The Midnight Walk: release date, trailers, gameplay, and more

The Midnight Walk will release on May 8, 2025.

Unfortunately for Xbox and Nintendo fans, The Midnight Walk is going to be a PS5 and PC exclusive. However, it also supports VR headsets to play the game completely in virtual reality.

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The Midnight Walk was revealed with just a quick trailer that showed off the game’s dream-like style built entirely in claymation. The game has you play as a character named the Burnt One who emerges from their grave and meets a lantern called Potboy who has the ability to create fire. The two of them will team up to navigate and survive in a world that seeks to control that fire. The game will apparently be broken up into five tales of fire and darkness, though it isn’t clear how that functions in terms of the story.

That’s all we know about the plot itself except that we can expect to encounter many terrifying and offbeat characters and monsters along the way.

You will play The Midnight Walk entirely in first-person, which is where the VR support comes in, as you explore the hand-crafted world. All assets of the game were modeled in clay before being scanned into the game, giving each environment, character, and monster a sense of groundedness despite the nightmarish designs.

From what we’ve seen, gameplay looks to be divided between exploration and interacting with NPCs, and then stealth and chase sequences with aggressive creatures. There is one instance where we see the use of some kind of firearm, but it only seems to annoy the monster rather than damage or defeat it.

There may also be elements of an escort quest if the goal is to protect Potboy, but it is hard to tell from what has been shown thus far.