Radio Ghosts is a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom. It was created for and playable on the original Nintendo Game Boy, but through super-spooky frequencies is brought to modern gaming machines.

Wishlist now on Steam, and play the demo at itch.io!

Press kit | Trailer | BlueSky

Features:

  • High-quality pixel graphics that only an original 160 x 144 resolution can provide
  • Genuine simulated four-way D-pad movement
  • Highly efficient single-button interaction using the Z key
  • (Seriously, though, the game also supports common controllers)
  • Four shades of green
  • Genuinely awesome original four-channel Game Boy soundtrack
  • All the snark from a fifteen-year-old girl that you can handle

Gameplay:

  • Meet interesting people and irritate them, including:
    • Your mom
    • A radio ghost
    • A vampire barista
    • A haughty wizardess
    • A touchy goblin
    • A cold and calculating cat
    • Paul
  • Top-down super-fun non-Euclidean cartographic action
  • Petty theft
  • Marine biology
  • Crushing reality

The experience:

  • 60-90 minutes of playtime
  • Controls: arrow keys + Z key to interact; Xbox and PS4 / PS5 controllers also supported; Steam Deck compatible
  • No, there’s no saving, stop asking
  • Costs about the same as a coffee, but won’t stain your teeth

Face the facts:

Radio Ghosts is the finest Game-Boy-compatible lost-in-the-woods moody-girl camping sim of this or any other decade. Buy today!

Credits:

Designer and developer: B.J. Best

Music: Joel Matthys

Graphics: 2bitcrook, Beachboogeyman, B.J. Best, Elvies, GibbonGL, Gumpy Function, Icko, MaterialFuture, Moshuo, PixelMech, The Pixel Nook, Reakain, Sondanielson, Timbo Johnson

Fonts: Codeman38, Joel J Games, Miffies, MxAshlynn, Santaigo Crespo

GB Studio and plugin: Chris Maltby, Pau Tomas

GBCBag2: Chris from EASTPIXEL

Publisher: Butlersnake Games