Ghost in the Machine

Difficult but fun. Be prepared for old school frustration goodness.

Awesome game with great music highly recomended.

Made by fellow Tigers, man these cats know game design. Throwback to NES platformers, you can run and jump. RUN AND JUMP! To address the haters in this thread. Yea, the monochrome color scheme is 'iffy' and you might have problems if you are colorblind, but I did not feel like it detrated from the game. I thought the hitboxes were fine; reminiscent of playing Megaman and having to creep your toes over the ledge to the last pixel. The game starts ez enough - and ramps up slowly, increasing the challenge as each level adds new puzzles and obstacles for you to overcome, constantly thinking and adapting as the levels advance. I'm about an hour in, and maybe completed half the levels, but I'm also very bad at these kinds of games. They are difficult, but not impossible - and that's something I really enjoy!

A very nice platformer with accurate controls, fine music and levels which are easy and levels which are hard. A neat level editor provides everything to build your own great creations which can be friendly or insanely difficult.

Ghost in the Machine is a minimalist precision platformer. Your enjoyment of it will entirely depend on how interested you are in its “quirks”—almost all the negative reviews seem to blast it for things that very well could be selling points (minimalist gameplay, minimalist presentation, hyperactive chiptunes). However, the biggest point of contention is that the game seems to actively work against you: the monochromatic visuals are busy and make it hard to tell what’s going on all the time (admittedly, I think they look amazing and find the challenge of them fun), and, perhaps most significantly, the character sprite does not represent its hitbox. This second part is very strange for a platformer. I would liken Ghost in the Machine to a “bullet-hell” SHUMP: a game where you “feel” your hitbox rather than see it in a sea of messy, stylish visuals. If you enjoy this or not is entirely personal preference, but it’s clearly intentional, not “laziness” as some other r...

i thought this was a game that the steam scream icons Ghosts in the Machine was based on, i was wrong but still a fun game 8.5/10

This game is sadistic. Like, if that old "Super Mario Frustration" ROM hack and Dark Souls had a baby on the Virtual Boy, it would be this. The game was originally made for a contest in which the theme was "unforseen consequences," hence the recurring theme in the story and the tunnel vision. Controls are crisp, music is awesome, aesthetic is amazing, but only buy this game if you have a CRT that can withstand your fist. LCDs are out of the question, you'll break one on the third level. Do not use with a CRT that cannot withstand your fist; you will be horribly mamed by flying shards of glass. Anyway, ever get stuck on a level of a game like Donkey Kong Land and just have fits of rage after dying on the same level for months? This game summons the same amount of rage, but unlike DKL, it's not because of janky controls, confusing graphics, that horrible GameBoy screen, or a sadistic saving system. It's because each level requires a whole lot of trial, error, death, and inhuman precisio...

This game is immensely challenging throughout, the music is great, and the graphic style is pretty cool. Each stage is comprised of timed doors/locks, bear traps, treadmills, spikes, pistons, jumps, and climable walls. The creators play with these primitives to make some unexpected challenges. Sometimes the doors run horizontally and must be walked on to near the end before the door opens again dropping you into deadly spikes. Sometimes you must jump from climable wall to climable wall to platform to piston in a seemingly unbeatable gauntlet of spikes and bear traps. Each stage presents a unique challenge, requiring you to grow in skill before ever overcoming it. I highly recommend giving this game a shot if you like unique and exciting challenges.