Curious as to the reason for the name change.

[Ausmerica]

Nothing on the blog, had a scroll through the Tarsier twitter feed too with no luck. The game still looks fantastic, but 'Little Nightmares' just doesn't have the impact to me as 'Hunger' did; it even feels somewhat generic.

[Morrinn]

While I agree that Hinger is a stronger title, I can imagine it may have been due to some legalese with the new publisher. Also, they may have wanted to avoid confusing this game with 'The Hunger Games'.

[Glorious Magnificent Ducksu]

I only found this by chance while browsing far down the list of Upcoming Releases. Didn't even know they changed the name or that it was even on the Steam Store. Been waiting for this since I learned about it in May 2014.

[Jhonnies M.]

Well, according to the good folk over at Rely on Horror (A site that specializes in horror games and the like):

Originally posted by Rely on Horror:

Little Nightmares began development as Hunger, a concept pitched by Little Big Planet Vita developer Tarsier Studios. The game attracted a lot of attention, including that of Bandai Namco. The two have partnered to complete development under its current title, Little Nightmares. When asked about the name change, the developers told Gematsu that Hunger was always a working title meant to be changed before release. The issue came to a head when they realized their fans were complaining about having trouble searching for the game online. Searching for “Hunger game” was not bringing fans to them, but instead to millions of search results for the book and film series The Hunger Games. They decided that the working title just wasn’t going to cut it any further, and changed the name to better represent the game.

[Ausmerica]

Cheers for that!

[[F4G] StoneD0G]

Originally posted by Jhonnies M.:

Searching for “Hunger game” was not bringing fans to them, but instead to millions of search results for the book and film series The Hunger Games. They decided that the working title just wasn’t going to cut it any further, and changed the name to better represent the game.

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That makes alot of sense

[Dayan]

Also Hunger is more like a survival game name, like Don't Starve for exemple.
I personally don't like the new name, but it's still better than Hunger tho. I mean it fits more to the game.

[shoupinou]

Originally posted by Ausmerica:

Nothing on the blog, had a scroll through the Tarsier twitter feed too with no luck. The game still looks fantastic, but 'Little Nightmares' just doesn't have the impact to me as 'Hunger' did; it even feels somewhat generic.

We also loved the term 'Hunger'. However, we quickly realised that this name would be impossible to use for various reasons including legal reasons. In addition, we found out that this woudl become very difficult to just find the game with 'Hunger Game' as keywords ;)

[Morrinn]

Shame, but understandable. Still looking very much forward to the game :)

[Ezekiel]

I didn't read anything in this thread, but I assume it's because if you search for the game on Google or whereever, you're inevitably gonna get search results for The Hunger Games instead of Hunger the game. It's smarter from a business standpoint.

[shoupinou]

Originally posted by Ezekiel:

I didn't read anything in this thread, but I assume it's because if you search for the game on Google or whereever, you're inevitably gonna get search results for The Hunger Games instead of Hunger the game. It's smarter from a business standpoint.

Exactly: copy-pasting my answer:
We also loved the term 'Hunger'. However, we quickly realised that this name would be impossible to use for various reasons including legal reasons. In addition, we found out that this woudl become very difficult to just find the game with 'Hunger Game' as keywords ;)