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The Outbound Ghost
The Outbound Ghost is an adventure RPG about helping ghosts ascend to the afterlife. Battle the past using figments of your personality. Craft badges to earn abilities. Explore a town of troubled spooks and discover life can be tough, even when you're dead.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“I love this game. I know that it had its problems with the lawsuit, but those are over. This game is original. The story on great so far. I actually love the writing, the battles (on the hardest difficulty) require thought and inginuity. Dev, thank you for sticking with this…”
— a player, Steam review · 47 hrs played“My review plus some info about the sequel / "Reborn Edition." Oh yeah! Thank goodness they fixed all their legal problems and fixed this this game! I just played for almost 20 hours straight and LOVED it. I wish they could have gotten rid of all the old reviews about the older…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Scream Fest Is Live! Huge Discounts On Halloween-y Games!
Hi everyone! The Steam Scream Fest is live right now, and given that I've made tons of Halloween-related games, it only made sense to participate! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1714240/Soul_Stalk
New Outbound Universe Game OUT NOW! Discount for owners of The Outbound Ghost!
Hi everyone! We're hard at work with finalising the first The Outbound Ghost update post-lawsuit , and I'm happy to announce that it will be coming to Steam within the next 2 weeks ! The main reason I
The Outbound Ghost IS BACK!!! + Sequel Announcement (Free For Steam Owners)
Hi everyone! This is Conrad, the lead developer of The Outbound Ghost . Over the past 2 years, this page has been silent because we were in a lawsuit with the game's former publisher ( click here to s
An Update After 2 Years...
Hi everyone! This is Conrad, the lead developer of The Outbound Ghost. This page has been quite quiet, and if you've been following the game you'll know it's because it was the subject of a lawsuit. W
Roadmap Update - NEW LANGUAGES THIS MONTH, Remastered Music, And More!
Hi everyone! A while ago I shared the roadmap and today I'm excited to reveal a shuffling of a few of the items + announce that the update to V1.1 is going to be coming out very soon! We're in the fin
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | RPG · Party-Based RPG · Turn-Based Combat · Story Rich · Supernatural · Singleplayer · Choices Matter · Multiple Endings · Adventure · Exploration · Stylized · Mystery (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 31 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Storage: 4 GB available space