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Ballads at Midnight

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

Should you play it?

When a sarcastic bard is arrested and exiled to an abandoned castle, she expected to be at the mercy of a hungry, blood-thirsty vampire. She soon discovers that the vampire, Lucius, is not starving: he is gravely bored. She may just survive on borrowed time, one ballad each midnight.

What works

  • Well-written story and characters
  • Beautiful art and music
  • Multiple endings and achievements
  • Free to play
  • Emotional and immersive experience

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited player choices and interactivity
  • Short playtime
  • Lack of cg scenes
  • Minimal voice acting coverage
  • No multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Your Dry Delight

  • Perfect Gold - Yuri Visual Novel

  • Love Thyself - A Horatio Story

  • Absent in the Rain

  • Amelie

  • Senren＊Banka

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Ballads at Midnight but with a stronger survival pressure

  • The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty

  • Mandemon

  • Midnight Witch

  • Dark Nights

  • Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York

  • Rising Angels: Reborn

More expressive

Games that feels like Ballads at Midnight but with more self-expression and customization

  • Along the Edge

  • Starlight Vega

  • OZMAFIA!!

  • Elisa: The Innkeeper - Prequel

  • TAISHO x ALICE epilogue

  • Lost in Secular Love

Choose your own criteria ->

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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Ballads at Midnight: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Competence, Experimenting, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Idle.

Last update: 03/08/2026