Spirit of Midnight: Prologue

"Spirit of Midnight: Prologue" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Spirit of Midnight". Spirit of Midnight is an as-yet unreleased furry friendly adventure game about a furry/cat that goes on an adventure, with some cartoony graphics and a barely lukewarm level of public interest. That, despite this advertisement being dumped unceremoniously on Steam as if it was a full game TWO years ago, hasn't actually arrived in any way, shape or form on Steam. We already know there's no value for gamers in these advertisements, but advertisements for products that don't even exist is even less useful. Regardless, the purpose of this advert is most certainly to attempt to draw attention to the full product should it ever be made (seems unlikely given how few people even bothered to look at this advertisement). But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Spirit of Midnight, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Spirit of Midnight: Prologue" too. This is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 4 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.

เป็นเกมที่น่ารักมาก ลายเส้นน่ารักมาก มีให้เแก้ปริศนา ที่สำคัญ เราได้เป็นแมว. It's a very cute game. Very cute lines There are puzzles to solve, most importantly, we get to be cats.

Great art, great game. Can't wait for the full version!

疯狂划纸船和在蜘蛛网里挣扎的小松许比猫猫可爱，剧情和解密都很平淡，希望正式版有中文

Yaklaşan büyüleyici macera oyunu Spirit of Midnight'a girişin tadını çıkarın. Tuhaf bir ruhla karşılaştıktan sonra evden ayrılma ve doğaüstü bir maceraya atılma yeteneğini kazanan bir ev kedisi olarak oynayın. Bir porsukla arkadaş olun ve gizemlerini açığa çıkarırken ormanın dengesini yeniden sağlayın!

A very cute and fun little intro-game, definitely recommend checking it out... [spoiler] love badger's face when you snag the toy [/spoiler] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20nBEkF1DtI

this is a very cute prologue! im looking forward to seeing the full game :) the art style is adorable, the concept is amazing (very excited to see more of the ghost from the cutscene at the start), the controls are a little difficult at first but I got the hang of it. For everyone with a steam controller: it works perfectly well, the buttons are labelled at the bottom of the screen for inventory/objectives, only one i had to hunt for was right bumper for sprint. I found the badger kept getting in my way, until i realised he tries to walk out of the way when you bump him and then i stopped getting stuck haha I ADORE the crafting system, its well implemented, very monkey island with the vibes. Only critiques I can think of is making sure theres accessability settings, for example the ability to tone down the background noises, as they are a little sharp and irritating (especially with headphones) for anyone with noise sensitivity, and also the screen that shows when badger is collected is a bit bright and flashy which may be an issue for some, so a toggle to make any screens like that less bright or just static would go a long way. Also I hope the full game has a map (eg if it just showed the path, like the image pinned on badgers wall that appears to be a map, showing every detail in a map wouldnt be necessary, just a vauge sense of the rooms/zones/paths) as I can see it getting confusing quickly as more areas open up. Overall, Id give this a 8/10 as a prologue, its made me so ready to play the full game. Im itching to see how the story plays out. Well done to the devs, I can tell its a passion project. I wish yall all the luck in the world with this game xx