Platforms
- PCNov 29, 2022NAplayscoreNA0 CriticsNA0 Players
- PlayStation 5Mar 29, 20226.7playscore5.112 Critics7.9173 Players
- PlayStation 4Mar 29, 2022NAplayscoreNA0 Critics8.0111 Players
13 critic reviews · 0 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- In Nightmare is a beautiful landscape touching on the process of working through trauma and bad memories. With stunning visuals and incessant monsters, you’ll feel like a child again
Dev Crowley · May 16, 2022 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - In Nightmare is an experience that will leave players more frustrated than frightened. The story is decent enough, if predictable, but it quickly loses steam since you can guess what'll happen and the pantomimed scenes are too vague. The gameplay teeters between fine to unplayable due to technical issues and an overall design that favors trial and error and memorization versus crafting a more dynamic challenge. All of those things rob the game of a scare factor; there's nothing really horrifying about what you're up against.
Cody Medellin · May 04, 2022 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - Overall, In Nightmare hits the mark. It fits its self-defined genre, and was an otherwise decent game. Its overabundance of mechanics and reliance on standard horror game features hold the title back from being more unique than it could be. Though In Nightmare should not supplant any of your favorite horror titles, the game’s narrative and attempt to differentiate itself through its visuals might just be enough to garner a curious horror game fan’s attention.
Michael Chow · Apr 14, 2022 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - In Nightmare is a frustrating and dull horror experience that can't live up to the many ideas it tries to set up. This left me not only bored, but disappointed in what it could have been.
James Bentley · Apr 12, 2022 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - I mean the whole game is extremely relatable as Bill discovers the thing that some of us have already; and that thing is that more often than not we create our own monsters via our subconscious. The situations or people we monster-fy were never as bad as we thought they were. And hopefully I haven’t said too much, because this game is a wonderful experience, despite the wonky jump button and iffy sonar system I enjoyed my time in this nightmare very much.
Terrence Johnson · Apr 06, 2022 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - The worst kind of bad game isn’t the one that is a total and complete train wreck. In Nightmare is the worst kind of bad game. It’s just absolutely uninteresting. Not good enough to be worth tackling, not bad enough to be enjoyed as a “so bad it’s good experience”, but also flawed enough not to be considered just downright mediocre. It’s boring and poorly designed. The way it tackles mental diseases is tone-deaf at best, and its chase sections are some of the clunkiest I have ever seen in a “horror” game. This is a game better left ignored and forgotten. I sure have already done the latter.
Leo Faria · Apr 04, 2022 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - In essence, In Nightmare is a narrative heavy puzzle game where all too often you must engage in more action heavy scenes in order to progress. That, coupled with frequent sections where you must navigate a room of either a single monster or multiple and avoid detection, caused the game to wear out its welcome sooner than it should have.
Cameron Waldrop · Apr 03, 2022 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - It really is a shame, as there’s an interesting story being told from Bill’s eyes and a really vibrant and vivid world with a unique style to explore, but any semblance of gameplay is horribly hampered by a nightmare of poor gameplay designs. I’ll keep dreaming of how much I’d enjoy this game once it sees some quality of life improvements show up to fix the plethora of lackluster stealth gameplay and frustrating “puzzles”
Cory Clark · Apr 02, 2022 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - To put In Nightmare into perspective: imagine leeches sucking enthusiasm out of your body the longer you play. Yes, it's functional and has some decent concepts, however the experience simply can't avoid comparisons with boring indie horror titles.
Lee Mehr · May 13, 2022 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - In Nightmare is a pale competitor to other titles of the horror-adventure genre. Stealth that’s preferable to charge through, puzzles that are the blandest of time-wasters and a narrative of dark themes burdened with typos and poor delivery. Real nightmares threaten your sleep with terror and fear, whereas In Nightmare only threatens to bore or frustrate you to death.
Miles Thompson · Apr 25, 2022 Reviewed on PS5Read full review
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Closing his heart to reality, our protagonist falls into a deep slumber and awakens in a nightmarish dreamworld. In Nightmare is a narrative-driven horror adventure game combining sneak action with diverse puzzles. It follows a young boy in search for the last hope of love who is working out his own salvation by navigating through his fear.
Developer: Magicfish Studio