The PC version benefits from fast load times (especially on an SSD), meaning death—which comes frequently and often abruptly—never pulls you out of the experience for too long.

Don’t mistake Little Nightmares for an action game. It is a stealth-puzzle hybrid. You’ll spend most of your time crouching under tables, holding your breath as a long, blind arm sweeps past you. The puzzles are intuitive—usually involving moving blocks, pulling switches, or distracting enemies with objects.

Little Nightmares on PC is a short game (roughly 3-5 hours), but it leaves a long-lasting impression. It doesn’t hold your hand or explain its cryptic world with text logs or exposition dumps. Instead, it trusts you to discover the horror for yourself.

Available on: Steam, GOG, Humble Store

In an era where horror games often rely on jump scares and an abundance of weapons, Little Nightmares offers a refreshingly different kind of terror. Developed by Tarsier Studios and published by Bandai Namco, this puzzle-platformer landed on PC in 2017 and has since cemented itself as a modern classic of the genre.