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On the desolate moon of Lorian, a long-dormant Deadsuit awakens from slumber. Journey beneath the surface on an atmospheric 2D adventure of self-discovery, ancient mysteries, and cosmic terror. Explore winding caverns and acquire new abilities to unearth this alien world’s long-buried secrets.
Ghost Song is a metroidvania, sci-fi and 2d game
developed by Old Moon
and published by Humble Games.
Released on November 03rd 2022 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.
It has received 1,254 reviews of which 1,045 were positive and 209 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.29€ on Eneba.
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 or AMD FX-4350
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti, 1 GB or AMD Radeon HD 5770, 1 GB
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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It's an incredibly enjoyable game. Music, visual style, history. Thank you for the wonderful product and we are waiting for Ghost Song 2. Perfect on Steam Deck
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This is a game that wants you to think. Not in a puzzle kind of way, but conceptually. It wants you to slow down and really feel what it is that you, and the characters around you, are experiencing. This game is not about being powerful, or even strong; it's about resilience. It's a very thoughtful game, about discovery, the unknown, fear, depression, and hope. It's about the past, and the future, and what it all means to you. The potential of this game is unlocked only if you are willing to walk at its pace, and that pace is slow. If you are patient, methodical, thoughtful, and observant, then you will be rewarded with a wonderful atmosphere, answers to an amorphous narrative, neat toys, and maybe even some dialogue that really hits you hard. If you like the thought of a Metroid game being more focused on mystery and narrative with more horror mixed in, and you're still reading this because you were not immediately disgusted by the idea of a slow-paced game, then you are very likely to enjoy it. The combat itself is kind of brutal at times. If you don't know how to dodge an enemy's attacks, or if you panic, then you can die pretty fast, and death has some small drawbacks. But again, if you're methodical, then you can figure out how best to fight any enemy, even the bosses. You can also just focus on leveling your defenses, which is what I did. There's a variety of ways to engage in combat how you'd like, and as you collect equipment, you get more options. So while the combat isn't perfect, it's still fun, and it serves the atmosphere and theme of the game very well. When combat is always dangerous, you're always careful when exploring, and I think that makes the exploration more exciting. My personal favorite part is the atmosphere, served by the art and sound design. Everything is dirty and old and gross and weird and just perfect. Sounds have an unholy amount of reverb added to them in caves, and it's dynamic, so it's very immersive. Is there too much reverb? Maybe, but I really liked it and wouldn't change it. The music is masterwork. Perfect for the setting, the themes, the melancholy, it just wraps it all up so cohesively. Grant Graham did an amazing job on the soundtrack. I'm a new fan. Overall, my life is better having experienced this game. I heard this was mostly the vision of just one guy, Matt White. Well, I see the vision. And I thank him for sharing it.
