Little Nightmares

Indie development has allowed the horror genre to flourish after it sadly had a bit of a flaccid period. The problem with the openness of the indie digital market, though, is that the genre is often flooded with many copycats or cheap thrill jump scares...

Being a kid, when you haven't yet figured out what's real and what isn't, is equal parts magical and terrifying. The imaginary creatures that live under your bed might as well be real. Strangers all look weird – they're not mom, and not-mom is...

Little Nightmares is like the long, intense screech of a violin before the jump scare - except that the scare never comes and the sound eventually fades to the background. Yes, it's dark and moody, but after establishing the atmosphere it never evolves...

Little Nightmares isn't a horror game where you can expect a lot of jump-scares. It's not a game in which you open a door and you'll be greeted by a horde of enemies. It's a game where the eeriness creeps up on you, always making you feel uneasy, always...

Most of us have at least one bad memory associated with growing up. Being a child or even a teenager is never an easy phase and each generation has to deal with new challenges. Yet, these might seem trivial when compared to what the young Six has to...

One of the most enjoyably uncomfortable games you'll play this...

But regardless of how you view the time you spend with the game, its strange and distorted world is enough to pull you back in for a second playthrough. The journey to reach its provocative conclusion is filled with unnerving questions and imagery that take hold of your morbid curiosities and pull you deep into introspection. While its puzzles are at times too straightforward, Little Nightmares is a chilling odyssey well worth taking.

Horror has come back in a big way with games like Outlast and Resident Evil 7 breathing new life into the genre. Neither of those, however, is quite as special as Little Nightmares. Little Nightmares takes place on a huge boat called The Maw. You play...

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. Smart, grotesque and never-endingly weird, this is a very different, extremely welcome kind of horror game that left me wanting more than its brief five hours provides.

The specificity of some of the references – nooses, masks, and those shoes – points to a greater mystery that fans will probably be discussing long after release. Thanks to Little Nightmares' respectfully short length (I took my time and finished that second playthrough in a couple of hours), it’s a great game to show to friends who appreciate imaginative horror.

It would be wrong to glance at the title and misinterpret its meaning as miniscule frights that couldn't possibly penetrate your tough skin. Little Nightmares is a very disturbing game, one that pulls you back into your childhood and manifests each...

Little Nightmares is truly one of the scariest games you’ll play this year.