The Midnight Walk sees you take a hideous ceramic lad on a grim claymated stroll | Gaming

Hey, remember Lost In Random? I reviewed it way back when and thought its Burtonesque setting and story were top notch, but it felt a bit reliant on samey fights. Moonhood Studios, founded by the creators of LIR, just announced The Midnight Walk at last night’s PlayStation State Of Play showcase. And it looks to continue their appreciation of the dark and the strange. Case in point: it’s a first-person adventure where you play as The Burnt One, who must steer a hideous pot creature through a twisted universe.

The hideous pot creature is called Potboy and you’ll need to use his flame “to light your way through a conflicting world of wonder and horror”. In the trailer, some old fella says “Who took the sun away?”, which hints at this clay world being…