Fit check
Is Before The Night worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Horror adventure players who want combat mixed with stealthy survival sequences
- Players interested in dark fairy-tale settings with animal characters
- Action game fans who enjoy tool-based exploration and environmental obstacles
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a calm animal adventure without horror, violence, or hostile transformations
- Players who prefer uninterrupted combat rather than alternating exploration, chases, hiding, and distraction
- Players looking for a large-scale world instead of a small village setting
Our take on Before The Night
Rather than treating a cute animal village as a friendly exploration setting, the game turns its inhabitants into nighttime threats. It replaces a conventional fable's safe animal cast with a cycle of trading, stealing, combat, pursuit, and hiding.
What is Before The Night?
Explore a small animal village as Lisa, a human pet seeking to resurrect her master.
The village's friendly inhabitants become hostile monsters after night falls, triggered by taking the Flowers of Life. Progress involves exploring, finding tools, trading carrots with rabbits for keys or weapons, and using a hammer against villagers and obstacles. When darkness spreads, survival shifts to chases, hiding in bushes, and using food to draw monsters away. The game combines horror, action, adventure, environmental mechanisms, and a macabre fable premise. Encounters with animal characters include their stories as well as violent interactions, including turning non-player characters into meat.
How Before The Night plays
- 01Nighttime Transformations
- Taking a Flower of Life causes darkness to arrive and changes village inhabitants into monsters.
- 02Rabbit Bartering
- Carrots can be exchanged with rabbits for keys or weapons.
- 03Environmental Traps
- Locks and traps protect the flowers, requiring different tools for specific situations.
- 04Monster Evasion
- During pursuits, Lisa can hide in bushes or distract creatures with food.
Before The Night compared to similar games
Before The Night combines horror, village exploration, barter, traps, and nighttime evasion around a dark fable premise. Jusant centers on climbing tools, stamina management, and discovering a tower's past, while Sundered: Eldritch Edition is a chaotic metroidvania. The listed alternatives therefore use climbing or metroidvania progression rather than Before The Night's animal-village survival structure.
Before The Night: platforms & release
Is Before The Night worth it?
It is worth it if: horror adventure players who want combat mixed with stealthy survival sequences. Skip it if: players seeking a calm animal adventure without horror, violence, or hostile transformations.
Where can I download Before The Night?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Before The Night's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Before The Night on?
Windows only.
