GameJudgment's Emily Clarke says,
'The Nightjar seems like more of an audio book with the ability to make footstep noises at first. You are in a freaky suit and Benedict is in your headset and you have to walk to the door, at least you hope you’re walking to the door because all you can see are the feet buttons, and Benedict takes the Mickey if you run and fall over… In any case, it manages to be very intruiging."
Touch Arcade: The Nightjar [$4.99] is a fantastic fabrication of horror, creating a vision of terror from the wonderful and disturbed recesses of the subconscious. Your eyes are rendered useless and your ears become sight. Focusing on finite and nearly faint ‘beeps’ of access panels to exit doors, the paces of creatures, and the echoes of a dead and void space station made my body have claustrophobic reactions and my thoughts feel with the dread of a disgustingly loud and crunchy demise. As Somethin' Else's spiritual successor to Papa Sangre [$4.99], The Nightjar is impressive in design and even more in the execution of an auditory warp into darkness.
Pocket Gamer: Space, a wise man once said, is big. It's also pretty dark when your life support systems are down.
That's how The Nightjar begins: you, the lone survivor of some deep space disaster, trapped in the pitch black confines of your ship as it plummets toward the s
148apps: The Nightjar is a game without video, letting the player’s ears do all the work to guide them in the right direction.
