History VideoGame / VeryLittleNightmares

* RaincoatOfHorror: The girl wears a bright yellow raincoat throughout the game. [[spoiler:At the end, it floats away in the water, [[TakeUpTheMantle where it will eventually find its way to Six in Little Nightmares II.]]]]

* RaincoatOfHorror: The girl wears a bright yellow raincoat throughout the game. [[spoiler:At the end, [[TakeUpTheMantle she passes it on to Six]].]]

* CreepyDoll: [[spoiler:The Pretender's legions of doll-children. Even creepier because of the implication that they're actually real, [[WaxMuseumMorgue persevered dead children]].]]

** One level features pressure pads in the floor that must be activated in a certain order to open the door. [[spoiler:The key has been written by a Nome on the wall of the hidden room below the platform.]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: When the Pretender catches sight of the player on the cliff, she utters an ear splitting scream that stuns the girl for a moment.

* ScaryJackInTheBox: The jack-in-the-box achievements are quite [[JumpScare startling]] when they pop open, and most of them contain mimi versions of the ''Little Nightmares'' monsters.

* TeamSpirit: Surviving the final chase sequence requires collaborating with the younger escapee. First you have to time your shoves with hers to push open the main gate, and then later the Pretender will corner and kill you if you don't stop to help the little girl off her ledge by pushing over a dead tree for her.
* ThwartedEscape: After descending the grand staircase, the player finds themself in the main foyer of the mansion, where the double doors are wide open. Careful though! Right as you're about to cross the threshold, the Butler will emerge from the door at left and crush you with a FallingChandelierOfDoom if you don't move quickly enough.

It follows a young child [[NoNameGiven (known only as "The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat")]] who wakes up having crashed her hot air balloon in the heart of a mysterious mansion called the Nest. In this mansion lies [[BigBad the Pretender]], who, along with the Craftsman and the Butler, turns children into dolls for her own pleasure- and she has set her eyes on the Girl. Using a {{Point and Click|game}} mechanic, the player must guide the Girl out of the mansion while helping her solve puzzles, explore secret rooms, and occasionally run for her life.

* AirVentPassageway: Like in ''Little Nightmares'', the player often moves between rooms this way.

* AntagonistInMourning: In the final scene, the player runs into the Pretender outside on a bench overlooking the sea, where she is apparently mourning for the skin-doll she has just dismembered.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Subverted. The Pretender succeeds in killing the girl with the raincoat, only to immediately die herself.]]

* BigBad: [[CreepyChild The Pretender]] owns [[HauntedHouse the Nest]] and has children [[WaxMuseumMorgue turned into dolls]] for her to play with, and wants the girl in the yellow raincoat to be her next victim.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The girl in the raincoat dies, but manages to take [[BigBad the Pretender]] with her, while Six escapes and implicitly [[TakingUpTheMantle wears her raincoat]] in memory.]]

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler: The little girl escaping alongside the protagonist is indicated at the end to be Six from the main game.]]

* CreepyChild: The Pretender has the appearance of a prettied-up little girl, but she proves to be just as vicious and deadly as her employees.
* CreepyDoll: The Pretender's legions of doll-children. Even creepier because of the implication that they're actually real, [[WaxMuseumMorgue persevered dead children]].

* DaylightHorror: While the Nest itself is [[EvilIsNotWellLit not well-lit]], it seems to be daytime outside judging by the bright light peeking through the occasional crack in the wall. This proves true when the girl escapes, and the final act--with its extended chase sequences--takes place in broad daylight.
* DeathCourse: The penultimate level sees the girl in the raincoat running away from the Nest and navigating obstacles while the [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]] Butler flings [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything around]] at her, including statues, columns, and garden paraphernalia.
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: The game's main protagonist fools people into thinking she is Six. She dies in the end, implying that the younger girl who has been escaping in parallel with her is the real Six.]]

* DramaticCurtainToss: In the bathroom, tapping the curtain on the steaming shower causes the girl in the raincoat to slowly approach it before suddenly pulling it aside--only to reveal that [[SubvertedTrope there's no one inside]].

** There is also an ''extra''-secret room without a box hidden in the searchlight level. It has some [[RuleOfSymbolism thematic significance]], but not much else.

** The key to the [[ControlRoomPuzzle fuse puzzle]] is on the wall behind the door in the dark room, but you have to follow the wires carefully to identify which is actually connected where.
** One level features pressure pads in the floor that must be activated in a certain order to open the door. The key has been written by a Nome on the wall of the hidden room below the platform.
* EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace: The plot follows the girl in the yellow raincoat trying to escape from a strange, ''strange'' mansion and its unhinged owner.

