Through The Nightmares is a new 2D platformer that takes players on a journey into the dreams and nightmares of frightened children. Developed by Sandman Team, this game is all about exploring the most traumatic memories of children and defeating the monstrous embodiments of their fears.
What is Through The Nightmares about?
What is Through The Nightmares about?
- Through The Nightmares is a platformer that draws upon the arcane and otherworldly, setting its deviously difficult action-platforming inside the sleepscapes of frightened children.
- The game follows the story of the Sandman, an active fighter of nightmares who dives into the brains of restless kids to explore their most traumatic memories and ultimately defeat the monstrous embodiments of their fears.
- At its core, Through The Nightmares is a Super Meat Boy-esque runner and jumper, with no direct combat and instant death from a variety of environmental hazards.
- The level design is competent enough and it is tricky without demanding absolute, to-the-pixel accuracy to your movements, which strikes a nice balance for challenge.
- The game has a good gimmick in the Sandman's shrinking power. Ol' Sandy can shift between tiny and full-size forms at will, affecting not just the ability to squeeze through gaps but your weight as well.
- The game also features the ability to pick up special flasks and drop them to create a respawn point of your choosing.
- The game's atmosphere is unsettling, effectively pulling off the unsettling atmosphere it's aiming for.
- Developer: Sandman Team
- Publisher: Sandman Team
- Release: 2023 (demo out now)
- On: Windows
- From: Steam
