The game strikes a fine balance here and it provides a perspective that very few titles have ever attempted. Yet despite these shortcomings, will still have to solve puzzles to progress. Players will have to come to grips with their small stature, their lack of motor skills and their weak nature. This title is at its best when hamming up the vulnerability of a child in a adult world. There aren’t many genuine jump scares to be had here, yet we still felt unnerved and shaky throughout and that is a testament to the developers. The big hitter moments that aim to be the sucker punches sadly don’t land as they should but from a holistic point of view, we really appreciate the story that the developer tries to tell here.
Then speaking of the childhood trauma, without giving too much away, this game explores the topic throughout it’s three hour runtime and we must say, it does so with grace and decorum. Seemingly mundane and everyday locations are tweaked and manipulated to showcase how a child impacted by trauma perceives these areas and it’s fascinating to see in action. The environments you explore within this game are strange, twisted and imaginative in all the best ways. So we have to commend this game’s developers for their efforts here. Especially without the crutch of making everything sunshine and lollipops. The tricky part about taking the approach that Among the Sleep does, is that presenting the world from a child’s perspective is hard. However, is this game mature beyond it’s year’s, or will it leave you crying for momma? We find out in our review of Among The Sleep. This title aims to showcase the horrors that lurk within a child’s mind, an area that is rarely covered through the medium of gaming. This game plays rather like games such as Little Nightmares, Layers of Fear, Fran Bow and Tattletail.
Well, Among the Sleep is a horror game that harps on this fear that dwells within us, combines this with the childish and curious perspective of a toddler and aims to create a psychological horror experience as a result. We were taught that monsters lurked in closets and under beds and as a child, even the most mundane of things can be perceived as a threat. What lurked in the black nothingness was unknown, not to be trusted and instead, to be feared. As a child, we all at some stage had an irrational fear of the dark.
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