Ghosts in video games have been around for an extremely long time which can be shown by Pac-Man’s primary enemy. The ghost is used in many renditions with it mainly working as an enemy that the player must go up against, but this is not always the case as some games have players becoming a ghost themselves.
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The games presented in this list will be those that are some of the most entertaining in whatever genre they choose to present ghosts in. The ghosts in all of these games are absolutely integral to the story though they are not all integral for the same purposes.
10Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly
Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterflyis one of the scariest horror games that players can get their hands on. This is because of the way that the game continuously throws newghost typesat the player. The way players attack by taking pictures of the ghosts also forces players to have to directly face their fears to take out the threat.
Fatal Frame 2 additionally has audio so haunting that it will make players feel like they are sensing paranormal experiences in their homes.
9F. E. A. R.
F.E.A.R. was primarily marketed as a horror game and while there are a lot of horror elements to the game, it serves as more of a first-person shooter than anything else. The game focuses on a scary little ghost girl as the main antagonist of the game. The player will have many experiences where it looks like there is a jump scare only for nothing to happen.
F.E.A.R. has a lot of false setups in how it scares players. This helps because players will never really know when the game is going to try to scare them and when it is messing with them. Well, it helps if the player enjoys the added suspense.
8The Dark Picture Series: Man Of Medan
Man of Medanis part of The Dark Pictures Series which is a series of horror games made by the people who made Until Dawn. What separates this game from other titles in the series is that this one heavily deals with a haunted World War II ship. The ghosts in the game feature a man with a ripped face and a nurse who continuously gets older as she chases the player.
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It’s a short game that most horror fans are sure to enjoy as there is a lot to unpack in its short story and taking on different paths, especially with a friend makes it feel a lot more personal and cinematic.
7Phasmophobia
Phasmophobiatakes the ghost-hunting experience and somehow makes it feel like something that could be a profession in real life. It does this by having the core gameplay composed of ghost hunters that must figure out what type of ghost is hauntingthe creepy levelthey decided to take on.
There are many types of ghosts and the longer the players take to find out what type of ghost it is the more aggressive it will become. Phasmophobia will have players feeling fearful as they play with friends and watch them get possessed and killed in front of them or encounter the ghost for themselves.
6Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Ghostbusters: The Video Gameis the real deal when it comes to a video game that seeks to recreate the feeling of an iconic movie. This game does that perfectly and brings the story to life as the project was directly taken on by some original Ghostbusters cast like Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray.
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The game makes players feel immersed in the Ghostbusters world by making the combat similar to how the movie plays out with the player using a proton pack to slam ghosts into traps. It also has a large amount of ghost variety and some genuinely creepy moments like the library chase seen where the ghost is running through dark hallways.
5Luigi’s Mansion Series
Leave it to Nintendo to create a game about hunting ghosts that creates a silly atmosphere instead of one full of debilitating horror. TheLuigi’s Mansiongames take place in different haunted locations with Luigi’s Mansion 3 actually taking place inside a haunted hotel instead of a haunted mansion.
The games never really present a ton of variety in the different ghost types, but the different rooms keep players searching for different ways to take out ghosts. The boss variety is also nicely done as they all have fun mechanics like the shark in Luigi’s Mansion 3 which also possesses a pirate ship.
Pacify has many game modes that accompany it but one of the main game modes that the game was marketed on was the player versus everyone mode which can be done either by someone playing alone or by someone playing with teammates. In this game mode, players will have to find a way to pacify the evil of the little ghost girl.
The game has it so that as more events occur the ghost girl roaming the house will switch between good and evil. The levels are comprised of large houses with tight maze-like corridors that will get the players lost and trapped in the clutches of the evil that lies in the house.
3Alan Wake
Alan Wakeis a game that shrouds itself in deep mystery. It also shrouds itself in a dense population of killable ghosts. The ghosts are ghastly specters like others on this list, but they do add some cool story depth and mechanics when it comes to killing them. All the ghosts in the game can be killed with the use of a flashlight and gun.
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The game feels like a mix between the studio that created its older game title Max Payne and a survival horror adventure game like Resident Evil 4.
Oxenfreeis a supernatural game that takes choice seriously. The characters are constantly communicating with one another and the player will have to choose different dialogue options that are bound to create some rifts in the different relationships that the main character, Alex, has with the other characters in the game like her new stepbrother, Jonas.
The game takes a human approach to tragedy as it is a game that is as much about ghosts as it is about the pain that comes with dying.
1The Medium
The Mediumtakes a split screen and turns it into an otherworldly single-player experience. The split screen in this game isn’t used for competitive multiplayer but rather used to show the player in both the normal world and the spirit realm. The spirit realm will usually contain some spiritual threat that the player will face or something to uncover.
The main antagonistic spirit, The Maw, that follows the protagonist, Marianne, through different parts of the direction of the game is chilling as players get to see it evolve from a threat in the spiritual realm to one that is able to also come into Marianne’s real life.
