Little Nightmares

Little Nightmares worked its way into my dreams because it's just bright enough, just safe enough to make me let my guard down. The game isn’t always successful at balancing some game design fundamentals. But when the lights went out, it left me remembering that, really, I'm just a small thing in a dangerous world myself.

There are some collectibles to find and some secrets to figure out (neither of which are necessary to complete the game) but aside from those two things, there’s not a whole lot of reason for most people to replay Little Nightmares. Overall Little Nightmares is a great game and I loved playing it. The odd checkpointing and not having multiple paths through are small issues with a very solid and entertaining game.

Like Hide and Seek, Little Nightmares confidently captures the exhilarating fear of waiting to be found by something that’s hunting you. But it also replicates the alien horror of being a child that doesn’t understand what’s happening to and around them, and of a seemingly familiar environment turned into a series of opportunities for safety and danger.