Ghoststory

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Ghoststory is a single player casual action adventure game. It was developed by Loaded Games and was released on June 21, 2018. It received negative reviews from players.

The haunting of Baskerville is a Lovecraftian inspired story that immerses you in a mysterious world, a desolate island somewhere in the outer reaches. As you begin, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Mary...'

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31%

Audience ScoreBased on 26 reviews

story8 positive mentions

gameplay1 negative mentions

The game features beautiful graphics with good textures and lighting, creating a pleasant atmosphere.
The narration and voice acting are well done, adding depth to the experience.
The music is well-placed and enhances the overall mood of the game.

There are significant game-breaking bugs, including a lack of a save feature and issues with the ESC key that force players to restart the game.
The walking speed is painfully slow, making it tedious to progress through the game, and the dialogue is often difficult to hear.
The story is confusing and lacks coherence, leaving players without a satisfying conclusion or understanding of the plot.

story
24 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33%
54%
13%
The story in "Ghoststory" is described as intriguing yet ultimately confusing, lacking clarity and resolution. Players find the narrative delivery overly verbose and distracting, detracting from immersion and engagement with the environment. While the game features appealing visuals, it is criticized for its slow pacing and generic storytelling, making it feel more like a walking simulator with minimal interaction.
- “This game has potential, especially if you enjoy a pleasant mood and just want to listen to a story while walking through nice scenery.”
- “This game is pretty much a walking simulator, similar to games like Dear Esther or Firewatch, where you walk through levels and a character narrates a story.”
- “Overall, it's a pretty decent little story game; not much to it, but it's pretty good for what it is.”
- “Ghoststory is one of the most 'walky', plodding, meandering, slow, and generic of all walking sim or first-person adventure games I have ever played.”
- “What this game and others like it that are a slog to get through in the walking sim genre don't realize is to let the player just observe the ambiance of their environment for a moment in silence without being beaten over the head with nonstop dialog. This would do more for immersion than berating them constantly with walls of text being blandly read that don't even elucidate the player to any semblance of a rewarding story.”
- “No decent story, no exciting twists, generic visuals and sound, no interactions with the world, and painfully slow moving speed with no run option.”
graphics
16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
38%
43%
19%
The graphics in the game are described as decent and coherent, with a bright and linear atmosphere, but ultimately generic and uninspired. While the environments are visually appealing, they fail to elevate the overall experience, which is marred by a lack of engaging content and limited graphical settings. Overall, the visuals are considered acceptable but do not compensate for the game's shortcomings.
- “A highly-detailed, slightly confusing storyline coupled with decent graphics, and a bright, linear atmosphere.”
- “While the game's graphics and environments look nice, ghoststory will seldom ever give you a passage of time without the narrator ranting about some garbage that oozes faux profundity.”
- “It has decent coherent graphics and pleasant music.”
- “Graphically it's okay, but that's everything that's positive about the game.”
- “No decent story, no exciting twists, generic visuals and generic sound, no interactions with the world, painfully slow moving speed with no run option.”
- “It obviously strives to copy Dear Esther's aesthetics, but unfortunately fails as this game itself is nothing more than a boring hour-long chore.”
music
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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37%
13%
The music in the game is generally praised for being well-placed and pleasant, enhancing the overall experience. However, some players find it difficult to hear the protagonist's dialogue clearly due to the music and sound effects, such as rain, which can detract from the storytelling.
- “The music is very nice.”
- “It has decent coherent graphics and pleasant music.”
- “The music is well placed, and from what we can tell, all dialogue is voiced.”
- “Then there is the main point of the game, the protagonist telling the story, but I can barely understand what he is saying under the sound of rain and the music.”
gameplay
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
75%
25%
The gameplay has been criticized for being monotonous and overly simplistic, resembling a basic walking simulator that fails to engage players.
- “Boring gameplay, super basic walking simulator.”
atmosphere
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
100%
The atmosphere is characterized by a bright, linear design that complements a highly-detailed, albeit slightly confusing storyline, enhanced by decent graphics.
- “A highly-detailed, slightly confusing storyline coupled with decent graphics, and a bright, linear atmosphere.”
- “The atmosphere feels overly bright and linear, lacking the depth and immersion I was hoping for.”
- “The graphics are decent, but the atmosphere is confusing and doesn't draw me into the story.”
stability
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game's stability has been widely criticized, with multiple users describing it as a "buggy, broken mess." This indicates significant issues that detract from the overall gameplay experience.
- “Buggy, broken mess.”
- “Buggy, broken mess.”