Hey all, we are back with Early Access Patch 18! This patch contains some bug fixes from Update 5, including a fix for the bots!

Patch Notes

• Fixed major issue with bot navigation on Asylum, Theatre, and Doll Factory. Bot navigation was completely broken on these maps. Apologies and let us know if you see any other issues!
  
• Improvements to bot pathing on Mall (in the elevator), as well as on Mansion, Museum, and Graveyard
  
• Mall collision fixes: signs, under the stage, near Cafe, etc
  
• Fixed profile borders/levels in the Customize -> Titles menu
  
• Improved the Mall photobooth printout animation, the photo rotates out properly and then rotates back in if the player leaves
  
• Other misc collision and bug fixes

Thanks again for all of your feedback and bug reports! If you haven't already, join us on our Discord and say hi! 👋

See you on the hunt!
- Team MGH

Season’s greetings, Ghosts and Hunters!

It’s once again the most wonderful time of the year, and to celebrate the season of giving, we come bearing gifts! A brand new map, new hero props, Hunter and Ghost skins, bot improvements, and a new progression tier system all await you in our latest Midnight Ghost Hunt update. So, let’s open up Santa’s bag and see what’s inside the Christmas Update!


The new Mall map is a blast from the past, fully decked out in retro 80s style! This formerly sparkling plaza now lies in decay and ruin. The Mall’s days of loitering youths and Christmas-time commerce are long behind it. The once cheerful holiday adornments now add an eerie air to this decrepit plaza, but it’s not without its spooky charms.

The central plaza features a forgotten festive effigy — a Christmas tree with its lights twinkling endlessly into the gloom as announcements echo through the empty halls. But hey, there’s a Clockbuster Video Store, and a lovely little cafe called The Coffee Stain, so really it’s not as depressing as it might seem!

The retro-styled shops also include an Electronics Shop, the Ghosts B Us toy store, the Sus Sounds music shop, and a clothing store with a dressing room, just in case you find something on the dusty racks worth trying on!

This is an incredibly fun map with a fantastically eerie atmosphere, an intriguing multi-story terraced design, and a number of interesting new hero props. You’re going to have a blast with it! But I’d be careful asking Santa for anything during your visit, because he seems a little sus…


The reason that animatronic Santa seems so sus? That’s because the Spooky Santa is one of our new hero props! When he’s under the ghastly control of a Ghost, ol’ Saint Nick can get a little rough — The Spooky Santa can scoop up Hunters and whisk them away while doing choke damage to them for 5 seconds at a time.


And what’s Santa without his little helpers? We’ve also added an Elf hero prop. These creepy little guys can throw ghoulish gifts at Hunters that can in turn ALSO be possessed! What a thoughtful gift.


We’ve got two exciting new holiday-themed skins for all of you Ghosts and Hunters.

The Jolly Hunter is kitted out in traditional seasonal garb, including an antlered Santa hat, but he also comes complete with some Christmas light-inspired high-tech ghost-hunting gear. Give it a go to show off your holiday cheer and to ward off Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, or Yet-To-Come. 

When you put on your Ghost hat, you can also don some seasonal apparel! The Krampus Ghost skin is sure to get you into the holiday spirit as you hide from stealthy Hunters. This goat-horned ghoul in his tattered robes takes inspiration from European folklore, and he does so with wicked style.

In this update, we’ve also made leveling much more fun. Every 25 levels, players are promoted to a new tier with a unique profile picture border and title to display their hide-and-seek prowess. The tiers are as follows:

• Apprentice Hunter
  
• Professional Hunter
  
• Expert Hunter
  
• Ace Hunter
  
• Elite Hunter
  
• Master Hunter
  
• Grandmaster Hunter
  
• Legendary Hunter

Each tier also has its own ranks, so after surpassing Apprentice Hunter I, you’ll become Apprentice Hunter II. After Apprentice Hunter III, you are Professional Hunter I, and so on. This change is purely cosmetic, no gear resets or matchmaking changes here.

