The Midnight Sanctuary

The Midnight Sanctuary is an occult horror visual novel set in Daiusu Village, an isolated community founded by Christians oppressed during the Tokugawa era. Its villagers developed distinctive traditions and ceremonies, and later began modernizing the village. Hamomoru Tachibana, a pastor invited to serve as its local historian, meets the villagers and learns of their faith in a local saint.

Daiusu Village

The son of the village head, Jyuan Daiusu, and local church leader Kurosu Okada invite Hamomoru to document the village’s history and traditions. Outsiders are treated as Guests, and a girl in red who arrived earlier is revered. Hamomoru agrees to become the village coordinator, but her role lasts only briefly before an aloof, unworldly girl in white arrives.

The village’s other face

The events that follow reveal another side of Daiusu: a history of tragedy and gloom, and a strange relationship between life and death. The living rush to greet death, while the Dead find fulfillment.

Visuals and voice acting

The game uses animated, cut-paper-style visuals that combine realistic and surreal elements, creating a world that sits between two and three dimensions. The two-person team at CAVYHOUSE created the animation, and professional Japanese actors provide the voice performances. Voice audio is in Japanese.