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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 116.2 hrs on record (57.7 hrs at review time)
Posted: 26 Dec, 2020 @ 3:42pm
Updated: 26 Dec, 2020 @ 3:47pm

Early Access Review
TL;DR it's an 8.5/10 and it has the potential to not only become 10/10 but the mother and flagship of its sub-genre much like Dead by Daylight

PROS:
-It's Ghost Hunting: The Game and very fun to play with friends without Discord
-Wide variety of ghost patterns, temperaments, bugs and quirks
-Whether intentional or not, collecting evidence often involves some lateral thinking and its satisfying when you identify entities that're being particularly uncooperative
-If you play in VR you can hold 4 items instead of the usual 3 and you gain a spectral hula hoop of power
CONS:
-Extremely slow movement speed means excursions take a lot longer than they really need to and big maps are slow and a bit monotonous to play.
-If your teammates are uncooperative, mute/deaf-mute, incompetent or literal children your chances of fun and success are compounded so it's best to play with friends.
-Sometimes ghosts simply will not give you evidence in a timely manner, or at all; sometimes they won't cooperate in giving you optional objectives (Dirty Water is the most egregious example).

You hunt ghosts and doom them to an imminent exorcism/banishment/ashtray binding the next night with the evidence you gather. The scariest part about the whole thing is that you never know just how aggressive, sadistic, shy or buggy the ghost will be until you're in there alone with it.

You can also secure items from the house for spiritual decontamination later including beer, laptops, human bones and Fabian.

When everything's working, the game can be hair-raising and intense. In my experience a combination of sketchy teammates, bugs and reluctant or elusive ghost AI keeps it from being like that ALL the time. But if your team communicates well and has an abundance of patience it is very fun regardless.

The biggest problem with the game is that you're so damn SLOW and some of the maps are HUGE. Ostensibly it's there to accomodate VR players so that they aren't left behind or forced to develop motion sickness but it's really obnoxious and a time waster. If one were to up the movement speed of the player (and the ghost) I think this game would be a 10/10.

If the concept of "Ghost Hunting: The Video Game" is something you're enamored with, this game is for you. If not, you'll have to make your own fun with your teammates, which isn't hard to do at all.
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