Little Nightmares is a puzzle platformer game, with very creepy and very unnerving atmosphere. The visuals are outstanding, imaginative, and reinforce the unsettling feeling you get while playing. The sound design compliments everything nicely as well.

One of the best storytelling techniques was employed here - you learn a lot about the bizarre world you found yourself in, just by soaking in the surroundings. Carefully examining the environment provides the player with extra hints and flavor. All objects or even shadows seem to be placed very deliberately, many of them foreshadowing the things to come, or providing a deeper insight into the main narrative. When playing for the second time you will find yourself noticing many clever things in earlier chapters linking to the later ones. Or you may simply get to understand the vague and unclear parts during the first run. Unfortunately it also means that if you're not the kind of person that pays attention to this sort of thing, you might miss a lot and be left confused at the end.

So if you're not very into atmospheric games, and would skip out on this vital aspect, you'll be left with fairly simple platformer, where you run through locations, solving fairly simple puzzles mostly revolving around finding a way into next area. The only difficulty might come from being unsure how or what way to proceed, as there are no clear indicators. The level design is creative and everything is blended nicely, thus it’s not very obvious at a glance where you should go. Another thing making it harder are wonky controls. I played one entire run with keyboard&mouse, another run with controller, and the experience was not great regardless of the chosen method. I took issue with how collisions and perspective were handled. The game takes place on a nautical vessel, visualised by the screen floating slightly left-right-left. It affects in-game physics and degrades the handling even further. Another minor pet peeve is that some autosave checkpoints were spaced too far apart making you repeat way too long of a sequence in case you died (and do expect to die here many times).

Overall I really liked Little Nightmares. It’s very much my kind of game. Immersion & atmosphere are truly exquisite. And the ending was very powerful & exhilarating. For me, well worth playing it twice :) It's fairly short so I might return to it from time to time, in the similar fashion I re-read or re-watch well liked books and movies.

You can also check out my thoughts on the Secrets of The Maw expansion.

Written after beating the base game twice with 9.1 hours played & 12 of 13 base achievements earned.

Little Nightmares is a puzzle platformer game, with very creepy and very unnerving atmosphere. The visuals are outstanding, imaginative, and reinforce the unsettling feeling you get while playing. The sound design compliments everything nicely as well. One of the best storytelling techniques was employed here - you learn a lot about the bizarre world you found yourself in, just by soaking in the surroundings. Carefully examining the environment provides the player with extra hints and flavor. All objects or even shadows seem to be placed very deliberately, many of them foreshadowing the things to come, or providing a deeper insight into the main narrative. When playing for the second time you will find yourself noticing many clever things in earlier chapters linking to the later ones. Or you may simply get to understand the vague and unclear parts during the first run. Unfortunately it also means that if you're not the kind of person that pays attention to this sort of thing, you might miss a lot and be left confused at the end. So if you're not very into atmospheric games, and would skip out on this vital aspect, you'll be left with fairly simple platformer, where you run through locations, solving fairly simple puzzles mostly revolving around finding a way into next area. The only difficulty might come from being unsure how or what way to proceed, as there are no clear indicators. The level design is creative and everything is blended nicely, thus it’s not very obvious at a glance where you should go. Another thing making it harder are wonky controls. I played one entire run with keyboard&mouse, another run with controller, and the experience was not great regardless of the chosen method. I took issue with how collisions and perspective were handled. The game takes place on a nautical vessel, visualised by the screen floating slightly left-right-left. It affects in-game physics and degrades the handling even further. Another minor pet peeve is that some autosave checkpoints were spaced too far apart making you repeat way too long of a sequence in case you died (and do expect to die here many times). Overall I really liked Little Nightmares. It’s very much my kind of game. Immersion & atmosphere are truly exquisite. And the ending was very powerful & exhilarating. For me, well worth playing it twice :) It's fairly short so I might return to it from time to time, in the similar fashion I re-read or re-watch well liked books and movies. You can also check out my [url=http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/id/ladynarayan/recommended/640920/]thoughts on the Secrets of The Maw expansion.[/url] [i]Written after beating the base game twice with 9.1 hours played & 12 of 13 base achievements earned.[/i]