Ghost Master is haunting management strategy game which combines game-play elements from traditional sims, strategy, and resource management games and places them in an atmospheric setting inspired by classic horror movies. You play the role of a new "Ghost Master", an afterlife civil servant, assigned the task of uncovering the mystery of Gravenville. You're sent to the mortal realm with an initially small team of ghosts and spooks that you can augment by laying local ghosts to rest. To discover what's going on in Gravenville you'll have to manipulate and scare the mortals with your team of "haunters" while keeping an eye on your resources and watching out for any dangers or enemies along the way. You will have to harness psychic energy, known as plasm to generate all manner of ghostly and psychic phenomena - literally scaring all the people away. In other words, you gain plasm by scaring people, so the more scared they are, the more plasm you have and the more you can scare them further! You must also make use of the history of the location you are assigned to haunt and gradually build up enough plasm to summon ghosts and spirits from the Spirit World. These spirits help you build up the Fear Factor, and eventually drive away the mortals and achieve victory. Once you start scaring, you can watch as the humans react - you can actually go into the point of view of the ghosts and the humans. At first the gameplay seems very simple (especially the first two levels), but the more you play the game the more deep and involving the game becomes.

Ghost Master features 14 levels in various locations (from sorority and fraternity houses, through a police station, farm, ship and train to a gothic mansion, hospital and army base), over 47 unique ghosts (including spooks, banshees, gremlins, spectres, phantoms, poltergeist, shadows, wraiths, wights, elementals and headless horsemen) and over 100 unique mortals, over 130 powers for you spirits to haunt with.

Ghost Master is a game for pretty much everybody. The style, humour and variety make it ideal for a more casual audience. If you are a fan of resource management games, or just looking for something original and different, get it. Download playable demo (143M)

System requirements:
Minimum: Pentium II 450, 128MB RAM, 3D graphics card: ATI Radeon / nVIDIA GeForce / TNT2, 750 HDD space Recommended: Pentium IV 1,5GHz, 256MB RAM, 3D graphics card: ATI Radeon 7500/NVIDIA GeForce2