South of Midnight has plenty to prove. After all, where do you go after making We Happy Few, an Orwellian drug-fuelled nightmare where lots of poorly face-painted British people wanted you dead? (And for once, we don’t just mean our UK office). Well, naturally, you run screaming in the complete opposite direction. That’s exactly what Compulsion Games has done with South of Midnight, where its surreal British dystopia has been abandoned for the significantly sunnier climes of the American Deep South. A glow-up if there ever was one.

Ah, but Compulsion Games thankfully hasn’t abandoned its horror roots for South of Midnight. Instead the developer is embracing a Southern Gothic theming for its new third-person fantasy action adventure, a game the studio is calling a “dark modern folktale”. That’s evident from what we’ve seen so far, given I’m fairly confident the real-world region doesn’t boast gigantic talking fish monsters that you can use as sassy boats to explore.

The big uneasy

South of Midnight screenshot depicting Hazel using ancient magic between her fingers

(Image credit: Compulsion Games)

Key information

Developer: Compulsion Games
Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
Platform(s): Xbox Series, PC
Release date: 2025



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