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A new studio

MoonHood, a game studio made up of former members of Lost in Random game and Zoink Games studio, has made The Midnight Walk, a dark fantasy first-person adventure game made entirely of clay. The game is published by Fast Travel Games and released on PS5, with optional PSVR2 support. I played The Midnight Walk through using PSVR2 and here’s my thoughts of it.

Plot

You are The Burnt One, waken up from a cave without eyes or ears. Soon you’ll get them and then you’ll embark on a journey through The Midnight Walk with your new friend Potboy. The world is dark, mysterious and twisted. Monsters, puzzles and new friends awaits, but what is your true journey through The Midnight Walk?

The plot was interesting as it began very vaguely. Soon I was introduced to this weird grim world and my new partner. As the game ended and I was watching the credits rolling I was mesmerised what I had just played and how terrifying and wholesome it felt at the same time. The whole story was good from start to finish.

Gameplay controls, audio and visuals

Gameplay in The Midnight Walk is rather simple. This game can be played without VR, but I played this through using PSVR2. Players control The Burnt One and go through different areas doing puzzles—that were rather easy to solve—hiding from enemies and outsmarting them by distraction. Collecting keys to open next area and other collectables that can be viewed in the so-called “hub area”, with this I mean it is a house that follows you and can be accessed at certain points. In the house players can view their collectables and other things. Players also have a companion with them, Potboy that can fire up various things by giving him simple orders. There are some sneaking and hiding in the game, but it wasn’t anything overly difficult. The game uses eye-tracking ingenious ways such as in puzzles and by closing eyes players can focus on sounds around them.

Controls were very easy as well. Some VR games takes a route to make everything realistic by making players able to grab anything and everything, but in The Midnight Walk players can only touch things that are important and can be collected. I really liked that as it only made the gameplay so much easier. But I had some issues with the controls though. For some reason I couldn’t move completely straight, my character always went slightly to the left.

The Midnight Walk is voice acted. There is a narrator and many characters players encounter will talk. What was the most brilliant was the background music and sound effects. It really reminded me of some dark fantasy movies.

Visually The Midnight Walk looked good and bad at the same time. I mean the art direction was amazing; everything was made of clay that was 3D scanned. All characters and environments were dark, gloomy and twisted like some Tim Burton movie. It was truly beautifully dark. But then comes the image quality. Shortly, the game looked like PSVR game and not PSVR2 game at all. Image had very poor quality and it little bit ruined the whole experience. There were some bugs and game-breaking glitches that seemed like to come up at the most random moments. For example I couldn’t even start the game as the menu didn’t work properly. I had to restart my whole console for it to work.

Verdict

The Midnight Walk is a very unique game and it was unputdownable. It looks amazing with all the clay-mation, dark characters and enviroment, and most of all, the brilliant music. But the low image quality is very obvious, so obvious that even some text couldn’t be read as it was too mushy. Every other way I enjoyed my 4-5 hours with the game, which comes to the price of the game that is not equal to the short gameplay. For 40€ I expected much longer game than this. Do I recommend The Midnight Walk? Yes, but with when it’s on sale.

The Midnight Walk is available on PS5 (reviewed using PSVR2 on PS5 Pro) and Windows.

SCORE:

4/5

“…the art direction was amazing; everything was made of clay”

RELEASE DATE: MAY 8, 2025
GENRE: Horror / Adventure
DEVELOPER: MoonHood
PUBLISHER: Fast Travel Games
PLATFORMS: PS5 (reviewed using PS5 Pro)
Windows

 

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