Fit check
Is Midnight Arrow worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Platformer fans who want puzzle-solving integrated with movement challenges
- Players who enjoy optional quests, collectables, and cosmetic skins alongside a main route
- Creators who want to build custom platforming levels without NPCs
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a combat-focused game rather than platforming, aiming, and puzzle-solving
- Those who prefer a single consistent mechanic instead of new movement and puzzle mechanics across six areas
- Players looking for a large story-driven adventure or survival-crafting structure
Our take on Midnight Arrow
The game combines two demanding tasks at once: navigating platforms and solving puzzles. That design gives movement and aiming a central role, but leaves less room for players who prefer a relaxed puzzle experience or platforming without concurrent problem-solving.
What is Midnight Arrow?
Midnight Arrow is a retro-style puzzle platformer set across six areas, each introducing different mechanics, moods, and puzzle challenges.
Players jump between platforms, move along walls, test their aim, and use several arrow types to solve puzzles and light dark caverns. Optional quests, collectables, skins, and speedrunning opportunities add activities beyond the main platforming route. A built-in level editor allows custom stages using the available game features, except NPCs. The game combines puzzle-solving with platforming, requiring both during its challenges. Fire arrows can illuminate paths, while other arrow types support puzzle-solving. Each area introduces new mechanics that increase the complexity of movement and puzzles.
How Midnight Arrow plays
- 01Six game areas
- Each area introduces its own mood, play style, movement mechanics, and puzzles.
- 02Multiple arrow types
- Arrows serve different purposes in puzzles, including lighting dark cavern paths with fire arrows.
- 03Optional quests
- Additional objectives sit alongside the main platforming and puzzle challenges.
- 04Built-in level editor
- Custom stages can use the game's available features, with NPCs excluded.
- 05Speedrunning options
- Advanced platforming routes can provide advantages for completing stages quickly.
Midnight Arrow compared to similar games
Midnight Arrow combines platforming with arrow-based puzzles and a built-in level editor, while Sonic Origins presents four classic Sonic games in one collection. Sonic Origins focuses on established platforming titles rather than custom stage creation and puzzle-solving with different arrow types.
Midnight Arrow: platforms & release
Is Midnight Arrow worth it?
It is worth it if: platformer fans who want puzzle-solving integrated with movement challenges. Skip it if: players seeking a combat-focused game rather than platforming, aiming, and puzzle-solving.
Where can I download Midnight Arrow?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Midnight Arrow's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Midnight Arrow on?
Windows only.
