pretty cheap and readily available.
10A-Men 2
A single man wasn’t enough, now we have two of them. A-Men 2 is the sequel to A-Men, and that’s all there really is to say about it.
It’s more of the same, more an expansion than a full-fledged new title. It promises to be an even more grueling experience if you want to try your hand at it.
9Deathmatch Village
Bloober Team’s early games really are a mixed bag in terms of what they actually are. Deathmatch Village is one such oddity. It is in multiplayer game that feels like it falls somewhere between Happy Wheels and Worms, while you play as, um, Rednecks.
Lots of pigs for some reason. Lots of gun. It was a bizarrely popular game for a while that you might have even played without knowing it was made by Bloober Team. It’s nothing ambitious, but it’s simple fun all the same.
8Brawl
Remember Basement Crawl from earlier back? Well this here game, Brawl is its remake. Imagineif Five Nights at Freddy’s was cel-shadedand featured Bomberman-gameplay, and you have Brawl summed up pretty well.
Playing as one of eight supernatural characters brought to life, you may challenge your friends in multiplayer, or play a unique campaign for each of the characters. It’s not the most enticing game in the world, though its a dramatic step up from Basement Crawl.
7Layers Of Fear 2
We’re now at the point where Bloober’s games gain a higher degree of ambition. They don’t always succeed, especially in terms of writing, but they are trying something new. And that leads us to Layers of Fear 2.
It doesn’t have the same clarity as the original game that gave Bloober Team its popularity, though it tries something new with its visuals. While the ocean liner doesn’t hold the same horror depth as the crumbling home of the painter, it’s a solid step into something new.
6Layers Of Fear (2023)
When Layers of Fear was announced, it was a bit confusing as to what it was. The 2023 game, not the original. You see, Layers of Fear 2023 is a remake of the original game, somewhere between a remake and remaster of Layers of Fear 2, and also a sequel, somehow. It’s baffling package.
It’s a visually beautiful upgrade, though is somewhat dragged down by the lack of clarity on what it actually is, and the somewhat clunky way in which the two respective games are brought together.
5Blair Witch
The Blair Witch series is something that, really, shouldn’t exist. The first film was a masterpiece in what it attempted, while every that came since both neglected those that made that initial film, while also failing to ever catch the lightning in a bottle again.
So who better to take it up yet again than Bloober Team? In fairness, it is the best Blair Witch game and realistically the best Blair Witch product since the original, though it still ended up a somewhat uneven game with too many jump scares.Good dog, though.
