The Midnight Walk

A first-person dark fairy tale built out of real clay and stop motion, with a little lantern creature for company. Our review, the run plan and all 16 trophies explained.

8.2PixelForge Score

Developer: MoonHood  ·  Publisher: Fast Travel Games  ·  Released: 8 May 2025
Platinum: 2/10 · about 6h · 1 run + chapter select · offline · nothing missable
Trophies: 1 · 10 · 1 · 4

A clay nightmare you won't forget

The Midnight Walk looks like nothing else. MoonHood (the team behind Lost in Random and Fe) sculpted every monster, tree and house in real clay, scanned it and animated it in stop motion, so the whole world has the slightly jerky, thumb-printed look of a Laika film you happen to be walking through. You play The Burnt One, woken at the end of the world, and the first thing you do is relight Potboy, a little pot with a flame for a head who becomes your lantern, your weapon and your only friend.

Light is everything. You strike matches to light candles that open paths, lend Potboy's flame to monsters you need to distract, and hide in wardrobes while things that want to eat that flame sniff around outside. The cleverest idea is closing your eyes: hold L1 and the world changes, eye-doors open and some monsters can only find you by sound. Five tales take you through swamps, a frozen mining town, a theatre and up a mountain, each with its own odd cast and a nasty creature at the centre.

It isn't hard, and the stealth sections can get repetitive by the third wardrobe in a row. But the art, the sound (play it with headphones in the dark) and the bittersweet ending make it one of the best-looking horror games of the last few years, and a perfect October game. For trophy hunters it's a short, relaxed platinum: everything is about the 76 collectibles, and chapter select means none of them can be missed for good.

The road to Burn Baby Burn!

A 2/10 platinum, about 6 hours with a guide. One playthrough plus chapter select, fully offline, nothing permanently missable.

In-depth guides

All 16 trophies explained in depth

Burn Baby Burn!

Details

Unlock the other 15 trophies. With chapter select nothing is missable, so one careful run with our walkthrough plus a few minutes of clean-up gets you there.

Unmissable: one per chapter for Chapters 1–4, plus relighting Potboy.

Fire Walk

Details

Story, unmissable. Early in Chapter 1 you light the little pot creature (Potboy) with a match and he runs off. Pick up the glowing coal by the paper note and feed him two pieces: it pops when he takes the second.

The Tale Of The Burnt One

Details

Story, unmissable. Finish Chapter 1. Chapter 1 has 11 collectibles (4 figurines, 3 discs, 3 shellphones, 1 story page); grab them on the way so you never have to replay it.

The Tale Of The Loathsome Molgrim

Details

Story, unmissable. Finish Chapter 2, the swamp chapter that ends with the Molgrim. It's the biggest shellphone chapter (9 of the 25), and it's also where you get Mind Over Body.

The Tale Of Coalhaven

Details

Story, unmissable. Finish Chapter 3 (the mines, the frozen village and the house on the hill). It has the most collectibles of any chapter: 21.

The Tale Of The Craftsman's Heart

Details

Story, unmissable. Finish Chapter 4 (the theatre, the sewers and the projectors). Get Face Your Fears in the sewers on the way.

76 items over six chapters. Chapter select keeps them all available, and Housy's cupboards show what you're missing per chapter.

Mad God

Details

Collect all 19 clay figurines. Each sits behind a round hatch you pull open: 4 in Chapter 1, 3 in Chapter 2, 5 in Chapter 3, 2 in Chapter 4, 3 in Chapter 5 and 2 in Chapter 6 (the last one, Potboy, is at the mountain top as the screen fades to white). Some sites say 18: two figurines share a number in their lists. The in-game counter is per chapter. Every one is in our collectibles guide.

Who's There?

Details

Collect all 25 shellphones. Unlike the other collectibles they mostly sit in the open beside the path: 3 in Chapter 1, 9 in Chapter 2, 6 in Chapter 3, 3 in Chapter 4, 2 in Chapter 5 and 2 in Chapter 6. Listen to each one (it plays a short message) to make sure it counts. Locations: collectibles guide.

There Is Always Music In The Air

Details

Collect all 17 gramophone discs, each behind a hatch: 3 / 3 / 5 / 2 / 4 across Chapters 1–5 (none in Chapter 6). The last one, Candle Valley, is next to the NPC in the tent in Chapter 5. You can play them on Housy's gramophone. List: collectibles guide.

Who Took The Sun Away?

Details

Collect all 15 story pages (the Murkle's tale, watched as film reels in Housy): 1 / 4 / 5 / 3 / 2 across Chapters 1–5. The last is on some boxes beside the sandy path with the boats near the end of Chapter 5. List: collectibles guide.

Two endings from one final choice. Get both in a couple of minutes.

Burn Out

Details

Reignite the sun: at the very end of the game (Chapter 6, top of the mountain) you're given two prompts. Press X for Burn. This is the first of the two endings; do it first.

Fade Away

Details

Keep on walking the Midnight Walk: the other ending. After the Burn ending and its scene, pick Resume from the main menu, which drops you back at the final choice, and press Circle for Stop. You can also replay Chapter 6 from chapter select.

The two one-off moments (Chapter 2 and Chapter 4) and two passive trophies.

Mind Over Body

Details

Re-enact the Great Beheading, in Chapter 2. After you meet the Headmaster and get your firearm, take the building on the left of the Headmaster before going through the door behind her (shellphone 7 is in here too). Inside is a small room with a guillotine: stand there and wait until Potboy uses it.

Face Your Fears

Details

Matchstick it to the Grinner: shoot a Grinner in its face with the Matchlock. Grinners only appear in Chapter 4: the first one comes right after the flying machine and Shellphone 20. Load the Matchlock, wait for it to show its face and fire (dying afterwards is fine; the trophy sticks). The sewers after the first projector, by the matchbox, are another easy spot.

Home Is Where The Heart Is

Details

Stay at home for 10 minutes. Home is Housy: from the main menu choose Story → Visit Housy and just leave the controller for 10 minutes (or spend them looking at your collectibles). Do it at the end, when you're clearing up anyway.

Shadow Work

Details

Rest in darkness for a minute: hold L1 to close your eyes for a total of 60 seconds. It doesn't have to be in one go, and the game makes you close your eyes so often (to sneak past monsters and move the eye-doors) that it usually pops on its own in Chapter 1 or 2.

The Midnight Walk platinum: quick answers