As we speak, in the course of 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 sport with twists each musical and malevolent–as effectively as a cute little kitty named Mr. Bones The Bastard. No, we have no idea how he earned that title in the meanwhile.
There Are No Ghosts In The Grand sends gamers to The Grand, a rundown resort in an jap 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 authentic grandeur inside 30 days and 30 nights.
Nonetheless, Chris can also be there for one more reason–he’s a mystical investigator, and hidden inside the resort is a few form of evil presence, one that may maintain solutions to what occurs to his father. Throughout the day, he should restore the resort, however at evening, he’ll discover clues, resolve 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 because of the on-board digital assistant named Robert C. McBrushie. Instruments embrace 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 an alternative of merely saying whats up, the character will introduce themselves by way of an authentic music written by Friday Sundae’s in-house band, aptly named The Concierge. Nonetheless, the sport is just not 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 Nineteen 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.