Games like Little Nightmares

4.5average player rating•5 games

Little Nightmares hooks with vulnerable stealth-platforming: small against giants, solving physical puzzles between sprints and hiding. These picks share that tense hide-run loop, tactile obstacles, and wordless dread — each from a different angle.

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Games5

Avg. Metacritic82

Avg. player rating4.5/5

Avg. playtime4h

Main genreAdventure

Released2016–2023

What these games share

The genres these 5 picks have in common, straight from their store data.

Adventure5 of 5
Indie5 of 5
Action4 of 5

The picks

Ranked by player rating, Metacritic breaks ties.

1
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters
ActionAdventureIndie
Constantly hunted in 2D corridors — duck into closets, manage stamina, and time sprints to escape a relentless foe.
4.8/5Player ratingMC77View game
2
Bramble: The Mountain King
AdventureIndie
Child-scale horror against towering folk monsters, built on hide-or-run sequences and simple, physical puzzle gates.
4.7/5Player ratingView game
3
DARQ
ActionAdventureIndie
Side-view sneaking and physics puzzles with no combat, plus perspective tricks that turn hallways into traps.
4.7/5Player ratingView game
4
INSIDE
ActionAdventureIndie
Cinematic side-scrolling puzzles, stealth, and sudden chases where one misstep means a grab and a restart.
4.4/5Player ratingMC87View game
5
White Shadows
ActionAdventureCasual
Machinery and monsters fill a monochrome world; you creep, climb, and bait patrols across deadly, tightly staged set-pieces.
4.1/5Player ratingView game