The Midnight Walk joins the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog, fully playable in PS VR2
Sony says The Midnight Walk is now in the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog, and that the game is "fully playable both on PS5 and in VR" with PS VR2. Sony's post is dated October 14 and puts the game in the catalogue from that day in the US and the UK, and from October 15 in Japan.
Sony's entry describes a landscape handcrafted in real clay and animated in a stop-motion style. Image: MoonHood / Fast Travel Games
The Midnight Walk is not a new game. MoonHood's clay adventure came out on May 8, 2025 for PS5, PS VR2 and PC, and what changes is the price of entry: a PlayStation Plus member whose plan includes the Game Catalog can download it instead of buying it. Sony gives no end date for the inclusion and names no region beyond those three.
Sony calls it a dark fantasy adventure built in clay "from the minds behind Lost in Random, Fe and Ghost Giant", in which you play The Burnt One and use the flame of a lantern creature named Potboy through five tales of fire and darkness. The landscape, Sony says, was handcrafted in real clay and animated in a stop-motion style.
It also went in ahead of the rest of the month. Sony's post says the full lineup is playable from October 20 unless otherwise noted, six days after The Midnight Walk arrived, and the additions it leads with are Mafia: The Old Country, Horizon Forbidden West and Mycopunk, none of them a VR title.
Our 2025 hands-on called the PS VR2 resolution too low
Josef Erl's hands-on for Mixed News in May 2025 praised a world where you can almost see every fingerprint in the clay, but said that in VR "the game's resolution is so low that most of these lovingly crafted details are lost in a haze". It closed by saying the site could not recommend the VR version.
Sony's wording is that the whole game is playable in VR, rather than a VR mode covering part of it. Image: MoonHood / Fast Travel Games
That piece also carries what MoonHood told Mixed News about the console build: the PS VR2 version renders at 60fps and uses Sony's reprojection to reach 120Hz, with no foveated rendering. Of the three setups Erl tried, he rated PS VR2 running from a PC the best at masking the resolution, and found the blur most obvious on a Quest 3.
A follow-up on May 12 reported that a launch-day patch had helped only a little, and that MoonHood had acknowledged the criticism and promised a PS VR2 update with a higher resolution and headset haptics. Until it landed, the studio's advice to players was to drop the in-game brightness to 60%.
One PS VR2 trick has no equivalent on PC. Because the headset tracks your eyes, the game registers when you close them, which the 2025 hands-on describes as a recurring move for solving its puzzles, and on PC that is a button press instead.
MoonHood developed the game and Fast Travel Games publishes it, which is how the Steam store page lists the two studios. Image: MoonHood / Fast Travel Games
The PC version still costs $29.99 on Steam
On Steam the game is $29.99 in the US, with no discount running when Valve's store data was read on October 18, and its store page credits MoonHood as developer and Fast Travel Games as publisher. Steam marks it "VR Supported" rather than VR only, so a PC buyer gets the flat-screen game in the same purchase, and the PC build is listed as Windows only, single-player and playable with a controller throughout.
On PC the game is listed as VR Supported, so the Steam copy at $29.99 includes the flat-screen mode as well. Image: MoonHood / Fast Travel Games
Sony has not said when The Midnight Walk leaves the Game Catalog, and it is the only VR title among October's additions, so a PS VR2 owner has one game to get to and no date for when it goes.