This just adds a bit more fun to leveling and, of course, also means you get to flex your Grandmaster status when playing with your Apprentice friends over the holidays. 😏

In order to improve the player experience, we’ve taken some time to give some much-needed love to our Hunter and Ghost bots. You’ll notice that now, they navigate maps more effectively, and there have been some improvements to how they fire weapons. This is an area we think could benefit from further improvement, so keep an eye out in 2023 for additional fixes and upgrades.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1951320/Midnight_Ghost_Hunt_Soundtrack/
As we work closer and closer to having a fully finished soundtrack, we have a new song for the MGH Soundtrack out today, Scarythingsinthedark.jpeg (with Brick Jones)! The extended version of Where Are You? and The Dark have both been added to the Soundtrack as well!

We wouldn’t want to leave the Boombox out of the fun, so all 3 of these songs have been added/updated in the Boombox in-game as well! 🎶

ALSO, we have updated the Win/Lose sounds, and added some new ambient tracks that play in the background while you are playing, so be sure to check them out!

As mentioned in previous updates, we’ve been hard at work trying to implement Host Migration functionality, as well as adding Dedicated Servers. These are of course still in the works, but they’re quite a complex undertaking! As such, we’ve recently expanded our programming team to help get these changes out to all of you as quickly as we possibly can and create the best version of MGH we can. Despite growing our team, however, it looks like this work will continue into the start of the year. We appreciate your patience, and hope to have an update on this for you all soon!


We have updated our roadmap to reflect our current projected release time for Dedicated Servers and Host Migration, as well as some hints to what is in store for Q1 for us here at MGH HQ.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/915810/Midnight_Ghost_Hunt/
In addition to the Christmas Update, we also are now having a 50% off sale! MGH makes a great gift for your squad, so if you want to play with your friends and avoid any last-minute Christmas shopping (specifically at any eerie and potentially haunted malls, for example) now is a great time to get an extra copy for a friend who could use a little extra spooky in their holiday season!

MGH will be on sale from December 22nd to January 5th!

And… that’s it for 2022! As we wrap up this incredible year, we want to thank all of you in the MGH community for your continued support, and wish you all a great holiday season! We know that 2023 will have some incredible and exciting things in store for MGH, so keep an eye out for those, and we’ll see you all next year!

👻-Team MGH!

Hey Ghosts and Hunters,

We’re back with another exciting and festive update to help you kick off the holiday season. Update 4 (Thanksgiving Update) includes a new boombox, new hero props, festive decorations, and even a brand new Hunter Gadget. 

Update 4 will be the perfect way to shake off that post-turkey lethargy this Thanksgiving, so let’s dive on into the meat of what you can expect!


This is a fun new feature that I think a lot of you are going to love. We’ve added the Boombox - a sweet retro-style boombox (familiar to all you Satisfactory fans) that you can use to play your favorite Coffee Stain game music in MGH. You can collect music cassettes found spread out across the various maps to unlock tracks to play on the boombox. You can find a boombox in the van, at the generator, and across the maps. If you’re a Hunter, you can use it to DJ your van ride, and Ghosts can even possess a boombox and play their favorite tunes while chasing you!

The cassettes you find will include music from Deep Rock Galactic, Satisfactory, Huntdown, Songs of Conquest, Sanctum, and Goat Sim, so you’ll have tons of tunes to choose from.


To go along side the release of the boombox, we are also releasing 2 new songs on our official soundtrack, Something is Happening, But I Can’t See It and Don’t Leave Me Now - be sure to check them out!


This new gadget is great because it mixes fun and useful functionality with a bit of tactical mischief. The new Camcorder gadget can be deployed by Hunters to watch over a given area, meaning that Ghosts running past will be tagged and made visible to Hunters for 10 seconds. Ghosts, however, are free to possess it to move it around, so it makes for a fun high-value possession target! Give this gadget a go and be sure to share your thoughts, because we’re dying to hear your opinions!


