Little Nightmares II
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…
Little Nightmares II is an adventure developed by Tarsier Studios, released 10 February 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 4.5 hrs to finish.
What Little Nightmares II is
Little Nightmares II is an adventure game developed by Tarsier Studios and released in 2021. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, horror, mystery and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 35 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Little Nightmares II holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 350 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 8 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2300 | AMD FX-4350, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GTX 570, 1 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7850, 2 GB. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Little Nightmares II launched on 10 February 2021, within three weeks of Hitman 3, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, The Medium and Skul: The Hero Slayer. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Hitman 3, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, The Medium, Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Little Nightmares II yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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