It never really tries to parse its trauma from the point of view of a main character who's yet to master pooping. It's still unnerving at times, definitely, but it's unnerving in an adult sense. Then it fills this dreamscape with simple puzzles and wraps the whole thing in a fetch quest.

Among the Sleep borrows from everything from Dare To Dream to Labyrinth, from Sanitarium to Alice in trying to combine the horrifying with the familiar (even though simply portraying the familiar from a new perspective is its most effective trick by far). What follows remains creepy, but instantly loses that unique resonance as you transition from twisted normality to a full-on wacky dream world - a land of overgrown, spooky playgrounds and contorted architecture. Listen, lady, if I see the words 'Press E to breastfeed' I am OUT of here!

It's beautifully designed and incredibly effective, conveying that primal fear of being alone and frightened with little but lighting, menace, a low camera, and a few well-timed scare chords. Mother has been replaced with a hollow mother-shaped hole in her duvet and Teddy is drowning in the washing machine. Then it's back to innocent childhood for a moment with a few minutes' messing around in a cheery playroom with your living teddy-bear buddy, before night falls and you're alone in an empty house, seen from the creepiest angles. It's your birthday your mother has made you a cake and spoon-feeds you a few pieces before everything is shaken up by a knock at the door that makes the entire world rumble with what could be supernatural horror or could be a panic attack. The game's problems are especially painful because it starts off so well. Even if they are spoken by a talking teddy bear. It's one thing to suspend your disbelief enough to crawl over and gurgle like a pro at various dreamworlds, but quite another to hear lines like 'I didn't believe in evil before this, but now I'm not so sure,' while doing so. and doesn't really work, not least because your avatar quickly starts to feel less like a vulnerable two-year-old than an adult chopped off at the knees. It's wonderfully staged, extremely creepy. PS4 version and Oculus Rift support in developmentĪmong the Sleep is the dream of a toddler with bigger problems to worry about than whether there's a monster under the bed.

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