Midnight Moments

I’ve spent over 30 hours with Midnight Moments across its demos and playtests, and it has been genuinely amazing watching the game develop into its full release. It’s an incredibly accessible diorama builder that makes creating beautiful little worlds feel easy, while still giving you plenty of freedom to develop your own style. I’ve created everything from cosy scenes to dark, rainy neon cities, and I always seem to come away with another idea for what to build next. What has impressed me most is how actively the developers have listened to player feedback. Suggestions and ideas have genuinely been considered and implemented - even smaller details, such as being able to turn individual lights off, have helped give players more control over the atmosphere of their builds. I was also incredibly lucky to have some of my creations featured in the official launch trailer, which means more to me than I can properly express. However, after more than 30 hours of building, testing and returning to the game, I can honestly say my recommendation comes from how much I genuinely enjoy it. Midnight Moments is a relaxing, creative experience made by a team that clearly cares about both the game and its community. I’m excited to see where it goes next and what everyone creates. You can also find some of these Midnight Moments builds over on YouTube at @WhoElsButCozy, if you’d like to see some of these creations come together and get a feel of some of the worlds we can make.

really awsome game. i would advise adding the steam workshop so people can mod the game and add content at a faster pace then a development team. only critique i have is it lacks content at release date and a bigger map. woulsd be cool if you could wander into your cybervillage in pov

Midnight Moments é um daqueles jogos relaxantes em que você simplesmente abre o editor, coloca uma playlist no Spotify e passa horas construindo cenários sem grandes preocupações. Não existem missões, história, objetivos complexos ou qualquer tipo de pressão. O jogo entrega apenas as ferramentas, o resto depende exclusivamente da sua criatividade. A experiência lembra abrir um projeto em branco no Photoshop ou no Blender. Você recebe blocos de construção, portas, janelas, iluminação, veículos, pessoas e diversos objetos para preencher seus cenários cyberpunk. Apesar da ausência de um tutorial completo, os comandos são intuitivos e, depois de alguns minutos, construir se torna algo bastante natural. O maior limite do jogo não está nas mecânicas, mas na criatividade do jogador. Ainda assim, depois de algumas horas, senti falta de uma variedade maior de objetos e opções de construção. O conteúdo disponível é suficiente para criar muita coisa, mas, eventualmente, alguns cenários começam a parecer repetitivos. Também senti falta de modelos pré-definidos, semelhantes aos desafios de LEGO Bricktales, para aqueles momentos em que a criatividade simplesmente acaba. Outra adição interessante seria a possibilidade de escolher terrenos maiores, já que o tamanho atual pode limitar projetos mais ambiciosos. Visualmente, Midnight Moments é excelente. A mistura entre elementos low poly e cenários mais detalhados funciona muito bem, enquanto a iluminação, a chuva e os reflexos dão personalidade às construções. É o tipo de jogo em que você termina um cenário e imediatamente tira dezenas de screenshots para registrar o resultado. Meu único problema técnico foi a câmera, que em alguns momentos dificulta a visualização e a colocação de objetos. Fora isso, não encontrei bugs que atrapalhassem a experiência. No fim das contas, Midnight Moments é o que eu gosto de chamar de "jogo entre jogos": aquela experiência perfeita para relaxar depois de um RPG de 200 horas ou para preencher uma noite mais tranquila. Se você gosta de criar, experimentar e montar cenários sem pressão, é um jogo fácil de recomenda, principalmente pelo preço. Para uma análise completa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiqPlBsswM0

I'm a fan of diorama-building games, but this one falls a bit short. The atmosphere is nice, but the UI is a bit confusing (it's not clear which items are where in the menus) and overall the selection of items is just way too small. There's literally just 2 different staircases and like 3 different doors. It's pretty cheap though!

Overall feels slightly basic but it isn't bad, it does pretty much exactly what you expect, just with a lot of aggressive grid snapping and no custom placement/advanced move. The inability to customise/change props including the characters is slightly tedious. They have multiple poses and randomised heights which require placing and deleting them till you get what you want. Meanwhile things like windows feel limited in the variants. I expect some people would want to import their own images for graffiti or to edit the existing labels but it seems the defaults are all you get. There is a lack of movement, the game doesn't support people moving or traffic which makes the scene feel a bit more static even allowing a scene A/B/C switch for different characters in different positions would make it more interesting Having a limited building space makes it difficult to make city blocks, requiring you to build upwards while lacking tile variety to make a proper road or building space.

I knew this was going to be a small game, more about making something pretty rather than having any city mechanics... not my cup of tea, but oh well, it was cheap... but what I didn't know was that it was going to be 100% STATIC, there is no movement at all. The people are placed, and will stay that way forever. There is no traffic, no birds or critters... nothing. You're looking at a static 3D model of some pieces you've placed and can change lighting colors on. Disappointing... but cheap.

+ Dystopika青春微观版，聚焦小型赛博社区氛围，更加放松明亮，玩很久也不会觉得压抑 - 摆件元素还是太少了，希望后续更新能补充 - 优化略差

Unfortunately I cannot recommend this game. I got it as a cozy game to play on my Steam Deck. But it turns out to play it requires to install vcredist, which requires some tinkering, but is doable. However, after doing that I started the game to realize that it was fairly unoptimized and required to lower the graphics signifigantly, even though one could think it wouldn't use up so much performance. Aside from that, there are no possibility to change the controls. Though, of course you can change the controls via steam input. But then I ran into the problem that it's not possible to change the rotation speed, which for a dioramic game is quite crucial to be able to maneuver in the scene. This means that you'll have to drag the mouse multiple times across the screen to be able to do a full 360° rotation. Well, now you might think, "but maybe the atmosphere is good?"- Well, the sound effects and aesthetics are alright, but the music shown in the trailer is not present. "But at least the building part is enjoyable, right?" - Well, sadly, as another steam review pointed out, the snapping feature can be quite finnicky and sometimes the items clip through the environment, sometimes the objects spin in place and the textures flicker. I tested this on my stationary computer as well to check that they still persisted. I really wanted to like this, but sadly there were too many features which either didn't exist or worked too unpredictable for me to be able to recommend the game. TL;DR: - No option to change the controls or camera rotation speed - No music - Rotational/flickering glitch of objects - Odd snapping of the obejcts - Unoptimized graphics - Requires tinkering to play on Steam Deck. + Nice aesthetics + pretty good sound effects