Bandai Namco went big on little things last night — specifically, Little Nightmares 3, confirming it’ll release on October 10. And if that seems very far away, I have good news: anyone who pre-orders a digital version of Little Nightmares 3 will get to revisit the game that started it all with Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition as an early access title between now and launch day.
There’s also an all-new season of the Little Nightmares themed podcast series on the way, The Sounds of Nightmares, and a comic book — Little Nightmares: Descent to Nowhere — also kicking off in October. Before then, however, a young adult book called Little Nightmares: The Lonely Ones is out in September. Phew. Got all that?
The comic book? Published by Titan Comics, Little Nightmares: Descent to Nowhere, follows two parallel stories. Hush, a timid mute girl wakes up in a jail cell. Desperate to escape, she befriends another prisoner, Mono, who understands this world far better than her, they will have to find a way out of a very dark Dungeon.
The novel Little Nightmares: The Lonely Ones, on the other hand, is written by E.C. Myers and published by Scholastic. It follows Ruse, a young child, who awakens in an unfamiliar, shaking room with two other kids she doesn’t know — a small girl with a frayed rope dangling from her neck and a starved-looking boy wearing a tattered mask over his mouth and nose.
And there’s another surprise: Bandai Namco also revealed a teaser for a stop motion project developed in collaboration with studio Taller del Chucho. We didn’t get much more information, but Bandai says more information will be “unveiled” at a later date.
Little Nightmares 3 — the first Little Nightmares game from Supermassive — is scheduled to release on to PC, PS5, Switch 2, Xbox Series X and S, and last-gen systems, including Nintendo Switch. All bar the Switch versions are available to pre-order now (the latter are coming at a “later date”) — here’s what you get in each edition of Little Nightmares 3 are available for pre-order:
All Little Nightmares 3 Editions
- Standard Edition — base game
- Digital Deluxe Edition, base game and the Secrets of The Spiral – Expansion Pass, and the Residents Costumes Pack
- Collector Mirror Edition, which adds to the Deluxe edition content, a figurine, a metal case, a physical artbook, the OST in digital and physical format, and some stickers
- Premium Collector Spiral Edition, exclusive to the Bandai Namco Store which, contains the Collector Mirror Edition figurine, enhanced with a music box base, a Nome controller/phone holder and a double-sided coin of Low and Alone.
All pre-orders will secure the Dark Six Costumes Set on all platforms as well as the early access to Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition. We also learned that The Secrets of The Spiral — Expansion Pass will include at least two additional chapters to explore.
And I’m not even finished — we also got to see a glimpse of all-new VR adventure called Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes from Iconik Studios.
We thought Little Nightmares 2 was good, awarding it 7/10, writing: “Little Nightmares 2 is every bit as black, bleak, and eerily beautiful as the original. It’s also just as brief, and although the reintroduction of the Six character as an AI-controlled co-op partner ultimately serves the story well, she’s not used as a vehicle to take the game’s puzzle-solving and stealth to interesting new places, which seems like a real missed opportunity.”
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world’s biggest gaming sites and publications. She’s also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky.
