Overall, Sleep Tight is far from a perfect game, but it has enough potential to be enjoyable. Plenty of replay is in order to unlock all the characters you can play as. I do think its current price of $14.99 is too much, but if it goes on sale for $10 or less, it might be worth getting.
Sleep Tight
We Are Fuzzy · Jul 26, 2018
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Sleep Tight draws from shared childhood experiences to deliver a fast-paced twin-stick shooter that marries adrenaline-pumping action with a charming world wrapped in blankets of nostalgia. Build pillow forts during the day to prepare for hordes of monsters who emerge after dark. Fight back against their relentless onslaught with dart Gatling guns, water balloon launchers, remote controlled gun turrets, and other toys. Throughout these frenetic nocturnal battles, players will collect stars from fallen enemies to upgrade their skills, buy power-ups, and unlock new weapons.
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- 6.0All in all, Sleep Tight is a neat little package. It knows what it wants to do and it does most of it well enough, but it might not excite people who don't share the same nostalgia for the specific childhood experience described within it. Slightly above average or simply inoffensive. Fans of the genre should enjoy it a bit, but a fair few will be left unfulfilled.
- 5.0All together, Sleep Tight does what any tower defence/survival game should; it gives you a place to protect and the tools to do so, and does its best to keep you engaged. The issues really only pop up the longer you survive. At times, I would purposefully let myself die just so I could get a character unlocked and start over.
- 6.1Sleep Tight is an enjoyable and surprisingly strategic twin-stick shooter that pulls you in the longer you play, however experiencing the same setting, enemies, and characters over and over makes this a game best played to kill an hour or so rather than to really engross yourself. The controls are smooth and the graphics look fantastic but it feels like it just needs more variety. In a game heavily inspired by children’s imaginations, the repetition is surprisingly dull.
- 8.0I’m not sure how long Sleep Tight will have my attention, but for now, it has its hooks in me and I’ve been thinking about wall and turret placement when I should be focusing on other tasks. If you need a compelling narrative or character progression, you need not apply. If you know that you’re the type of player who can become obsessed with a leaderboard push for a few weeks, Sleep Tight gonna treat your right.
- While looking at the whole package, Sleep Tight’s art style and gameplay make it stand out above other twin-stick survival shooters. While you aren’t getting a massive amount of content, you’ll still be able to have a ton of fun with the game. And at $14.99, I can absolutely recommend it for both fans of the survival genre and fans of the “cartoony” art style.
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