As anyone who’s seen the famous Fast Show sketch knows, claymation is an intensely laborious process; it takes a huge amount of skill and patience to make even the shortest piece of animation, moulding bits of clay ‘just a tiny amount’ at a time. It should therefore be no surprise that there isn’t a huge array of games made using this process (Edinburgh-based developer and self-publisher Jack King-Spooner is one of the main practitioners, with his Scottish folk-inspired adventures Judero and Beeswing, and upcoming ‘digging adventure’ Mashina).

The Midnight Walk is from new studio Moonhood, comprising developers behind dark games Lost In Random and Fe. Players take on the role of The Burnt One, using their flame to navigate through a horrific world riddled with monsters, and they can do so in either traditional play or VR: Sony have put some of their weight behind the title and it’ll be one of a handful of May releases on PS VR2. Resembling the work of early Tim Burton, The Midnight Walk looks very atmospheric, with its impressive characters and objects created in clay and then scanned into the game. The stop-motion animation looks suitably creepy and it will probably forever haunt the dreams of anyone who dares to play it in VR

The Midnight Walk is out on PC, PS5 and PS VR2 on Thursday 8 May.