Exercise your demons. Put your poltergeist through their paces and get your ghosts in gear. Scare up some fun in this haunting world inspired by classic horror films like "Hellraiser" or "Ghost Ship". You become the Ghost Master in a unique witch's brew of strategy, adventure and ghoulish sim. Your sole purpose is to frighten the mortals right out of town.
Ghost Master features:
14 unique scenarios - ghoulish mysteries with multiple solutions; over 40 spirit types to command - from horrible cenobites like phantoms to hordes of spiders; 11 environments - ghostly atmospheres based on films of classic; horrors such as "Blair Witch" or "Evil Dead" and up to 30 separate characters per level for extended gameplay options.
This game has been patched to the latest official version: 1.0.20.4
Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1 GHz Processor (1.4 GHz recommended), 512MB RAM (1 GB recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), Mouse, Keyboard.
This is a creative, interesting, fun, and potentially huge game that was overlooked due to shocking marketing and a few design decisions. This is strategy in the true sense of the word --- you play as the general giving orders to your ghostly troops. There is great variety of ghosts, a decent levelling mechanism, and a lot of fun to be had scaring mortals in the well designed... full review levels. The game can come across as easy, but collecting all the ghost in a level requires some problem solving, and getting the medals and bonus plasma (used for levelling up your ghosts) can be quite difficult. Fans of horror and ghost movies will appreciate the references and everyone should enjoy the irreverent sense of humour.
The following link is a blog by one of the game designers who gives an explanation of why the game did poorly. Makes for some interesting reading.
I got this game because the reviews are good here and on Amazon. But I was stunned at how utterly mundane the game is. I mean really boring!... full review
You basically send your ghosts to the various rooms to scare people out. And that's it. No skill, no danger, no surprise. Brainless. You point, click... the person gets afraid and leaves the house. And you do it again and again until they leave.
The presentation is nice, with good graphics and high quality sound production
But this isn't a game, there's just nothing to do!