{"id":27087,"date":"2026-08-12T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=27087"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:44:33","slug":"wake-up-lia-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/12\/wake-up-lia-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake Up, Lia! (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Help little girl Lia wake up from nightmares involving avoiding sawblades in this 2D precision platformer.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Lia can run and jump and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 If you get hit by a sawblade or other obstacles like spikes, you\u2019ll have to start the stage over or at the last checkpoint.\u00a0 Usually in these types of games, you should avoid skulls, but here they act as checkpoints and colored skulls can even open doors of the same hue.\u00a0 Make it to the end of the level and you can move onto the next.\u00a0 And that\u2019s really it.\u00a0 Honesty I can think of many other better 2D precision platformers you could be playing besides this one.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wake Up, Lia is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood and Violence.\u00a0 You can get hit by saws and spikes, so there\u2019s the violence.\u00a0 When you get hit, blood splats on the screen and stays on the spikes.\u00a0 But luckily you can turn the blood off, which just makes it look like your character turns into confetti after being hit.\u00a0 But either way, it still seems awfully unsettling considering you are controlling a little girl.\u00a0 There are bits of text between each level that explain why she\u2019s having these nightmares, but it really didn\u2019t grab me.\u00a0 Between all that and the spooky music and atmosphere, this one is definitely not for kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Help little girl Lia wake up from nightmares involving avoiding sawblades in this 2D precision platformer.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here. Lia can run and jump and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 If you get hit by a sawblade or other obstacles like spikes, you\u2019ll have to start the stage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27089,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27087\/revisions\/27089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}