There Are No Ghosts at the Grand: Renovate by Day, Hunt Ghosts by Night

Revealed on the Xbox Video games Showcase, There Are No Ghosts on the Grand is a surreal, first-person, narrative-driven thriller. It’s part-renovation sport, part-ghost story, part-musical. See the trailer under, and skim on for a full breakdown of our distinctive new sport:

You play as a younger American man, Chris David, who unexpectedly inherits The Grand, a dilapidated British seaside resort alongside the English east coast.

Gamers will assist Chris renovate and restore the outdated resort utilizing a set of speaking energy instruments. However be warned… beneath the veneer of paper and paint you apply in the course of the day, one thing horrible shivers and slithers within the night time.

30 Days and 30 Nights to Full the Renovations

To renovate the resort, gamers may have entry to exaggerated energy instruments such because the sand blaster, paint sprayer, furnishings cannon, and the daisy chain gun, to blast the resort again to its former glory. This isn’t a simulation although, gamers don’t should be actual. Adorning and renovating is quick, fluid and enjoyable. You don’t should get each spot – simply sufficient is shut sufficient.

However with solely 30 days and 30 nights to finish the job, select every room fastidiously – as a result of when the time runs out one thing will come for you.

Fortunately, gamers will not be alone. Meet your AI DIY assistant, Robert C MacBrushy. He’s a cross between Star Trek’s Scotty and Microsoft’s Clippy. He’s additionally an skilled in all issues DIY – and the supernatural, however we’ll come again to that.

With MacBrushy’s assist, gamers will smash out outdated home windows, blast damaged furnishings, splash paint and paper throughout partitions, and shoot furnishings cleaner throughout the room, like some loopy cross between Mary Poppins and Marcus Fenix. However typically, you’ll have to decelerate and assume, as you’ll additionally come throughout environmental puzzles that can want a little bit lateral considering, and a few hidden clues to unravel.

Progress is made by way of the sport by finishing rooms and revealing their secrets and techniques, however you possibly can solely beautify by day. At night time, you may have different issues to cope with.

Decorator by Day, Ghost Hunter by Night time

In There are No Ghosts on the Grand, the principle character, Chris, has a secret. Though he inherited the resort, he’s not simply right here to renovate… not likely.

At night time, as soon as the adorning is finished for the day, he searches for one thing. Clues hidden behind partitions, outdated blueprints revealing hidden areas, unusual doorways resulting in unusual locations. Gamers will assist him while additionally attempting to determine what’s actually occurring. There’s one thing disagreeable lurking within the resort, one thing historical that leaves multi-legged footprints throughout freshly painted partitions. Scuttling will be heard in these partitions, furnishings strikes by itself. At night time, the resort isn’t secure.

However don’t fear, Robert C. MacBrushy is right here to assist with this too. At night time, when the world adjustments, so do your energy instruments, and so they have hidden modes which have particular results on sure supernatural denizens. Unleash the vacuum on vengeful spirits. Expose invisible assailants with the paint sprayer. Take out an disagreeable spook with a properly aimed bookcase to the face with the furnishings cannon. If you happen to discover ways to use your instruments, you possibly can survive the night time.

Quirky Characters and a Sarcastic, Australian Cat

At its coronary heart, There Are No Ghosts on the Grand is a narrative about individuals and the bags they go away behind. You’re by no means alone as you discover the resort and the encompassing city, and also you’ll meet every of our sport’s quirky characters as you delve deeper into the resort.

Every character is a custodian of a specific room you could unlock: from Colin, the aged caretaker within the lounge, to his daughter Lily within the backyard. You’ll meet the city mayor, Maddie within the boathouse, and Adam the police officer within the cinema room, watching re-runs of outdated buddy cop movies.

Presiding over all of them is Mr Bones, the resort’s cat, and maybe its most mysterious resident. Just like the resort itself, he’s a creature of duality. By day, he’s an peculiar cat who follows you round and likes stomach rubs. By night time, he’s a sarcastic and mercurial character who waxes lyrical (in a deep Australian accent) concerning the resort’s many secrets and techniques and hidden locations. However is he a buddy or foe?

Every character has their very own story, questline, and agenda, which you’ll be able to assist or hinder as you play.  In addition they every have their very own music as a result of There Are No Ghosts on the Grand is additionally a musical.

A Musical Ghost Story

There Are No Ghosts on the Grand is a musical, however not within the conventional musical theatre sense. Consider it extra like a cool, dusty album of British ska and punk songs from the Nineteen Eighties that you just would possibly discover in your dad’s report assortment.

These are songs with angle, chew, and hummable hooks. Every character will introduce themselves by way of music, the model of which is exclusive to them, from spooky ska to wartime jazz, and even skater punk.

You’ll have the ability to duet with them and make dialogue selections in verse to discover their story additional. The songs are full gameplay sequences involving participant motion and selections, while the lyrics and furnishings go flying.

Exploring Kingswood-on-Sea

Gamers gained’t be spending all their time within the Grand Lodge. Proper exterior the door lies the village of Kingswood-on-Sea, a crumbling, spooky, seaside city, stuffed with secrets and techniques and aspect actions.

This small open world lets gamers go away the resort at any time, even at night time, to discover its deserted retailers, winding streets and hidden mysteries. You’ll be able to restore an deserted minigolf course and play a spherical or two, comb the seaside with a half-working steel detector, or discover retailers to renovate and restore, every with distinctive rewards.

The streets of Kingswood-on-Sea are stuffed with unusual little secrets and techniques, and so they reward curiosity. Discover a rusty outdated scooter you could restore and experience by way of the village, uncover an outdated fishing boat that gamers can repair up and take out into the shallow coastal waters, or discover the hidden coves and sunken bays. It even has a winch to dredge for misplaced treasures, if yow will discover the areas hinted at in clues discovered within the resort.

Simply… be again earlier than dusk. Underneath the inky blackness of the frozen North Sea, one thing stirs within the depth, and it slithers onto the land at night time.

Summing It All Up

There Are No Ghosts on the Grand is a sport about restoration and spoil. About unusual townsfolk and suspicious upholstery. About music, reminiscence, ghosts, and the awkward legacy of inherited property. It’s a spooky, humorous, barely tragic thriller, wrapped in ska riffs, speaking instruments, and night-time terrors.

You’ll renovate. You’ll examine. You’ll duet. It’s a musical the place you possibly can skip the songs, a comedy with a darkish secret, and a sport that lies to you continually, with a narrator you shouldn’t fairly belief. If you happen to’re very fortunate, or very unfortunate, you would possibly simply uncover the reality concerning the Grand Lodge. Assuming the Grand doesn’t uncover one thing about you first.

There Are No Ghosts on the Grand is a ghost story the place the ghosts may be reminiscences, or lies, or one thing crawling up the seaside within the moonlight. The Grand Lodge is ready, and is coming to Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox PC, and Sport Cross in 2026. Simply… don’t belief the upholstery.