

Midnight Special
Scared Stupid Inc · 2026 · Retro, Survival Horror, Exploration, Pixel Graphics, Point & Click
PC
Mostly Positive73% · 113
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About Midnight Special
Inspiration from...
The gory thrills of giallo, the suspense of slashers, and the otherworldly charm of 70s and 80s sci-fi.We're thrilled to bring you a chilling adventure that blends cinematic horror with the nostalgic vibes of '90s 16-bit games.How to Save the Game?
After waking from the nightmare and answering the mysterious phone call, Sarah can unlock manual saving by interacting with the cigarette pack in the kitchen.How to use it: In your inventory, drag the cigarette onto the lighter to bring up the save menu.Midnight Special is a point-and-click survival horror experience that echoes the spirit of '90s classics like Clock Tower and Resident Evil. Set in the late '80s at Boyd Manor, you step into the shoes of Sarah, a babysitter tasked with watching over Jon and Ellie Boyd for the night.What begins as an ordinary evening takes a sinister turn.The power goes out, plunging the house into pitch-black darkness. With each step, reality twists into something far more disturbing.- Bizarre phone calls, a deranged stalker perhaps?
- Unpleasant odors seeping up from the floorboards.
- Objects moving on their own as if possessed.
- A life-sized plastic dinosaur that seems... alive.
- Classic Point-and-Click Survival HorrorExplore a foreboding environment filled with chilling surprises, puzzles to solve, and secrets to uncover.
- A Tribute to Retro HorrorInfluenced by '70s and '80s horror cinema and '90s gaming, Midnight Special blends nostalgia with heart-pounding suspense.
- Atmospheric 16-Bit GraphicsGorgeous handcrafted visuals capture the eerie, cinematic tone in stunning pixel art.
- Psychological ThrillsQuestion everything as reality twists and warps around you. Can you trust what you see?
- Immersive Audio DesignAn immersive, spine-tingling soundtrack and unnerving audio cues heighten the tension with every step you take.
- Classic survival horror
- Point-and-click adventures
- Atmospheric mysteries that keep you guessing
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
BUYER BEWARE, Developer is a scammer saying the game is a full release that is a 4-5 hour at most amount of content with Objectives that go nowhere, etc. The game really exists to have partial chopped up content so the developer can sell the content The game is buggy to all hell which in and of itself would lead me to giving it a bad review. However, it's not even that. It feels extremely unfinished. Tasks that seem impossible to resolve, the gameplay loop that seems actually doable in this game is so short it simply does not justify it's price tag. When you "finish" the short sequence of currently functional puzzles it says thanks for playing and next stop the cul de sac. This game is an asbsolute mess and frankly I'd call it a scam as it is not a full release. Also important to note, the developer will attempt to ban you if you point out the issues with this game on the discussion board. IF the developer had been truly honest about it's content, about the Objectives you can't even finish and how incredibly short the game is then I would have at least understood. I wouldn't have bought the game, but I would have least have felt like they were being honest. As it is the game …17 found this helpful
This game is a trainwreck. The amount of glitches can give Todd Howard run for his money, everything you can imagine, from graphical glitches(items being highlited in the inventory despite not being selected), to actual soft locks(putting salt ring in the red door room because stone bride doesn't follow you here). Inventory is a mess, all documents are stored in it together with actual usable items, some puzzles are absurd, like having to light a candle to burn down spider web instead of using your lighter directly. I wish developer to finish the game and turn it into something good, but as it is now, it is not worth paying for.9 found this helpful
I just finished this game after playing for roughly about 6 hours. The beginning felt like it had a lot of promise that was put into it and I thought it would be genuinely enjoyable. After you take care of the kids that when the game loses all respect from me. The controls didn't make sense for a good while. I missed a lot of details from the environment and flavor text since the game didn't describe that the action shown on an item or interact able came be both touched and looked at, compared to most games of the same genre where they tell you explicitly what you can do with things. The files tab didn't have a lot of the information that the game kept telling me that I had collected. There was a lot of times where I thought I got some new information about something but there wasn't anything new despite the screen showing that I can look further into that tab. The objectives felt very half assed and useless on that same regard. Most of them I never ended up finishing nor did I understand what they wanted me to do with them. For most games of this type having an objective window that lines out what you are supposed to would give you a hint, such as putting a fuse into the fuse …5 found this helpful
If Clock Tower and Dead of the Brain had a child and it was fine thick boy. Steam Deck / gamepad controls are a bit off the beaten path but serviceable. Didn't experience any major issues although some progression blockers are a bit arcane to figure out. If you're a fan of this narrow genre bender, it's a treat.2 found this helpful
this game moves at a snails pace and is about as fun as doing your daily chores. As a player of all things horror i cannot recommend.
The game gives me a really cool vibe. Some wacky easter eggs from different cult classics. Quite a lot of things to explore. Recommended 👀
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