Ghost Trick: Experience the Ultimate Interactive Beach Read in Video Game Format

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is the ultimate summer video game of 2023.

You may question why I consider a Nintendo DS game from 2010, now available on various platforms, including the Switch, as “perfect” in comparison to games released this year, such as Diablo IV or Final Fantasy XVI. But, unlike those games, Ghost Trick possesses two qualities that make it the ideal summer game:

1. It does not demand excessive mental commitment to play.

Its portability enables you to enjoy it wherever you go. (While Diablo IV can be played on the Steam Deck with some effort, let’s focus on the present discussion.)

Ghost Trick, directed by Shu Takumi, the creator of the renowned Ace Attorney series, shares similarities with the latter while maintaining a unique identity.

Unlike Ace Attorney, where you unravel other people’s murders in a courtroom, Ghost Trick presents a protagonist investigating their own demise while utilizing supernatural abilities to prevent others’ untimely deaths. Each life saved unlocks further details about the protagonist’s past and the truth behind their demise.