Night Loops is a brand-new psychological horror game that features unique puzzles and an extremely interesting premise. As the name suggests, the game focuses on the concept of a time loop as you continuously explore a labyrinthine mansion. The loop will reset as dawn strikes, so it’s up to you to crack the puzzle before the sun rises.
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What is Night Loops?
While Night Loops is fundamentally a thriller visual novel, the interwoven gameplay is reminiscent of the cult classic RPG maker games. Corpse Party is more on the gory side when compared to Night Loops, but that ominously lonely feeling of wandering through a maze of rooms, hallways, and staircases is still prevalent.
So, where is the game set? The Seaside Hotel is a mysterious mansion that houses a wide variety of strange guests. You play as the newly recruited Attendant for the hotel, and it’s your job to assist each guest during their stay – but all is not as it seems. Find yourself delving into the dreams of guests of Seaside Hotel, and solve an abundance of quirky yet challenging puzzles – my personal favourites are the rhythm game-style puzzles!
Utilise the Psychic Masks that you come across while strolling through the hotel, providing you with special powers that originally belonged to their owners. Adopting all of these peculiar abilities will surely take a toll on you, right? As you investigate the Seaside Hotel, you travel down the path of self-discovery, giving you the potential to solve this uncanny time loop curse.
The Aesthetic
To top it all off, the overall art style and mood of Night Loops is spot on. The monochrome colour scheme blends together with creepy imagery throughout the mansion, yet staying somewhat rooted in reality with anime-style character designs.
The decision to go with a black-and-white style was more than likely made to symbolise the light and dark of both reality and the dreamscape – but something may be lurking in the shadows.
