South of Midnight is an exhilarating journey set within the Deep South that sees you tackle the function of a Weaver, a mender who brings peace to distraught spirits. This narrative-forward expertise is a straightforward (however at occasions emotionally highly effective) story that may maintain most people glued to the display from starting to finish. When you’re contemplating diving into South of Midnight however are curious how lengthy the folklore-laden journey takes to finish, learn on for what it’s worthwhile to know.
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South of Midnight will see you tackle related duties in most of its 14 chapters: You’ll interact in some mild puzzle-solving, fend off some baddies in combat-specific arenas, after which assist carry some peace again to somebody who desperately wants it. Whereas this will start to really feel a bit repetitive later within the recreation, South of Midnight appears to grasp when sufficient is sufficient, closing out simply earlier than it stretches itself too skinny.
When you’re principally simply fascinated about South of Midnight’s story and never a lot in scouring its ranges for collectibles (extra on these beneath), you may see the credit roll in round 8-10 hours on its simpler difficulties. You can in all probability stretch this additional should you go for a larger problem, in fact.

However what should you’d wish to see extra of what South of Midnight has to supply? Effectively, you’ll have to be thorough in your exploration and spherical up a number of collectible varieties. Nevertheless, the degrees are principally linear with comparatively easy-to-spot aspect paths housing these notes, well being upgrades, and forex known as Floofs that can be utilized to purchase new abilities.
Discovering all of those extra collectibles, in addition to finishing a couple of easy fight duties, shall be required if you wish to earn the entire recreation’s achievements. Doing so isn’t more likely to lengthen your playtime too dramatically, although. Except you’re enjoying on the toughest problem and struggling in fight encounters, it’s best to be capable to wrap every little thing up in about 15 hours.
South of Midnight is offered now on Xbox Sequence X/S and Home windows PCs.