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Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed

An all-ages take on its brand of four-versus-one asymmetric multiplayer games, where you play as your own original Ghostbusters team — or take on the role of a ghost hellbent on wreaking haunted havoc.

61 18 October 2022

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed is an adventure developed by Illfonic, released 18 October 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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What Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed is

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed is an adventure game developed by Illfonic and released in 2022. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

An all-ages take on its brand of four-versus-one asymmetric multiplayer games, where you play as your own original Ghostbusters team — or take on the role of a ghost hellbent on wreaking haunted havoc.
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How it plays

Its themes are action and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Ghostbusters series

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed is the 31st of 33 entries we hold in the Ghostbusters series. It arrived 3 years after Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered. The next entry was Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed - Ecto Edition in 2023. Its critic score of 61 is 12 points above the series average of 49. The highest-rated entry is Ghostbusters at 80.

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How it was received

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed holds a critic score of 61 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 13 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed launched on 18 October 2022, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord and Bayonetta 3. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Bayonetta 3.

Cheats and codes

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When did Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed come out?
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed was released on 18 October 2022 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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