Spooky Ghosts Dot Com

A fun little metroidvania that doesn't outstay its welcome. The bosses and enemies are created with a bare minimum art assets, which forced the developers to get inventive with their patterns.

Spooky Ghosts dot com is a fine game for its price. It's very short. I finished the game twice in two hours to get every achievement. The levels aren't really good, but the bosses are fine. Some details are cute, making the game enjoyable.

[h1]Here's what you do:[/h1] This is a 2D action platformer. You play as a girl who runs a ghost exterminating website. The game starts with you answering an email which takes you to a mansion filled with ghosts and other spooky beings. You are armed with a blaster to turn ghosts into candy (or they just drop candy they were holding). [h1]What I like:[/h1] + Save point jack-o-lanterns restore your health bar. In normal difficulty, save points are the only place to heal. In easy, candy drops will occasionally restore health. I found the normal difficulty to be fine. + Variable jump height based on how long you hold the jump button. + Explore the mansion, defeat bosses and gain new abilities in any order (metroid-like). + Use collected candy to buy more power-ups at shops in the mansion. + Pet small cats around the mansion to please the big cats who will fast travel you to other parts of the mansion. [h1]What I don't like:[/h1] - Has a beat the game without dying achievement. - Game is short, but is inexpensive. [h1]Conclusion:[/h1] The game takes less than two hours to beat and can be speedran in about 30 minutes. I had fun playing through it although it is a small game. [h1]Want a more detailed review? Watch this:[/h1] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1882631548

Very spooky, but I made it through thanks to the power of cats. But no really, cute, charming little game. A bit short and a lil rough, but a decent lil snack of a game, having got it on sale.

I recommend this game on sale if you want a short, simple platforming experience. It's very simplistic, but not bad and it's fun to play something like this everyone once in awhile. There's nothing really bad about this game, everything is fairly adequate. The graphics are simple and mostly fine, but by not having outlines, some of the things blend into the background like the knives that the kitchen ghosts throw after they die. I didn't know how I was getting hurt for awhile. The gameplay is pretty solid if not super interesting. It's an extremely basic shooting platformer that never gets very complex. The music is probably the low point, but it's never offensive, just not great. The biggest disappointment is that about 50% of the items you get are keys. Keys are never an interesting thing to get in a Metroidvania and it would have been a much better game if they could have been items that worked like keys (like the dash and the charge shot in this game). It's the kind of game where you can see the potential for future releases and supporting indie developers can only lead to more good games being made. So I hope the developer grows in his understanding of game developing and makes a really refined future title.

2 button presses to open the map. Frustrating little game. I had a lot more fun with the devs other title: SJ-19 Learns to Love.

难度一般的类银河恶魔城游戏，boss战轻松，跑地图容易被小兵折磨。 我5小时通关的，有一半时间是在被小兵折磨来回跑图&刷钱买血条。 正常通关时间大概在2小时朝上。 商店简介写了救猫猫，实际上并没有救！只是摸摸（。骑猫猫很有意思，就是次数不多哈哈。

https://youtu.be/rDp0RUB-x68 Enough rough edges add up around the creature design & placement that when combined with the level layout and difficulty tuning make for overall unsatisfying time.

Cute, fun and short game. Don't let that fool you though because the game can be tough as nails at times. When I got to the second boss I figured I made a wrong turn because i was doing so poorly. A great Halloween time game.

This is a fine little game. Everything works as intended, and it held my attention to the end. For a $5 game made by what I assume is one person, it's good. I can tell the developer had fun making it. The developer has since released SJ-19 Learns To Love, which looks similar but more polished, definitely wishlisting it for when I run out of other things to play, or when it pops up on a sale.