Little Nightmares Ending and Story Explained

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[blackypaw]

I am actually incredibly intrigued to find out what this story is all about...

[Keyfur]

I agree with this theory except for the lady fattening up the guests to steal their lightforce - I think she fattens them up to make them ugly, so she looks the most beautiful among the pigs.

I also hear that the guests eat themselves to death, and then their corpses are served up as food to feed more guests.


EDIT (April 16th, 2020) - Oh wow! 1900 Likes? Thank you all so much! :D

[zeezee]

this game is so deep and eerie and is now automatically going to be in my top 5 of this year.

[noodleus]

Look into Yokai in Japanese mythology, all the monster you face all seem heavily based on them, and the whole children eating thing is also a yokai thing

[dhananjayanharidas]

why six ate gnome when she was starving, not the sausage

[secretagentlucario]

I'm not sure why people think all the mirrors are broken because she can't stand to look at herself, and ignore the more obvious option: All the mirrors are broken because mirrors can kill her.

[maraudingstar]

I believe this game is an allegory of society's obsession with excess and how greed leads to succumb one's self towards perdition. The starvation represents the desperate need to constantly attain things. When Six ends up eating the gnome, it shows how one tends to lose sight to our surroundings and act on our own selfishness to feel "satisfied".

[batanggalinggubat]

I dont know y but this reminds me of spirited away

[Xy-glnv]

I was thinking she smashed all the mirrors so she wouldn't kill herself by absorbing her own soul

[skelliebunneh]

What about the eye? It has a big role in the game too

[XxGlobalGamerxX]

As soon as Six ate the little gnome instead of the sausage, I said oh hell nawwww.

[ianophore]

Whatever story may come out of this, at the very least the girl has successfully conquered her "little nightmares, " quite literally though.

[mr.nickols]

This would make a great Tim Burton film

[KelasKakapAnimation]

The music makes six looks like a total badass

[mariellereyes]

At first, I thought the game is like or a bit similar with the Japanese animated movie Spirited Away. Because the setting looks like a Japanese bath house or hotel to me and the monsters can smell humans just like in the movie. And when I saw the monsters coming off from a boat, kinda like in the movie too. But the ending of the game got me like, 'Oh. Nope. Too far.'

[TheSnoozeFox]

Has anyone seen that the chefs are actually wearing masks, and every time Six eats you can see a doppelgänger of her somewhere in the scenery

There's defiantly some deeper lore behind this game

[shinjisami]

i think that 6 is the little nightmare and was locked up for a reason

[tawgenal]

At least the ending is better than Outlast 2

[jboy]

Or Six never hugs the gnomes but bites them, making them her minions.
The island at the end, you actually can see a similar one on top of the
"boat"/"Island" the Geisha (her mother) has, making Six the new queen on this island. The
history repeat itself?

[OriGuyOriginal]

The Maw is very reminiscent of Miasaki's Spirited Away, and Little Nightmares does something with the ending sequence I wish more games did. The kind of power you wield is devastating and terrifying, and you can FEEL it when you play. Its tunnled progression of the slow walk through the dining hall as you kill everyone around you fills me with awe and dread, emboldened by the ominous music, and the spreading darkness as I pass. Never before have I felt so overpowering... yet at the same time, so evil, in a haunting way; mostly because you are assumed to be the victim until now.