## 2026-07-04 I'm doing another playthrough of this. It’s phenomenal this time too, and I’m still gutted it was so unsuccessful. **Midnight Suns** is one of those games that you think you'll play for an hour, but then you look out the window and suddenly the sun is rising. It has the ridiculously compelling loop that I think some games dream of. By day you put together a team of three Marvel heroes, both obscure and not so obscure, and take them out on missions with turn-based combat. Using attack cards generates a “Hero” resource which you then can spend for stronger cards, or for environmental attacks like smacking an enemy with a pipe or whatever. The game captures the superhero fantasy whilst still having a need for strategy because some enemies are mooks that will die from a single hit. They exist to both make you feel powerful, throw into stronger enemies, proc moves, or refund card uses. Each character has a distinct deck and playstyle, but the game finds lots of ways to encourage you to use them. This is because by night, you get to basically play Persona. Your OC, a legendary Hunter back from the dead, can hang out with Dr. Strange and Nico and Iron Man and so on. You can learn what they like to do in their down time, or even follow “Club” storylines, like Blade’s arc of starting a book club to get closer to Captain Marvel, whom he thinks is hot.[^1] Doing so has an immediate tangible benefit, because the better your relationships, the more powerful their cards become, and you also get access to stuff like Hero Combos, which are devastating team-up attacks that do crazy damage. The reason I’m doing a replay is because I never got to use the DLC characters that came out in the months afterwards. These new characters include Storm, Venom, Storm, Storm, Deadpool, Storm, Morbius(!?!?) Storm, and did I mention Storm? I haven’t gotten access to any of them yet, but I’ll put my thoughts in here when I do. **Midnight Suns** *feels* like it shouldn’t work, but it does, and very successfully if I might add. The combat is interesting, the dialogue has that superhero cheese without delving too deep into “he’s right behind me isn’t he?” territory, and there’s plenty of content to rip through. If you haven’t checked it out and like yourself games like **Slay the Spire** and **Into the Breach**, then I can’t recommend it enough. [^1]: agree to disagree there