Southern Gothic folklore action game South of Midnight, the latest from Contrast and We Happy Few developer Compulsion Games, will launch on Xbox and PC with day-one Game Pass support on April 8, 2025.
If you shell out for the Premium Edition, you can play early starting April 3. On top of a release date, today's Xbox Developer Direct reveal also gave us a closer look at our heroine's textile-themed abilities and the delightfully named bosses on the receiving end of those powers.
Hazel, new to her Weaver powers, can spin up objects to interact with the environment or unravel enemies to cleanse the darkness infecting the land.
Combat is a mix of melee combos, jump attacks, and charge attacks, with cooldowns limiting your thread moves instead of a stamina bar.
There's a focus on pushing and pulling enemies to control fights, and the devs reckon "the combat system is fast and responsive." That's all well and good, but I can tell you the GamesRadar+ chat was flush with excitement not for the combat, which looks quite good, but mostly for characters like Catfish, a big ol' catfish mentor, and some of the best-named bosses of the year.