Ghost Simulator

Ghost Simulator delivers what it promises. It's an immersive experience as you wander through the manor, contemplating how to approach each of the family members. The powers at your disposal offer creative possibilities, granting you the freedom to shape your haunting adventure, whether for good or evil intentions. It invites numerous playthroughs to explore different outcomes. One thing I really like is how the description vividly creates the atmosphere and illustrates each individuals' emotions, immersing you in the scene. As the story progresses and deepens your understanding of the characters, it ignites a curiosity to unveil the mysteries that surround your situation and more about your spectral self. Regarding about the bugs mentioned in other comments, although some are present, they are minor and did not interfere with my playthrough. I can also say that some bugs from prior reviews have already been fixed. I really like that they are actively working to improve this unique experience and interesting story. So, I highly recommend this game. You assume the role of a ghost, and the available choices provide ample freedom to play as you desire, shaping the interactions in the way you intend. The story keeps you entertained and curious, urging you to uncover more and unravel the mysteries that surround your phantasmal being.

This is a thumbs up because of the plot, for version 1.02. There were things missed by the editing and beta testing. It was updated to version 1.04 this morning, and from the log, these problems should be fixed, so grab it and PLAY! Its an entertaining ghost story and worth reading, if spooky old manor houses at Halloween are your thing. Even better if you can get it on special! You are a ghost who suddenly awakes as winter approaches, with only vague memories of who you were, and what the house is that you are haunting. Even worse, you are sharing that house with a modern family with two teenagers. How you handle it, and what transpires is up to the choices you make. You can play detective over the way you died, or copy the Canterville Ghost and scare your housemates away, or simply run riot and who cares if they don't like it? The author is able to paint word pictures well so the reader can enjoy the fun, dream up devilish schemes, or feel pity for the ghost and its housemates., The teenagers can be as obnoxious or typical teenagers as you want, and the parents are coping with their mid-life crisis as best they can given the circumstances. I can forgive the silly errors I have so far found in the game after one run through. There are obviously many more ways this haunting can unfold, as you can be a poltergeist, possess your hapless victims, and generally scare the living daylights out of them, as well as help them, and enlist their help in unravelling your own mystery. You can tell your hapless victims your story, or make their lives a misery, but be careful what the future holds for you as well as them. The afterlife may not be all its cracked up to be. Even with its editing faults, I have enjoyed my first run through, particularly the way the loose ends are tidied up at the end, and I look forward to experimenting with the various gifts my ghostly self can use as I try and work out the other bits of the story I can only guess at now. FWIW, I had already played the demo before buying this on Steam so my play time for my first run through is over 3.5 hours.

才看了一点开头，已经感觉很有意思了，随便写点感想。本游戏是名副其实的幽灵模拟器，主角有五种异能可选1.梦境操控，在梦里变成别人的模样，或者引导梦境走向噩梦或美梦 2.亡者低语，让npc听见你说话 3.意念力，操控物体 4.附身，操控醒着的人 5.现身，让别人看见你 有些能力还可以搭配使用，尤其有趣的能让主角附身别人后吃东西or飞叶子测试是否能品尝味道，这也是我一直好奇的事并想尝试的事情啊！！故事开头就是恐怖片经典主角之中产阶级一家四口入住诡异大豪斯，主角可以扮演经典恶灵做坏事，也可以扮演三好幽灵帮助这家人。 感觉进入游戏后主要乐子还是在组cp或者拆cp（一共有三对cp可选，主人家的夫妻，大女儿和她的女同crush，小儿子和他女友），外加时不时制造灵异事件吓个人，探究身世的任务进展速度为0（笑嘻了）。值得一提的是这家的男主人在梦里和朋友抱怨妻子忙于写小说没空和他sex，还在梦里意淫女同事，过于真实引人不适了啊啊，性压抑危机已威胁全人类.jpg 一个小细节：主角的默认姓名选项里有Zhang 嗯结局和黑幕都挺好预测的，中庸的一部IF，3/5，主要是各种超能力好玩，故事一般。

Nice concept, great execution. I'm really enjoying this game so far.

