Little Nightmares
BANGER · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $1.39/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 460, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was April 2026. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 72 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $4.99 at 75 percent off still sits 67 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 62 at list, 88 today.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. The nearest things to it, Little Nightmares II ($29.99, scores 55) and INMOST ($14.99, scores 62), are both worse buys on this math.
The press gave it 81; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,677 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,058 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 3,575 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 116,569 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.
The drop-off
51% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
222 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Game is kinda quick to play and not too hard, not too easy. Just sweet to play... if you don't acount for the horrors!
I mostly enjoyed playing Little Nightmares. It has nice visuals, puzzles and horror. I only wish the autosaves were more frequent.
I discovered this game long before I actually bought it to play it myself, but I'm really glad that I did, because it was an absolute gem of an experience to finish and complete this game on my own. Little Nightmares is a core part of my childhood, having a massive influence over me and the games I play. It opened the door to my interest in the horror genre in general, especially the video game kind. Its atmosphere...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Little Nightmares scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/424840/little-nightmaresThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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