Games like Little Nightmares
If you like Little Nightmares (horror, platformer and puzzle), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
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When you have a free afternoon and want a short, polished work you can play in one sitting.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
When you fancy being properly scared with the lights off, in hour-long sessions.
SOMA
- Difference: more story
When you want an unsettling sci-fi story that makes you think, in sessions of one or two hours.
In Sound Mind
- Difference: longer sessions
When you fancy psychological horror in chapters: each tape lasts a couple of hours and has its own boss.
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
- Difference: harder
When you want a classic puzzle game with dark humour and fart jokes that you can put down at any moment.
A Plague Tale: Innocence
When you're in the mood for a linear, moving story over a few evenings: it lasts between 10 and 15 hours, across 17 chapters.
Papo & Yo
- Difference: more story
When you have a free afternoon and want a short story that's hard to take in: it's over in about four hours.
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
- Difference: more relaxed
When you fancy a short, moving story, in sessions of one or two hours.
Alien: Isolation
- Difference: harder
When you want to be properly scared and have the energy for sustained tension.
Outer Wilds
- Difference: more exploring
When you feel like exploring and thinking calmly, with at least an hour ahead of you. Every loop ends with a discovery.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About Little Nightmares
Six, a girl in a yellow raincoat, escapes from a ship inhabited by huge, grotesque creatures. Platforming, stealth and simple puzzles in an atmosphere of childhood nightmare. Short and unforgettable.
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