10 Video Games That Made You Face Your Own Worst Nightmares
5. Little Nightmares
Who remembers being small?
If you were lucky then your childhood would have been filled with love and laughter and adults whose primary concern was your safety and happiness, but even if that was the case, do you remember being small?
Do you remember how big a table was when you were only three feet tall? How high you had to lift your arm to reach a door handle, and just how much effort it took to actually pull the thing? Do you remember what it was like to be able to fit under your bed because you heard a noise on the landing in the middle of the night, or the feeling of heavy breath in your heaving lungs as you hid from your much bigger, much angrier, cousin in a wardrobe.
Little Nightmares remembers all these things and has no problem getting you – as little girl Six – to feel all of those long-forgotten miseries. As a prisoner aboard a great ship known as The Maw, it is your job to escape. A simple goal, but one that is made infinitely more difficult by the adults that stand in your way. All bulbous heads and inexplicably long limbs, the enemies in Little Nightmares perfectly encapsulates our child-like fear not only of being small, but of being in a world that is ever-so-slightly not right.
Like a dream that’s a little left of centre.
Like a little nightmare.