![]() Named or not, that little girl creeps and crawls her way through a shifting dark setting that never quite makes logical sense, armed only with a lighter. Nothing concrete about Little Nightmares' plot appears in text in the game. Her name is Six - according to promotional materials, at least. Stuck in Little Nightmares big dark world is a little girl in a bright yellow rain slicker. ![]() Little Nightmares is a balancing act: between light and darkness, sound and silence, annoyance and satisfaction.Īnd, most importantly, it's creepy. While I found myself inevitably frustrated as a tiny thing in a world of dangers who died a lot, that irritation was balanced out by how the gameplay kept shifting so I never quite died the same way twice. For all that Little Nightmares is unquestionably a horror game, there is something a bit precious about it like Limbo and Inside, it's a game about someone small and helpless working their way through a dangerous and frightening world.īut Little Nightmares is a few shades brighter, with hints of dark humor weaving through genuinely disturbing moments. ![]() Little Nightmares is the creation of the Swedish Tarsier Studios, which previously worked on the far cuter and cuddlier LittleBigPlanet series. I shook it off easily enough, but those few drowsy fearful moments marked Little Nightmares as a success in at least one aspect: it gave me the damn heebie-jeebies. Little Nightmares gave me an actual nightmare.Īs I drifted off after an evening of playing the spooky puzzle-platformer, my mind filled with images of unnaturally long arms reaching for tiny hooded figures and I woke with my heart racing. ![]()
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