It wouldn’t be a MGH holiday without a little fun flair! Naturally, we’ve taken the opportunity to spruce up the maps and the van with a few festive Thanksgiving frills to help you feel the holiday vibe. Let us know what you think of the new digs on Discord!


There’s no way to discuss this new Hero Prop that doesn’t sound absolutely absurd in the best way possible… You can possess a tasty, juicy turkey. You can run around frantically like a chicken with its head cut off, while inhabiting the tasty form of a (beautifully animated!) seasonal entree. You will strike fear in the hearts of Hunters as you stalk them succulently. It is everything I never knew I wanted in MGH. It’s also a little creepy, conceptually, and I am here for it.

In addition to the crispy-fleshed fowl, you can also hop inside Pumpkin Pies and use their delightful Fall flavors to make Hunters wish they were never born. Hunters will have their field of view splatted for a short while if you land a headshot! Do yourself a favor and splat some Hunters in the face this Thanksgiving.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/915810/Midnight_Ghost_Hunt/
In addition to the Thanksgiving Update, we’ll also be kicking off the start of the winter holiday season with a 50% off sale! If your friends are looking for something fun to play during their winter break be sure to recommend MGH while it’s on sale! It also makes a great gift for your squad. MGH will be on sale from November 22nd to the 29th!

That’s all for this time, Ghosts and Hunters. We’re wishing you a tremendous Turkey Day, and we hope you enjoy Update 4! As always, we look forward to hearing your thoughts on the update, so hop on over to Discord or give us a shout on Twitter with your thoughts!

👻-Team MGH!

Hey everyone, we have a smallish patch ready for you today. This is mostly some minor bug fixes and some end of spooky season cleanup!

Patch Notes

• Put away the Halloween decorations until next year
  
• Double shards are gone but not forgotten
  
• Fixed loading screens only ever showing the Mansion image
  
• Fixed area voice chat bug where you could always use area voice, even when you shouldn't
  
• Fixed bot match button in the main menu

Just a quick note on Darkness, the experimental game-mode. We have been keeping a close eye on the analytics and feedback for it and overall it seems you all are enjoying it after our most recent changes, and the balance looks pretty good now as well.

If you have any feedback you would like to share or bugs to report, please do so on our Discord - we would love to see it!

See you on the hunt!
- Team MGH

Hey everyone, we are back again with another patch! This patch contains mostly some balance changes for Darkness and some minor collision fixes on Mansion.

Please keep in mind that Darkness is an experimental game-mode, so we will be trying to improve it over time. Right now, Mansion is the best place to test Darkness, as it has had the most work done on it's lighting.

Patch Notes

• Darkness timer to 10 minutes, down from 15 minutes
  
• Darkness generator HP increased from 800 to 1300
  
• Darkness hunter damage tweaked, reduced more so on Sledgehammer specifically as a stopgap
  
• Darkness damage to un-possessed props reduced by half
  
• Collision fixes in Wine Cellar of Mansion
  
• Added jack-o-lanterns to the main menu

Thanks for your feedback and bug reports as always, we keep a very close eye on them, and look forward to seeing what you think of these changes!

See you on the hunt!
- Team MGH

Hey Ghosts and Hunters,

We have a spooky surprise for you today! Update 3 (The Halloween Update) brings a bunch of new stuff to MGH! Just a quick note before we get started though, we are shifting our Update strategy a bit to have somewhat smaller, but more frequent updates.

I can hardly think of a more appropriate way to get ready for Halloween than playing some sweet, spooky games. For those of you who have been haunting the Steam page waiting for a sale, you’re in luck! MGH is now 50% off as part of Steam’s Scream Fest sale.

To welcome all our new players aboard our ghostly little carnival ride, we’ll also be granting double the normal amount of Ghost Shards throughout this whole week for all players.


In the spirit of the season, we’ve got a spooky surprise! We’ve decorated all the maps and the van, so you can better appreciate this spooktacular time of year. We’ve also added three new Hero Props for you all to enjoy, but some of these might go away at the end of spooky season!

