Friday Sundae has released a brand new trailer for There Are No Ghosts at the Grand, following its reveal during the ID@Xbox Indie Showcase presented by IGN.
The trailer showcases new gameplay features from the studio’s upcoming musical, Lovecraftian renovation game, including open-world restoration, night-time supernatural investigations, and hidden ghost stories. It also reveals the 30 in-game days and nights players have to restore the Grand Hotel, explore the surrounding village, and uncover the truth behind its increasingly strange history.
In There Are No Ghosts at the Grand, players take on the role of Chris David, an American who unexpectedly inherits a crumbling English seaside hotel. By day, Chris must renovate the Grand and help restore the surrounding village of Kingswood-on-Sea. By night, those same locations begin to reveal something stranger beneath the wallpaper, broken windows, and fading paint.
The new trailer shows how players can roam beyond the hotel into a small open world, discovering broken-down shops and buildings in need of repair. These spaces can be renovated and decorated using the game’s renovation tools, including the sandblaster, paint sprayer and furniture cannon, with some restorations unlocking ghost stories, hidden memories, and secrets contained within the buildings themselves.
The trailer also offers a new look at the game’s night-time investigations. As the sun goes down, players use their talking power tools to search for clues, investigate eerie locations such as the village church, and begin to unravel the supernatural mystery at the heart of the game. Renovation tools take on a second life after dark, becoming part of the player’s ghost-hunting arsenal as the game shifts from cosy restoration to something far more supernatural.
The trailer also reveals more about the game’s 30 day and 30 night structure. Players must choose how to spend their limited time, balancing renovation, exploration, relationships, and investigation as the mystery tightens around the player, the Grand Hotel, and the townspeople who seem to know more than they are saying.
The trailer features “Skeletons in the Closet”, an original song performed by Marcia Richards of The Skints, who voices the character Lily in the game. The track is one of more than ten original songs featured in There Are No Ghosts at the Grand, where each key character has their own musical story waiting to be uncovered.
Find out more about the game in our There Are No Ghosts At The Grand preview or try the demo for yourself on Steam.
