Mary Skelter: Nightmares

Mary Skelter: Nightmares put out on PSV is a classic dungeon crawler with a turn-based combat system. The action takes place in a world where humanity is locked up in a gigantic prison guarded by dangerous creatures. The game is a collaboration between Japanese company Idea Factory and Compile Heart – a studio specialised in publishing low-budget, niche RPG titles for PlayStation and PC. Mary Skelter: Nightmares is similar to other dungeon crawlers with visuals that draw on games inspired by manga and anime titles, namely MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death.

Plot

Mary Skelter: Nightmares takes us to a fantasy world where humanity suffers tortures in a humongous prison surrounded by walls high for hundreds of metres and having an extremely tall watchtower in the middle. The creatures that torture and guard humans are called Nightmares. There is a group of people, however, who managed to free themselves from the power of the demons, and built their own city guarded by a mysterious organisation founded especially for this purpose. Jack - the main hero - and his friend are set free by them. Simultaneously, they are surprised to find out that both of them are granted supernatural powers. Interestingly, new allies from the organisation have names of characters from different classic tales. The two heroes and the new friends set out on a journey in order to find a way out and to learn how to crush the guards.