Chomping Pumpkin - Much like our mimic chest friend, this pumpkin will have no problem taking a bite or two out of you

Pumpkin Jack-in-the-box - Is the hammer from our regular Jack-in-the-box too aggressive for you? How about launching pumpkin guts at them instead?

Witch Doll - Who needs a knife when you have a broom? Zoom across the maps and bonk the hunters to your hearts content

Check out our full list of what is new in our Update 3 post! We hope you have a happy Halloween, and we can't wait to show you more of what we are working on with our more frequent updates! Have a great spooky season Ghosts and Hunters, and look out for more updates actually truly soon!

👻-Team MGH!

Hey Ghosts and Hunters,

We have a spooky surprise for you today! Update 3 (The Halloween Update) brings a bunch of new stuff to MGH! Just a quick note before we get started though, we are shifting our Update strategy a bit to have somewhat smaller, but more frequent updates.

We hope by doing this, we can bring you new content faster, even if that means the updates don't always contain a new map. Our plan currently is for any additional content to be an update, and of course we will continue to do the smaller patches we have been doing for small additions and bug fixes. So while this update doesn't contain a big new map like our other updates, we still have some really cool stuff to share!

I can hardly think of a more appropriate way to get ready for Halloween than playing some sweet, spooky games. For those of you who have been haunting the Steam page waiting for a sale, you’re in luck! MGH is now 50% off as part of Steam’s Scream Fest sale. To welcome all our new players aboard our ghostly little carnival ride, we’ll also be granting double the normal amount of Ghost Shards throughout this whole week for all players.


In the spirit of the season, we’ve got a spooky surprise! We’ve decorated all the maps and the van, so you can better appreciate this spooktacular time of year. We’ve also added three new Hero Props for you all to enjoy.

Chomping Pumpkin - Much like our mimic chest friend, this pumpkin will have no problem taking a bite or two out of you

Pumpkin Jack-in-the-box - Is the hammer from our regular Jack-in-the-box too aggressive for you? How about launching pumpkin guts at them instead?

Witch Doll - Who needs a knife when you have a broom? Zoom across the maps and bonk the hunters to your hearts content

Darkness is our brand new experimental darker and slower-paced MGH experience. You have 15 minutes to midnight, and the lights are greatly reduced, which makes flashlights a requirement. Hunters have limited ammo and a slower overall movement speed as well, which forces less of a run-and-gun play style.

You all have been asking for something like this for a while, and we finally have something we feel is a good enough start so you all can start giving us your thoughts. We will be keeping a very close eye on feedback for this new game-mode in a dedicated channel on our Discord, and adjusting as needed. Please keep in mind this is very experimental, so things might break or not look as good on some maps, we will be improving it over time.

You can checkout this game-mode by setting up a custom server and selecting darkness from the drop-down, or join an existing darkness game via the server browser. This will not be accessible via quick-play for now, but that may change in the future.


Another highly requested feature has been random maps variations. When you boot up Mansion now, you have a random chance for the attic to be closed off, and instead a new path opens to the all new Wine Cellar. This will add a more dynamic element to matches that will add a bit of excitement and variation as players need to adjust their tactics. We are trying this out with just this one variation first to see how you all feel about it before we ramp up and do more, so please let us know what you think on Discord and Twitter!


Spooky season brings two new fantastic skins to the MGH lineup:

Pumpkin Head Ghost Skin - For all you ghosts and ghouls out there, we’ve also got a wicked new skin for you! Pumpkin Head is a ghastly spectral skin that once donned will find yourself shrouded in a tattered cloak with a Jack-o’-Lantern for a head.

Duck Hunter Skin - If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is…a brand-new Hunter skin. The Duck Hunter skin is a honking cool skin. We definitely recommend you take a quack at it with this one. 🦆

We’ve added two new titles for you to strut your stuff with:

Consumed - What spooky season would be complete without some soul consumption? Time to equip Glutton and get to work consuming 250 Hunter souls to unlock this title

Multi-Millionaire - When we added the Millionaire title we thought we were safe for a while...turns out some of you have a lot of Ghost shards sitting around. If you happen to have 10 million of them sitting around, this title is for you! And if not, time to start that grind 😉

That’s it for this time, Ghosts and Hunters! We hope you have a happy Halloween, and we can't wait to show you more of what we are working on with our more frequent updates! Have a great spooky season Ghosts and Hunters, and look out for more updates actually truly soon!

