KISS Psycho Circus The Nightmare Child is a third person adventure game released for the Sega Dreamcast in the United States that draws heavily on the aesthetic and lore of the rock band KISS and their Psycho Circus album project The game places the player in a twisted circus nightmare environment where they battle supernatural enemies and solve puzzles while progressing through a horror themed narrative The gameplay follows third person adventure conventions with real time combat exploration and item collection viewed from behind the character The Dreamcast version retains the core story and level design of the PC original while adapting the control scheme for the console joystick and offering performance tweaks for the hardware The atmosphere combines grotesque circus imagery dark lighting and creature heavy encounters to create a campy yet tense horror experience The soundtrack and sound design reinforce the rock music identity of the license Developed by Third Law Interactive and published by Gathering of Developers this title was entered into the iOctavio com database on November eighteenth 2002 The user noted their original categorization as third person adventure to assist with web search retrieval and the review text provided was minimal consisting only of a single period