South of Midnight isn’t shy about giving players control of the experience, though. It boasts five difficulty options, including a customizable option. Tweaking everything feels like it’s on the table, including changing a player’s damage output against enemies.

In those first couple of chapters, where South of Midnight introduces Hazel's supernatural abilities as a Weaver, combat assumes the pace of a slow Southern drawl. The fights don't have much depth, and Hazel sort of meanders between smaller enemies in some of the game's oversized arenas.