👻-Team MGH!

Hey everyone, we are back again with another patch! This patch contains mostly bug and collision fixes for the Carnival map, see the full patch notes below!

Patch Notes

• Fixed performance issue related to popcorn
  
• Fixed issue with Gramophone map escape in piano room
  
• Fixed issue with Teddy Bear collision
  
• Cleaned up Convenience Stand collision
  
• Removed slide mechanic from some items
  
• Fixed collision around Wild West area floor and corner planks
  
• Fixed collision around Haunted House balcony
  
• Remove excess collision around Upstairs Mansion doorway
  
• Fixed collision with Cotton Candy Stand walls
  
• Fixed collision for Bumper Car exterior walls and desk
  
• Fixed collision with Observatory bushes
  
• Fixed collision around Swan Lake
  
• Various texture fixes/cleanups

A quick note: we apologize for the delay on host migration and dedicated servers, we are still hard at work on this complex undertaking. We feel we need to take the due time to ensure the implementation we ship is stable and well engineered. We appreciate you patience and stay tuned for more info!

We will have an updated roadmap in the very near future reflecting the delay and other details.

Thanks again for all of your feedback and bug reports! If you haven't already, join us on our Discord and say hi! 👋

Stay tuned for some spooky season news coming soon... 🎃

See you on the hunt!
- Team MGH

Hey everyone, we hope you enjoyed the free weekend! We had a great time hopping in some games and seeing all the new faces! Thanks so much for joining us, and keep your eyes peeled for even more cool new stuff coming soon! 👀

We also have been hard at work since we launched Update 2, and have fixed some of the major bugs/collision issues we saw reported over the weekend. Keep those reports coming! 😀

Patch Notes

• Fixed Ghost bots occasionally targeting friendly Doppelganger hunters
  
• Fixed 2 out of map collision issues in Tunnel of Love area
  
• Fixed pole collision near Miner's Waterfall
  
• Fixed Zebra collision near Bumper Car Alley
  
• Fixed bush collision near Haunted House upstairs
  
• Fixed collision in downstairs floor of Haunted House
  
• Fixed collision in haunted house staircase
  
• Fixed railing collision near Clown Face
  
• Fixed collision in roof of Hell's Alley
  
• Fixed collision for light poles around the Carousel
  
• Collision and pathing improvements for Hunter bots navigating around Carnival
  
• Added Carnival to map filter screen in server browser
  
• Fixed fracture mesh on bumper car props
  
• Fixed bots performing actions sometimes completing challenges for the host
  
• Various texture fixes/cleanups

Thanks again for joining us this weekend, and if you haven't already, join us on our Discord and say hi! 👋

See you on the hunt!
- Team MGH

Hey Ghosts and Hunters,

We’ve just rolled out a hot and fresh new update for all you fearsome ghouls and ghastly hunters! Update 2 comes with a brand new map, a new ghost ability, new hunter skins, new titles, an exciting new hero prop, and a weekend full of fresh blood due to a free weekend and a half off sale! Let’s dive on into the juicy details and take a peek at what we’ve cooked up now.


The biggest and one of the most exciting things in Update 2 is the Carnival, a.k.a. Mr. Giggle’s Happyland, a quirky carnival of terrors. This theme has long been awaited by many of you in the community, and it’s pretty clear you all have excellent taste! This charming festival of fear has some really great set pieces and areas, including an eerie merry-go-round, the Alien Arcade, a Wild West Saloon with bumper cars, and Mr. Giggle’s very own Haunted Mansion complete with dangerous animatronics.


