{"id":87544,"date":"2026-08-13T13:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87544"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:36:32","slug":"ignore-your-growing-backlog-its-time-to-play-south-of-midnight-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87544","title":{"rendered":"Ignore Your Growing Backlog\u2013It\u2019s Time To Play South Of Midnight On Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Look, it’s no surprise to anyone for me to admit that I like South of Midnight<\/a>. I’ve written about it being a love letter to the American Deep South<\/a>, noted how it was one of the best Xbox games of 2025<\/a>, and talked about how much the game’s story, characters, and setting have meant to me on video podcasts for both GameSpot<\/a> and IGN<\/a>. I want everyone to play this game, and there’s never been a better time to do so on Steam<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As noticed by Respec<\/a>, Xbox is no longer listed as the publisher for South of Midnight on Steam. Instead, the game is noted as being self-published by Compulsion Games, reflecting the studio’s independence following another round of severe layoffs and restructuring from Xbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Compulsion Games hasn’t confirmed whether this is the case–who knows what type of strange and awful backroom clauses might be in place to ensure Xbox keeps getting a slice of this particular pie–this does seem to indicate that all future sales of South of Midnight on Steam will benefit Compulsion, not Compulsion and Xbox.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So if you want to play South of Midnight, but you were concerned about continuing to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look, it’s no surprise to anyone for me to admit that I like South of Midnight. I’ve written about it being a love letter to the American Deep South, noted how it was one of the best Xbox games of 2025, and talked about how much the game’s story, characters, and setting have meant to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":87546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87547,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87544\/revisions\/87547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}