Among the Sleep

A curious, frightful take on childhood trauma that whips up scares from the most seemingly mundane sources. Among the Sleep is unpolished and scrappy, yet eerily...

Among the Sleep is ultimately a cool experience worth seeing through to the end. There’s a novelty to the perspective that’s hard to deny, and when the game focuses on that it’s great. If you enjoy a brisk, atmospheric journey from a fresh perspective, Among the Sleep is a solid choice.

The environments look quite pretty despite being ill-conceived as horror fodder, and Krillbite have done a good job of making you feel like you’re in the body of a toddler (I’d like to see how it works on an Oculus Rift), but those disparate elements mean next to nothing when the game they’re supporting doesn’t work as intended.

A great idea that never reaches its...

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Among The Sleep is a horror experience that’s more interested in exploring the nature of childhood trauma than in providing big scares (though there are still a couple to be had), and that’s no bad thing. Its story is sparse and the impact of its conclusion isn’t fully worked through, yet it’s worth playing for the way in which it manipulates perspective and transforms everyday locations into nightmarish reflections.

Among the Sleep is the dream of a toddler with bigger problems to worry about than whether there's a monster under the bed. It's wonderfully staged, extremely creepy... and doesn't really work, not least because your avatar quickly starts to feel less...

With a shallow story, no interesting puzzles, and no reason to poke around the meaning-devoid world except to solve those uninteresting puzzles, Among the Sleep only accomplishes the minimum of its pitch: being a baby is weird, unsettling, and makes for some very effective scares in a fantasy horror setting.

Among the Sleep's short runtime and fairly anticlimactic ending does take away somewhat from what is otherwise a great...

Among the Sleep succeeds at being a creepy baby simulator, but the real monster turns out to be boring, buggy puzzles and a shallow world and...

I never did much beyond walking or crawling from one cool visual setpiece to the next, but these terrifying mindscapes carried Among the Sleep and transformed it into something I'm glad I experienced.

Cute, and sometimes unnerving, Among the Sleep draws the player to an affecting conclusion, but its banal puzzles and shallow storytelling doesn't do a lot to inspire many thrills.