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We haven’t heard a ton about Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed currently, however the brand new slime-shooting, trap-laying multiplayer sport will likely be launched on October 18, 2022.

Pre-orders are opening up at retailers like Amazon — how a lot is it? $40 for the usual version on PS5 or Xbox Series X/S, and $70 for the collector’s. The sport will launch on the Epic Games Store for PC, and it’ll even be playable on PS4 and Xbox One.

In case you missed it, that is the newest uneven multiplayer title from IllFonic, the parents behind Friday the thirteenth: The Game and Predator: Hunting Grounds (which is again within the highlight, if just for a bit, because of the brand new curiosity-grabbing film Prey).

Expect extra data shortly

The builders may have extra to share throughout a stay play session on August 18 at 11:15 a.m. Pacific on the IllFonic Twitch channel. For now, right here’s an older video showcasing the Ectoplast ghost kind, together with the Pokey, Winky, Brainy, and Slimer variants.

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed is a solo or team-oriented sport relying on should you’re a ghost or a Ghostbuster, and like several of those types of video games, it will likely be finest performed with a gaggle of associates moderately than leaving your destiny to likelihood. That’s simply the way in which. Of course, it’s not at all times simple to rally everybody, and all however the very best uneven video games are inclined to have a brief shelf life. We’ll see how far the Ghostbusters identify can go in gaming in 2022.

I’ll say, this one’s bought a much more family-friendly vibe than, say, Dead by Daylight or The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which might be sufficient of a gap to succeed.

Other video games on this style might be so high-stakes. Something about possessing objects and haunting NPCs as a ghost appears much less… anxious. Although it’s unlikely to be the perfect solution to play, it’s good to know that IllFonic will supply an offline “solo experience.” In the longer term, when the Spirits Unleashed inhabitants inevitably dwindles, that’ll turn out to be useful.

Players have been burned earlier than, so I get any skepticism which may come up. Until we see extra, it’s protected to be guarded. October’s the proper month for the launch, at any fee.

Jordan Devore

Jordan is a founding member of Destructoid and poster of seemingly random footage. They are something however random.