Midnight Murder Club — Steam Gift

Midnight Murder Club: a horror party in total darkness

Picture a mansion with all the lights cut. Everyone holds just a flashlight and an old revolver, and sound behaves like it would in a real room — the closer someone's footsteps, the louder their voice in your headphones. That's Midnight Murder Club — a tense, hilarious and unpredictable horror party game from Velan Studios, where up to six players creep through the dark, hunt each other and scream at their own shadows. Here you grab the game as a Steam gift and get it in full, straight into your library.

What the game is

Velan Studios built a game around sound and darkness. The map is a big gloomy mansion, and almost everything comes down to hearing: a creaking floorboard, the click of a cocked hammer, someone breathing behind a wall. Your flashlight gives you away as much as it helps — switch it on and you see the room, but now the room sees you. The revolver hits hard, yet ammo is scarce, reloads are slow, and a miss in the dark instantly reveals your position. Proximity chat turns every match into a tiny stage play: someone whispers an alliance, someone bluffs, someone shrieks across the whole house and blows the ambush.

Why it's a blast with a group

Midnight Murder Club is, above all, a game about the people on the other side of the screen. A full lobby of six, proximity voice chat and constant uncertainty brew that exact mix of panic and laughter. You sneak down a hallway, hear a friend's muffled giggle somewhere close, can't tell if they're an ally or already aiming at you — and right then someone trips a trap and the whole mansion erupts in screams. Rounds are short, you keep wanting one more, and every situation plays out differently thanks to live talk and the dark.

• Flashlight — your eyes and, at the same time, a beacon that betrays you.
• Revolver — few bullets, a loud shot, a high price for missing.
• Proximity chat — you only hear who's nearby; your voice is both a weapon and evidence.
• Traps and darkness — the mansion itself works against you, forcing you to move blind.

What's included

You're getting the full version of Midnight Murder Club as a Steam gift. This is the base game in full — not a demo and not an add-on that needs a separate base game. At the time of writing the project is in Steam Early Access: it's fully playable, and Velan Studios keeps adding modes and content along its roadmap. A key perk of Early Access is that all future updates at this stage reach the owner for free, with nothing extra to buy.

How you receive the gift

This is a Steam gift, not a key or an activation code, so there's nothing to type in by hand. An automated our bot-friend delivers the game: it sends you a Steam friend request on its own, sends Midnight Murder Club over as a gift once you've been added, and leaves your friends list when the delivery is done. All that's left for you is to accept the gift in Steam, and the game lands in your library. You don't need to manually accept the friend request or share any account details, and Steam Guard isn't required for this. Delivery usually takes a couple of minutes.

Gift region and one condition

The gift is delivered to a CIS-region account. That means the region set on your Steam account must match the gift's region — Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and other CIS countries. Steam won't let you accept the gift on an account from another region, so open your Steam settings and check your region before buying. There's a second important condition too: the game must not already be in your library — Steam won't let you accept a gift on an account that already owns Midnight Murder Club.

Who it's for

If you love voice-driven party games where half the fun is live banter, panic and trash talk (think nights spent on Lethal Company or Content Warning), Midnight Murder Club sits on the same shelf. What sets it apart from straight co-op horror like Phasmophobia is the competitive twist: you don't just fear the house, you hunt each other, and no one can be trusted. It's a game for a group on voice, for streaming, and for a night when you want to scream from laughter and fear at the same time.

A few tips for newcomers

The first thing to learn: light is a trade-off. A constantly lit flashlight makes you the most obvious target in the mansion, so seasoned players flick it on in short bursts, memorize the room's layout and dive back into the dark. Second, mind your own voice: proximity chat is heard by everyone nearby, so a stray laugh or gasp can blow your ambush just as badly as a gunshot. Third, save your ammo. The revolver is loud and slow, and it's often smarter to retreat quietly and come in from another angle than to fire blind and announce your position to the whole house. Above all, play the conversation: negotiate, bluff, betray, make up. Most of the best moments in Midnight Murder Club come not from the mechanics but from the live talk in the dark.

The facts, briefly

Developer and publisher: Velan Studios (a team known for unusual multiplayer projects). Genre: a first-person horror party action built around proximity chat. Steam release: August 14, 2025, in Early Access form. The platform here is Steam (PC). You receive the game as a Steam gift from our bot-friend, so no account details or code entry are required from you — just accept the gift in Steam.

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