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0 All is not as it seems in Ghost Frequency by PIT GAMES. Become a member of a paranormal investigation team and see if you can find out what really happened to you friends. We got our hands on it here at TC to see whether it was worthy of being added to your steam library. Is this game more Phasmophobia or Mystery Machine Inc? Read more to find out!
Scary voices, luminescent goop and a strange figure that follows you around? Sounds like a bargain to me!
You can grab a free demo or the full game on Steam for £4.29.
Gameplay
Ghost Frequency is a first person horror game that puts you in the shoes of Mark, a Paranormal Investigator. After a short cutscene which explains that your two friends have disappeared, you start in a house with eerie, sinister vibes. Your eye-in-the-sky Emily leads you through the story by giving you instructions from the van outside. Survey the floors, search for EMF frequencies and place the cameras where you find the spikes. It’s a pretty standard ghost hunting experience all in all. Until you find the journal entries, and start to hear EVPs on your phone where you hear the voices of your lost friends.
As you reach the second floor and set up your second set of cameras, Emily warns you of something odd. A strange figure starts appearing, hopping in and out of your vision as you turn corners… almost like it’s leading you somewhere.
Gameplay is short, with the main story actually only taking between 30-60 minutes. Tension builds quickly and the eerie house soon becomes a place of nightmare as you desperately search for your friends. I enjoyed the premise of the story but the execution honestly wasn’t the best and, without giving spoilers, the ending annoyed me more than it made me feel like I’d achieved something. Ghost Frequency suffers from a wonderful premise but not enough time for exposition. This game could have been a couple of hours long with multiple haunted locations and a definitive ending. If it had that, then it would have made it one of my favourite ghost hunting games.
Graphics & Audio
The graphics and audio are where this game excels. From the moment you have control of Mark, unease builds and it just feels like there is something wrong. The house creaks, lightbulbs smash and chairs move around as you explore the two story home. The entire game plays from the POV of a camera screen with grainy quality adding another layer of depth. The audio mainly consists of ambiance and background noise which builds into the tension. All in all, I couldn’t name the quality of Ghost Frequency anything less than amazing!
Longevity
The actual play time of Ghost Frequency depends on how good you are in the last puzzle. It took me just over 30 minutes to get to the end credits. I think that might be because I really lucked out. There isn’t a lot of replayability once you reach the end credits either. That isn’t to its detriment. Ghost Frequency is a good one play through game and provides players with enough intrigue to fill its short play time. I just wish it was a little bit longer and had a bit more to it.
Final Thoughts
Ghost Frequency has left me feeling a bit conflicted in all honestly. I love the concept and the build up to the end of the game. I thought the atmosphere was amazing and the audio only enhances an already spooky experience. This game was set up to give so much more and if it went from case to case it would have definitely received a higher rating. By all means, Ghost Frequency is still a good game to pick up however it falls short on fully establishing itself as a ghost hunting contender in an already saturated genre. You also can’t beat the amount of game that you get when the price point is so low and affordable.
Ghost Frequency gets the Thumb Culture Silver Award from me, and I look forward to seeing what the developers bring out next!
Disclaimer: A code was received in order to write this review.
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