The Midnight Crimes
DeadlyCrow Games · 2024 · Adventure, Detective, Story Rich, Choose Your Own Adventure, Point & Click
PC
Mixed66% · 29 📉 Recent reviews down 56%
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About The Midnight Crimes
Benjamin Leighton is a war veteran and a retired private detective. He lost his family a few years ago in a tragic and gruesome murder. Nowadays, Ben lives in the bottom of a bottle, dealing with insomnia and unending guilt. A new case arises, when he is requested to find a missing child, which is the perfect opportunity for Ben to get back into business and face his own past demons along the way. Will Benjamin be able to overcome his past? Will he find the missing child? Let's find out, since it's all in your hands now.
The game utilizes classic point & click mechanics for exploration and interaction with the environment. Players navigate through detailed, hand-drawn environments, searching for clues, interrogating suspects, and solving puzzles to progress through the story. Clickable hotspots highlight interactive objects, allowing players to examine them for clues or add them to their inventory for later use.
Game Features:
The game has a rich and complex narrative alongside with combat Cards and deck-builder mechanics, also a semi-open world for you to explore. You have to be mindful of the stress levels of Benjamin, since his actions and decisions will be affected by it. You can perform several activies to relief stress around the city. Be careful of alleys, some might see you as a target and will try to rob you. You can adopt a Pet to help you cope with your mental health situation and relief some stress.
Point & Click Interactions
The game utilizes classic point & click mechanics for exploration and interaction with the environment. Players navigate through detailed, hand-drawn environments, searching for clues, interrogating suspects, and solving puzzles to progress through the story. Clickable hotspots highlight interactive objects, allowing players to examine them for clues or add them to their inventory for later use. Dynamic Story / Choices Matter
The narrative unfolds based on the player's choices and actions, with multiple branching paths and endings influenced by their decisions throughout the game. You will be able to unlock special interactions and special side quests depending on the relationship level you have with the characters which will shape the course of the story and the multiple endings you can achieve.Deck Builder Combat Mechanics
Obtain new cards and manage your deck to be able to defeat your enemies, they will get more difficult and powerful with the progression of the game. Each character have unique cards to represent them alongside a wide range of melee, range, buffs, debuffs, bleedings, poisoning, stuns, stealing cards, etc. Once you defeat an enemy, they will grant you one of their signature cards to your deck armory.Crime solving Mechanics
players have access to an interactive board in their detective office where they can pin up evidence, photos, and notes related to ongoing cases. The BOARD in your office room will be your best ally to investigate further, unveil new connections, new clues and new localizations when needed. It is the main tool for investigation.Immersive semi-open world
Discover the rich world of 'The Midnight Crimes' and the stories the night hides in this thriving industrial city of the 19th century. Unveil the mysteries, secret societies, paranormal events and disturbing characters the lovely city of Midnight Cove has to offer.What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The vibe seems great and there's definitely potential but "Chapter 1" is less then you get in most demos. There's no sense of the story or the game play loop. You can finish it in about an hour and have barely done anything in that time. You don't "investigate" anything, you have a few conversations that lead nowhere, can find a few "fights" and go back to bed. The game has good potential but the decision to release whatever this was meant to be seems misguided. I'll keep an eye on development but I'll wait a long time before jumping back in.7 found this helpful
Just like the protagonist, the game misses too many of its punches. The potential is there, but is not (yet) fully utilised. So far, only one of the promised six episodes has been released. The goal of releasing a new episode every 4 months (according to the developer in the Steam forum) has already failed.6 found this helpful
Played many objectively bad games in my life. I can forgive the lips no syncing with the voices, that characters just passing through objects like nothing and the confusing camera. My tolerance meter ended when I met a randome mugger that was my first fight in the game. The guy just stun-locked me while also bleeding and poisoning me. Meanwhile every time i was lucky enough to get a turn all my attacks missed. Do not reccomend, maybe chack it in ten years when all chapters are out and more people have play test it6 found this helpful
The game has a really intriguing dark storyline, but it’s very short in its current state. I hope it gets the support it needs to be fully completed and polished, because the potential is definitely there. Right now, though, it still needs a lot of refinement and more content. If you’re expecting a complete experience, you might end up disappointed, so buy with caution. But if you’re interested in supporting the project in hopes of seeing it grow, it’s worth considering. Honestly, I wish Steam had a middle-ground option instead of just thumbs up or down, because that would fit this game perfectly.
i had high hope for this game but the combat is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, not fun and just badly balanced, totally put me off shame it could have been good if not for that.
Nice visual style and can't say much about the rest because I lost my patience with this unpolished mess. "Point & Click Adventure", well, what that means is just that you move around by clicking on the ground and they managed to make even such a simple concept cumbersome and annoying with wildly changing camera angles and directions. The areas so far were large and difficult to navigate without anything much in it. I guess you can find money in trash cans here and there? Then the first battle happened and no joke, it took like 65 rounds to defeat the two goons from what is basically the combat tutorial. I don't want to grow old before I finish this game, thanks. After that, I was supposed to go to some pub and I kid you not, I could not find my way there despite a map which is, of course, also as irritating to use as it gets. Maybe the story is good, but I will not find out.
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