Thank you for being part of our journey! The game is now available to download! Play a few rounds and let us know what you think! Join our Discord[www.discord.gg] to get the most up-to-date news, chat with the devs, and more.

Patch version 1.000.003 | Released: 3/13/25

Wildcards Game Mode
In this brand new game mode, we’re breaking all the rules! Each player chooses a card to dynamically change the game. Will yours be a curse… or a blessing? Try out different combinations for unexpected results! Shrink everyone down to 50% of their size, add a bullet proof vest to the Toy Vendor, or set everyone on fire if they stand still during the match… just to name a few!

Guest Pass Edition
Invite up to five of your friends to play Midnight Murder Club with you for no additional cost! Guest Pass Edition is a free* download that allows you to play all modes as often as you like, as long as you have a friend with the full edition hosting the lobby. Guest Pass players can play in private matches (With a paying host) or join matchmaking (with a paying host leading your party and being the one to join the matchmaking queue).
*You do need PS+ on PS5 to play, and there are some regions that can't list M-rating-equivalent downloads for free, so the cost legally has to be something like $0.25 or $1.00 or similar, but we're pricing it as low as we legally can in those regions.

Free-for-All and Team Deathmatch Bots
Want to keep exploring the mansion's shadows after your game night is over? Consider bots your fill-in friends when your entire party just can’t make it.

Rematch
Get matched with some foes that keep you on your toes, and find yourself with a beef that can only be settled with another match? Now, in public matchmaking, bring the whole group back for another round… and another… and another…

Localization Support
English, German, French, Italian, EU Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, LATAM Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Korean

This is just the start, but we’ve got lots more in store! Here’s what you can expect from us in upcoming patches!

Spend time in Wormwood Manor, and you'll find a great many secrets, including... a ✨magic✨ flashlight*. Shine its beam in the darkness of the cavernous hallways and great rooms, and you might find... a glimpse into the future. 🔦

We know you've been patiently waiting for news on the future of Midnight Murder Club and we're pleased to illuminate our current plan, featuring new Wildcards, PvE mode, new toys and custom games!

We invite you to be part of our evolutionary journey. Join our Discord! [www.discord.gg] and help shape the future of the game!

*there is no magic flashlight, just the roadmap 🙃

For an in-depth look at what's in store, check out this Dev Diary featuring our Game Director, Eric!

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 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[discord.gg], 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 PlayStation 5 and Steam on March 13th, 2025.

See you in the shadows!

Flashlights off, revolvers down. It's closing time for the Midnight Murder Club crossplay beta.

The funs not over yet. Keep an eye out for more news from the manor. 👀

If you played in the beta and would like to share your thoughts about the game with us, please fill out our survey! [velanstudios.typeform.com]

Darkness spreads across The Game Awards. Your senses are heightened as you fumble in the shadows and hear the haunting creak of the floorboards… a distant, muffled voice… then suddenly, gunshots in the distance! It can only mean one thing: The Midnight Murder Club Crossplay Beta is now LIVE! Play now through December 22nd on PlayStation 5 and Steam!
Coming to Early Access on both PlayStation 5 and Steam in early 2025!

Watch the Trailer!

Read more about MMC [http//hhttps] and pick up a few tips before you catch a stray bullet!
Find us on PlayStation! [store.playstation.com]

If you've been enjoying your time inside the mansion, this is the last weekend to spend time in Midnight Murder Club's Open Beta. The beta will be taken down on Wednesday, November 27.

As always, thanks to everyone for playing, sharing feedback, making bug reports, and posting clips!

Stay tuned, as we'll have more info about Midnight Murder Club coming soon. Until then...

Most Noticeable/High Impact Issues

Some users have experienced crashes when attempting to stream the game with OBS.

Some players will have trouble hearing their teammates on match results.

You will see an incorrect pop-up stating the host exited the game when you are disconnected from a match.

You may not be on the same team as the person you are grouped with.

Players can spawn close to each other in Free For All.

Voice Chat cuts out on the How To Play screen. Voice Chat should recover when users enter the game.
When a group member leaves an active match, the entire group will be removed from the active match.

Gameplay

There are a few issues with spawning.

Hunted will spawn inside each other if they are killed around the same time. This is a visual only issue, and shouldn’t negative impact gameplay.

Players can spawn directly into bear traps, molotov flames and other toys/items.

Molotov VFX can be seen on first floor ceiling if thrower is on the second floor

Second toy can be spawned over the first toy on a toy vendor machine

An eliminated Hunter drops a Molotov that other Hunters cannot pickup

Voice chat can cut out when changing rooms or opening doors.

UI

Control diagrams in game don't reference how to drop an item. Users can drop items by hitting the 123 keys on keyboard or hitting right left and down on the D-Pad for controller.

Rarely, player team UI can be scrambled at the beginning of a match.

Users can move their character while the game is paused.

Compass appears blurry and very hard to read on lower resolutions

Some UI elements are missing on the main menu for group members.

Some player actions/events can still occur while on the match results screen.

The match results score can live update after match has completed

Nameplates above in game characters can be seen on the results screen when a match ends. If the user rotates their camera, they can see their teammate’s nameplate overlap with the match results content.

Currently the UI does not handle or account for ties. In a tie scenario, the player that last got a kill will be declared the winner.

Performance

Some items and locations can cause performance issues on lower spec machines.

Character

There are some visual issues with the shooting animations for both the revolver and the machine gun.

Mansion

Placeholder pedestals appear throughout the mansion. These pedestals do not have collision.

One of the stair room names is not final and is still being determined. This will appear as TBD Stair Room below your compass when in this room.

With a dusty creak, the wooden doors to Wormwood Manor swing open for our first open beta!

Hide, seek, and shoot in the dark with your friends across two of the four game modes that will be available when the game launches later this year:

Free-for-all - Six people enter, only one can emerge victorious. It's every player for themselves in a game of wits and stealth in the mansion's dark hallways.

Head Hunters - Four Hunted players race to find and destroy the totems hidden in the mansion before the two Hunted players can stop them. The only problem: The hunted have night vision and unlimited molotov cocktails at their disposal.

Join our Discord[discord.gg] to chat with other players about the game, share feedback with the dev team, and stay up-to-date on any game announcements over the course of the beta!

Miss our Closed Alpha last month? We're only a couple weeks away from inviting people back into the pitch-black mansion to experience the hilarious horrors of Midnight Murder Club.

Request Access on the store page to sign up. We'll be giving people access starting August 22nd, with the playtest running until August 26th, 2024.