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Winning little narrative adventure: South of Midnight reviewed

The difficulty curve is gentle, the story absorbing and the game design and visuals (and bluesy soundtrack) obviously crafted with affection

Sam Leith Sam Leith
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 26 April 2025
issue 26 April 2025

Grade: A–

For this winning little narrative adventure we are in the South – all gris-gris gumbo yaya, decaying mansions and ghosts of the underground railway – and it is a bit midnighty, what with the sinister otherworldly beings you fight. 

Our protagonist is sassy, cornrowed Hazel, a mixed-race Lara Croft, who sets out to rescue her social-worker mother after her mobile home is swept downriver in a hurricane.

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