Greetings Ghosts and Hunters,
Exciting news! We’ve just been featured at the SXSW (South by Southwest) Gaming Awards with a new in-depth gameplay trailer, voiced by our very own lead developer Kite!
The trailer serves as a good introduction to the basics of MGH - feel free to check it out!
We’re also very, very excited to reveal that we are headed to Steam Early Access THIS SPRING!
(Exact date to come later, stay tuned for more info!)
So why Early Access?
We’re absurdly proud of Midnight Ghost Hunt in its current state. We’ve been playing with all of you in closed alpha and beta tests over the last few years of development, and we think those of you who have played extensively will agree that we’ve laid out a brilliant foundation - and that’s how we view it. We’ve built a strong foundation, and now we’re ready to build something incredible on top of it with the help of our community.
We believe the best game mechanics, the coolest gear and maps, and the most stable balance will emerge during the Early Access period when players truly start to get their hands on the game and we get a better feel for how things play out when we have a bigger scale of players.
We’ve built up a good amount of content over the last few years and we want players to experience that, but we also want to keep adding more and hearing about how players feel before we get to a full release. We want players to be able to play continuously now, so that we can get an even sense of what balance changes might need to happen.
As we go into the Early Access release, MGH will have a pretty robust set of features. These include:
4v4 hide n seek mode with matchmaking
7 maps inspired by spooky tropes
10 Hunter weapons, 10 Hunter gadgets, 9 Hunter perks
10 Ghost abilities, 10 Ghost Perks, 8 Ghost Haunts
Bots: can fill in for players, but are also able to play pure bot matches with you
+40 skins, emotes, and taunts
Custom game rules editor
Voice chat integrated into the game
For all of you who have been here with us from the beginning, thank you for your support and help in making MGH the game it is today! This Early Access phase is truly just the beginning.
For those of you who are new around these parts or those of you who haven’t managed to find us on the official Midnight Ghost Hunt Discord server yet, please do join us there! We actively chat with the community on a daily basis, so come and join us! We’d love to hear your feedback and thoughts so that we can make MGH even better together.
We encourage you all to tell us what you’d like to see more of, what you’d like to see less of, and what your feelings on the overall balance are. Our Lead Developer Kite has been known to queue up for some late-night matches to get a better understanding of our players’ impressions, so keep an eye out and don’t be afraid to say hi to Kite or any of the other devs! We love to chat and talk about strategy and our favorite wombo combos! 😉
We’re really excited to head into Early Access and play more Midnight Ghost Hunt with you all! See you on the hunt, actually SOON™️! 👻
Tinny
Community Manager