The best games created by the Bloober team

The Bloober Team rose to prominence with the release of Layers of Fear, a rather loose interpretation of Picture of Dorian Gray. Since then, the team has become best known for the horror games they've created, although Layers of Fear was a studio several games deep.

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 are all of Bloober's games, ranked by how good we think they are.

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

14 Hospital confusion

The very first game from Bloober Team was a Diner Dash-style mobile game, but for a hospital. There is really nothing to complain about this game. It exists as a game that feels more like an exercise in actually making a functional game than anything with deep artistic value.

Everything is at stake here, even in games that don't have the best execution.

13 Music master: Chopin

You may have heard of the famous composer Frédéric Chopin. Born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin in Poland, he spent most of his life in France and various parts of Europe and became a famous composer before his untimely death at age 39.

He's a massively famous figure in Polish history, so 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 feel.

12 Crawling through the basement

Basement Crawl was created and published 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 as they made a few other games that were a bit meh but still decent.

Basement Crawl it wasn't. While an interesting game form at its base, it didn't do much to differentiate itself from its Bomberman inspiration and had almost no content to actually play.

It was so criticized that Bloober remade the game a while later into the much better received Brawl.

11 Amen

A-Men is a fairly simple game, a single-player puzzle platformer that attempts to channel the difficulty of earlier games in the genre, such as Lemmings, with its own store description. So is it any good? Eh

It feels more in line with Worms in some of its visuals and is marketed as a non-casual game. It is a niche market, although it is quite cheap and easily available.

10 A-Men 2

One man wasn't enough, now we have two. A-Men 2 is a sequel to A-Men and that's about all there is to it.

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

9 Deathmatch Village

Bloober Team's early games are really mixed in terms of what they actually are. Deathmatch Village is one such oddity. It's the multiplayer 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 weapons. At one time, it was a wildly popular game that you might even have played without knowing it was made by the Bloober Team. It's nothing ambitious, but it's still simple fun.

8 Hassle

Remember the Basement Crawl from way back? This Brawl game is a remake of it. Imagine Five Nights at Freddy's being cel-shaded and featuring Bomberman gameplay, and you've pretty much summed up Brawl.

Playing as one of the eight supernatural characters brought to life, you can challenge your friends in multiplayer or play a unique campaign for each character. It's not the most enticing game in the world, though it's a dramatic step up from Basement Crawl.

7 Layers of Fear 2

We're now at the point where Bloober games are taking on a higher degree of ambition. They don't always succeed, especially when it comes to writing, but they try something new. And that brings us to Layers of Fear 2.

It doesn't have the same clarity as the original game that gave Bloober Team its popularity, although it does try something new with its visuals. While the ocean liner doesn't have the same horror depth as the painter's crumbling home, it's a solid step into something new.

6 Layers Of Fear (2023)

When Layers of Fear was announced, it was a bit confusing what it was. A game from 2023, not the original. You see, Layers of Fear 2023 is a remake of the original game, somewhere between a remake and a remaster of Layers of Fear 2, and also some sort of sequel. It's a misleading package.

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

5 Blair Witch

The Blair Witch series is something that really shouldn't exist. The first film was a masterpiece in what it attempted, while everyone that has come since has neglected those who made the original film while failing to recapture lightning in a bottle.

So who better to take it up again than the Bloober Team? It's honestly the best Blair Witch game and realistically the best Blair Witch product since the original, even if it still ended up being a somewhat uneven game with too many jumps. But a good dog.

4 Layers Of Fear (2016)

Now this is the game that really shot Bloober Team to the heights of the horror genre. It is a game that is good in many ways. It has some fun visuals, a unique system where you reach the end, and an enticing narrative through an unreliable narrator.

The game's biggest problem comes in its story. It takes a lot from The Picture of Dorian Gray, but quite badly, and ends up being more of an ego massage for the painter than an acknowledgment of his own faults. His daughter in the DLC is a much more appealing character.

3 Medium

Following on from the fame of Layers of Fear and Observer, 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 a dual world existing simultaneously. And it's true that the game was in development all the way 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 terms of gameplay for Bloober, it falls short again in its storytelling. This wouldn't be such a serious problem if it weren't for the fact that your writing has to be rock solid for psychological horror, and that's doubly true 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 weren't really necessary.

2 Observer

Immediately following Layers of Fear came Observer, a game that many would still like to herald as the greatest game Bloober has made to date. In fact, it stepped away from the more traditional form of psychological horror that had become so prevalent and instead entered a dystopian future.

Observer abandoned pure navigation and placed a deeper emphasis on other gameplay mechanics, such as hacking into the minds of others. Stealth also played a prominent role, which was criticized for its overuse, although it still stands far above most of Bloober's other works.

Observer received a remake in System Redux in 2021, reworking many criticized elements, among them the stealth boss.

1 Silent Hill 2 remake

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

While it doesn't have the vibe of the original in many ways, they do a commendable job of maintaining the game's themes, even twisting or reinterpreting them in a way that doesn't distort them. Regardless of the quality of the remake, it's a night and day difference for Bloober, as he finally made a game that was unanimously considered good, without an asterisk.