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The Midnight Walk

PlayStation VR2, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), SteamVR, PlayStation 5 • 2025

Should you play it?

Follow The Midnight Walk in a dark adventure from the minds behind Lost in Random. Befriend a lost lantern creature and light your way through a world of wonder and terror. Outsmart monsters and marvel at details in a landscape handcrafted with real clay and animated in a stop motion style.

What works

  • Unique handcrafted claymation art style
  • Immersive atmospheric world
  • Emotional and rich storytelling
  • Excellent voice acting and soundtrack
  • Vr support enhances experience

Things to keep in mind

  • Short gameplay length
  • Simple and repetitive puzzles
  • Some vr technical issues reported
  • Limited gameplay depth
  • Price considered high by some

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Bye Sweet Carole

  • Ghost of a Tale

  • Keeper

  • South of Midnight

  • Pinstripe

  • Darwin's Paradox!

Less expressive

Games that feels like The Midnight Walk but with less self-expression and customization

  • Amnesia: Rebirth

  • Ad Infinitum

  • The Fidelio Incident

  • The Frostrune

  • Silence

  • Layers of Fear

Less intimate

Games that feels like The Midnight Walk but with less focus on close relationships

  • Conarium

  • Tormentum - Dark Sorrow

  • One-Eyed Likho

  • Hell is Us

  • Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition

  • After Us

More violent

Games that feels like The Midnight Walk but with more combat and destruction

  • Scorn

  • Alone in the Dark

  • Somber Echoes

  • Lost in Random™

  • Creepy Tale: Some Other Place

  • Adam Wolfe

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The Midnight Walk: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Thrill. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value.

Last update: 21/08/2026