Nightlings

I protect this house like I protect my virginity. good game feel like something you can find on itch https://youtu.be/C0wPzS2ao7M

I don’t know why this game is stuck in mixed review hell. It’s a free to play game which will appeal to fans of games like FNAF and Emily Wants to Play. It’s got fun gameplay mechanics, the monsters requiring different approaches to keep them out. The harder difficulties are insane and only for the pro gamers, of which I am most certainly not one. But I still had a lot of fun with the game overall and I feel like it deserves more praise than it’s getting for a free to play game. [B]Pros[/B] - Clear instructions on how to play and how to keep each nightling at bay - Challenging but fun gameplay - Free [B]Cons[/B] - The harder difficulties felt a little too hard. I like a challenge but not a frustrating, reset experience - Limited replayability - Relatively short experience [B]Overall Rating: 7.5/10[/B]

I wasn't expecting a good scare from a free game, but was pleasantly surprised by very decent jump-scares. The game requires a lot of quick thinking when it comes to keeping The Nightlings out, which I absolutely loved. My friends loved watching me get jumpscared on stream too aha

just finished all 3 nights and i like it.

I really enjoyed this. I've only played normal so far but I liked the mechanics and the physics with the toys.....I found the Nightlings to be cute, not scary although I haven't been jumpscared yet. I completed Normal without failing. Pretty sure I'll die straight away when it actually gets difficult. Didn't encounter a single bug which is rare, even for small free games.

"Nightlings" is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" made games, we must still question what value such projects have for gamers. As with all student projects, this isn't really a fully fleshed out game, it's just the result of an academic exercise, and as such it has much more limited value as a game than a professionally developed game would have. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments (especially if the students didn't even pass the course). Sure, it helps their marketing and helps the students feel good about themselves, but this is another case of a business putting themselves before the needs of gamers. This time the students made a very poorly done first person horror game (wow, nobody ever thought of that before) with a FNAF type vibe as you take on the role of a child and run around your house blocking doors and so on to protect the house from goblins or whatever. Yawn. The gameplay comes across more as busywork than any serious endeavour due to poor style and narrative design coupled with the amateurish, low qualit…