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The Midnight Sanctuary

CAVYHOUSE · PLAYISM · 2018-10-03

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Oct 04, 2018 (PlayStation 4), Oct 04, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 04, 2018 (PlayStation VR), Oct 03, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Um, so. Are you... maybe one of the Dead, too?" A story of strange doings in the town of Daiusu, with surrealist visuals and a team of professional voice artists to immerse you in the story. An occult horror visual novel by the creators of This Starry Midnight We Make and Forget-Me-Not Organ.

The Midnight Sanctuary is a 2018 Adventure and Indie game priced at $9.99, with an estimated owner base of 0 .. 20,000 and a Positive review sentiment (95% of 37 reviews).

95%
positive of 38 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4.01★
PlayStation Store rating (121 ratings)
$9.99
steam price (US)

"Um, so. Are you... maybe one of the Dead, too?" A story of strange doings in the town of Daiusu, with surrealist visuals and a team of professional voice artists to immerse you in the story. An occult horror visual novel by the creators of This Starry Midnight We Make and Forget-Me-Not Organ.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 67% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 61% of 28,778 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320182026Week of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR SupportedSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2026-05-19 (Steam store data)

Census log

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Similarity via IGDB.

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