The best games from Bloober Team

The Bloober team rose to fame with the launch of Layers of Fear, a rather loose interpretation of The Picture of Darian Gray. Since then, the team has become best known for their horror games, although Layers of Fear was a studio that had already been working on several games.

With Silent Hill 2 Remake now considered the best game in their portfolio, it seems like a good time to look back at every game they've made since their inception in 2008. Here's each of Bloober's games, ranked by how good we think they are.

Bloober Team has several additional games attributed to the studio as it later absorbed the developers who created them. These games are not included.

14 Chaos Hospital

The very first game from Bloober Team was a Diner Dash-style mobile game, but for a hospital. There really isn't much to say about this game. It exists as a game that feels more like an exercise in making a functional game than anything with deep artistic merit.

However, everything is available here, even in games that do not have the best execution.

13 Music Master: Chopin

You may have heard of the famous composer Frédéric Chopin. Born in Poland as Frideric Francis Chopin, he spent most of his life in France and various parts of Europe, becoming a famous composer before his early death at 39.

He is a very famous figure in Polish history, which is why the Bloober Team created Music Master: Chopin to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth in 2010. The game is a relatively simple rhythm game, albeit with a classical twist.

12 A cellar crawl

Basement Crawl was created and released by Bloober Team in 2014, just two years before Layers of Fear. They have a pretty solid handle on making games at this point, having made a few other games that were kind of meh but still decent.

Basement Crawl was not that. While it had fun gameplay at its core, it wasn't too different from its inspiration Bomberman and had little to no playable content.

It was so insulted that Bloober soon remade the game into the more well-received Brawl.

11 A-men

A-Men is a fairly simple game, a single-player puzzle-platformer that tries to channel the complexity of earlier games in the genre, such as Lemmings, through the description of its own shop. So is it good? Eh

It's more in line with Worms in some visuals and is marketed as a non-casual game. It is a niche market, although it is quite cheap and readily available.

10 A-Men 2

One person was not enough, now there are two of them. A-Men 2 is the sequel to A-Men and that's about all there is to say about it.

It's more of the same, more of an expansion than a fully fledged new title. It promises to be an even more grueling experience if you want to try your hand at it.

9 Village Deathmatch

The early Bloober Team games are really ambiguous in terms of what they actually are. Deathmatch Village is one such quirk. In multiplayer, it feels like a cross between Happy Wheels and Worms when you're playing as, um, Rednecks.

There are a lot of pigs for some reason. Lots of guns. For a while, it was a surprisingly popular game that you might have even played without knowing it was made by the Bloober team. There's nothing ambitious about it, but it's just plain fun.

8 To quarrel

Remember Basement Crawl before? Well, this game, Brawl is a remake of it. Imagine if Five Nights at Freddy's was shaded and contained Bomberman gameplay, and you'd have Brawl summed up pretty well.

Playing as one of eight animated supernatural characters, you can challenge your friends in multiplayer or run a unique campaign for each character. It's not the most attractive game in the world, although it is a significant step up from Basement Crawl.

7 Layers of fear 2

We're now at the point where Bloober games are getting more ambitious. They don't always succeed, especially in terms of writing, but they try something new. And that brings us to Layers of Fear 2.

It doesn't have the punch of the original game that made Bloober Team popular, though it does try something new with the visuals. While an ocean liner doesn't have the terrifying depth of an artist's ruined house, it's a solid step toward something new.

6 Layers of Fear (2023)

When Layers of Fear was announced, it was a bit unclear what it was. The game is 2023, not the original. You see, Layers of Fear 2023 is a remake of the original game, a cross between a remake and a remaster of Layers of Fear 2, and a sequel. This is a confusing package.

It's a visually beautiful upgrade, though it's held back somewhat by a lack of clarity about what it actually is, and the somewhat clunky way in which the two respective games are brought together.

5 Blair Witch

The Blair Witch series is something that really shouldn't exist. The first film was a masterpiece in what it set out to do, while all the ones that have followed have both neglected those who made that original film while failing to ever recapture lightning in a bottle.

So who better to give it another shot than the Bloober team? It's honestly the best Blair Witch game out there, and in fact the best Blair Witch product since the original, although the game ended up being quite uneven with too many jump scares. However, a good dog.

4 Layers of Fear (2016)

Now this is the game that really took the Bloober team to the heights of the horror genre. This is a game that is good in many ways. It has fun visuals, a unique system where you reach the ending, and an exciting story told through an unreliable narrator.

The game's biggest problem lies in its story. It took a strong hold on The Picture of Darian Gray but rather weakly, and ended up being more of an ego massage for the artist than an admission of his own mistakes. His daughter in the DLC is a much more attractive character.

3 Average

Following the fame of Layers of Fear and Observer, the Bloober team created The Medium. It was touted as a game that was only possible on next-gen consoles (at the time), realizing the vision of two worlds existing simultaneously. And it's true, the game was developed back in 2012, but they just couldn't get it off the ground.

Of course, while The Medium is a visual treat and a big step up in gameplay for Bloober, it once again falls short in its storytelling. This wouldn't be such a big problem if it weren't for the fact that your writing has to be solid for psychological horror, and doubly so when you're dealing with such heavy subject matter.

It was also later released on the Nintendo Switch, which is either a marvel of engineering or an admission that next-gen consoles aren't really needed.

2 The observer

Right after Layers of Fear came Observer, a game that many would like to herald as the greatest Bloober game to date. Indeed, it moved away from the more traditional form of psychological horror that had become so prevalent and instead moved into a dystopian future.

Moving away from pure navigation, Observer placed a deeper emphasis on other gameplay mechanics, such as hacking into the minds of others. Stealth has also had a prominent role that has been criticized for being overused, although it is still far superior to most of Bloober's other creations.

In 2021, the Observer received a remake in System Redux, in which many of the criticized elements were reworked, the main one being the stealth.

1 Silent Hill 2 Remake

Following Bloober's trend of remaking their own games, the team has now remade someone else's. Bloober has been rumored for years to remake the cult classic Silent Hill 2, and it was met with utter disappointment when it was announced that they were going to remake the horror classic. But somehow they delivered.

While it doesn't quite have the feel of the original in many ways, they do a commendable job of keeping the themes of the game, even twisting or reimagining them in a way that doesn't distort them. Regardless of the quality of the remake, it's a significant difference for Bloober, as he finally made a game that was unanimously considered good without a star.