Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered
Game
Game2023
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Ecto Edition
Developer IllFonic
This is an asymmetrical game of hide and seek. In true form to IllFonic’s past titles, this title is a 4v1 setup where players will either play as part of a team of new Ghostbusters or a singular Ghost. From the Steam store page
384 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 6, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
89
LovedLoved
155 positive · 19 negative
95% range 84–93%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 29 | 11 | 157 |
| Steam reviews | 155 | 19 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
814 of 900 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
89% recommend · 152 yes, 19 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 171 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (1,180 of 1,309 positive).
Players praise the game for capturing the Ghostbusters experience with fun asymmetrical multiplayer. [1][2][3] Some note issues with bugs, abandoned support, and poor AI. [4][5][6] The game is considered underrated and enjoyable with friends or solo. [7][8][9]
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- [5]
A good game, but plagued by bugs, and abandoned by the developer. Illfonic only makes half-baked games based on licensed properties, let them get popular for a few months, if that, then let them rot. Ironic, considering their games are all horror IPs turned async multiplayer
- [1]
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Ecto Edition turns the familiar supernatural comedy franchise into an accessible asymmetrical multiplayer experience built around hunting, haunting, teamwork, and controlled chaos. Developed by IllFonic and published by IllFonic Publishing, the game pits a team of four Ghostbusters against one player-controlled Ghost. The concept is immediately understandable, but the two sides play …
- [15]
Look, I didn’t expect this game to hook me. I thought it would be a quick nostalgia cash-in. Slap the Ghostbusters logo on a game, throw in some proton packs, and call it a day, right Wrong. Spirits Unleashed Ecto Edition is actually good. Gameplay: You’re either the hunter or the haunted. As a Ghostbuster, you’ll be sweeping through museums, prisons, and other very haunted real estate trying to track down some …
- [2]
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Review: Who Ya Gonna Call? (And Play As?) Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed successfully captures the chaotic fun and nostalgic charm of the beloved franchise, wrapping it all up in a highly engaging 4v1 asymmetrical multiplayer package. Developed by IllFonic, the team behind other titles in this genre, they've nailed the feeling of being a rookie Ghostbuster—or a mischievous ghoul bent …
- [16]
It's an asymmetrical horror game that captures what it is to be a Ghostbuster. As of writing (Early 2025) it still has people playing it. It's not the best Ghostbusters game. Nothing can beat "Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered" (2019), but it's currently the best Ghostbusters game you still play with friends. The devs put a lot of care into the game, with references and objects from the movies, cartoons and …
Summarised from 34 of the 285 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Ecto Edition sits at 89% positive across 174 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 384 · most liked firstGhostbusters game where after you catch ghosts in the trap, you can send them out to do battle with other ghosts like it's Pokemon.
positive · AI labelView post →Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents: ‘Why are they targeting a clarinetist?’. cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/36179586 > A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the “Ghostbusters” theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility, which has recently become a site of daily clashes between federal agents and demonstrators.
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you know there's a rather lovely Ghostbusters game for the Wii that takes full advantage of the Wiimote to make you feel like a 'buster? Developed by Red Fly Studio and released in 2009, it didn't try to match the 360/PS3 versions' graphics, instead adopting a stylised cartoonish aesthetic.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fortune's Weave is a trap set up by Nintendo to absorb a significant mass of gamers in a single game never to be heard from again like the fucked up ghost vault from Ghostbusters.
neutral · AI labelView post →The same Kemco Game Boy game, in three different regions with three different characters. North America got The Real Ghostbusters (and extra stages), Europe got Garfield Labyrinth, and Japan got Mickey Mouse IV (which is part of the Crazy Castle series with even more characters)!
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyone else absolutely LOVE the Ghostbusters video game? As a kid who was obsessed with Ghostbusters (movies AND animated show) I can't get enough of it. I think it deserves more attention, because it captures the feel of the franchise PERFECTLY. If you haven't played it, you should!👻🚫
positive · AI labelView post →Every Ghostbuster game sucks, and I'll tell you why. It's because they try to shoehorn the concept into an action game, treating the wand like a gun where you shoot at hundreds of ghosts, and that's not what the Ghostbusters do. They spent the majority of their time investigating.
