I started playing Ghost on the Shore today and finished in twice in that time.
You play a young woman called Riley (voiced by Nola Klop) who, whilst trying to escape from her life, ends up on a group of islands, where a strange voice known as Josh (voiced by Phillip Sacramento) starts talking to her.
Whilst exploring the Island, Riley starts to piece together the long, sad history of the place, dating back to the early 1800s and as far as the late 1900s.
It's a walking simulator done in a painterly style… See More
which honestly could've been done better to give the game more of a distinct look that I feel it needed to do it justice. Especially since the older buildings didn't really scream of history from an architectural standpoint, but that could've been a side effect of the simplistic art style.
Visually it may have been lacking, but the story kept me going, and that's the most important part in a game like this.
Whilst the game is not long (about 4-5 hours at most) the voice acting is solid. Josh is very well done, almost as good as some of the best voice acting I've listened to recently (Deliver Us Mars and Chernobylite in particular) it was emotional enough to have me reaching for the hankies on more than one occasion.
Incidentally, Nola Klop was also very good as a side character in Deliver Us Mars...
Overall , Ghost on the Shore is a nice game and well worth a play, especially if you want something shorter than the ubiquitous open world adventures for a change.
Apart from the slightly generic graphics, the only other negative I could possibly give this game is an odd plot twist near the end that didn't make sense to me (hence my second playthrough, which did nothing to explain the issue).
It's on sale fairly often on Steam, so if you want a good cry (I find it very therapeutic) then do yourself a favour and add it to your game library.
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