Midnight Murder Club: Emerging from the Shadows Today Midnight Murder Club: Aparece de las Sombras Hoy

After five months of early access updates and gameplay tests, we are pleased to announce the full release of Midnight Murder Club.

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I’m Eric Feurstein, game director at Velan Studios for Midnight Murder Club. First and foremost, I want to thank everyone who participated in all the open betas, gameplay tests, and the early access phase of Midnight Murder Club. Without all of you hunting each other in the dark corridors of Wormwood Manor, we wouldn’t have been able to get the game where it needed to be. And for anyone who joins us for the first time, let me be the first to welcome you to Midnight Murder Club. Unmask, turn on your flashlight, grab your weapon, and invite your friends… the shadows are waiting.

You’re cordially invited …

Midnight Murder Club is a hide-and-seek, shoot-and-sprint game in a dark mansion. We wanted to create a first-person shooter that felt as much like a party game, where it’s tense and eerie at one moment, then chaotic and hilarious the next.

When you’re alone in the darkness, sound becomes everything. With our dynamic proximity chat, every whisper, scream, and footstep reveals your enemy’s position as well as your own. And even though your flashlight provides information, it also paints a target on your back for anyone nearby. Half the fun is that risk-reward calculation: do you turn your light on, hoping to catch someone off guard, or stay in the dark, hoping someone else gives up their position first? Either way, when the gun smoke clears and bodies hit the floor, laughter fills the room as tension releases and players re-emerge from the shadows, plotting their revenge.

Cooperative PVE Mode: Graveyard Shift

With today’s release, we’re excited to present a new game mode: Graveyard Shift. Graveyard Shift can be played solo or with a friend. In Graveyard Shift, you must search the shadows for cursed golden relics hidden throughout the mansion. Once found, you need to bring them quickly back to the waiting vault and toss them where they will be purified of the curse and rewarded with a blessing. All the while, demons from the depths of hell will hunt you, trying to prevent you from purifying the curse.

Defend demons like flying fire skulls that explode into giant fireballs or shadow figures that are completely invisible, except for their shadow, hiding behind doors to stab you from the darkness, or hunters who have night vision, a knife, and a thirst for your blood.

Purify cursed relics and receive rewards that push back the shadows, but taking too long will make the mansion even more cursed, making your task even harder. Search the shadows, defeat the demons, and purify the cursed artifacts from the mansion.

Shuffle the Rules with Wildcards

Wildcards is a game mode specifically designed for Midnight Murder Club that allows you to twist and break the rules based on a set of selected cards before each round. With dozens of cards categorized into fun game modes, strange toys, useful blessings, and punishing curses, there are literally millions of wild combinations waiting to be experienced.

For example, interpreting the Bear Trap Wildcard fills the mansion with bear traps that trap you in place and turn you into a sitting duck. The Falling Lamp Wildcard gives you the ability to attach a chandelier to the ceiling that drops on anyone walking underneath it. With the Fire Trap Wildcard, every kill explodes the victim into a giant fireball that immediately ignites anyone nearby, causing unpredictable chain kills. The Second Chance Wildcard gives you a second life because when you get shot, you shrink to half size, complete with a squeaky voice to match.

Mixing and matching Wildcards allows you to discover new fun ways to play with your friends.

Play with your friends, in the house

We designed Midnight Murder Club to be played with friends, and we know how hard it is to convince your friend group to buy a new game. That’s why we wanted to try something new with the Guest Pass.

With the Guest Pass, only one person needs to own the game for everyone else to join in without additional cost.

Players can download the Guest Pass edition of Midnight Murder Club on PlayStation 5 or Steam for free and join full purchasers through an invitation code or lobby*. Play together however long you want in any mode.

Welcome to the club

Midnight Murder Club began as a strange idea that I had almost exactly 10 years ago. In 2015, I hacked a small prototype in my room and sent an email to my friends to play together. I never knew where it would go, and a decade later I finally decided to launch it at Velan, and it was surprising how many others saw the potential in this strange dark shooter idea.

In some ways, the game is very similar to that small prototype, but also vastly different due to all the feedback we received from early access and various gameplay tests with everyone. Very few people enjoy this feeling of launching a game idea, watching it grow, and then playing with the public as we have with Midnight Murder Club.

We built this game for you, I hope you enjoy it. See you in the shadows!