The Midnight Walk release date – when you can step into the stop motion dark fantasy adventure
The award-winning creators of Lost in Random are back with the first project from their own studio and it looks stunning.
The Midnight Walk has an incredibly unique selling point, and that's the fact that the game has been entirely handcrafted in clay and animated in stop-motion style. So if you were wondering how it looks so good, that's the secret.
Coming to PS5, PSVR 2, Steam and SteamVR, Moonwalk Studio's first offering is skipping Xbox and Nintendo platforms for now, with the reveal trailer back at February's PlayStation State of Play only mentioning PlayStation and PC.
Oddly enough, the official website doesn't even mention Sony 's platforms, saying 'Currently, the game is confirmed for PC via Steam. Additional platforms may be announced closer to the release date.' Although this reddit post from the publisher's community manager reels off the confirmed platforms above.
As for the game itself, it's a first-person dark fantasy adventure that falls into the cosy horror category; gameplay isn't dependent on running around killing things. Instead, enemies are bested by outwitting them and utilising nifty mechanics, like 'closing your eyes' to hear better – which can help overcome enemies as well as finding collectibles and lending itself to the narrative.
If you're curious to find out more, there's not long to wait as The Midnight Walk release date is almost here.
The Midnight Walk release date
The Midnight Walk releases on Thursday, May 8 at 12am local time for PS5, PSVR 2, Steam and SteamVR. The time has been seemingly confirmed by the PlayStation Store page with the usual caveat applying for US players.
For the PlayStation Store US, The Midnight Walk releases at 12am EDT for the entire region so that works out as Wednesday, May 7 at 9pm PDT / 10pm CDT.
The Steam page doesn't mention a time so we'll have to wait until closer to launch to see if we get an exact time for PC players, and if that's different to PlayStation.
What's more, if you're a PS Plus subscriber you can save 10% on the £32.99 / $39.99 / AU$59.95 price tag, and that goes for all tiers. That drops the price of The Midnight Walk to £29.69 / $35.99 / AU$53.95 on PlayStation, so be sure to make the most of that discount.
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