🌌 The Midnight Walk – A Dark Fantasy Adventure Sculpted in Clay (2025)

The Midnight Walk is a suspenseful story brought to life in clay. Experience the interactive VR journey with Potboy and The Burnt One on May 8, 2025.

🎮 What is The Midnight walk?

The Midnight Walk is a unique claymation dark fantasy adventure developed by MoonHood, the developers behind Lost in Random and Fe, along with Fast Travel Games as the publishers.

It will be available on May 8, 2025, and the game will feature a world made completely out of clay, brought to life through captivating stop motion. It will be playable on flatscreen and VR.

The Midnight Walk is more than just a game. It is an experience that combines storytelling, craftsmanship, and dark suspense.

🔥 The story: Follow the flame in the Dark

You play as the Burnt one, an enigmatic nomad who traverses an incredibly poetic haunted world. Your journey starts off with meeting Potboy, a lonesome lantern creature whose lifeless flame follows you on your travels.

You’ll traverse The Midnight Walk: an elaborate journey sprinting across five interlinked tales of:

🔥 Going between light, and darkness.

👹Mystical beasts, and mysteries

🤝 Unlikely relationships

🕯️ The never-ending conflict to protect Potboy’s delicate flame.

Every mechanic from lurking in shadows to distracting danger is centered around you two, Potboy and you.

🎭 Stealth, Strategy, Stop Motion Horror: Put them together and you get The Midnight Walk.

The game incorporates stealth-based survival tasks (hide, distract, and outwit), visual design storytelling, and riddles that require light, flames, and timing to solve.

Too much light might emit danger, and too little puts you in the dark which makes your companion’s flame both a burden and a blessing.

With The Dark Itself’s enemies lurking scarily close, gameplay becomes extremely atmospheric, intimate, and consistently filled with emotional tension.

🖌️ A Clay-Sculpted Masterpiece

With The Midnight Walk being a game sculpted from clay and then put onto an online scanner, it’ll surely be a masterpiece. The game takes pride in:

Every tree, character, monster, and building being sculpted by hand

Put onto a high resolution online scanner digitally 3D

Using Stop-motion animation, the clay pieces are then put together guaranteeing an eerie feeling.

It’ll give the game unmatched aesthetic changing it somewhere between fairytale and nightmare and guarantee stunning visuals.

Whether in VR or on a monitor, the result is a deeply immersive world unlike any other.

🕶️ VR & Flatscreen: Two Ways to Play

The Midnight Walk is optimized for:

✅ Gamepad/Keyboard Flatscreen gameplay

✅ VR Headsets: Valve Index, Oculus Rift S, Quest (via Link)

No matter which way you wish to view the eerie world, VR does offer a stronger emotional connection and enhanced spatial immersion.

🖥️ System Requirements

Minimum Specs (Flatscreen version):

OS: Windows 10

CPU: Intel i7 6700k

RAM: 16 GB

GPU: GTX 1070

Storage: 25 GB

VR Support: Valve Index, Rift S, Quest via Link

⚠️ Note: Standard version specs are as shown, but the more immersive the VR experience, the higher end the GPU and RAM will need to be for optimal performance.

🎮 Who Should Play The Midnight Walk?

This game is perfect for:

🧠 Players who enjoy narrative-driven exploration

🎨 Animation and art fans

🕯️ Dark fantasy enthusiasts of emotionally charged suspenseful narratives like Inside, Little Nightmares, or Journey

🥽 Crafters of VR experiences and gaming

❓ FAQs – The Midnight Walk

❓ What is the release date for The Midnight Walk?

The game will launch on May 8, 2025, for PC (Steam), featuring both flatscreen and VR gameplay options.

❓ Is The Midnight Walk VR version only?

No! The game can be played in both flatscreen and VR mode.

❓ Who is Potboy?

Potboy is your companion with a lantern, whose flame illuminates your path, and whose survival depends on your stealth and choices.

❓ What is the total number of chapters or levels?

The Story has Five interwoven tales that unfolds the lore of the world.

❓ Is it horror or puzzle-based?

It’s a dark fantasy stealth adventure with elements of puzzle-solving, and survival mechanics. It isn’t jump-scare horror; rather, it’s more emotional and suspenseful.