In this formula Neverending Nightmares is fairly comfortable and for a while succeeds in balancing the level of tension with due time for it to grow and dissipate, but somewhere around halfway through it introduces a third disrupting stage, that being terrifying abominations which can hunt and kill you long before you’ve made it to the next leg of your journey. There is the build up to a pivotal scene - slow nervous walks through dark corridors, dread hanging in the air over things hiding in the shadows - and then there is the climax of you current loop, in which you come face to face with whatever horrific abomination or memory has been haunting you. Neverending Nightmares essentially works on two stages. Its effort is impressive and commendable, but its failure to completely reject the conventions of its less inspired horror peers caused me to feel uncertain what exactly Neverending Nightmares hoped to achieve, as well as call into question its ability to do so. It alludes to great things in Neverending Nightmares’ future the idea that this might be a horror game which actually means something, pulling terror from the traumatic experiences of its developer and in doing so making it apparent to others how hard it is to live with them.īut despite what Neverending Nightmares wants to be, what it comes so close to being in its strongest moments, it lacks a deep enough understanding of itself to be able to fully accomplish it. The opening is fantastically unsettling, agitated hand draw artwork clashing with splashes of unexplainable depravity in a way that’s captivating in its skill at disorienting and frightening the player. Neverending Nightmares feels so confident in its disturbed vision, until it comes time to actually say something.

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