Little Nightmares Reviews
Without a doubt, Little Nightmares is a visual treat. After a while, the dark and gritty environment begins to affect you, and the soundtrack elevates the feeling of dread in this brilliantly designed game. The characters you come across are varied enough to always present a new challenge and the game is generally a pleasure to play and even fall in love with. However, it's downsides, such as a lack of a clear story, steals a sense of purpose from the actions that you have to perform.
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Tarsier Studios created a truly unique game with Little Nightmares, showing how good horror could be. It creates an atmosphere, unchallenged by most games from the genre, with great artistic-design and creativity. Yet, the gameplay is too flawed to crown it as one of the best, too many bad design decisions and copied mechanics hold it back. Especially due to the short 3-5 hours long story with little to no replay value for a stiff 20 euro price tag make it hard to recommend it for everyone in an instant.
Little Nightmares is a surprising game. It combines creepy and exuberant art with vivid and innocent colors. It’s a very short experience but a satisfying one.
Minor control quibbles aside, Little Nightmares is an excellent platformer with a wonderfully creepy, deeply disturbing atmosphere that will linger long after the credits roll.
The fantastic tale of Six and her surreal adventure through the uncanny valley is one that will not be forgotten, especially after the startling character development of Six and the haunting ending. The artwork of this game is assuredly one of my all-time favourites, challenging the horror genre to step away from excessive gore and lazy jumpscares.
Setting aside its short length and awkward controls, Little Nightmares is a brilliant and memorable game that that deserves to be played by horror and platformer fans.
Little Nightmares is an excellent experience wrapped in a fairly frustrating game. The world that Tarsier Studios have constructed is excellent – trading on its dollhouse-like environments, terrifying antagonists and incredible audio to create an incredibly atmospheric and disturbing horror game. But this otherwise great presentation is let down badly by poorly implemented gameplay and a story that feels like it goes nowhere.
I enjoyed my short time with Little Nightmares, but I wish there was a bit more substance in its subject matter for me to care just a bit more. As it stands, Little Nightmares is a neat distraction, and I hope Tarsier Studios goes a bit further with the story and world they've built, because Little Nightmares goes in some interesting places. The fact that Six's hunger becomes insatiable by game's end raises a lot of questions, but the real hunger is that I wanted more that Little Nightmares wasn't able to deliver.
Little Nightmares is a real pearl among many other genres, which, despite its simplicity, gives us unique and sensational emotions; although the hours of play are not many, these are enough to give us unique moments.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Transient, vague, and awash with macabre sights and sounds, Little Nightmares is aptly named. Its gameplay is rote and minimal but its skew of images will stick in your craw like the fleeting fragments of a nightmare upon waking. The rest will fade.
If you enjoy dark, metaphorical games with Tim Burton-esque aesthetics then ultimately this game is right up your alley. It's a game that stays with you forever, leaving you and your friends a lot of arguments on what the game is really trying to tell us.
If Tim Burton was a video game developer then Little Nightmares would be his fever dream. This dark indie puzzler was one of the most anticipated games of 2017 and I’m happy to report that it didn’t disappoint.
The dark and beautiful visuals combined with an unique atmosphere make Little Nightmares a great game that you shouldn't miss.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
All said, while I appreciated what the game was trying to do, I only persisted in order to review it. Obscure sequences got in the way of the narrative and those loading times made everything more horrifying than intended.
The dark and sometimes pretty scary environments of Little Nightmares achieve to entertain throughout the three hour long story every minute. Highly intense chase scenes get mixed with nerve-wrecking moments, in which you have to sneak very carefully. Little Nightmares features great visuals with amazing animations and spot-on lighting. Fans of Limbo should definitely check it out.
Review in German | Read full review
Utterly terrifying and pants-wetting horror that must be experienced, even if the gameplay is a failure in most regards
Little Nightmares appeals to your childlike imagination, especially the dark childhood fears. A solid, entertaining puzzle adventure for in between, which you can complete in 2-4 hours and which combines the usual puzzle food with a great atmosphere. At the end of the journey many questions remain unanswered, yet the game leaves a good feeling and remains in your memory.
Review in German | Read full review
Little Nightmares gives you what a platformer game needs to be. I enjoyed every bit of its level design and its creepiness. There’s nothing more I can say about Tarsier Studios latest title – it’s a nightmare you probably would love to spend your whole night in.
Little Nightmares catches you with an amazing atmosphere and some scary stages but don't really manage to delivery more than unimaginative riddles and a clunky gameplay. There's also not much replay value but you still should go on this abstract horror trip if you want to experience the overbearing feeling this game delivers.
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