Midnight Mysteries
Released Sep 2009
The master of macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, leads you on a shadowy journey to finally solve the mystery of his death. As a famed mystery writer, you’re looking for your next cold case to crack when an unexpected visitor hands you the perfect case to get your career moving again.
68% positive · 174 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to buy
Steam $9.99
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Evaluation
Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy is a self-contained hidden object adventure game that launched on September 28, 2009. The store description presents a complete, standalone story — guiding the player through a single mystery with a defined beginning and end. There is no DLC, no season pass, no roadmap, and no developer communication suggesting additional content was ever planned beyond the base game. The only post-launch developer activity on record is a compatibility and bug fix patch released on March 10, 2014, which updated the game to run on Windows 8. This is purely maintenance work, not new content. The game launched as a finished product and has remained so.
Evidence
Store description presents a fully self-contained hidden object mystery game with a single defined story and no mention of DLC, expansions, or ongoing content
Version 1.0.5 patch released adding Windows 8 compatibility and bug fixes — purely maintenance, no new content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Accelerate Games
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
The master of macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, leads you on a shadowy journey to finally solve the mystery of his death. As a famed mystery writer, you’re looking for your next cold case to crack when an unexpected visitor hands you the perfect case to get your career moving again.
When Edgar leads you through some of his most famous works, The Raven, The Gold Bug, The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter, you’ll collect clues, interview witnesses and piece together the conspiracy behind the death of one of America’s greatest writers.
Who killed Edgar? And, why were such measures taken so that no one would ever know the truth? You have 24 hours and ghosts of the past to guide you through Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy!
When Edgar leads you through some of his most famous works, The Raven, The Gold Bug, The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter, you’ll collect clues, interview witnesses and piece together the conspiracy behind the death of one of America’s greatest writers.
Who killed Edgar? And, why were such measures taken so that no one would ever know the truth? You have 24 hours and ghosts of the past to guide you through Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy!
- Celebrate 200 years of Poe in this seek and find murder mystery
- Hidden object adventure lets you crack a 160-year-old case
- Guided by Poe himself, you'll collect items and clues through his most famous works
- Solve intriguing puzzles to figure out exactly whodunit!
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Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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