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, BCGenre: 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 & Designer
ELIJAH BISCOE is an 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.
@ScottishOddish
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.