Immediately, through the Xbox Showcase, Friday Sundae and indie writer Null Video games introduced There Are No Ghosts In The Grand, a first-person cozy resort fixer-upper recreation with twists each musical and malevolent–as nicely as a cute little kitty named Mr. Bones The Bastard. No, we have no idea how he earned that title in the intervening time.
There Are No Ghosts In The Grand sends gamers to The Grand, a rundown resort in an japanese English village which has additionally seen higher days. The hero is Chris David, an American who has inherited the resort as a part of his father’s will, and he should restore it again to its unique grandeur inside 30 days and 30 nights.
Nonetheless, Chris can be there for an additional reason–he’s a mystical investigator, and hidden throughout the resort is a few type of evil presence, one that may maintain solutions to what occurs to his father. Throughout the day, he should restore the resort, however at night time, he’ll discover clues, remedy environmental puzzles, and piece the thriller collectively.
To revive The Grand and examine the otherworldly wonders inside, gamers will use seven totally different energy instruments with over-the-top powers–and the flexibility to speak due to the on-board digital assistant named Robert C. McBrushie. Instruments embody a gardening gun that may shoot crops into pots and take away weeds, a paint sprayer, and a “furnishings cannon.”
Gamers will meet a number of characters throughout his journey in The Grand, and each greets gamers with a twist: As a substitute of merely saying hiya, the character will introduce themselves by way of an unique music written by Friday Sundae’s in-house band, aptly named The Concierge. Nonetheless, the sport just isn’t a musical within the “conventional sense;” Friday Sundae describes the musical vibe as “a cool, dusty album of British ska and punk songs from the Eighties that you simply discover in your dad’s file assortment.”
There Are No Ghosts At The Grand is scheduled to launch for PC and Xbox Collection X|S in 2026.