The game takes place in the universe of the PuzzlePlatformer ''VideoGame/LittleNightmares'', to which it is a {{prequel}}.

[[caption-width-right:350:Who knows what's beyond that next door?]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Subverted. The Pretender succeeds in killing the girl with the raincoat, only to immediately die herself.]]
* BerserkBoardBarricade: In the scene shown at the beginning of the game, the girl rushes inside a shed and jams a two-by-four under the doorknob to prevent whoever's pursuing her from getting in. [[spoiler:As we find out at the end, it would have been an AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade against the Butler, who is [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]].]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The girl in the raincoat dies, but manages to take [[BigBad the Pretender]] with her, while Six escapes and implicitly [[TakingUpTheMantle wears her raincoat]] in memory.]]

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:The little girl escaping alongside the protagonist is suggested to be Six from the main game.]]

It follows a young child [[NoNameGiven (known only as "The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat")]] who wakes up having seemingly crashed her hot air balloon in the heart of a mysterious mansion called the Nest. Using a {{Point and Click|game}} mechanic, the player must guide the Girl out of the mansion while helping her solve puzzles, explore secret rooms, and occasionally run for her life.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:The Pretender succeeds in killing the girl with the raincoat.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The girl in the raincoat dies, but Six escapes and implicitly [[TakingUpTheMantle wears her raincoat]] in memory.]]

* ShrineToSelf: The Pretender has a massive statue of herself in the main foyer, as well as dozens of portraits of herself on the walls.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The girl is conspicuously barefoot.

* HowWeGotHere: The game opens with the girl in the raincoat running into the tool shed and barricading the door, before slowly backing away as an unseen pursuer pounds on it. Then we return to her balloon crash in the Nest and work our way forward.

* TakenForGranite: In a scene right out of the original game, the girl must sneak past a series of [[EyeMotif eye-shaped]] searchlights that literally turn you to stone if you stay in them long enough.

* EyeMotif: Like the Maw, the Nest has eyes all over the place--on doors, in patterns on the walls, even in its searchlights.

* MakeMeWannaShout: When the Pretender catches sight of the player on the cliff, she utters an ear splitting scream that stuns the girl for a second or two.

'''See also Characters/LittleNightmares.'''

** Each level features a small secret room containing detritus or cast-offs of some sort, one of the 18 jacks-in-the-box that can be collected as achievements, and usually a Nome or two.

It follows a young child [[NoNameGiven (known only as "The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat")]] who wakes up having seemingly crashed her hot air balloon in the heart of a mysterious mansion called the Nest. Using a {{Point and Click|game}} mechanic, the player must guide the Girl out of the mansion, helping her solve puzzles, explore secret rooms, and occasionally run for her life.

[[caption-width-right:350:''Who knows what's beyond that next door?'']]

''Very Little Nightmares'' is a macabre mobile {{Room Escape|Game}} AdventureGame developed by ALIKE Studios for Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment, released in May, 2019, on Android and [=iOS=].

The game follows a young child [[NoNameGiven (known only as "The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat")]] who wakes up having seemingly crashed her hot air balloon in the heart of a mysterious mansion called the Nest. Using a {{Point and Click|game}} mechanic, the player must guide the Girl out of the mansion, helping her solve puzzles, explore secret rooms, and occasionally run for her life.

It takes place in the universe of the PuzzlePlatformer ''VideoGame/LittleNightmares'', to which it is a {{prequel}}.

* CallForward: The game is packed with references to ''Little Nightmares'', from environments to puzzle mechanics, and most of the jack-in-the-box trophies are based on characters in the first game, including the Janitor, the Lady, and the shadow children from the DLC.

* WainscotSociety: As in the Maw, the Nomes of the Nest seem to have their own little world built up. Various EasterEgg rooms show them painting, swimming, and even engaged in some sort of prayer before shrines to their favorite doll children.

* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:There's no real reason for there to be a flickering TV [[SwordOfDamocles hanging by a thread]] above the vulnerable baby bird in the secret room, except that in the ''Little Nightmares'' universe TVs tend to symbolize danger to children.]]

* CreepilyLongArms: The Craftsman's legs and arms are so long that he seems to prefer to keep them folded up in his wheelchair rather than trying to walk. It creates a rather [[SpidersAreScary spider-like]] effects.

* PuzzlePlatformer

* CreepilyLongArms: The Craftsman's legs and arms are so long that he seems to prefer to keep them folded up in his wheelchair rather than trying to walk. It creates a rather [[SpiderAreScary spider-like]] effects.