The Midnight Walk

About The Midnight Walk

The Midnight Walk comes from MoonHood, a team formed by makers of Fe and Lost in Random, and was published by Fast Travel Games on 8 May 2025 for Windows and PlayStation 5. A Nintendo Switch 2 version followed on 26 March 2026. Everything in it was first sculpted by hand in clay, scanned in 3D and animated in a stop-motion style, and on PC and PlayStation 5 it can be played on a flat screen or in VR.

You play the Burnt One, who wakes in a world of endless night and meets Potboy, a small walking pot with a flame on his head. Together you head for the top of Moon Mountain through five tales, lighting candles, solving small puzzles and meeting odd characters along the way, including a house that grows legs and follows you.

The horror is in the creatures of The Dark Itself, who want Potboy's fire. There is no combat. You use Potboy's flame and your matches to burn candles, and the monsters avoid lit areas; later a matchlock lets you shoot matches to light candles from a distance. You can also close your eyes and listen: sound guides you, reveals secrets and warns you of what is near, sometimes while something is chasing you. The handmade look makes the monsters stranger rather than softer.

A first run takes about four to six hours, the figure Fast Travel Games gives. Speech is in English only; French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Latin American Spanish have menus and subtitles.

It suits players who like dark fairy tales such as Little Nightmares, and anyone wanting a frightening game that is more creepy wonder than gore.

How to play The Midnight Walk

1. Wake in the dark and follow the path until you meet Potboy, the lantern creature.
2. Carry Potboy and use his flame and your matches to light candles and the way ahead.
3. Solve the small puzzles each tale sets before the path opens.
4. When monsters come for the flame, hide, keep out of their sight and stay near lit candles.
5. Close your eyes to listen for where a threat is and for hidden secrets.
6. Send Potboy's flame to distract a monster, then slip past.
7. Follow the Midnight Walk through all five tales towards Moon Mountain.

Tips

• Watch and listen to a monster before you move; most have a pattern.
• Keep Potboy close; his flame is both your light and what they want.
• Light candles as you go, since monsters avoid lit areas.
• Close your eyes in quiet moments too; sound points to secrets you might walk past.
• In VR, take breaks if the dark scenes feel intense.

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