You are formally invited to join the Midnight Murder Club, the most prestigious secret society you’ve never heard of.

Put on your mask, grab your flashlight and revolver, and quietly step into the shadows of Wormwood Manor for some tense and hilarious fun with your friends, where the only light you’ll ever see will come from a flashlight piercing the darkness or gunfire piercing your heart. Turning your flashlight on will let you see which of the 30+ elaborately decorated rooms you’re currently in, but it will also give away your position to your enemies who might be hiding closeby. It’s the ultimate game of flashlight tag.

When you can’t rely entirely on sight, sound becomes that much more important. Midnight Murder Club has detailed positional audio, which we paired with a fantastic implementation of proximity chat for a truly immersive experience. If your teammate’s speaking to you in the main hall, their voice will echo realistically through the hall and into the surrounding rooms. When a gunfight breaks out in another part of the mansion, you’ll be able to accurately follow the muffled player laughter and gunfire to point you in the direction of the action. It’s like you’re actually in the mansion!

The only light you’ll ever see will come from you or your opponents.

Velan Studios announced that Midnight Murder Club will release in early access on March 13, 2025, with crossplay and cross-progression support for PlayStation 5 and PC. 

The early access release will bring forth a thrilling new game mode called Wildcards, where players will get a chance to play cards from their collection that will change the rules for everyone in the game in wild new ways! The full version of the game will be available in early access for $19.99 USD, along with a Guest Pass Edition which grants access to up to five friends at no additional cost.

Welcome back to the Midnight Murder Club. Here at Velan Studios, we’ve been toiling away in the shadowy halls of Wormwood Manor, coming up with fresh, new ways for you to hunt your friends in the darkness. We’ve got a new game mode to announce and an exciting new way to get your friends in on the fighting!

Midnight Murder Club is a first-person shooter/party game where you and five friends hunt each other in the pitch-black rooms of the mysterious Wormwood Manor.* Armed with only a revolver and a flashlight, search the shadows for every flicker of light and every bump in the night as you stalk your prey. The tension turns to hilarity as you discover just how tricky it is to navigate and shoot in complete darkness! You sprint toward your friends' shouting voices echoing through the mansion, only to bump into someone else hiding in a dark corner! Shots ring out, luring the other hunters to your location. Every flash of light is the promise of a deadly firefight. This is Midnight Murder Club.

New Game Mode: Wildcards

On top of the existing Free for All, Thief in the Night, Team Deathmatch, and Headhunters modes, we’re excited to introduce a brand-new mode that lets you break the rules like never before! In the new Wildcards game mode, players will play cards from their collection that change the rules for everyone in-game in wild new ways! From hijacking the toys that appear in vendors, to giving everyone super speed, to exploding into flames when you die—use these cards to show your wild side! Then, when the dust settles and the match is over, you’ll be gifted brand new cards to add to your collection giving you even more ways to change the game. In the new Wildcards game mode, it looks like chaos is in the cards!

Play at no additional cost with the Midnight Murder Club Guest Pass Edition!

We know that playing with friends is the best way to play any game and with the Midnight Murder Club Guest Pass Edition, it’s easier than ever! Midnight Murder Club Guest Pass Edition allows your friends to join your game and play for no additional cost!

To put it simply: If one person buys the game, they can invite up to five Guest Pass Edition players to play together for no additional cost in public or private matches, in all current game modes, as much as you want.

We're really excited about the Guest Pass Edition because Midnight Murder Club is the perfect party game to play with friends. Now players can simply invite their friends into the club and let the mayhem begin. 

Burning the Midnight Oil

To sum it up, we’re adding the brand-new Wildcards game mode and introducing a brand-new way to play with friends with the Guest Pass Edition. That’s a lot of new development work! Because of that, we’re going to need a little more time, so we’re pushing our Early Access launch date to March 13th, 2025. The full version of the game will be available in Early Access for $19.99 (or equivalent in your region), and the Guest Pass Edition will be launching on the same day for no additional cost.

As a member of the Midnight Murder Club, your opinion on the direction the club should go matters! We’re really excited about evolving this game with the community as we continue developing through Early Access. We want your opinions and ideas, which will help shape our roadmap (which we’ll be sharing before launch!). Our Discord, the Steam Community Hub, and our socials will be open for discussions, feedback, and updates directly from us!

With these major changes and much more to come, we can’t wait to dive back into the darkness and haunt the hallowed halls of the Wormwood manor with you. Prepare yourselves for Midnight Murder Club coming to Early Access on PS5 and Steam on March 13, 2025. 

See you in the shadows!

Every room in the mansion is yours to creep through and the reclusive owner has hidden a veritable treasure trove of surprises for you to find! Immolate your friends with the Flame Thrower, ensnare them with the Electrified Bear Trap, and go in guns-blazing with a Tommy Gun. Each toy could give you the edge you need to survive the night in the variety of modes the mansion has in store for you and other guests.

Midnight Murder Club has everything you could ask for in a party game: chaotic shoot outs, proximity chat with your friends, destructive toys, and a variety of game modes to terrorize your fellow Club members in.

Hide, seek, & shoot in the dark.

Midnight Murder Club is in development for PS5 and PC (Steam).