Reanimal Reviews
Reanimal is a disturbing and visually meticulous déjà-vu, where gameplay lacks courage and co-op isn't fully exploited. Still, better to play it in two than alone.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Reanimal is a horror story, a journey through hell made up of the simple, elegant gameplay that Tarsier has honed to a feather's edge over the last decade.
Tarsier returns to horror with a rich, meaningful evolution of its familiar Little Nightmares formula. And while it could perhaps be a little more radical, Reanimal remains utterly compelling; bleak, nasty, and full of menace.
Reanimal doesn't meaningfully develop Tarsier's approach to gameplay in the Little Nightmares games, but it's a grim sight to behold, and a worthwhile horror adventure.
It’s a true evolution of the Little Nightmares formula, and while some technical issues can frustrate at times, and it loses a bit of its tension as it draws to a close, it’s still an experience that I would easily recommend to any horror fan.
Playing Reanimal feels like flicking through playable concept art
But it is thought-provoking and stimulating, and if you can stomach combat suicide, animal harm, and more – all proxies for the effects of war on the people who wage it and the victims of that destruction – Tarsier has created something worth wrestling with.
The imagery and implications linger in my mind much like the siblings' nightmares. While Reanimal is certainly unsettling, it's also quite beautiful. It shines a light on the importance of companionship--while you may face moments of uncertainty, and unsafety, you're not alone. And that's invaluable.
With Reanimal, Tarsier Studios delivers its darkest, boldest work yet. Expanding on the Little Nightmares formula with non-linear exploration, striking audiovisual design, and bombastic set pieces, this is an imaginative horror experience that confidently delivers its vision while offering accessible co-op play that fans of the developer have long clamoured for.
Bold and brilliant, Reanimal is a strangling, grim adventure that’s anything but little or nightmarish, leaning into legitimate, unsettling horror through its stellar artistic direction, tense atmosphere, and grisly, haunting world.
For some, it may not reach the same tightly crafted heights as Little Nightmares, but it successfully captures that same uneasy magic that made those games special. It isn’t perfect, much like all things in this vast expanse of the medium or the horror genre, but it’s a bold and unsettling co-op journey that shows Tarsier’s signature style is still very much alive.
REANIMAL is an incredibly short experience, but it's worth every tense minute in solo or co-op play. If you've got four hours and a friend to play with, you should check it out and get lost in the terror.
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Review in Spanish | Read full review
A darkly atmospheric horror puzzle game from the original developers of Little Nightmares, that’s undermined by dull puzzles and too much trial and error.
Sometimes it's difficult to create something terrifying and disturbing without resorting to cheap jump scares, but when the grotesque and horror merge, works like Reanimal are born. Tarsier Studios' game has surpassed the original Little Nightmares in every way, adding a cooperative mode and refining the level design, sound, and atmosphere that many of the industry's most popular horror titles would envy.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Reanimal is bold and uncompromising evolution of Tarsier's signature style, darker, stranger, and far less forgiving than anything that came before. I was repulsed, I was unsettled, and I loved it.
Childhood terrors come to wretched life in a grim fairytale of a puzzle-platformer that's as beautifully macabre as it is hard to put down
Reanimal has delivered what Little Nightmares III could not. Tarsier Studios has shed the constraints imposed by the Little Nightmares universe, subjecting its audience to an emotional bombardment while simultaneously pushing them out of their comfort zone.
Review in Russian | Read full review
If there's one thing Tarsier Studios knows how to do, it's a horror-tinged co-op adventure. It may not be groundbreaking, but it's certainly a great way to spend eight hours with friends.
Review in Italian | Read full review
What’s here is familiar, yes, but the addition of co-op and some seriously memorable set pieces primed to send a chill down the spine mostly makes up for it. When taken as a whole, it’s hard to deny that these little nightmares have started to grow up (if only ever so slightly).