History VideoGame / LittleNightmares

* ''Little Nightmares'' (2017): A comic book series that planned on greatly [[AdaptationExpansion expanding]] the game's world was begun but was unfortunately canceled after two issues.

[[folder:The Tie-in Comics]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: All of the hunchbacked child's friends wanted to be different; one wanted to be stronger, one wanted to be taller, and one wanted to have a friend who'd always be by their side. The mirrors changed them so they could get what they wanted, [[spoiler:but in the process, they became easy targets for the Hanged Man: the strong boy was bigger and therefore easier to grab, the tall boy couldn't fit through the opening that they all came in through, and the child who was doubled literally lost half of themself when the Hanged Man ripped away their "friend"]].
* CampfireCharacterExploration: The premise of the comics; several children loose in the Maw, including Six, gather around a fire and talk about how they got there.
* DownerEnding: All of the children's stories end this way, with the respective child being captured by the Ferryman.
* EarthAllAlong: Implied. In the hunchback kid's story, we see her being dared to enter an alleged haunted house, one of them scoffing that there is no such thing as monsters. This implies that this world was far less horrifying until... ''something'' happened, leaving the world populated with defenseless children and {{Monstrous Humanoid}}s.
* EldritchAbomination: The North Wind, a mysterious entity that takes the children of a village, and appears to be engaged in a game with the Maw, competing about who can get the most children.
* FireOfComfort: Subverted; the kids stay around the campfire because it helps keep away the leeches, but not even the fire prevents a leech from showing up and devouring one of them.
* HumanoidAbomination: Multiple of the monstrous creatures are ''somewhat'' human-like, including the Mirror Monster and the Ferryman. But all of them have traits that make it disturbing clear they are not human, the Mirror Monster's head being made of tentacles and the Ferryman's abnormally large nose.
* MagicMirror: The haunted house's mirrors of the second comic; like funhouse mirrors, looking into them shows each of the children as distorted in some way, looking like their ideal self (one as a strongman, one as unnaturally tall, and another as being two people, aka having a friend). Then, they turn into their mirror selves. Touching the mirror turns you back, [[spoiler:unfortunately for the hunchbacked child, since the mirror she looked into was broken and presumably couldn't be touched]].
* MirrorMonster: The villain of the second comic, who evidently looks like the Hanged Man from the game; he uses tentacles coming out of his collar to drag children into his mirror.
* NothingIsScarier: The hunchbacked child is transformed at the end of her story when she looks into a ''broken'' mirror. We never see the result, as she's constantly wearing a cloak and one of her friends covers her with a blanket upon her transformation.
* PaintingTheMedium: After the mirror-doubled boy loses one of his two selves, his speech is reduced to only the first half of each word (e.g. "go lu " for "good luck"). The bubbles' ''size'' remains large enough to hold the complete words, further emphasizing how he's missing half of his being.
* ReducedToRatburgers: A nasty-looking rat snarls at the brother and sister when they enter the barn in the first story. It's roasting over their cooking fire in the very next panel.
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''Little Nightmares'' is a strange, dark, and haunting Horror PuzzlePlatformer (similar to ''VideoGame/{{Limbo|2010}}'' or ''VideoGame/{{INSIDE|2016}}''), developed by Creator/TarsierStudios and published by Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment. It was released on the UsefulNotes/PS4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on April 28, 2017. A UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch port was released on May 18, 2018, and it includes DLC released earlier.

* ''VideoGame/LittleNightmaresII'' (2021): A sequel announced at the 2019 Gamescom.

* ''VideoGame/LittleNightmaresIII'' (2024): A sequel [[spoiler:Actually a prequel]] that introduces CoOpMultiplayer.

* ''VideoGame/LittleNightmaresIII'' (2024): A sequel that introduces CoOpMultiplayer.

* FairyTaleMotifs: An EvilSorceress obsessed with mirrors who associates with dark magical forces? Children lured into a supposed safe place, only to be cooked and eaten by giant creatures? [[Literature/SnowWhite Check]] and [[Literature/HanselAndGretel check.]]

* EarthAllAlong: Implied. In the hunchback kid's story, we see him being dared to enter an alleged haunted house, one of them scoffing that there is no such thing as monsters. This implies that this world was far less horrifying until... ''something'' happened, leaving the world populated with defenseless children and {{Monstrous Humanoid}}s.

* ''VideoGame/VeryLittleNightmares'' (May 2019): A puzzle adventure {{Prequel}} game for mobile devices announced in April 2019.