Ghostlore: In this made-in-Singapore video game, you get to fight hungry ghosts and pontianaks
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- 30 Sep 2022
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Made-in-Singapore video games aren’t unheard of. We have indie darlings like The Gentle Bros and BattleBrew Productions giving us mobile hits like Cat Quest and Battlesky Brigade Tap Tap, as well as big studios such as Ubisoft and Koei Tecmo that have opened offices on our shores.
But an inspired-by-Singapore game that lets your hero fight pontianaks and hungry ghosts while fuelling up on satay and chicken rice? Now that’s a rarer gem.
Ghostlore is an upcoming action-roleplaying game by two-man team Andrew Teo and Adam Teo that draws inspiration from Chinese, Malay and Indonesian folklore, prompting the duo to dub the game’s genre as “Eastpunk”, a Southeast Asian spin on the steampunk genre of science fiction.
It is currently out on digital game distribution platform Steam under “Early Access”, which means the game is playable but still under development. Despite its unfinished state, Ghostlore has sold more than 5,000 copies since its beta launch in April, and was in Steam’s Top Sellers list in Singapore in the first week of its release. Read More…
