Sleep Tight and Don't Let The Nightblights Bite

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Nightblights begins from the perspective of a child reading a bedtime story. In the story it references creatures called “Nightblights” that love to eat children. They terrorize the child you're playing as once the rest of the people in the house are asleep, causing the child to run around and try to stop the Nightblights. There are several ways that they can get into your house and kill you and some of them have already managed to get inside. This then leaves you with the goal of surviving five nights, similar to a Five Nights At Freddy’s style experience. Just like those games, you must survive the night, keep the monsters at bay, and as you progress from one night to the next, it gets more difficult.

(A fireplace used to keep out Nightblights)

The story that you read is essentially a nursery rhyme warning of you of danger and the things you will need to do to survive the night. Each night you read more and as a result each night gets more and more difficult. The one thing that stays the same is that the Nightblights love to eat kids, and toys. After finishing my lovely little story I began about my night in hopes of surviving. As I walked around the house I noticed how short I was. Obviously, I am a child and the game works with that perspective. This caused several navigation problems, forcing me to move stools and other objects around to get toys from high up and to reach places. Thankfully, it was incredibly easy to make it through the first night. My terrible maneuvering skills as well as the time I wasted admiring the faceless pictures of famous people around the house didn’t cause me to die a terrible death.

(Hallway leading to my room)

Regarding the pictures on the wall, this was something I found extremely creative. Across the house you are in, there are several pictures on the walls, all of which are of famous people that are all missing their faces. The first one of these that I recognized was a picture of Samuel L. Jackson directly outside of your room. This was actually something I only noticed halfway through the first night and, as a result, one of the Nightblights almost escaped out of a closet directly to my left. Before it opened it too much, I quickly slammed the door shut in it’s face, sending it back to Narnia, the land from which it came.

(Sneaky Nightblight)

After realizing maybe I shouldn't spend so much time looking at the cool pictures, I began night two. As I said before, each night gets more and more difficult. Now my little brother in the crib was at risk. I decided enough was enough, I’m making it through all five nights and taking these jerks down. Fast forward 3 nights and several jumpscares later, I had made it to night five and I could see the horizon. Frantically springing across the house from one annoying task to the next, I stopped the Nightblights in there tracks. Well, after dying more than a few times on night 5. However, regardless of the times I died, I had won! I had stopped the creepy little gremlin monster menace in it’s tracks.

(A Nightblight trying to get the baby)

After making my way through this game I really grew to like it. I was skeptical it was going to essentially be a Five Night’s at Freddy’s game with slight variations. Although it had similar aspects, it was truly a unique and great game. I thought playing from the perspective of a child, the idea of Nightblights, and the countless tasks you had to complete to survive were all fantastic. I really enjoyed my playthrough and would recommend this game to anyone who likes survival games and games where you have to constantly be running around with potential death lurking around every corner.