negative · AI labelView post →I can't believe how hard Lego Dimensions went in nailing the gameplay of the different IPs. Scooby FELT like a Scooby game. Doctor Who, Ghostbusters, all the different IP felt like they were game specific. Amazing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Who ya gonna call? 🎶 Activision's weird little Ghostbusters game from 1984 was originally an unfinished adaptation of Steve Jackson Games' Car Wars TTG that was hastily retooled after they got the movie license. Much of its gameplay was intended for gang management and car combat.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, it's like... I knew about building the temple. Finding out they are trying to breed the cow is bringing on a Lewis Black-style fit. It's like the backstory of Ghostbusters! It's the sort of thing you put in a World of Darkness game!
neutral · AI labelView post →Band member accused of interfering with arrest of another during Portland ICE protest, feds allege. >Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was in turn arrested after the man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.” > >Korol appeared Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Portland after spending three nights in the Clark County Jail. The courtroom was filled with her…
neutral · AI labelView post →ok yes I’m not a fan of the film, but I love the theme song, so… here is that theme song on the Ghostbusters game for the Apple II (it sounds… awful. enjoy)
negative · AI labelView post →GhostBusters The Video Game (PS2, 2009)
neutral · AI labelView post →A good Ghostbusters game would be a Phoenix Wright style adventure game where you're trying to solve a mystery that will bring you to the big climax, and while investigating you occasionally get interrupted by a job to clear out a ghost. Which might coincidentally supply additional clues.
neutral · AI labelView post →Game over, New York. 🗽👻 The Ghostbusters II NES Game Over screen still lives rent-free in our heads. Who else saw this countless times growing up?
neutral · AI labelView post →Courtesy of Dynamix's Ghostbusters II DOS game: a Roland MT-32 rendition of the theme. 🎶
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, here's a good one for spooky month! This game's so good, so true to the spirit of the movies it's based on, I honestly think of this as Ghostbusters 3: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/11/07/g...
positive · AI labelView post →Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters: The Video Game! Let's stream (but not cross them) tonight, starting at 5:00 PM PST. 💀 twitch.tv/cadaverdave 💀
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghostbusters II (Game Boy, HAL Laboratory, 1990)
neutral · AI labelView post →the most recent good Ghostbusters thing was that 2009 game
positive · AI labelView post →She had him at “fungus.” From The Real Ghostbusters episode "Night Game."
neutral · AI labelView post →2016 Stern Pinball Ghostbusters Limited Edition pinball machine. Game number 269 out of 500. The game features fantastic art by Zombie Yeti. As seen at Pinball Pete’s in Ann Arbor, Michigan. #ghostbusters #iaintafraidofnoghost #slimer #Pinball #arcade
neutral · AI labelView post →16 years ago today, Ghostbusters: The Video Game was released! 👻🚫
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking about David Crane and I'm struggling to come up with a good game post-VCS. So let's go through his output and rate them! Ghostbusters might be his most famous design and a business sim is a fun way to take it. But it's got a lot of moving parts and some of them don't work well. Rating: 🚫👻
neutral · AI labelView post →okay but seriously now that we have a retro game that completely reworks the NES Jaws can we also have a retro game that completely reworks the NES Ghostbusters, because that was also an overly maligned game that was kind of rad
neutral · AI labelView post →For those interested, the full NES game rundown. And yes, that is in fact Ghostbusters 2
neutral · AI labelView post →I look like I'm excited about the Game Gear and watch The Real Ghostbusters on a Saturday morning. Hang on a minute...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghostbusters Art Used for Dubious Atari 2600 Video Game Identified Nearly 40 Years Later: ghostbustersnews.com/2025/09/18/g...
neutral · AI labelView post →"Its FLESH is MARSHMALLOWS" feels like something you'd see scrawled on the walls in a gritty survival-horror game based on Ghostbusters.
neutral · AI labelView post →Massive Ghostbusters Display Rallies Fans at Colombian Soccer Game: ghostbustersnews.com/2025/09/06/m...
neutral · AI labelView post →Insanely underrated game to play with friends & it has a storymode for the people that don't have those
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alright let's talk some bad NES games. Starting with the game of Ghostbusters. A very bad port of the Commodore 64 game developed by Bits Laboratory, aka Workss. They also brought us the NES "classic" King's Knight.
negative · AI labelView post →"SAVE YOUR CITY WITH YOUR COMMODORE 64." Print advertisement for "GHOSTBUSTERS - THE COMPUTER GAME" (1984). #retrogaming #ghostbusters #1980s #horrorfam
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's Black Video Game Character: Catt Delgado (Ghostbusters) Another example of a video game original character from a multimedia franchise.
