Many of my all-time favorite horror games can’t quite hold a candle to the macabre scenery of Tarsier Studios’ Little Nightmares, the 2017 puzzle-platformer that looks and plays as if the Laika Animation team went rogue and really tried to traumatize its family-movie demographic. While the first lacked much buzz leading up to launch, it was well-received afterward, leaving some sizable shoes for a sequel to fill. And Little Nightmares 2 fills them quite well. While it’s perhaps no better than the original overall, it’s also not really any worse. With a few interesting innovations and a greater sense of storytelling, there’s every reason to believe Tarsier’s sequel will keep you up at night just like the first one did.

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