Ghoast
A puzzle platformer where dying isn't the end, it's an opportunity. Use your ghoast to affect the level in ways your corporeal form can't. When you are returned to your body, you can progress through the game.
Be careful though - run out of lives, and your death will be permanent!
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⚠️We recommend downloading the game for the best experience, the browser version can be a bit laggy in some situations ⚠️
Hints and Tips
- Alive Controls: A moves left, D moves right, Space jumps.
- Ghost Controls: W moves up, A moves left, S moves down, D moves right
- E to interact
- R to reset to your last checkpoint if you get stuck (only while Alive)
- ❤️Discovering new checkpoints replenishes your lives
- 🔄If you don't have anything to do as a ghost, return to your latest checkpoint to respawn
- Collect the 🗝️Keys and the 🟡Orbs and find your way to the 🪙Treasure!
🖥️ Play Fullscreen for best experience!
⚠️This game was made in 4 days for a game jam, it may have bugs, and puzzles may not be fully completable if you run out of lives. We've done as much playtesting as we can between the 4 of us, but there will always be issues!
Made for Jamsepticeye 2025 ("Death is an Opportunity") by a small team of friends. Proudly Human Made - no AI.
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Development log
- Bug fix and camera tweak46 days ago
- Ghoast Postmortem48 days ago
- Bug Fixes49 days ago
- Published!52 days ago
Comments
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spikes on the ground need to stand out more. I died constantly from walking into them cause i can never see them, they just look like part of the background.
Thanks for the feedback! Sorry about the lack of distinction between the spikes and background. As this was just a game jam entry we’re likely not going to be updating anything, but we’ll definitely keep it in mind for future projects :)
Very cute and fun!
Thank you, we're glad you enjoyed it!
Accidentally softlocked myself lol, I got stuck when I tried to push the block to the vine after I had pushed the block the wrong way on accident.
oh no! We tried to fix this bug so many times, I didn’t realise it made its way into the build. If you happen to still be playing, you can press R and send yourself back to the last checkpoint!
Oh I didn’t realize that I could press R, my bad. I’ll just quickly replay the game (I closed the game to leave a rating lol).
Love this game! The graphics and mechanics are genuinely fun. It reminds me of the environments in Hollow Knight.
It runs horribly on my computer though, which isn't a great computer to begin with but made it a hard game. (I'm playing the downloaded version, so its just my terrible computer </3)
Despite the horrendous lag, which I am accustomed too, like i said its a skill issue on my computers part, it's a charming game and honestly something I'd be genuinely excited to see expanded upon :D
Thank you! <3
Goodjob to you guysn , i enjoyed the puzzles and just genuinly had a great time playing :)
Thank you very much!
Loved the use of the concept man, also the art is lovely. goodjob to your team. Solid Puzzle platformer.
Hey, thank you so much - glad you enjoyed it!