Deflector can summon a wispy shield that will deflect incoming projectiles. The shield lasts for 5 seconds, but is cancelled if you attack just like Phantom does. This gives you the perfect opportunity to get away from danger, revive a teammate, or consume a Hunter’s soul. You can even try to bodyblock incoming fire towards your teammates. Note that the projectiles still hit somewhere, as they deflect off the side of the bubble shield.

The shield won’t defend you from melee attacks, so watch out for those Ghostsmashers and Sledgehammers. In our tests we have found Deflector to be quite effective, and really shake gameplay up a bit in fun ways.

Although the ability is cancelled if you attack, you can still use it to position yourself for a follow-up assault.


Who’s ready for some new cosmetics? Yeah, me too. We’ve got three brand new Hunter skins for you all:

Paramedic - fully outfitted with PPE, a medical vest, and a nifty stethoscope (it may not be functional, but it looks cool!)

Pilot - a metal-studded fighter pilot with a sick flight suit

Old Hippie - the 60s may be long gone, but they left their mark - the Old Hippie has some sweet and colorful duds with a pretty rad flower patch (y’know, the kind of patch you put on clothes)


If you caught the trailer for Update 2, you’ve probably seen some fun new hero props! If I were a Hunter, I’d be careful of the Jack-in-the-boxes or you might get bonked. There might also be some bumper cars that are exceedingly good at bumping away Hunters.

In this update, we’ve made some improvements to Challenges - now when you complete a Challenge, it will display the Challenge you’ve completed to make it easier to keep up with those you’ve completed and move on to the next one. In addition to this improvement, we’ve got four new titles that you can now unlock by completing in-match Challenges. You can now unlock and use the following titles to show off your skills:

• Apprentice
  
• Master
  
• Grandmaster
  
• Legend

Ghostwood Empire has done it again! This new tune with a late 80s-inspired feel will most definitely give the Hunters a boost while they listen to it in the van on their way to hunt ghosts. The song “Flight of the Kite” is a tribute to nobody else but our favorite cat in a tophat (and lead dev 😉), Kite. The song has also been added to the Midnight Ghost Hunt Soundtrack.

It’s always exciting for us when new people discover MGH. Even though we’re still in the early days of MGH and there’s a lot more coming, we want more folks to experience the magic with us. To support that discovery and to celebrate Update 2, this weekend we’ll be having a free weekend on Steam! The free weekend will run from September 22nd to 26th.

Those of you who are checking out this post because you’ve newly fallen in love with MGH over the free weekend, you’re in luck! MGH is also now 50% off, so there’s no better time to snag a copy. If you’re a new player concerned about carrying over your progress from the free weekend, worry not! All of your progress from throughout the free weekend will carry over if you decide to give it a test run first and purchase it on the last day of the deal.

In addition to the base game being on sale, you can also get 50% off the Early Backer Bundle, Early Backer Pack, and the Soundtrack if you’d like to show a bit of extra support during our Early Access period.


If you want to rep your favorite prop hunt game, you can snag some sick fits over on our brand new merch shop. We’ve got hoodies and shirts for that ectoplasmic drip, and you can get them both now. The collection includes backpacks, mousepads, and posters, too. We’ve also got mugs, so you can enjoy your favorite drinks, but we can’t promise they come 100% unpossessed, so you may find yourself periodically wondering if it’s going to hop off the desk and attack you. It probably won’t, but might as well buy one now and find out!

We have been working extremely hard on dedicated servers and host migration, and while we were striving to get them included in this update, they still need some final touches and more testing before we can roll it out to everyone. We expect these to be wrapped up very soon though, and we will be releasing them as soon as we feel they are ready. We know both of these features are very highly requested, and it is a number 1 priority for us to get them done. Thanks for being patient, and we should have some news to share on these very, very soon.

That’s all, folks! At least for now. 😏 The spooky season is approaching, though, so keep your eyes peeled for even more updates! We just might surprise you with something special. A great place to get your news and updates is our Discord server, where players and our team hang out on the daily. We’ve also got a really great Twitter, so go give it a follow for the memes! Have a great weekend Ghosts and Hunters, and look out for more updates soon!

- Team MGH