Sickly Sweet

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Sickly Sweet
Publisher	Bandai Namco Entertainment
Published	September 30, 2025

Sickly Sweet is a tabletop role-playing game play set in the Little Nightmares universe. It was hosted by Ify Nwadiwe and played by Damien Haas and Abby Trott.

Description

''Time to take the leap into the Nowhere, Little Ones… Ify Nwadiwe lead Damien Haas and Abby Trott on the Little Nightmares inspired tabletop one-shot, Sickly Sweet, and we see if they can escape of if they will be stuck in their dreams forever…''

Plot

Two kids, Needle and Peejay wake up in a dark room, only able to see outlines of various objects. Deciding to move forward, the two end up in front of what seems to be a mound, which they realize is three times their size. They decide to avoid it and walk forward by going through the sharper edges of the room. After making it through, the two hear a metal creek and realize the metal pieces they went through are falling upon themselves. The metal makes a loud noise, attracting chittering bugs into the room. Despite Peejay's efforts, the bugs are never actually encountered, only there to hunt them in the background. The two use items they find in the giant mound, which they realize is made out candy, to open the giant door in front of them and continue their journey.

Once out of what was the Storage Room of the Candy Factory, the two kids find themselves in what appears to be an assembly line. They walk forward but soon see a distorted, giant version of a grown up: a member of the Herd, sleeping on his break. The kids decide to carry the boxes they found in the room with them to the exit, while trying to avoid waking up the Resident. The Herd slowly wakes up, realizing something is odd and almost catching the kids a few times. Just before the two kids make their escape from the room and drop a tower of boxes on the Resident, the Herd member, now awake, realizes the situation and hits a button, setting the whole Factory of alarm. The kids escape into the vents, but the Factory are now aware of their presence and of what Needle looks like.

Needle and Peejay navigate through the vents, where they hear the Candy Weevils once again. The two find a split path, where from one side they hear the Weevils' loud chittering, and from the other they hear the loud commotion the Herd workers are causing. They choose to go towards the Weevils, but soon the vent slides open beneath them, making them fall in the Tasting Room, where a Herd member is constantly being fed candies. The Weevils and the Herd soon break in. The Herd is determined to kill the bugs along with finding the kids, complicating the two's journey. Needle and Peejay decide to throw bugs into the tasting Herd member's mouth to distract the others. This proves succesful as various Herd members leave to find help, allowing Needle and Peejay to reach the exit to the room. Before leaving, the kids throw a dead Weevil in the tasting Herd member's mouth, causing all the candy it ate to vacate its body soon after the two kids flee the room.

Out of the Tasting Room, Needle and Peejay find themselves in an office, where soon they see the face of a Resident peering through the filing cabinet. The Supervisor is aware of their presence and is looking for them. The two kids start jumping between filing cabinets and they're noticed the Supervisor, who starts slamming her fly swatter on them. Despite their succesful dodges and rescues of each other, the kids' situation gets worse as the Herd enter the room, helping the Supervisor look for the kids. The two succesfully distract the Residents by throwing a bottle cap on the other side of the room, distracting the Herd and the Supervisor, who however is bumped back by the Herd onto the cabinets, where she finds Needle and Peejay. She hits the cabinet with the swatter, causing them to sway and start a domino effect. To make it out, the kids need to make one final jump or they will meet their end at the hands of the Supervisor and the Herd. Needle confidently jumps and makes it to the window, but Peejay isn't as lucky. The boy misses the jump and meets his fate in the Factory, as the last Needle ever hears of his friend is the smacking of the Supervisor's fly swatter against the wall.

Needle makes his descent down the window and out of the Factory, where he thought he would find his freedom. However, once he's out, he realizes he's stuck in a world he does not know. Needle remains stuck in the Nowhere.

Characters

• Needle - One of the two protagonists of the play. He's courageous boy who finds himself in the Candy Factory.

• Peejay - The second protagonist of the play. He's a scared boy who finds himself in the Candy Factory.

• Candy Weevils - Bugs infesting the Candy Factory, first heard by the kids in the storage room and encountered in the vents.

• The Herd - Workers of the Candy Factory that are encountered by Needle and Peejay various times.

• The Supervisor - The authority figure of the Factory. She's determined to find the kids she hears making noise in the Factory.

Trivia

• Despite being officially published by Bandai Namco Entertainment on their YouTube channel, Sickly Sweet is not considered canon to the series, according to an interview.
• The play features a different design for the Herd, as a member is depicted with blue skin, cyan hair and different clothing.

Gallery

Little Nightmares III - Sickly Sweet Tabletop Adventure