Little Nightmares
Fair · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$19.99Fair
On its price record
$5.87BANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.55/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 116,868
- Critics
- 81 players 14 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 11% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.87 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.6h
- To 100%
- 9.2h 2.6x the story
- Achievements
- 22
Price and sales
- Sales
- 72 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 April 2026
- Sale every
- 42d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 179 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
51% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 72 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.87. The record reaches that level 55 times.
Its score sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, White Shadows ($1.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Little Nightmares II ($29.99, scores 55).
More about Little Nightmares
The press gave it 81; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 3,581 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
3.6 hours to finish it, 9 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
The rating rests on 116,868 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
At 3.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
great linear game. there isn't much interaction going on in the 4 hours that is enough to finish this game, you are more of an observer. there are situations where you are running from something or trying to solve a puzzle but the game is mostly for you to experience with observing. such a dark theme and ambiance combined with a great soundtrack and great controller vibrations, creates a tense and disturbing...
1 more review, not recommended
Little Nightmares is an exercise in pure, unadulterated frustration disguised as atmospheric horror. The developers traded any semblance of functional, responsive gameplay for a cinematic art style, leaving you with a character that handles like an uncoordinated shopping cart. The movement physics are sluggish and have a heavy input delay, meaning Six doesn't react when you press a key; she lazily leans into a run...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 460, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Little Nightmares scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/424840/little-nightmaresReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.