Midnight Special
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
"Midnight Special" is a point-and-click survival horror game inspired by classic 90s LucasArts titles like "Clock Tower" and "Resident Evil". Set in the late 80s at Boyd Manor, you play as Sarah, who's been tasked with babysitting Jon and Eli Boyd for the night.
What starts out as a routine evening takes a sinister turn when the power suddenly cuts out, leaving the house shrouded in darkness. As you navigate through the decrepit mansion to unravel the mystery of the children's disappearance, bizarre events unfold before your eyes: bizarre phone calls, a deranged stalker perhaps? Unpleasant odors coming from beneath the floorboards. Inanimate objects coming to life. A life-size talking plastic dinosaur?
Has Sarah lost her mind?
Controls (PC):
Left Click - Interact
Double Click Left - Run
Right Click - Inspect
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Close/Open Menus:
I,C - Inventory
O - Objectives
S - Documents
M - Misc
P - Perks
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Development log
- Halloween Update #1 - New Build46 days ago
- Update #13Jul 29, 2024
- New Demo Update #12Jul 23, 2024
- New Mechanic Added! - Vinyl Player System gets an updateJul 22, 2024
- MAC Support! New DemoJul 19, 2024
- Taking a short break from the MAC portJul 19, 2024
- New Demo Update #11 - Blood trail UpdateJul 17, 2024
- Update - Build FixedJul 16, 2024
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the post-prologue is awesome! can't wait to see what's going on!! good work and please continue! :)
Thank you all for your kind words. Glad you enjoyed the demo. If you have a moment, please rate us, it really does help with visibility. Thank you!
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Nice game! Very promising, I love the music!
The game is really interesting and the inspiration from Clock Tower is clear. Good atmosphere.
Interesting game for sure and nice artstyle as well. I look forward to seeing this game develop.
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WOW JUST WOW
I CANNOT WAIT FOR MORE OMFG
I loved this demo!! The art style is fantastic, and it had a great atmosphere. Very excited to see it when its out of development!
This game is incredible and worth it for the amazing sprite art alone! Especially If you loved horror games growing up like Clock Tower, this is an absolute MUST for any horror fan!
Great nostalgic point and click horror game.
Still in development but has amazing atmosphere and lots of potential.
Looking forward to future updates and a full release.
Hi! I just played your Demo and I have to say that I see potential here. The art is great, the atmosphere is dense and I LOVE the Resident Evil touches (like the doors).
That said, I found many bugs and weird design choices that made the experience quite rough. Nevertheless, I understand is an early work in progress so I won't delve into that. For the time being I am eager to see how the game evolves.
Good work.
Hi. Thanks for your feedback. We're working on a more polished demo that should be out sometime next week (with extra gameplay). Regarding the weird design choices, we're not exactly sure what you mean. If you're referring to the intrusive objective popups, they're being fixed as we speak for the next release, and so are some of the more annoying bugs. That being said, if you encountered a specific issue that you feel was problematic, please share it with us and we'll do our best to fix it.
Thanks again! Have a great one.
Very good game
Hello! We're glad you enjoyed it! We'll be releasing a new version of the demo soon with 20+ extra minutes of free gameplay, and we'll also fix a few issues. We've noticed that people struggle with the popups interrupting gameplay, so we'll address that.
cool retro and she is beauty
hi! Thank you for taking the time to play our demo! Hope you enjoyed it. Keep a look out next week, we'll update with some extra free content.
I really like this. Looking forward to seeing more of it. Is it possible to solve any puzzles in the teaser (collect both parts of the key, open the chest, access the Library, etc) or is the only ending going to sleep on the sofa?
Hi! Thank you for taking the time to play the teaser demo. It's not possible in the teaser demo; however, I'll be dropping an extra 20 minutes of gameplay in the free demo sometime next week. In addition to that, the full first episode is scheduled to be finished for early access in mid-to-late July. I'll be making weekly updates so be sure to keep an eye out.
Awesome, thanks for the heads up, I'll wait for the next demo before I cover it. Really like what I've seen so far though! :)
Hi! I know it's been a hot minute, but if you're still interested, we added a new build (some extra gameplay and some goodies). Thanks a lot, and have a wonderful weekend!