The Last Crown: Midnight Horror

About The Last Crown: Midnight Horror

The Last Crown: Midnight Horror is a classic point-and-click adventure from Darkling Room, written by Jonathan Boakes of Dark Fall and The Lost Crown, and released for Windows in October 2015. It sits between The Lost Crown and The Last Crown: Blackenrock and follows the same ghost-hunter, Nigel Danvers, and his partner Lucy.

It is Halloween in the harbour town of Saxton, and the veil between this world and the other side is at its weakest. Something is haunting the guest rooms above the local pub, The Bear, and there is a presence at the end of the harbour wall. You talk to the locals, collect ghostly evidence and use an array of ghost-hunting gadgets, among them a night-shot camera and a spirit board, to see and hear what the living cannot.

The game is drawn mostly in black and white, with orange jack-o'-lanterns and coloured objects standing out, and the night is full of Halloween: party games with a supernatural twist, a local white witch to practise psychometry with, and trick and treat, which the store page warns you play at your peril. The horror is old-fashioned ghost story rather than gore.

It suits players who like slow, story-led ghost hunts and British folk Halloween, and anyone who played the Dark Fall or Crown games.

How to play The Last Crown: Midnight Horror

1. Buy it on Steam and run it on Windows.
2. Explore Saxton and the pub by pointing and clicking.
3. Talk to the locals and collect evidence of the haunting.
4. Use your ghost-hunting gadgets to see and hear the spirit world.
5. Solve the mystery before the night ends and the veil returns.

Tips

• Use the gadgets everywhere; much of the evidence only shows up through them.
• Talk to everyone more than once as the night goes on.

Questions