You can tell yourself that it's just a house at night and there's nothing special to be afraid of, but then you discover a tunnel that shouldn't exist inside of a closet. Doors creak open by themselves, and the thumps and bumps of something moving around can be heard throughout the hallways. The game begins on a stormy night, with you crawling your way through an unlit house. Being young, you also have an active imagination, and Krillbite wisely uses this to blur the line between reality and dreams - you can never trust what's real and what's you being a scared little kid.

You are tiny, weak and helpless, and the game makes sure you know it by constantly throwing you into environments which loom over you. Even simple doors become towering gateways, and your sense of scale is thrown off. Being a young child makes the world immediately more threatening. Among the Sleep stands apart from other horror games by virtue of its toddling protagonist. In this world, there most definitely is a monster in your closet. Soon you and your teddy bear are seeking the safety of your mother in a twisted forest, a boggy swamp and an ominous maze as unnatural things lurk in the shadows, watching, waiting. As you crawl and shuffle your way through your dark home, reality begins to unravel. Then there are the darker memories: times we were punished, times we lost something dear to us, times we learned to fear.Īmong the Sleep, the first game from developer Krillbite Studios, chooses to focus on these more terrifying aspects of childhood, placing you in the snug booties of a two-year-old who wakes from sleep one night to find his teddy bear and mother missing.

These are the happy times that are collected in photo albums and shown to our significant others when parents want to embarrass us. On one side, our first word, our first steps, our first plate of spaghetti. Childhood memories are a double-edged sword.

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