South of Midnight
Compulsion and Xbox’s action-platformer South of Midnight is something really rare: A video game that isn’t just set in America, but distinctly American. It deals directly with topics like slavery, race, generational trauma, and the way all of this mixes together in the swampy heat of the South to create a complicated place that many call home. So much music and folklore have emerged from this place and South of Midnight uses the story of one young woman looking for her mother as the emotional backbone to a grand journey that takes you through all the pain, sorrow, hope, despair, myths, and legends. The combat might not be the most exciting, but everything else in this game is worth experiencing. Games like South of Midnight stick in your brain long after the credits roll.
