{"id":5395,"date":"2026-03-08T04:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/south-of-midnight-debuts-on-ps5-and-switch-2-later-this-month\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:39:57","slug":"south-of-midnight-debuts-on-ps5-and-switch-2-later-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/south-of-midnight-debuts-on-ps5-and-switch-2-later-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"South of Midnight debuts on PS5 and Switch 2 later this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Compulsion Games&#8217; current Xbox console exclusive, South of Midnight, will be coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 on 31st March.<\/p>\n<p>The game, which is set in a fictionalised American Deep South and makes use of a stop-motion inspired art style, originally released on Xbox consoles in April 2025, but is now confirmed to be releasing on PS5 and Switch 2 at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>South of Midnight &#8211; Critical Acclaim Trailer | PS5 Games.Watch on YouTube<\/p>\n<p>The Weaver&#8217;s Edition, which is coming to both PS5 and Switch 2, includes the base game as well as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>South of Midnight Artbook<\/li>\n<li>Original Soundtrack composed by Olivier Deriviere<\/li>\n<li>The Boo-Hag Comic book by Rob Guillory<\/li>\n<li>Music Video: Songs &amp; Tales of South of Midnight<\/li>\n<li>Documentary: Weaving Hazel\u2019s Journey, Director\u2019s Cut<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;As Hazel, you will explore the mythos and encounter creatures of Southern folklore in a macabre and fantastical world,&#8221; the blurb explains. &#8220;When disaster strikes her hometown, Hazel is called to become a Weaver: a magical mender of broken bonds and spirits.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Imbued with these new abilities, Hazel will confront and subdue dangerous creatures, untangle the webs of her own family&#8217;s shared past and &#8211; if she&#8217;s lucky &#8211; find her way to a place that feels like home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Eurogamer&#8217;s South of Midnight review, we said that &#8220;South of Midnight is gloriously pretty, a game of sumptuous environmental detail and rich attention,&#8221; but that it can &#8220;get tiresome to play.&#8221; It was awarded 3 stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compulsion Games&#8217; current Xbox console exclusive, South of Midnight, will be coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 on 31st March. The game, which is set in a fictionalised American Deep South and makes use of a stop-motion inspired art style, originally released on Xbox consoles in April 2025, but is now confirmed to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5045,3865,4063,309,2062,314],"class_list":{"0":"post-5395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-debuts","9":"tag-midnight","10":"tag-month","11":"tag-ps5","12":"tag-south","13":"tag-switch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}