{"id":7653,"date":"2025-04-10T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T10:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/7653\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T10:56:08","slug":"xboxs-south-of-midnight-fails-to-resonate-with-pc-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/7653\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox&#8217;s South of Midnight Fails to Resonate with PC Gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s clear South of Midnight hasn&#8217;t struck a chord with PC gamers, some have noted that the game is also available on Xbox Game Pass and may be seeing more traction on console. Unfortunately, unlike Steam, Xbox doesn&#8217;t provide easily accessible player data, making it impossible to gauge how well the stylized Louisiana adventure is performing there.<\/p>\n<p>Others have also argued that comparing SoM&#8217;s numbers to other Xbox-published titles isn&#8217;t entirely fair, given it&#8217;s a AA game rather than a AAA release. Still, a 1.4K peak seems disappointingly low even by AA and indie standards, especially when compared to something like <a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/walter-white-simulator-schedule-i-becomes-steam-s-most-popular-indie-game-of-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff\">the latest talk of the town<\/a> Schedule I, created not even by a team but by a solo developer, which recently peaked at 459K players and continues to grow daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While it&#8217;s clear South of Midnight hasn&#8217;t struck a chord with PC gamers, some have noted that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12,53,16,15,1644],"class_list":{"0":"post-7653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-video-games"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114313309960160695","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}