The accompanying press release for this news also announced that the Little Nightmares series as a whole has now reached over five million players total, which Namco noted to be an important milestone for the western-led franchise. Little Nightmares 2 has sold over one million copies just a month after its release, and it’s the first title developed by Bandai Namco Europe to do so that quickly. It certainly has good reason to continue the Little Nightmares franchise. An indie North American dev, a small European studio, or even a Japanese developer could be brought on to make the next horror puzzle-platformer, with story supervision handled by Namco itself. Namco has a massive amount of influence in the game industry, and even if it can’t find a suitable studio it owns to continue Little Nightmares, it still should be able to hire someone that can do the series justice.
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Tarsier has apparently left all the lore it wrote for the series with Namco, and while one of Little Nightmares’ comic adaptations has fallen through, a TV show is rumored to be in the works to fulfill the same role.
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