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UPDATE: 2025-06-06 08:13 EST BY MATTHEW SHOLTZ
Little Nightmares is officially available on Android
This article was updated with new information now that Little Nightmares is available on the Google Play Store. Details like pricing, controller support (or lack of), and orientation of gameplay are now within the body of this article.
It’s been over five years since Little Nightmares enchanted and disturbed its way to winning the Indie Award at Gamescom 2016. In that time, Tarsier Studios and Bandai Namco have released multiple DLCs,a sequel, and a mobile exclusive prequel, though we have yet to see a full port of the original hit Android or iOS. But this all changes today with the launch of Little Nightmares on mobile.
This full port of Little Nightmares comes from Bandai Namco, and in celebration of today’s launch you may snag it on sale for $7 instead of the full $9 retail price. While we knewthe game was coming for some time, after learning the official winter release date in September today’s launch was not only a sure thing, but it’s a very welcome addition toAndroid’s best games.
In case you missed the Little Nightmares train when it rolled through in 2016 and 2017, it’s a survival horror game wearing the skin of a Tim Burton stop-motion movie. You play as a little girl named Six who must make her way through a decrepit floating vessel inhabited by monstrous caricatures and flesh-hungry tentacles with nothing but her wits and a Zippo.
The atmosphere is both dark and whimsical. Six’s grisly strangulation by black, eldritch worms is balanced by moments of tenderness when she hugs a lonely gnome. Likewise, the level design vacillates between the cramped confines of an air duct and the sometimes vast, open expanses of the Maw, the vessel on which she’s trapped.
The gameplay is a pretty straightforward mix of 3D platforming and puzzle solving with lots of hiding and running mixed in. One of the few gripes with the original game was its sometimes imprecise controls. Thankfully, the new touch controls work well. Sadly, there is no controller support, and since the game plays in portrait you’ll never be able to use an attached controller anyway.
If this sounds like your kind of game, you can jump into Little Nightmares today for $7. You can expect themain campaign to last around three hours, where completionists can eke out eight hours. So, if you’ve been on the hunt for a compelling survival horror game or simply enjoy premium ports done right on Android, Little Nightmares should be on your shortlist of Christmas gifts for yourself.