recommend on sale. This isn't to say that the amount of content isn't $7 worth; it is. I'd hazard that there are plenty of vns with less in 'em than this. Nor are the writing or characters bad (though the climax felt a little rushed to me). My qualms come from a handful of typos I found (seem to specifically crop up around variable pronouns; using "hims" (not "his") when it should have read "hers" anyway, things like that, and also game balance and mechanics issues. The first is self explanatory, so I'll talk about the second. there are five ghostly powers and you can choose three; being seen, being heard, possessing people, manipulating objects, and getting into their sleeping mind. Many of these have options that can be used together; for example, being seen and being heard to show up to someone physically and have a conversation with them. my problem lies in the imbalance between these options and the fact that when they do get used together, the outcome is almost always identical to if you had just used the powers individually (and you often get the opportunity to do that as well, with the menu just bouncing back to wherever you were given the choice to use a power after the interaction is done). Particularly, there is almost never any reason to be both seen and heard, when just being heard is enough. The most it does is give you access to snappy one-liners. However, the ability to manipulate objects seems to be given tremendous weight, with many scenes just fully impossible to do anything significant if you didn't pick that power. Possession, one might think, could be a way around that--why do I need to use ghost powers to open a book when I can just take control of a person and make them do it? But often times, you just aren't given the equivalent option with possession. Possession is almost always used just to make a person say something specific to another person, and it's hardly ever saying anything meaningful or helpful, just used to mess with their personal relationships. The imbalance between these powers gets starker in the final confrontation, where it makes very little sense for an enemy who already knows about ghosts to be scared off by you going oOoOooOOooOooo in their ear, but it works because you've given yourself no other way to do anything meaningful in that interaction because the other things you picked were dream manipulation and possession (which the antagonists are immune to, I assume for the sake of you not just automatically winning the game by making them end themselves when they're still needed for a later scene). Which made having such imbalanced powers feel cheapened as a result. I felt pretty railroaded. There are also many, many moments where you feel like you should be allowed to use a power to say or do something and just aren't given any option to, without any sort of explanation as to why you can't use your powers whenever you want. Having the mc struggle to use their powers consistently would have gone a long way to patching that hole. also of issue is the skepticism mechanic. This seems like a great thing at first; you can brush off thinking you heard or saw something, you can convince yourself that a plate falling off a shelf was just a weird coincidence. However, it really, REALLY strains the suspension of disbelief when you physically show up to someone and tell them your name and that you're a ghost and you want them to help you solve your death, and they do the equivalent of "it must have been the wind." In my opinion, being seen + being heard should have had the added effect of dropping skepticism by a huge amount. Instead, I was physically running around after these people and telling them my deal and they kept needing to be convinced there was a ghost. there is also no real way to know which of the powers will actually be useful by the end of the demo. in all I did like the game, but it just felt like the writer(s?) had bitten off more than they could chew and rather than find some way to streamline it down, they just kind of threw it all in the pot and said "eh it'll work." It could have been greater than it was. Which is to say, I was expecting to be Beetlejuice, but I wound up feeling more like Casper.

One of the advantages of Hosted Games is how they can approach settings, perspectives, and characters that would be too niche to find a big enough audience in other, more expensive genres. Ghost Simulator plays into that strength perfectly. If you've ever had a spare thought of wanting a game --or maybe to run a tabletop, or write a story-- in this specific scenario, that Wraith: the Oblivion game you never got to run, this will scratch that itch. In comparison to other Hosted Games, it is more focused in its intended narrative. Though it lets you project yourself onto the narrative as much as other games in its genre, your projection is much less... well, tangible. It creates the feeling of a narrative which moves on without you, and a world that doesn't center on you. As an intentional mechanical reflection of the meaning of death and the experience of being a ghost, it's admirable, but it does ultimately create a feeling of restriction you may not like. Mechanically, it's much simpler than other Hosted Games. No statistics to raise, just the powers you pick and the ending you push for with them. It invites replay with greyed-out options requiring other powers, but you'd probably get two or three replays in practice. I actually think this is to its credit; some other Hosted Games can feel like decision making boils down to grinding statistics, while Ghost Simulator lets you mess around to your heart's content and just see how it plays out. There are a few typos or repeatable options, but no major issues. The narrative goes out of its way to make sure you never miss important information, which can feel a little lame, but serves a purpose. Achievement hunting is generally pretty obvious, nothing should throw you for a loop. All in all, a fun little entry to the genre. I hope we see more like this in the future, niche little things to satisfy the endless desire for unique qualia.

Interesting

A great little game, that allows you to play all the Types of Ghost from Prankster to Somber to Murderos that you always wanted to play. That being said, i have to agree with other reviews that the last part of the game is kind of a mess. People show up alive without a reason or explaination, people know suddenly or not about the ghost and weird implications in the epilouge, no explanation why you can play a victorian looking ghost and be confused about technic when your death wasnt anywhere near the victorian age. Also missing or wrong text in that part. But before, playing as a ghost is real fun and well written, so i recommend it in spite of the muddeled ending.