Comparison

Little Nightmares vs A

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Little Nightmares

Embark on a dark, whimsical adventure to confront childhood fears. Guide a young girl through a mysterious, corrupted vessel, solving puzzles and evading terrifying inhabitants. Rediscover your imagination to find a way to escape this disturbing dollhouse.

Highlights
  • Dark and thrilling adventure
  • Confront childhood fears
  • Solve tricky platform puzzles
  • Creepy sound design
  • Revamped interface for mobile
  • Game Center achievements
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Escape your childhood fears. First available on PC and consoles, the horror adventure tale Little Nightmares is available on mobile! 
Immerse yourself in Little Nightmares, a dark whimsical tale that will confront you with your childhood fears! Help Six escape The Maw – a vast, mysterious vessel inhabited by corrupted souls looking for their next meal. As you progress on your journey, explore the most disturbing dollhouse offering a prison to escape from and a playground full of secrets to discover. Reconnect with your inner child to unleash your imagination and find the way out! Little Nightmares features a subtle mix of action and puzzle-platformer mechanics rooted in an eerie artistic direction and creepy sound design. Sneak your way out of the Maw’s dreary maze and run from its corrupted inhabitants to escape your childhood fears. FEATURES - Tiptoe your way through a dark and thrilling adventure - Rediscover your childhood fears inside a haunting vessel and escape its eerie inhabitants - Climb, crawl and hide through nightmarish environments to solve tricky platform puzzles - Immerse yourself in the Maw through its creepy sound design CAREFULLY REDESIGNED FOR MOBILE - Revamped interface - Game Center achievements - Compatible with MFi controllers If you run into a problem, please contact us at https://playdigious.helpshift.com/hc/en/12-playdigious/ with as much information as possible on the issue.

About

A

Navigate procedurally generated mazes in a first-person perspective. Encounter atmospheric environments, mysterious presences, and ambient soundscapes. The goal is to find the exit in each unique, challenging labyrinth.

Highlights
  • First-person maze navigation
  • Procedurally generated levels
  • Multiple maze sizes
  • Built-in minimap
  • Immersive ambient audio
  • Mysterious presences
Features
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Find your way out — if you can. A-Mazed is a first-person maze game wrapped in atmosphere. Every maze is procedurally generated, so no two are alike. Your only goal: find the exit. But you're not alone in there. FEATURES • First-person stone-walled corridors • Procedurally generated mazes — every game is unique • Multiple maze sizes, from a quick challenge to a sprawling labyrinth • Built-in minimap with directional marker • Immersive ambient audio with over 160 eerie sound files • Mysterious shadows and unseen presences that may find you first Free. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just the maze, the dark, and whatever else is in there with you.

Screenshots

Little Nightmares4 screens
A2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Little Nightmares at 50% against A's 0%. Little Nightmares also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (2K vs 1). A's advantage is price (Free vs $7.99). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

A is free to download; Little Nightmares costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Little Nightmares holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Little Nightmares has 2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Little Nightmares's written reviews are positive against 0% of A's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Little Nightmares versus A: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLittle NightmaresA
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (2K ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews50.5% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#33 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size2.2 GB680 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperPlaydigiousThomas Campbell

Customer experience

Little Nightmares

All ratings1,987 ratings
Positive83.2%
Neutral5.1%
Negative11.7%
Written reviews773 reviews
Positive50.5%
Neutral16.7%
Negative32.9%

A

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Little Nightmares

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when entering certain chapters
  • Unresponsive controls in some situations
  • Graphical issues like flickering or clipping

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add support for Little Nightmares 2
  • Improve jump and grab mechanics
  • Provide more display and graphics options
  • Include DLC content

A

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Little Nightmares

No in-app purchases

None

A

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Little Nightmares free?
Little Nightmares costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is A free?
A is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Little Nightmares or A?
Little Nightmares is rated higher. Little Nightmares averages 4.4 out of 5 from 2K ratings, while A averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Little Nightmares or A have ads?
Neither Little Nightmares nor A shows ads.

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