When did Geist come out?

Geist was released on 15 August 2005 for Nintendo GameCube.

Geist (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Geist

Take Possession! When a mission goes horribly wrong, you are captured and subjected to a ghastly experiment that rips your spirit from your physical body. Now you are trapped, forced to roam the halls of the…

60 15 August 2005

What Geist is

Geist is an adventure game developed by n-Space and released in 2005. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Take Possession! When a mission goes horribly wrong, you are captured and subjected to a ghastly experiment that rips your spirit from your physical body. Now you are trapped, forced to roam the halls of the shadowy Volks Corporation as a spectral phantom. As you explore, employ you hair-raising power of possession to control humans, animals and objects to infiltrate the compound, solve puzzles, and strike at your enemies. Only by unearthing the dark secrets of the Volks Corporation will you unravel the mystery of your condition and find a way to recover your human form.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, educational, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Geist holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Geist launched on 15 August 2005, within three weeks of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II and Fatal Frame III: The Tormented. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented.

Official trailer