Ghost Castle

Ghost Castle

tinybugbot · February 23, 2022 · Action, FPS, Procedural Generation, First-Person, Shooter

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About Ghost Castle

✦ AI summary

Ghost Castle is a first-person shooter where you battle through an automatically generated dungeon filled with Japanese folklore creatures to defeat the ghost boss Yamatanoorochi at the top. Arm yourself with shurikens, bombs, and magical abilities like fire and freeze while upgrading your ninja skills between encounters at a merchant's shop.

Defeat the ghosts who live in the castle!

Make full use of the ninja weapons and skills to aim for the top floor where the ghost boss Yamatanoorochi is!

Along the way, various ghosts such as kappa, toads, and umbrellas will attack you.
Weapons such as shurikens, bombs and swords, and skills such as fire and freeze will surely help.

Keep the peace of the village!

Genre


First-person shooter.

Control


Move with the WASD key, attack with the mouse click, and heal with the H key.
Pause with the ESC key. You can check other controls on the control page of the pause screen.

Stage


This is an automatically generated dungeon. The higher you go, the stronger the ghosts.

Shop


There is another ninja in the dungeon. She sells weapons and scrolls, so if you see her, talk to her.

Upgrade


You can get points by defeating ghosts. You can pick up points with the E key.
Collect points to acquire abilities on the upgrade page of the pause screen.
Equip with a mask, you can control which of strength, technique, and mentality points you focus on.

Difficulty


You can choose from 5 levels. You can change it even in the middle of the game.

Save


It automatically saves when you open the door. You can also turn off auto-save in the settings screen.
You can save at any time from the pause screen. (Other than boss battle)

Localization


Not fully localized. The subtitles that appear when you hover over the menu have been translated.

Ghost Castle — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Ghost Castle is a free retro-style FPS roguelite with ASCII-inspired UI and a Japanese yokai theme that players praise for its fun gameplay loop, neat aesthetic, and solid weapon/upgrade mechanics. Common criticisms include repetitive procedurally-generated levels, concerns about asset store graphics that feel impersonal, and a lack of substantial content depth. Several players consider it worth purchasing despite being free, though others feel the repetitive level design undermines what could otherwise be an engaging experience.

Recommended Mar 6, 2024
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Recommended May 15, 2025
Played on Linux using Proton Exp, Yet another Great FREE Game, Graphics are a neat style, Sound is okay, Gameplay is FPS mixed old school RPG type Game, Even has the Old Ascii style Map up in the left hand corner, You pick up to 2 weapons at the start of the Game and are used with either Left or Right Mouse Buttons, Kill Ghost, Find Money (Open Pots), and somewhere on the map you will find a lady to buy Weapons and Scrolls, You can also Upgrade from the Pause Menu, All in all this a good and fun Game and i totally Recommend it.
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Not recommended Apr 28, 2025
"Ghost Castle" is, wow, if Daikatana was made today.... this is it. So you're a ninja, very cool, very hip, very popular in the late 80's early 90's, and you go through a bunch of samey repetitive procgen levels. And I believe that's the problem. The graphics look okay (probably flipped, which would be a problem), but we all love FPS games when done properly, and this wasn't. Where's the content? There is none. The game graphics look better than you might expect, but that's just because it looks like some or all of them are "borrowed" from asset stores or wherever. Gamers can tell... and it comes across as insincere. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too. But, like I said, the key problem is the developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use procgen algorithms to create infinite, samey, repetitive, soulless levels, because that's a lot less work.`n`nA…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 29, 2023
[h1]Before I played Ghost Castle, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 22, 2025
A great little roguelite in the world of Japanese yokai, would be worth paying money for!
Recommended Jan 28, 2024
Was a good moment to play it until the end 💪

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