ENTER FORDE - a city in the center of the plains. A grim prophecy hangs over its head, and the whole place sits on the brink of disaster.

EXPLORE THE WORLD - immerse yourself in the haunted environment. Forde is built on secrets, and its citizens live in shadows.

SOLVE THE MYSTERY - a terrible fire has spread from a run-down house. It’s your job to learn how it started. Talk to people. Find out what they know.

Developer: Either//Or Collective
Based in Vancouver, BC
Genre: Adventure RPG; Point and Click; Narrative-focusedPlatform: Windows, MacOS


Give up the Ghost is a point-and-click roleplaying game set in a strange and tortured city. Play as the Overseer, a one-eyed wanderer tasked to solve the mystery of a deadly fire.


Taking inspiration from legendary games like Disco Elysium and Planescape: Torment, Give up the Ghost is a story-based roleplaying adventure. Explore the dark streets of the city Forde, talk to the locals who live there, search for answers, and unveil a terrible secret. Confront the city’s past -- and through the choices you make in conversation -- you’ll determine the course of its future.


Give up the Ghost was born from a collective passion for roleplaying games and a dedication to creating art. The four of us met in university, brought together from disparate countries under a shared love of craft, and an awareness of the precarity from which good art originates. We’ve grown this story from the ground up. What began as a project in first-year became the central focus of our degree -- and has since become a fully-fledged RPG.Perhaps we’ve yet to be jaded by the cruelty of industry, but every day spent working on Give up the Ghost has been a labor of love. We can’t wait to share what we’ve made, and give back to good art what has been given to us.


Either//Or Collective is an indie studio dedicated to hand-drawn narrative games.

ELIJAH BISCOE
Lead Writer & Narrative Designer
American artist and writer with a lifelong obsession with collecting information. His interests include history, literature and good music.
@0culusmundi

MINH-ANH HOÀNG
Lead Artist & Programmer
Illustrator from Hà Nội, Việt Nam. She likes cluttered spaces, burned toasts, and the sound of heavily distorted guitars.
@spookthirsty

JAMES-LACHLAN McCALLUM
Programmer
Game dev, photographer, and filmmaker from the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland. He loves apple juice, suits of armour, PSX graphics, and the morning haar.
@cruddish

WILL COHN
Sound Designer
Musician, filmmaker, and sound designer from Boulder, Colorado. Lover of silent films, long train rides, and of course, fantasy role-playing games.

MICK LYNCH
Composer
Freelance composer and songwriter based in Minneapolis. Mick loves classic gothic literature, weird instruments, and corvids.
micklynchmusic.com