Reanimal Reviews
REANIMAL is not a horror game you casually play on the side. It is an experience. One that gets under your skin, that suffocates you, and doesn’t let go even after you’ve turned it off. The Swedish studio impressively demonstrates how modern horror can truly work: relying less on cheap jump scares and more on atmosphere, psychological pressure, and a constant feeling of unease.
Review in German | Read full review
Ultimately, the game’s few technical issues are completely overshadowed by Reanimals' excellence across world design, environmental storytelling, and set-piece moments, not to mention its eerie use of audio, especially via headphones.
Reanimal's cinematic camera work, outstanding sound design, and varied set pieces pull me into a suffocating world steeped in horror. From a gameplay perspective, however, the experience falls short of its potential. Trying to equally accommodate both single-player and co-op seems to limit creative freedom. There’s a noticeable lack of ambition when it comes to meaningfully evolving the established formula or experimenting with new ideas.
Review in German | Read full review
REANIMAL is just a better Little Nightmares. The game introduces many important improvements and features a well-implemented co-op mode. If only the playtime were two hours longer, it would be absolutely PERFECT!
Review in Polish | Read full review
REANIMAL is a game that takes everything Tarsier perfected in Little Nightmares and sharpens it into something darker, more relentless, and emotionally punishing. It rewards patience, observation, and careful thinking, but it doesn’t coddle you—the world is cruel and the horror lingers long after each encounter. It’s a more ruthless evolution of the formula, delivering a tense, interconnected journey that stands on its own while building on Tarsier’s legacy.
REANIMAL is the Little Nightmares 2 sequel that fans deserved, which is simply indicative of how much dark platformers are engrained in the DNA of Tarsier Studios. REANIMAL is exactly the type of psychological horror that you’d expect from the minds behind Little Nightmares 1 and 2, which is great baseline to start from. What wasn’t expected was just how much a slight perspective change would evolve the experience. Tarsier now have more freedom to greatly increase the scale, broaden their environmental storytelling and even go into darker territory than before. As a result, this epic adventure through hell is much more immersive than their previous work, as REANIMAL shakes up the status quo of the genre.