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Is The Midnight Crimes worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Point-and-click adventure players who want detective puzzles alongside combat
- Story-focused players who want choices to affect relationships and endings
- Players who enjoy managing a card deck while exploring a semi-open city
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a purely linear mystery with no relationship-based branches or alternate endings
- Players who prefer combat without deck management, status effects, or changing enemy difficulty
- Players looking for a fully open-world game rather than an episode-based investigation
Our take on The Midnight Crimes
Stress is the defining constraint: Benjamin's condition changes how actions and decisions unfold, while activities and an adoptable pet provide ways to manage it during the investigation.
What is The Midnight Crimes?
Play as Benjamin Leighton, a retired detective and war veteran investigating a missing child in Midnight Cove, a 19th-century industrial city.
Explore its semi-open environment, inspect hand-drawn locations, question suspects, collect clues, and solve puzzles through point-and-click interactions. An office evidence board connects photos, notes, and discoveries during investigations. The episode-based story changes according to decisions, relationships, and side-quest access, with multiple paths and endings. Combat uses deck-building: obtain cards, manage a character-based deck, and face enemies with attacks, buffs, debuffs, bleeding, poison, stuns, and other effects. Benjamin's stress influences his actions, while city activities and an adoptable pet offer ways to reduce it. Alleys can also expose him to robbery attempts.
How The Midnight Crimes plays
- 01Branching Investigation
- Choices, relationships, and selected actions can open side quests and influence the story's different endings.
- 02Evidence Board
- A detective-office board links evidence, photographs, and notes to reveal connections, clues, and locations.
- 03Deck-Based Combat
- Enemies provide signature cards after defeat, while card effects include attacks, buffs, debuffs, poison, bleeding, stuns, and theft.
- 04Stress Management
- Benjamin's stress affects his actions and decisions, with city activities and a pet available to reduce it.
- 05Semi-Open City
- Midnight Cove contains alleys, secret societies, paranormal events, and other stories to investigate.
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That Other FishFor:Players who want a light detective game with interviews, clues, and physical confrontationSkip if:Players seeking a purely nonviolent detective game may not want physical confrontation as an investigation option.Picked by overlapping fit notes and genres, not an editorial comparison.
The Midnight Crimes: platforms & release
Is The Midnight Crimes worth it?
It is worth it if: point-and-click adventure players who want detective puzzles alongside combat. Skip it if: players seeking a purely linear mystery with no relationship-based branches or alternate endings.
Where can I download The Midnight Crimes?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens The Midnight Crimes's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is The Midnight Crimes on?
Windows only.
