During Microsoft's Xbox and Bethesda showcase, South of Midnight from Compulsion Games was announced.

　　Coming from the Microsoft-owned studio behind 2018's We Happy Few, South of Midnight is a new third-person action-adventure. The game is set in a magic realist version of the American South and is coming to both Xbox Series X|S and PC. Of course, the title will also be available via Game Pass on day one. Back in 2021, we already reported that the studio was working on a darker "southern" gothic title, then codenamed "Project Midnight".

　　You'll find the announcement trailer below:

　　On the official Xbox Wire, Microsoft has published a new interview with creative director David Sears, and narrative producer James Lewis about the studio's new IP. "It springs from the concept that monsters are real – you just need to jump over the backyard fence,” Sears explained. “The farther you get away from the influences of civilization, the more magical the world becomes.”

　　The creative director added, "“The game is loosely inspired by me tramping around forgotten farms and abandoned places in the in Mississippi,” explains Sears. “I found artefacts from the Civil War, through the Depression, and more modern weirdness. Like a tree with doll heads nailed all over it. Why was that there in the middle of nowhere? Someone went to a lot of trouble to cart all these doll heads out into the middle of the woods, and then nail them to this tree. That’s the kind of stuff that you can expect from our world in South of Midnight. It’s based on the real world – but sometimes I think the real world is actually weirder than we’d like to think.”

　　We highly suggest reading the full interview with the devs on the Xbox Wire. As said South of Midnight is coming to both Xbox consoles and PC. A release date has yet to be revealed. We'll update you as soon as more about this interesting new IP comes in.