neutral · AI labelView post →Multiplayer horror video game THE HEADLINERS is getting a movie adaptation from Sixth Dimension. "As if Cloverfield met Ghostbusters via Nightcrawler, we aim to take the survival-horror game & watch the mayhem unfold through the cameras of the journalists who risk everything."
neutral · AI labelView post →Unfortunately Rick Moranis is not in this Ghostbusters game
neutral · AI labelView post →The Boogieman Cometh: Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed teases upcoming DLC
neutral · AI labelView post →42 years ago today, the first Ghostbusters video game was released! Designed by David Crane and published by Activision, it was first available on the Commodore 64 before being ported to other computers and consoles. 👻🕹️ Which version did you grow up playing?
neutral · AI labelView post →trying to figure out why I've been in such a weird funk since last night I know of a few reasons why but also, I started replaying the nearly 20 year old (🫠) remastered Ghostbusters game last night, and playing a man and getting called a guy by these iconic characters I love is unexpectedly ow
neutral · AI labelView post →Indie Retro News: Ghostbusters Revisited - A new take on that classic Ghostbusters game is coming to the C64 www.indieretronews.com/2026/08/ghos... #retrogaming #gaming #c64 @c64cade.com
neutral · AI labelView post →Still scares me to this day .. Feels like I'm getting chased by the Ghostbusters Terror Dogs What intro to a game scares you? #RetroGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →On the old DVD commentary, they talk about the feedback they got from schools was Ghostbusters was the only game kids played as a team rather than vs each other. And also the only game girls and boys both played together. Making what happened later even sillier...
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's a brand new and appropriately spooky article on a game I have always been happy to call Ghostbusters 3: ko-fi.com/post/Ghostbu...
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the best low-key lines from 2009's Ghostbusters: The Video Game, thanks greatly to Harold Ramis' delivery.
neutral · AI labelView post →The NES version of Ghostbusters has had a bad rep for years, but don't believe the negative hype. I'm here to tell you that this game actually fixed several things from the original 1984 Ghostbusters, even adding a couple of features that we could describe as entertaining. Let's go through them. 🧵
neutral · AI labelView post →Something a little bit different for this week's #VintageToyTuesday My 1988 The Real Ghostbusters Electronic Pinball Game. 👻📺 #Ghostbusters #Retro #Cartoon
neutral · AI labelView post →"Night Game" is truly one of the best REAL GHOSTBUSTERS episodes. #TVSky
neutral · AI labelView post →#LogLoads64 Ghostbusters We all know the classic #C64 title screen to the mediocre game of the superlative movie. Who you gonna call..? Activison. I still enjoy playing GB, but I am terrible at it, really. I heard someone was doing a modern remake..? All said - lots ot you still LOVE this game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghostbusters: The Video Game Mod Restores Long-Lost Playable Characters: ghostbustersnews.com/2026/09/01/g...
neutral · AI labelView post →17 years ago, Ghostbusters: The Video Game was released! 👻🚫
neutral · AI labelView post →‘The Real Ghostbusters’ receives fan-made retro-style video game
neutral · AI labelView post →Got to play the Real Ghostbusters arcade game at Hershey Park. It’s terrible!
negative · AI labelView post →A good game, but plagued by bugs, and abandoned by the developer. Illfonic only makes half-baked games based on licensed properties, let them get popular for a few months, if that, then let them rot. Ironic, considering their games are all horror IPs turned async multiplayer
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh shit, I forgot I had Ghostbusters: The Game in my Steam account. Hold all my calls.
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the best Ghostbusters games since the 2009 release, although it's quite competitive and hackers who often play as the ghost are prominent - hopefully the game will receive better moderation and anti-cheat in the future. And hopefully they also improve the Ghostbusters AI which, as of right now, is really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On this day in 1987, The Real Ghostbusters episode “Night Game” first aired! ⚾👻 BUY THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS ON DVD: amzn.to/4mbjeAI
neutral · AI labelView post →Fan-Made Ghostbusters Commodore 64 Remaster in the Works, Set to Add Winston, New Levels, and More
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday to Alyssa Milano, who played Ilyssa Selwyn in 2009's Ghostbusters: The Video Game!
neutral · AI labelView post →23 years ago today, Extreme Ghostbusters was released for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance in North America.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is my other favorite Ghostbusters game. It's basically a 3rd movie with all of the Ghostbusters. None of that Paul Rudd nonsense. This game is better than any of the more recent Ghostbusters movies... yes even better than the all-female Ghostbusters. It's that good!
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