10 Most Tragic Characters In Horror Games

The wider world of Little Nightmares is an aptly-named realm indeed. The series revolves around the concept of steering a small, largely defenceless and childlike character through a series of stages inhabited by warped creatures. Whether you’re creeping through an eerie wood or a huge ship’s kitchen, you’re always just a missed step away from being captured and eaten (or any number of other grim yet ambiguous fates besides). 

Your enemies are of the human-but-warped-and-distorted type, and all the more unnerving for it. In Little Nightmares II, Six encounters Mono, an enigmatic boy with a bag over his head. In this sequel, the pair strive to unravel the mystery of the Pale City, the Tower and the eerie Transmission emanating from it. They battle a shotgun-wielding hunter, that neck-waving monster of a teacher, the abominations in the hospital and more, both together and apart. In a rare moment of Little Nightmares combat, Mono dispatches a group of sinister bullies to rescue his new friend. 

In the game’s shocking denouement, however, we witness Six betraying Mono, catching him as he leaps for a distant platform in the unstable Tower and then letting him fall. Mono, knowing he’s doomed, is trapped in what remains of the Black Tower, beset by the Transmission and losing his mind until, it seems, he becomes the very Thin Man who menaces the pair.

The surprise and then the creeping inevitability of his fate is matched only by that of the Runaway Kid from the original game’s DLC.