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Ghostly Matter

61% positive of 44 Steam reviews

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Released
2018
Steam Deck
Verified
Platforms
Steam

Made by Small Bros. Published by Milestone S.r.l..

About the game

Ghostly Matter is a metroidvania with elements borrowed from graphic adventures. The year is 1986. A professor obsessed with the paranormal, an old friend who disappeared mysteriously. Time to arm yourself with the best anti-ghost technology and set off in search of the truth.

Tagged by players

  • Metroidvania
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Platformer
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Retro

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    The central mechanic in this game allows you to shift into the ghost realm by hitting RB, which lets you see hidden enemies and different paths forward, but doing so costs you health and battery power, so you can't keep it on all the time. You have to flick it on and off frequently. The game says it's about "exploring", but what this amounts to in practical terms is hitting B in front of anything and everything that…

    3.4 h played when written. 60 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    I was disappointed. This game somehow manages to take all the right elements, the correct components, and so perversely mutate them that the outcome just isn't fun. Given the sorts of games I enjoy, this should have been a slam-dunk and I should have thoroughly enjoyed Ghostly Matter. Alas, when the core mechanic pulls from two resource pools, when the jumps are NES-BS styled in some points, when enemy placement is,…

    2.7 h played when written. 33 found it helpful.

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