- Publisher: Bandai Namco Games
- Release Date: Oct 10, 2025
- Also On: Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
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Oct 8, 2025Little Nightmares 3 upholds its franchise’s place at the top of the genre, being tense, engaging, and deeply immersive with its macabre worldbuilding. The addition of co-op is a great addition to the series, while remaining an excellent solo experience, should you choose to play it that way.
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Oct 23, 2025A moody return to a world shaped by childhood nightmares. Although the pacing occasionally dips due to less imaginative puzzles and some repetitive design choices, the experience still delivers an unsettling, wordless kind of storytelling that gets under the skin. It offers exactly what long-time fans of the series expect: another dark fable unafraid to be uncomfortable, both in themes and the way it plays.
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Oct 10, 2025With its atmosphere, the story it tells (and the one it leaves untold but makes you feel), its characters, puzzles, and many other details, this game carries the very DNA of the Little Nightmares series. Had the developers dared to step a bit further beyond safe waters, it could have been a much better game. Still, it gives us plenty of reasons to look to the future of the series with confidence.
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Oct 9, 2025This is the third time we have visited a world that could be described as cute, magical and romantic. It's not. It's a nightmare. But it's also very attractive and cooperative.
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Oct 9, 2025Little Nightmares III, without being overshadowed by its predecessors, offers a unique experience for both series fans and new players by adding new elements to its proven formula and successfully integrating them.
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Oct 8, 2025The gaming industry is better off with more atmospheric horror titles like Little Nightmares 3.
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Oct 8, 2025A solid sequel that thanks to its co-op mode offers some variety, but still doesn't have the courage to try enough new things.
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Oct 9, 2025Scores are obviously anathema to what we do at RPS, although I'm not so strong a person that I can avoid pointing out that if someone were to show me a picture of original series protagonist Six right now, I'd nod sagely and say "indeed". Again, there's a couple of really inspired scenes and more than a couple of arresting sights here, good enough to drag me from 'meh' to 'oh damn!' a few times. It plays like what it is, really: a cover act. A tribute. A flatpack knock-off of a trendy piece. Good quality. Well built. You could hit it with a wrench and it'd barely shake. Then again, I do have to ask whether it's a good thing that I find myself assessing a game like a piece of furniture.