Little Nightmares II

Little Nightmares II

Developers
	Tarsier Studios
Enhanced Edition	Supermassive Games
Publishers
	Bandai Namco Entertainment
Engines
	Unreal Engine 4
Enhanced Edition	Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows	February 11, 2021
Reception
Metacritic	83
OpenCritic	82
IGDB	82
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Side view, Scrolling
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Platform, Puzzle, Stealth
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Horror
Series	Little Nightmares

Little Nightmares
Little Nightmares	2017
Little Nightmares II	2021
Little Nightmares III	2024

Little Nightmares II is a singleplayer side view and scrolling platform, puzzle and stealth game in the Little Nightmares series.

On August 27, 2021 the game received a free Enhanced Edition update with ray-traced reflections, improved volumetric shadows, interactive particles and immersive audio. The game was also updated to make use of DirectX 12, in comparison with DirectX 11 which the original version makes use of.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		TV Edition.
GamersGate		Deluxe Edition also available
		Deluxe Edition also available
		Deluxe Edition also available.
GOG.com		Deluxe Edition also available.
Green Man Gaming		Deluxe Edition also available, Region Locked in Latin America.
Humble Store		Deluxe Edition also available.
Steam		Deluxe Edition also available.

A demo is available from GOG.com and Steam.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Digital Content Bundle	Includes a small in-game side quest, the soundtrack, an artbook, wallpapers, and avatars.
Enhanced Edition	Provided to all owners automatically for free.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Helios\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/860510/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Helios\Saved\SaveGames\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/860510/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Main settings.

Advanced settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		See Ultra-widescreen.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Exclusive fullscreen also available.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Scales with texture quality settings, with "Ultra" being 8x filtering.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		TAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)		Ray-traced reflections in the Enhanced Edition (DX 12 only)

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Ultra-widescreen

Manually modify the game executable

Open <path-to-game>\Helios\Binaries\Win64\Little Nightmares II.exe or <path-to-game>\EnhancedEdition\Helios\Binaries\Win64\Little_Nightmares_II_Enhanced-Win64-Shipping.exe in a hex editor (e.g. HxD). Search and replace 39 8E E3 3F with 26 B4 17 40 (for 2560x1080) or any other aspect ratio in hex. Search and replace 3B 8E E3 3F as above. Save the file, overwriting the original. Follow the instructions to enable the developer console in the game. Enter FOV X in the console, where X is the desired value, which can be calculated here. The game's base horizontal FOV is 60, but it can slightly change during gameplay. The Steam version executable needs to be unpacked with Steamless before modification (a different path will be used for saves). Unreal Engine Unlocker might need to be run before the game has reached the main menu to avoid crashing. It seems like the game has trouble centering the camera around the character when forcing UltraWide.

Input

Controller bindings.

Keybindings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Negative acceleration for camera adjustments.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Can't be disabled.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Supported in the base version. The Enhanced Edition features a "new 3D soundscape mix".
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				This game contains no spoken dialog.
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Issues fixed

Game does not launch on Windows 7

The game shows the error "The application does not support your operating system" when trying to launch it on Windows 7.

Modify game executable
Go to <path-to-game>\Helios\Binaries\Win64\. Open Little Nightmares II.exe with a hex-editor such as HxD. Go to offset 51FBB1 and change 75 to EB. Save the file. The offset for the Enhanced Edition is A1D21D. It also needs to be launched with the -d3d11 or -dx11 Command line argument. The Steam version executable needs to be unpacked with Steamless before modifying it.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11, 12	Original version is D3D11, while the Enhanced Edition is D3D12.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Wwise

Change number of save slots

Increase the number of saveslots
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open or create new file Game.ini. Add the following to the file, save it and set flag "Read only" in file properties: [/Script/Helios.WidgetSettings] NumberOfSaveSlotsPC=7

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-2300 AMD FX-4350	Intel Core i7-3770 AMD FX-8350
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 AMD Radeon HD 7850 1 GB (Nvidia), 2 GB (AMD) of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon HD 7870 2 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.