Little Nightmares II is a puzzle-platformer and survival horror game in which players control Mono, a young boy navigating a nightmarish world warped by the transmission of a distant Signal Tower. Gameplay combines environmental puzzle-solving with stealth and light combat, as Mono and his AI companion Six work together to evade grotesque enemies and traverse dangerous environments. The game is a prequel to the original Little Nightmares and features collectible items that unlock additional story content. Mono, a boy wearing a paper bag over his head, awakens alone in a dark forest haunted by recurring dreams of a hallway and a door marked with an eye. After discovering Six imprisoned in a remote shack, the two children escape her captor and drift toward the Pale City, a fog-shrouded urban ruin littered with old television sets. Drawn by some connection between the televisions and his strange dreams, Mono pushes deeper into the city alongside Six, passing through a schoolhouse ruled by monstrous figures and a hospital crawling with unsettling patients. Ahead of them looms the Signal Tower, the source of a pervasive broadcast that has twisted the city and its inhabitants into something terrible.
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Grave, earnest, bleak and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Platforms
- Google Stadia, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Tarsier Studios
- Publisher
- Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Released
- February 10, 2021
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Third person, Side view
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
- Time to beat
- 4 h rushed · 4.5 h main story · 8 h completionist
IGDB rating 8.2/10 from 345 ratings.
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