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Absolutely outstanding game, though like with many particularly unique and nuanced works of art, it is the kind of thing that won't necessarily appeal to everyone. If you strip the premise and presentation completely, what you get is a decent and totally serviceable metroidvania that is more or less an amalgamation of Metroid, Hollow Knight, and Dark Souls, but what makes Ghost Song really standout among other metroidvania titles is its unusually immersive atmosphere and implicit story telling which sets the stage for a very lived-in world that leaves much to the imagination of the player, heavily exploring themes of existentialism, what it means to be human or sentient, and far more complex philosophical concepts than I could probably do much justice to in trying to explain them here. The brooding alien planet setting along with the protagonist's appearance and general mechanics are probably mostly akin to Metroid, while the exploration and module ("charm") features are more a reflection of Hollow Knight, and the gradual stat-based leveling system and accompanying corpse-run mechanic is probably most similar to a soulsborne title. If all of these aspects appeal to you, then you will probably like this game. If none of them appeal to you, then you probably won't, and if you are on the fence, then I would say to just give it a chance for a unique experience that is not just the sum of the parts of its influences, but also a unique and noteworthy artistic vision of its own. The presentation of Ghost Song is sort of a mix of the three aforementioned titles, as well as what I thought to be a bit of a Moebius inspired art style (French sci-fi artist who influenced many other works including Ridley Scott's Alien, Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and the various artists that contributed to the Heavy Metal comic series and its eponymous 1981 animated film). With influences like these, one can expect Ghost Song to have some heavily layered environmental story telling and some very implicit background information that you will have to either piece together, or simply infer yourself, to fill in the blanks of whatever isn't explicitly stated in the dialogue. Of the few negative reviews that I've read here, I've seen complaints about the controls being clunky (which is a bit bizarre to me, as I found the combat and movement to be quite tight and smooth, albeit perhaps not quite as sleek as some other popular titles in the genre), as well as some complaints about the necessity for backtracking, especially for certain quest items that don't allow you to use fast travel, but those are few and far between (about as many as you can count on one hand) and don't take very long at all to traverse, so these all seem like rather odd complaints to me, unless you went into this expecting something other than a metroidvania with some amount of deliberate combat and backtracking. I would say that, having played more metroidvanias than I could possibly remember at this point, Ghost Song is at least certainly not what I would consider to be of the slower or more cumbersome variety of the genre as a whole. Another complaint that I have heard, however, which I actually find more understandable (not for my tastes, but for the preferences of others), is the lack of explicit story telling. I could definitely see some people being turned off by this, especially with the overall outcome of the narrative, but if you are more like me, and like to have a bit more of a dark and mysterious plot that allows your imagination to do some wandering, then you may well end up loving this one for the same reasons that others might hate it. One aspect of the dialogue that I really loved in particular was the fact that pretty much every NPC has incredibly candid and personal things to say almost every time you talk to them, making each one seem more real and relatable than most characters in games that I've played in general, and it is here that you may also find what you need to piece the overall premise together yourself, if you happen to find yourself into it enough to do so, and if not, I think it's an enjoyable enough experience regardless. All in all, I would say that, while the most basic and stripped down gameplay aspects of Ghost Song are essentially just a serviceable Metroid/Hollow Knight clone, the amount of passion that went into the story, art, and overall presentation of this game make it something incredible and far more than just a clone of anything. My total runtime for Ghost Song was about 25 hours in an attempt to 100% everything I could in a single, completely blind, first-time playthrough, including attempting to find every possible item and upgrade, which I was unable to accomplish by the time of this review, but if you aren't going for a totally blind completionist run while also revisiting everything that you can to uncover every line of dialogue or cut scene possible, then you could probably easily finish this game in about 1/3 of the time that I spent on it. I just happen to enjoy it, myself, enough to milk everything that I possibly could out of my first playthrough, and I may still spend more time on it later if I don't first end up just going all in on the recently announced upcoming title, The Silver Sun, from the same developer, which is apparently supposed to be set in the same universe that I fell in love with in Ghost Song...
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If you cannot stop playing until you almost starve to death, you know it's an awesome game. I'm hooked and loving it all the way. There are many unique traits which set it apart from other metroidvanias. Give it a shot, it's very interesting and fun. The atmosphere, story, characters and music are glorious. Controls are smooth, abilities are nice and level design is amazing. BUT it's rather short, I was like WTF when it ended and there are obviously some things I must have missed
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As a metroidvania, it's ok. As a mysterious and atmospheric experience, it's great. As the achievement of a solo dev, it's outstanding.
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Ghost Song is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Ghost Song is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Ghost Song received 1,045 positive votes out of a total of 1,254 achieving a rating of 7.94.
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Ghost Song was developed by Old Moon and published by Humble Games.
Ghost Song is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Ghost Song is not playable on MacOS.
Ghost Song is not playable on Linux.
Ghost Song is a single-player game.
Ghost Song does not currently offer any DLC.
Ghost Song does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Ghost Song does not support Steam Remote Play.
Ghost Song is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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