Compulsion Games is back with a new project called South of Midnight, a third-person action adventure set in an original world of magic, monsters and giant, blues-playing skeletons. The game’s debut trailer is a cinematic snippet introducing the protagonist, a young woman named Hazel, as she attempts to reason with an immortal specter on a dark dock. Hazel is hunting a monster — or, it’s hunting her, as the trailer goes on to show — and she can wield bright threads of magic.
South of Midnight is in development for Xbox Series X/S and PC, including a Steam release, and it’ll come to Game Pass on launch day — whenever that may be.
South of Midnight is set in a fictional town in the southern United States and the game is infused with magical realism. It’s a Southern Gothic love letter of sorts, creative director David Sears said on Xbox Wire.
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