In 1947, hard-boiled private eye Ben O'Hara is searching for a missing girl in an abandoned hotel. Investigate room by room, piece together clues, and give the living dead lead poisoning in this noir horror. Can you push through your fear and discover what became of her?
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Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Aug 16 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Explore an abandoned hotel and search for clues while trying not to succumb to your fears in this ode to 90’s survival horror games. You will solve puzzles, face off against supernatural entities, and use limited resources to maintain your sanity so you can explore deeper in The Pines Hotel and find out what really happened to Emi Kosuke.
Features:
-Cinematic Survival Horror gameplay
-Possibly the scariest and most disturbing game ever created
-Heart-rending Detective Noir Story, guaranteed to traumatize you
-Eerie Original Soundtrack written and performed by the solo developer
-Perma-death (for the protagonist and possibly you, too)
-Loosens your grip on reality and also your bowels
-Tutorials and menus intentionally deceive you
-May summon the recently deceased into your gaming room
Genres
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, GOG, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 68reviews | 82% | — | $17.4K |
| $15.99−20% | 28ratings | 74% | — | not modelled | |
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 41 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I bought this when it was on sale for 20 bucks. And for that price, it's perfect. I beat it 2 times within 5 hours. At times, it feels like it was created with a speed runner in mind. My opinions towards the game is a bit mixed, it's clear that it's a well made passion project. Ghost at Dawn follows PI Ben O'Hara, a WWII vet who has some strong PTSD and experienced racism (he is Irish Japanese), who has been contracted to find Yuhiko's sister, Emi. She was supposed to be a guest at Pines Hotel, but the entire place is boarded up. But it's just a simple hotel, right? Nope. It's haunted. Super haunted. And it'll take a ton of bullets to take them down. GAD (not to be confused with the acronym for Generalized Anxiety Disorder which I bet the developer was aware of when making the game) channels those old PS1 horror games rather well. The option for digital and analog control is there and greatly appreciated. Ben faces items of interest, so it's easy to find things most of the time. The puzzles are pretty basic as it's go to point A, find the item to go to point B and find the solution for point C. They don't really get more involved than that. And that's the same about the story: it's dark and fun. But it isn't the scariest game I've played. It's very direct and clear. Good horror takes its time to unfold and to settle into the imagination. Furthermore, one touch of the ghost and a life is lost (Ben gets 5 chances to solve the case), no matter how much health he has left. The instant kill drives me crazy and not in a good way. There's also these sanity elements, but I really didn't see the game play with it that much. I would have loved to have seen a lot more randomized moments. The 2 that I saw were memorable. The atmosphere is the selling point of the game. It's amazing! It sets the tone for the game. The ghost designs are great. The cel-shaded style shows off Ben's eyes in the dark. And it's creepy. And then there's text after beating bosses that gives it even more style. The one thing I really wish there was more of was the flavor text. There's a hidden character in the game and they share the same descriptions of things. The fonts are different, the texts are the same. It doesn't a good job of differentiating the characters. Audio is rather solid. It doesn't stand out much. However, the voice acting is really solid. It was a pleasant surprise to hear it. As previously stated, GAD is a solid choice especially if you can find it on sale. It has a clear vision and sticks to it that few indie games have. I can easily see why it was a player's choice for horror awards and 1 of the reasons why the reboot of Alone in the Dark got pushed back. I'm super excited about the sequel and I hope the rough parts get smoothed out and polished so it shines.
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese*languages with full audio support
| $15.99−20% |
| 13ratings |
| 90% |
| — |
| not modelled |
| $15.99−20% | 9ratings | 80% | — | not modelled |
| $14.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
I pet the cat on my last candle ♥
Моя страница куратора "Достойные или нет херроры" - https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43715729/ Годный ужастик, которой смешал в себе старый Survival хоррор и элементы современных ужастиков. Аниме стилистика не режет глаз, в игре интересные механики вроде многочисленных концовок и пермасмерти, но проект не стоит таких денег. Ждите скидок.
Видео-обзор - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H09-bmN0oFo Геймплей – 4. Хороший, достаточно крепко скроенный survival horror. Обладает интересно выстроенным балансом сложности, создающимся благодаря высокой цене ошибки. Нарратив – 4. Умело написанная история, затрагивающая тематику, что крайне редко встречается в видеоиграх, отлично переплетая социальную проблематику с мистицизмом. Визуал – 3 (4). Крайне специфическая «3D-аниме» рисовка, которая вряд ли придётся большинству по душе (мне, впрочем, она зашла) . Итого: 7,5 (8) баллов. Крайне незаслуженно обделённый вниманием инди-хоррор, чьими главным недостатками являются высокий порог вхождения и такая же высокая цена.
Why the hell is this game not more popular? It's a legit 10 to me.
Jogo muito bom com uma temática ultra pesada, algumas partes achei forçar muito a barra como umas imagens que aparecem, mas é um baita jogo de sobrevivência de terror e administração dos seus próprios recursos. Também acredito que deva melhorar o fato de você não escolher para onde o personagem atira.
Honestly, I enjoyed this game more than I initially thought I would! It definitely sparked my interest in this type of horror genre! The music, the setting and the story are really well executed! Paired with the interesting choice in art style has made this game stand out! There's even multiple endings depending on how much you've discovered as the detective! It really makes it worth replaying and using your previous knowledge to get the best ending! The story might be a little intense for some as it deals with traumatic experiences but I think it was well done and does a good job of tackling it with out crossing the line but that's subjective so others may have a different opinion. The horror aspect isn't too crazy, whilst there were a couple spooky moments the game was more eerie than scary HOWEVER I won't pretend, it did get me a few times! I'm definitely looking forward to being psychologically scarred in the next installment! P.S My playtime is wrong I actually have about 4hrs idk why it says 67mins
the limited life bs killed the game for me. Not fun when there's a ghost literally infront of you when you leave a room which INSTANT kills you. Couldn't even disable the permadeath feature since it auto toggles back on when i try to disable it. The enemies also appears to respawn as well...
La verdad es que el juego es demasiado bueno, lo único que considero no lo suficientemente atractivo, es su apartado visual pero la historia, jugabilidad y la música son más que excelentes. Altamente recomendado. Hola Fran.
Thanks for your update - you completely broke the game. Great Job
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Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
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