little nightmares – Mathee's Blog

is there anyone that can explain to me the plot of little nightmares

It’s kinda hard to explain, since the developers purposely left a lot to the imaginity, but the plot basically goes takes place in another world, inhabited by giant, mostly monstrous-looking, beings. The world is a chaotic place where the only constant is that every year, always at the same time, but never the same place, a giant construct emerges from the sea; this is the Maw.

The Maw is a sort of resort to the giants, but one they can never leave from, for no one escapes the Maw. The Maw is also a prison of sorts to human children, who are positively tiny compared to the world around them. They are taken to and kept in the Maw for unknown purposes, though it is heavily hinted at that they serve as the main course for the guests.

Aside from the giants and human children, there are also small creatures, only slightly smaller than the children, called Nomes. It’s currently unknown what purpose they serve, but they’re friendly, if a bit scared of everything around them.

In the game, you play as Six, a small child of unknown gender who escaped the prison, but is forced to venture back in, probably in search for food.

Six has a ravenous hunger that hits them at different intervals during the game, and the player is forced to find them something, anything, to eat. First, another child in the prison gives Six a piece of bread. Then Six eats a piece of rotting meat that rats had been gnawing at. Then Six eats a living rat. Then, when Six is hit by hunger again, a Nome offers her a sausage to eat, but instead, Six devours the Nome and ignores the sausage completely.

Throughout the game, Six makes her way from the prison to the Lady’s quarters, the Lady being the person who seemingly runs the Maw with her magic powers. She’s tall and slender, wears a white mask that covers her face, and is hurt by her own reflection. People theorize that this is either because she’s so obsessed with beauty that she can never be beautiful enough, or that it’s symbolic of how the Lady can’t stand to see what she has become.

Six manages to defeat the Lady using a small mirror, and then devours the Lady, gaining her magic powers in the process. Six then leaves the Maw, on the way out seemingly sucking the souls or life force from the Maw’s guests, the game ending with Six standing outside the Maw and the sound of an incoming ship is heard.

It’s believed that Six will either use the ship to escape the Maw, or that she will continue running the Maw where the Lady left off.

And that’s more or less the plot of Little Nightmares.