Idk if it's coherent enough to be called its own subgenre, but atmospheric-horror-platformer-inspired-by-Limbo was definitely a thing in the 2010s. Little Nightmares is luckily better than Limbo thanks to its richer setting and story, and art design that draws on the grotesque caricatures of stop-motion animation and the more surreal works of Miyazaki to create a world approximating what I imagine a horror movie made by Studio Ghibli would feel like. So all of that is pretty rad. The game itself is...eh. Like Limbo, this is pretty much a cinematic experience dressed up as an interactive one. I mean, it is what it is, and works well enough as a game, but I guess I feel like the best and most essential parts of Little Nightmares could be condensed into an hour-long animated film, and you would not necessarily lose a great deal in translation. Or, to put it another way, this is an ideal Let's Play game—watching someone else play it is pretty darn close to the experience of playing it yourself.