There are a handful of stages in the game. That not only allows for puzzles to spread out across the space and into the background, but creates extra room and pathways for pursuit and cowering. Rather than being trapped to a 2D plane, as is the case with Inside and Another World, the other notable predecessor and reference point, Little Nightmares places your character on stages with depth to them. Importantly, the spaces these objects exist in are fully 3D. There are plenty of objects, large and small, that can be picked up, dragged, thrown and toppled.
That carries through from the visuals into the tactility of the world. While it doesn't have actual props and clay figures in its scenes, as The Dream Machine does, its art style and animations give a sense of practical effects rather than CGI. If Inside is mostly silhouettes and shadows, Tarsier's game appears to be constructed using solid, physical entities. Characters don't have the jerky animation of stop motion figures, but they have a solidity. Little Nightmares may be a branch on the family tree that contains Limbo and Inside, but it has the vines of Clocktower wrapped around it as well.Įvery scene is like a little constructed set, a dollshouse with the front walls peeled back to allow an interior view. The major difference is in Tarsier's borrowing from survival horror, with stealth and hiding playing a key part. Get up close to Little Nightmares, however, and its rooms and corridors are constructed using entirely different techniques to those used by Playdead. There are many similarities, not only in the macabre tone (both contain a lot of child death and an oppressive atmosphere neither contains buckets of gore), but in the side-scrolling puzzling and occasional platforming. I'm going to get the Inside comparisons out of the way now so nobody is waiting for any revelations on that front. It's a horror game but it's mostly bloodless and doesn't rely on jumpscares or sudden shocks. Little Nightmares is the story of a little girl in a horrible place.
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