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Essays 07 December 2021, 11:37

author: Rafal Sankowski

The Best Short Games of 2021 - Finish Under 10 Hours

Not everyone can afford to spend dozens or hundreds of hours on a single game. So, we've selected the best 2021 games that are short and sweet. The upper limit was 10 hours.

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Little Nightmares 2

  1. Release date: February 11, 2021
  2. Developer: Tarsier Studios
  3. Genre: platformer
  4. Average time to complete according to Howlongtobeat.com: 5.5 hours

What is Little Nightmares 2?

We'll tell you about Little Nightmares 2, but first, we've got to warm the imagination up. Ready? Let's try. Well – imagine the most uncomfortable situations from your childhood, unpleasant places, terrible personalities. You have? Assume now that all this was a dream, or rather: a deadly nightmare of which you are only a small, vulnerable part. Everything seems huge, terrifying and disturbing. If you don't sneak quietly enough or run fast enough – the monsters will get you.

This dream is actually a series of dreams happening in a few gloomy places, all inhabited by different kinds of creatures, with different the structure and different sets of task to complete in order to wake up.

What makes it worth it?

The game has a unique atmosphere of a Tim Burton's nightmare. Almost each of its chapters has a unique character, each is disturbing, brilliant in its own self, and realized in different ways. A hospital full of scary moving mannequins that freeze when you shed light on them, a visit to the world of a scary teacher or a fat man obsessed with dolls walking on the ceiling – just a few examples of creativity and madness of the creators. To our demise or otherwise.

The atmosphere of constant danger is enhanced by great sound, excellent usage of light and intense chasing sequences.

Rafal Sankowski

Rafal Sankowski

He is into journalism; his texts appear both on GRYOnline.pl and in CD-Action magazine. In games, he values above all the universes that he can become a part of and believe in their authenticity. Approaches the world with a distance. When he's not playing, he walks through the forests, sleeps in a tent, listens to Jeremy Soule's music, and complains that they don't serve ramen in the forest.

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