What is it? A Southern Gothic action-adventure.
Release Date: April 8, 2025
Expect to pay: $30 / £35
Developer: Compulsion Games
Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
Reviewed on: Windows 11 Pro, RTX 4080, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 64GB RAM
Multiplayer? No
Link: Official Site
Around 20 minutes into playing South of Midnight, I had to stop and take a moment. Not because I'd taken offense to its portrayals of the American South—that's something you learn to brace for growing up in Mississippi—but the opposite. The Southern Gothic action-adventure had me feeling disarmed and sentimental over, of all things, a shed. Not the part where I tussled with the supernatural manifestation of a man's innermost fears, the Rougarou, and forced him to reckon with the pain, but a shed.
