{"id":1437193,"date":"2025-12-24T02:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CFtgrDMKGApksrqqKjbzqm"},"modified":"2025-12-24T02:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:41:17","slug":"like-a-good-ol-southern-potluck-south-of-midnight-had-me-going-back-to-play-for-seconds-and-then-thirds-thanks-to-all-its-little-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/like-a-good-ol-southern-potluck-south-of-midnight-had-me-going-back-to-play-for-seconds-and-then-thirds-thanks-to-all-its-little-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a good ol&#8217; southern potluck, South of Midnight had me going back to play for seconds, and then thirds, thanks to all its little details"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Personal Pick<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' >\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"UexTwwqoCAUREXUdsqBA8Q\" name=\"1920x1080 Banner\" caption=\"\" alt=\"Game of the Year 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/like-a-good-ol-southern-potluck-south-of-midnight-had-me-going-back-to-play-for-seconds-and-then-thirds-thanks-to-all-its-little-details.png\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"pinterest-pin-exclude\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\">In addition to our main <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/pc-gamers-game-of-the-year-awards-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\">Game of the Year Awards 2025<\/a>, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We&#8217;ll post new personal picks each day throughout the rest of the month. You can find <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/tag\/goty-2025\/\">them all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Very rarely do I have the time or energy to play a new game more than once. Replays are usually something born from necessity, like work-related tasks, or my insatiable nostalgia for old RPGs. Anything else is an anomaly, but I&#8217;m happy to report that, at the behest of no one, I played Complusion&#8217;s gothic action adventure game South of Midnight<em> three<\/em> times over the last eight months, so I reckon that means I like it.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, that&#8217;s two more times than I was asked to play for our <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/south-of-midnight-review\/\">South of Midnight review<\/a>. I went at it a second time at my own leisure, then followed up again with a third replay so a friend could watch me, but I&#8217;ll be damned if I didn&#8217;t find some easy-to-miss, tiny detail with every press of &#8216;new game&#8217; that made me fall in love with Hazel&#8217;s journey through the American South all over again.<\/p>\n<p>And when I say it&#8217;s in the little things, I really mean the stuff you may miss just strolling by. Hazel&#8217;s journey is just as fantastical as it is familiar\u2014I felt that the moment she went through the motions preparing for a hurricane in South of Midnight&#8217;s opening moments\u2014but the sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu really hit me in Chapter 3. I knew I&#8217;d been to this place before, I just couldn&#8217;t nail its real-life counterpart. It wasn&#8217;t until my second visit that I noticed a small, painful detail in the eviction notices plastered throughout an abandoned community:<\/p>\n<p>Every cruel order to vacate was issued by the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chickasaw_County,_Mississippi\">Chickasaw County<\/a> court. It&#8217;s a tiny place in northeast Mississippi, and not one I&#8217;d expect to hear referenced by anyone not born and raised there.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"HYjMjf4SddZFsByditeNjQ\" name=\"South-of-midnight-eviction-notice\" alt=\"An in-game eviction Notice from South of Midnight tapped to a rotting old building.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/like-a-good-ol-southern-potluck-south-of-midnight-had-me-going-back-to-play-for-seconds-and-then-thirds-thanks-to-all-its-little-details.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Compulsion Games)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I saw it, it felt like someone knocked the wind right out of me. It&#8217;s not far from where I spent a lot of my childhood summers in Leake or Leflore counties, though all of them have something in common: a shared look of inhospitable decay and hostility. It&#8217;s a place you&#8217;d wonder why someone would even bother with an eviction notice, but it&#8217;s still home to a lot of very real people and generations of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>I had a lot of those moments where I didn&#8217;t realize how far South of Midnight&#8217;s authenticity extended until I stopped to inspect details hidden in the cracks. There&#8217;s a later chapter when Hazel is reunited with her neighbors seeking hurricane relief at a local church, and lo and behold, what&#8217;s crudely scribbled on the vessel that got them there? <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cajun_Navy\"><em>The Cajun Navy<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe more people know that one, I think it became a more popular term following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005\u2014unsurprisingly so. &#8220;Cajun Navy&#8221; doesn&#8217;t actually refer to a formal body of relief workers; it&#8217;s just an informal name for people determined to save each other in a place often abandoned at the state and federal level. I&#8217;m just more surprised someone thought to include it.<\/p>\n<p>I have fewer direct ties to Louisiana, but I&#8217;d say that Cajun Navy spirit runs throughout the Deep South. I think about people like my pop, who once &#8220;borrowed&#8221; a neighbor&#8217;s boat and drove down to the Ross Barnett Reservoir to rescue people trapped in their homes. The help doesn&#8217;t come fast enough in Jackson, Mississippi, and the same is true in South of Midnight.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"oG8wrEB8CeDVvx8zvc7PkQ\" name=\"South-of-midnight-hazel-neighbor\" alt=\"Hazel guiding an elderly neighbor to safety after a storm.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/like-a-good-ol-southern-potluck-south-of-midnight-had-me-going-back-to-play-for-seconds-and-then-thirds-thanks-to-all-its-little-details-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Compulsion Games)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hazel&#8217;s neighbor with a makeshift rescue operation acts like he&#8217;s done it before, and seeing that little boat tagged Cajun Navy hit me in a way I wasn&#8217;t prepared for. Again, it&#8217;s easy to miss if you&#8217;re jogging by, but if you stop and inspect the broken frames of rotting structures, old mud-covered signs, or any improvised storm refuge, you&#8217;ll notice South of Midnight&#8217;s earnest portrayal of a place with a before, during, and after.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I can see that thoughtfulness in bigger pieces too\u2014like the mix of Mississippi Delta and Southeastern Louisiana drawl I hear every time the Catfish talks, or in casual jokes about the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piggly_Wiggly\">Piggly Wiggly<\/a>\u2014but it really is everywhere in South of Midnight. I could chalk it up to being homesick, but I think Compulsion&#8217;s thoughtful tribute to the rich mythos and resilience of the South is worth another visit or two, especially if you&#8217;re from the area.<\/p>\n<p>As for myself, I&#8217;m considering going back for fourths, so don&#8217;t be surprised if I come running back to talk about turnip greens or Dolly Parton. Both are southern gems deserving of their own essays, but I&#8217;ll holler at y&#8217;all about all that later.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/like-a-good-ol-southern-potluck-south-of-midnight-had-me-going-back-to-play-for-seconds-and-then-thirds-thanks-to-all-its-little-details\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2025, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We&#8217;ll post new personal picks each day throughout the rest of the month. You can find them all here. Very rarely do I have the time or energy to play a new game more than once. Replays are usually something born from necessity, like work-related tasks, or my insatiable nostalgia for old RPGs. Anything else is an anomaly, but I&#8217;m happy to report that, at the behest of no one, I played Complusion&#8217;s gothic action adventure game South of Midnight three times over the last eight months, so I reckon that&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/like-a-good-ol-southern-potluck-south-of-midnight-had-me-going-back-to-play-for-seconds-and-then-thirds-thanks-to-all-its-little-details\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1437194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[23,748],"class_list":["post-1437193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-action","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Like a good ol&#039; 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