- Publisher: Badland Games
- Release Date: Oct 25, 2017
- Also On: PC, Switch, Xbox One
- Summary: Nightmare Boy is a metroidvania, action/adventure 2D game that takes place in your worst nightmares! In your quest to save Noctum from its self-proclaimed ruler, you’ll meet weird and unique friends and foes.
- Developer: The Vanir Project
- Genre(s): Action Adventure, Open-World
- # of players: No Online Multiplayer
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 0 out of 4
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Mixed: 3 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
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Oct 30, 2017Nightmare Boy offers a good tribute to old-school games, with lots of action and a metroidvania design. It's not a big budget game, but you'll have fun with it.
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Oct 29, 2017Nightmare Boy is a game that preserves the good parts of the Metroidvania genre and also adds its personal touch with a world based on nightmares.
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Dec 14, 2021Nightmare Boy is a fun experience for a few hours, and a lot of the glaring design choices around the gameplay can be overlooked or ignored for the most part. While Billy may feel heavy to control, he does almost always make it to the platforms, while the fighting systems are quite basic, but it allows for the focus to be on the exploration side of things instead. In terms of the aesthetic of the various areas as well, The Vanir Project has done a terrific job in stylising the different sections and making every area feel fresh and new, without getting bogged down with repetitive enemies. While the platforming-based abilities work well, the combat-based abilities leave a lot to be desired, as they lack any flexibility within the combat arena, and even when those abilities are fired off, they do little damage to be worth its while compared to the base attacks. While this can be replayed, there's very little incentive to do so.
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Nov 11, 2017Nightmare Boy had the potential to be a quirky and fun take on the Metroidvania platform, but it squanders that potential by falling flat in nearly all the fundamental components of what makes those types of games fun to play in the first place.