Yomawari: Midnight Shadows on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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The dark is no place to be alone. After a beautiful show of summer fireworks, two young girls begin to make their way home. However, a mysterious attacker separates them, and both must brave the haunting night filled with unspeakable terrors and survive the darkness.

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is a horror, adventure and strategy game developed by Nippon Ichi Software and Inc. and published by NIS America and Inc..
Released on October 24th 2017 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and Japanese.

It has received 889 reviews of which 830 were positive and 59 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Yomawari: Midnight Shadows into these genres:

Horror Adventure Strategy Cute Anime Gore Violent Female Protagonist Great Soundtrack Atmospheric Psychological Horror Exploration Singleplayer

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Windows

OS *: Windows 10/8.1/7
Processor: Core i3-2100 3.10 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics Family (HD 4000)
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 2 GB available space
Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2025

The story here gets an huge improvement compared to the first entry and the game is longer. If you liked the first this one is simply an improvement my only critique being the eccessive number of boss encounters in the second part of the game that maybe took away from the exploration aspect. It's hard to explain exactly what i mean but wile i learned the first game city map i diden't in this... Best game in the series overall and one of my favorite 5 games in absolute.

Oct. 2025

9 von 10 i think part of why im drawn to this game,beyond its beautiful art direction,is that i've always loved walking alone at night...even when i was little.

Sept. 2025

The second game in the Yomawari series. Compared to the first entry's open-ended nature, this one feels like an over-correction into a much more linear experience. At the same time its narrative is a lot more involved and grips at the heartstrings, so it's no wonder to me that it's so beloved. Personally it was my least favourite of the trilogy to play, but I'm still glad I stuck with it to see these two girls' story to the end.

Aug. 2025

Been waiting years to finally play this, and although it’s a bit late, I’m glad I did. The story is simple yet neat, and the gameplay especially the exploration really hooked me. It’s enjoyable, atmospheric, and kept me curious the whole way through. Solid 9/10 from me.

June 2025

This is a review I felt like I need to do- now that I bought the game twice (here, and on the switch). I used to have a love-hate relationship for this game: it's not like the first game, blabla. Now that it's been years, I feel like I can objectively talk about it. I want to say that I enjoyed the first Yomawari, but it's not needed to complete it to play this one. There's only one easter egg (a really cute one) for people that have played the first one. If anything, I recommend this one over the first, as the gameplay is much less frustrating. Unlike the first game, this one has a long and complex story. I mean, the first had a story too, but clearly not as complex as this one (you have 2 different PoVs after all!). On top of that, you get more systems like bonus items. This comes with a big problem: you are handholded through a good chunk of the game. And this is why I could never fully love this game; The first game letting you explore felt really immersing as you desperately tried to avoid monsters and ghosts and get lost in an oppressive night, but this one locks you into specific paths to make sure you cannot avoid to go to the next part of the story. I enjoyed the story and it's honestly one of the best I've seen from how emotional and tragic it is (especially with legit 8 yrs old children??), but to go from the sandbox first game to this was something I couldn't readily accept. Besides that, the game also introduces new ghosts on top of the ones from the first games. I personally liked them. The level design though was fantastic- as long as you properly used the Jinzo statues (the temporary quick save points). This makes it this game can be very hard to put down: not in the sense that it's gripping, but because you need to save the game (at the house only) and you just cannot , because you are too deep inside a level. My personal favourite was the haunted house as the game uses its atmosphere perfectly. Gameplay-wise, it's similar to the first Yomawari Night. However, due to its nature of being separated by chapters, the game is much less punishing than the first one, who was... rough around the edges, and much less polished. It is still very much a die and retry, but I'd still recommend it over the first due to all the QoL and polishing it got. The graphics are however, very much improved, with a lot of shading to each asset compared to the first Yomawari. The game is a treat to look at and I loved taking screenshots of it, especially the train level! On a final note, I really do recommend this game the most over any of the other Yomawari games, as it is genuinely a really good game (if you don't mind the die and retry), and a good first entry point into the series (even if realistically, none of the games connect to each others deeply).

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Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows received 830 positive votes out of a total of 889 achieving a rating of 8.77.

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Yomawari: Midnight Shadows was developed by Nippon Ichi Software and Inc. and published by NIS America and Inc..

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is not playable on MacOS.

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is not playable on Linux.

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is a single-player game.

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