Little Nightmares II

Little Nightmares II

Fair · Narrative · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 6 of 8 sales

It has sold at a BANGER price before.

Today

$29.99Fair

On its price record

$5.39BANGER

Cost per hour▼
$5.26/hr
ReviewsS
93% of 59,207
Critics
83 players 10 higher
Genre rank
Top 17% Narrative

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 82% off ($5.39) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $14.13.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.39 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
5.7h
To 100%
8.7h 1.5x the story
Achievements
35

Price and sales

Sales
42 on record
Typical cut
67% off
Steam low
$2.99 June 2025
Sale every
42d last October 2026
Lowest now $8.99 at Fanaticalall-time low $2.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
176 now
Recent reviews
88% 30 days
Cheaper than
2% of its genre
Better reviewed
95% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

73% start to 5% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

It has been discounted 42 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 67 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.39. The record reaches that level 2 times.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 17 percent. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Little Nightmares ($19.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats MADiSON ($34.99, scores 47).

More about Little Nightmares II

83 from critics against 93 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 1,734 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.

At 5.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 2 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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$5.26/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds0 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Little Nightmares II - A Haunting Symphony of Childhood Fears and Dissonance ​ Over the ~9 hours it takes to fully complete Little Nightmares II, the game leads the player through a genuine emotional kaleidoscope: from anxious fascination to helplessness and pure dread. Tarsier Studios managed not only to repeat the success of the original, but to significantly scale it up, creating one of the most immersive...
BushManRecommendedafter 9.2h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
peak game, I've been wanting to play it since it came out, now it's 2026 and I finally got to play it.
koidarai65Recommendedafter 3.4hOct 2026Read on Steam
empty symbolism on top of unfun trial and error gameplay. rather arstistic though
AllarNot recommendedafter 5.3h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Little Nightmares II is the second game in a series that has thrilled and captivated millions of players worldwide since 2017. Now it’s your turn to try to survive this critically acclaimed entry in the most charming horror series ever made.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 570, 1 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7850, 2 GB. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Little Nightmares II scores 55/100 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/860510/little-nightmares-ii
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Reviews 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 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+10
Critics83
Players93
Metacritic critics · 59,207 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperTarsier Studios
PublisherBANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
GenreNarrative
Released2021
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements35