Little Nightmares III

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• Not recommended Posted October 12, 2025 on Steam First off, I really truly want to give this game a thumbs up. But I can't. Pros: - What story is there is somewhat interesting and sort of engaging. - Chase sequences were thrilling and made me laugh at some parts. - The AI isn't the worst I've ever seen. (I died more than it). - Good character design, except for the final boss. Felt like a random body horror tag just slapped onto the design and that was it. Cons: - Biggest one, the story feels VASTLY incomplete. With only four chapter in the base game, the rest of the story is locked behind either the future DLC or the podcasts and media outside of the game. - If you've seen the trailer, you've seen nearly 3/4th of the game. - Most of the game is a garbled mess lore wise and fully relies on the player to piece something together, even if it's wrong. Those who haven't listened to the podcasts for example, won't know some lore behind one of the bosses. This lore is never mentioned in game as far as I'm aware. - Feels like the game was chopped into pieces to make a DLC, especially with the ending. - Most of the game mechanics beside the bow and wrench felt like weird one off gimmicks. The only one that felt good to me was the umbrella in the first chapter and you had it for a grand total of about 20 minutes. - The soundtrack didn't feel like it had any big moments, at least not that I noticed (could be wrong), a bland track that if I wasn't paying attention to it wouldn't have even registered. - The ambiance was kind of a let down. - The graphics feel like they took a step back from the first two games. In 1 and 2 we had a central location to explore, one that forced an approach of quality over quantity. The locations shown here felt like cardboard cutouts of a "spooky" setting. - Why are there already so many DLC's for skins? It's a story game, people came for lore content, horror, and to be immersed in the world of borderline eldritch adults. You want skins, fine, make people earn them in game or offer one big pack. Perhaps people might say it's unfair to compare the qualities of this game to it's predecessors, especially given the change of studios. To this I say, if you're going to take a beloved IP like Little Nightmares and give it the Overwatch or Marvel Treatment, don't make any more. We don't want to be milked for our money, we don't want to have to go trawling through distant media for the full story, and if you're not willing to put some cohesive effort in like Tarsier Studios did, then just stop. Save your money, wait for Reanimal. Hopefully it pulls through where Supermassive Games has failed.
• Not recommended Posted October 14, 2025 on Steam Fun, but entirely too short for the price point. Then the audacity to charge for 2 extra chapters as an expansion pack that won't finish until almost a year from now? Diabolical. 5 hours of gameplay is not worth 40 dollars.
• Not recommended Posted October 22, 2025 on Steam Here is an honest review from the perspective of someone who really enjoyed the first two. Well, the first one and then MOST of the second one. I played the entire game with a friend and let's just start with the positives. 1. The game is very pretty. Art style is dead on from the last ones and they definitely managed to continue that same dark gritty fairytale esque setting. That's unfortunately kind of it for me in the positives. I honestly think that the dev team should have just let this franchise go and not attempted to resurrect it with a new team and the same IP. It's obvious playing through the game that there was none of the engagement or the depth that LN1 or LN2 had. Here is the specifics: Coop is honestly used really lightly here. This isn't really a coop game. This is a "you need two bodies to open doors" game. There are only maybe three times during the whole game that actually had a puzzle where people needed to either separate to complete a puzzle or actually interact in unique ways giving each player an important task to solving something. The game's biggest flaw though is just that it's extremely boring. Even though the game took us about 6 hours to play, almost 4 of those hours felt like we were just either moving through a transitional room (meaning a room that may have some set pieces in them but doesn't actually do anything for the player, like a hallway that maybe has a light in it and a desk, but there is nothing you need to do in said room) or moving through a tiny hallway crouched in order to get to another room or just to get to another door that just requires both players to open. We did run into bugs and some of the objectives were just insanely unclear on what to do to progress and those were frustrating, but truly the most frustrating thing was just not being able to have any mechanics in the game that were engaging in any meaningful way. Also, there is no reason to collect any of the secret little dolls as they don't unlock any costumes and the costumes they do have are paid DLC (WHICH IS INSANE BTW FOR A GAME THAT COSTS 40$ AND IS HONESTLY JUST A DOOR SIMULATOR). It's just a bundle of issues that come together to make a once 10/10 series a 4/10 at BEST, and a 2/10 at WORST. There is also an end game boss chase sequence that was bugged for us and many players where if you don't crouch ????? while you break into a new room after a chase that the game will just kill your player. It's apparently a moderately well known bug. How this made it into the game is beyond me. Lastly, and this is a point in the game's favor, the absolutely END of the game story... like I am talking the last 30 seconds of story that the game actually had before you go back to main menu.... it was really good. The game had a really questionable hogdepodge of a story throughout the game and you were just kind of guessing as to what was happening, but then the game hits you directly in the feelings and gives you an incredibly sad moment that kind of came out of nowhere. My only question is like, where was this storytelling and engagement the rest of the game??? tl;dr - Game is just incredibly boring. Play Reanimal instead as that 25 minute demo has more gameplay than the entirety of LN3.
• Not recommended Posted October 10, 2025 on Steam If you are a fan of Little Nightmares 1 & 2, then I wouldn't recommend this game. The new developers completely missed the mark for what made Little Nightmares a good game. FIRST OFF! AND I CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH! THIS GAME IS NOT WORTH THE 40$, GET IT ON SALE! ALL OF THE COSMETICS ARE LOCKED BEHIND PAID DLC AND THE SECRETS GIVE YOU NOTHING! With as little spoilers as possible. This game is a Spooky nothing burger. The art style mimics the first, and that is about the only thing that they got right. The puzzles are for babies, taking no mental capacity to solve them at all, and the entire game feels like a walking simulator going left to right, with no mix up to the experience. Instead of coming up with original ides, most of the big spooky moments are pulled directly from 1 & 2 and just spiffed up with a new coat of paint. There were literally rooms that were exactly the same from the first one, but with just different visuals. Lastly, where the first games excelled at environmental story telling and giving you a world to try and piece together as you solved it, this game just feels like they through things at the wall in whatever order and thought 'YEP THAT SURE IS SPOOKY!' Nothing melded together, nothing made sense, and the controls felt like they were somehow worse. Me and a friend did the whole thing through and by the end, we just wanted it to be over, because there was nothing engaging. Nothing to make you stop and go 'Hmm... What is this?' If you really want to play it, wait for a HEAVY discount, because this game feels like a cash grab.
• Not recommended Posted October 30, 2025 on Steam underwhelming, repetitive and boring for a huge price. Clearly visible that the game was not made by the same studio that made amazing Little Nightmares I and II. Not worth your time.
• Not recommended Posted November 26, 2025 on Steam This game borrows the name and a faint whiff of its predecessors, riding their success rather than earning success of its own. I can see it straining to imitate what came before, but it never really convinces me that it's worth playing. In Little Nightmares III, the nightmares are mostly missing. The only one that remains is the gap between what the title promises and what I actually get.