Developer Friday Sundae has released a brand new trailer for their upcoming Lovecraftian renovation title There Are No Ghosts at the Grand. The trailer debuted during the ID@Xbox Indie Showcase, which reveals the game’s open-world restoration gameplay, the night-time supernatural investigations, and hidden ghost stories. The trailer also reveals the 30 in-game time limit that players have to restore the Grand Hotel, explore the surrounding village, and uncover the truth behind its increasingly strange history.
For those not in the know, There Are No Ghosts at the Grand has players take on the role of Chris David, an American who unexpectedly inherits a crumbling English seaside hotel. By day, Chris must renovate the Grand and help restore the surrounding village of Kingswood-on-Sea. By night, those same locations begin to reveal something stranger beneath the wallpaper, broken windows, and fading paint.
Oh, and you also wield talking power tools for your renovation tasks. Those same tools transform into weapons against the supernatural at night. You’ll use the vacuum on vengeful spirits, expose invisible assailants with the paint sprayer, or subdue spooks with a well-aimed bookcase to the face using the furniture cannon.
Featuring “Skeletons in the Closet”, an original song performed by Marcia Richards of The Skints (who voices the character Lily in the game), the trailer shows how players can roam beyond the hotel into a small open world, discovering broken-down shops and buildings in need of repair. These spaces can be renovated and decorated using the game’s renovation tools, which in turn unlocking ghost stories, hidden memories, and secrets contained within the buildings themselves.
The trailer also offers a new look at the game’s night-time investigations, where players use their talking power tools to search for clues, investigate eerie locations, and begin to unravel the supernatural mystery at the heart of the game.
As mentioned, players must choose how to spend their limited time during the game, balancing renovation, exploration, relationships, and investigation as the mystery tightens around the player, the Grand Hotel, and the townspeople who seem to know more than they are saying.
There Are No Ghosts at the Grand is set to release on Steam later this year. You can also delve into the game’s demo to get a head start on your renovating and ghost hunting.