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ESRB Rating Appears for ‘Little Nightmares: Enhanced Edition’ for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC
Bandai Namco gave Little Nightmares fans the mobile version of the hit platformer last month, and it appears for 2024 that they aren’t quite done with revisiting the original game. According to the ESRB, Bandai Namco is planning a Little Nightmares: Enhanced Edition for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC.
This (so far) unannounced version of Little Nightmares was originally spotted by Gematsu on South Africa’s Film and Publication Board last January. This new rating summary on the ESRB website doesn’t really detail anything more about Little Nightmares: Enhanced Edition, so we’re only left to speculate on what it entails.
One could assume that the game will sport the usual current-gen enhancements, such as increased resolution up to 4K visuals, as well as including all of the previously-released DLC. It’s not known if this would be a free upgrade for existing owners of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions.
Here’s the summary from the ESRB website for Little Nightmares: Enhanced Edition:
“This is an adventure platformer in which players assume the role of a girl (Six) who must escape a nightmarish world. As players traverse the environment, they run, jump, climb, and sneak around to avoid enemies (e.g., leaches, large human-like creatures). Getting caught usually results in short death scenes: corrupted souls eating Six whole; leeches strangling Six to death. One sequence depicts a pool of blood around a fallen boss after Six attacks her out of hunger; another sequence allows players to electrocute a character by dropping a TV into a pool. A hanging corpse and various blood stains are also depicted in some environments.”
The original version of Little Nightmares is available now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam.The Steam version is currently enjoying a hefty discount (along with its sequel) as part of Steam’s Winter Sale until January 4th.
Fans of Strange Scaffold and publisher Frosty Pop’s apocalyptic Life Eater have another reason to keep coming back to the game, as the much-anticipated Endless Mode is available now. Best of all, it’s a free update!
The new endless mode gives Life Eater players an arena to determine how long they can evade capture while delaying the end of the world. Collect score points called ZEAL by building an airtight procedure around your sacrifices, investigate the lives of countless procedurally generated kidnapping targets, and survive as long as possible in your personal gauntlet of nightmares.
“We’re so excited to expand the playtime of Life Eater with a uniquely dark and intriguing systemic experience,” says Strange Scaffold founder Xalavier Nelson Jr. “You really just terrorize an entire city of people over the span of decades, now, and I can only hope that I don’t come to regret writing that sentence in a press release.”
For those not in the know, Life Eater (check out Aaron’s review here) is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you play as a druid living in suburbia. You serve a dark entity by abducting and sacrificing specific but vaguely described humans every year to stop the apocalypse. Use a unique video editing-inspired interface to discover the intimate lives of your victims, one schedule block at a time. When the time is right, abduct them before authorities find out.
You can snag a copy of Life Eater on Steam.
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