Little Nightmares: The Hideaway

The Good
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The Bad
Glitches Obtuse puzzles

The Bottom Line
After The Depths, which was mediocre, I hoped the next DLC would be better.

Jinxed it!... The Hideaway is straight-up awful.

The gimmick in this DLC (which isn't relayed well, causing me to waste 20 minutes in the very first room) is that you use gnomes as allies, tossing them around to interact with the environment. Unfortunately, these little buggers are annoying to work with. Sometimes they just get distracted and don't follow you, forcing you to come back and fetch them. Often, they fail to cooperate and do what you want them to. On the other hand, sometimes they cluster around you, making it difficult to interact with objects because you keep grabbing gnomes instead!

The DLC is also full of glitches. Four times I had to restart due to a glitch, three times the same one (an object falling through the floor and disappearing). The puzzles are sometimes obtuse (for example, there's that one lever you have to throw gnomes at, except the game's very finicky about the spot you toss them from.), to the point where halfway through I gave up and reached for a walkthrough.

All in all, a terrible and obviously untested experience. Here's to hoping the third DLC will be better. [narrator voice: it was... somewhat.]