Midnight Murder Club is coming to PS5 as well as Steam in early 2025

Midnight Murder Club will be released for PS5 as well as PC, Velan Studios has announced.

The multiplayer shooter, which was announced this summer and was originally scheduled to hit PC this year, will now launch in early access in February 2025 on Steam and PS5.

A new trailer for the title premiered at The Game Awards, where it was also announced that a cross-play beta is now available.

“Midnight Murder Club is a six-player shooter-in-the-dark set in a sprawling, pitch-black mansion, where the only light you ever see comes from a flashlight piercing the darkness or gunfire piercing your heart,” Velan Studios game director Eric Feurstein told the PlayStation Blog.

“Turning your flashlight on lets you see which of the 30+ elaborately decorated rooms you’re currently in, but it also gives away your position to enemies who might be hiding close by. It’s the ultimate game of flashlight tag.

“When you can’t rely entirely on sight, sound becomes that much more important. Midnight Murder Club has detailed positional audio, which we paired with a fantastic implementation of proximity chat for a truly immersive experience.

“If your teammate’s speaking to you in the main hall, their voice echoes realistically through the hall and into the surrounding rooms. When a gunfight breaks out in another part of the mansion, you can accurately follow the muffled player laughter and gunfire to point you in the direction of the action.”

“To further spice things up, find vending machines that give you access to a variety of devilish toys,” Feurstein added. “Take night vision pills to temporarily see in the dark, deploy an inflatable flashlight-holding mannequin to fool other players, tear through the shadows with a torrent of bullets from a machine gun, and more!”

Midnight Murder Club’s cross-play demo, which is available until December 22, lets players sample two of a handful of modes that will available in the final game.

Free-for-All challenges six players to rack up the most kills before a timer runs out, while Thief in the Night sees three teams of two competing to find and deposit the most skulls in a vault.

New York-based Velan, which previously developed Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, Knockout City and Hot Wheels: Rift Rally, was forced to make significant layoffs last year after a “major project” was suddenly cancelled.