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I will admiT I haven’T kepT ThaT close aTTention to Keita Takahashi’s career since The original Katamari Damacy, so I hadn’T heard much abouT his oTher non-Katamari projecTs aside from Noby Noby Boy and Wattam. His mosT recenT game, to a T, was someThing I had noT heard anyThing abouT unTil The YouTube channel Mega64 released a sponsored video promoTing iT, aT which poinT I boughT and played The PS5 version as soon as iT was made available. While The game is an unconvenTional experience by The sTandards of Takahashi’s past work ThaT I had played, I still ThoughT he delivered while keeping his whimsical Touch.

Very Little Nightmares

It’s not often I talk about a mobile game like this, but this is a case where, much like God of War: Betrayal, the game is considered canon to its parent series.

Following the release of the original Little Nightmares game in 2017, a mobile prequel, Very Little Nightmares, was released in 2019 for iOS and Android devices. I will admit that, when it first came out, I didn’t play it in part due to it being a paid app, but it was mostly due to my lack of understanding that it was a new game and not a mobile version of the first game (which, incidentally, exists as of 2023). It wasn’t until recently that it clicked for me how it fit in with the larger series and, with the aid of a free $2 Google Play credit, bought it after seeing it was still available as of 2025. Despite some issues, both in and outside the game, it still felt like a worthy entry in the Little Nightmares series in a smaller package.