The Midnight Crimes

The Midnight Crimes follows Benjamin Leighton, a war veteran and retired private detective who lost his family in a gruesome murder a few years ago. Now living with insomnia, guilt and alcoholism, Ben takes a case to find a missing child, giving him a chance to return to detective work and confront his past. Your choices shape the story and its multiple endings.

Explore Midnight Cove

You investigate a semi-open world set in the thriving industrial city of Midnight Cove in the 19th century. Its nights hold mysteries, secret societies, paranormal events and disturbing characters. You can explore hand-drawn environments, search for clues, interrogate suspects and solve puzzles using point-and-click interactions. Clickable hotspots let you examine objects for clues or add them to your inventory.

Investigate the cases

An interactive board in Ben’s detective office lets you pin evidence, photos and notes from ongoing cases. Use it to uncover connections and clues, and find new locations as your investigations develop.

Choices and relationships

Your actions and decisions can lead the narrative down branching paths and toward different endings. Relationships with characters can unlock special interactions and side quests, shaping how the story unfolds.

Manage stress and combat

Ben’s stress affects his actions and decisions. You can take part in activities around the city to relieve it, adopt a pet to help with his mental health and reduce stress, and watch out for alleys where people may try to rob you.

Combat uses cards and deck-building. You collect cards and manage your deck to fight enemies that become more difficult and powerful as the game progresses. Characters have their own cards, and the available card effects include melee and ranged attacks, buffs, debuffs, bleeding, poisoning, stuns and stealing cards. Defeating an enemy grants one of their signature cards for your deck armory.