The developers of the original Until Dawn take over with the new Little Nightmares sequel, but how successful are they at recreating the series’ uniquely creepy atmosphere?

Horror games are effective because they negate the two most common ways of diffusing tension in horror films. You can’t play a game with your hands in front of your face, or while blocking your ears, and you can’t say, ‘I’d never have gone down to the cellar in the first place’, because in a game that’s exactly what you’ve just done.

While horror games are plentiful, the Little Nightmares franchise adds an Inside style twist, by being both cute and unnerving. The way its tiny protagonists move around its macabre environments is immediately reminiscent of children clambering over furniture, and they’re similarly maladr

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