The Outbound Ghost

The Outbound Ghost

Released Sep 2022

The Outbound Ghost is an adventure RPG about helping ghosts ascend to the afterlife. Battle the past using figments of your personality. Craft badges to earn abilities. Explore a town of troubled spooks and discover life can be tough, even when you're dead.

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Evaluation

The Outbound Ghost launched on September 20, 2022 and was subsequently embroiled in a two-year lawsuit with its former publisher, Digerati. On October 18, 2024, lead developer Conrad announced that the lawsuit was fully resolved and that the studio (Conradical Games) was self-publishing the game again. That same post announced a free sequel — The Outbound Ghost: Reborn — promised to be entirely free for Steam owners of the original, targeting a 2025 release. The developer also committed to delivering remaining roadmap updates to the original game "in the coming weeks." A follow-up post on October 24, 2024 reiterated that the first post-lawsuit update was coming "within the next 2 weeks." However, there have been no further developer communications after October 24, 2024. As of June 25, 2026, the promised sequel has not been confirmed as released, and no updates about its status, any delays, or any roadmap progress for the original game have been posted. This represents over 8 months of silence following concrete, specific commitments — the 2025 sequel release window has now passed without any announcement.
Evidence
Developer confirms the first post-lawsuit update to The Outbound Ghost is coming 'within the next 2 weeks.' Last official developer communication on record.
news post · Oct 24, 2024 source content planned
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Developer announces lawsuit resolved, game self-published again, and free sequel 'The Outbound Ghost: Reborn' announced targeting 2025 release — free for existing Steam owners. Roadmap updates also promised for the original game.
news post · Oct 18, 2024 source content planned
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Details

Publisher
Conradical Games
Achievements
31
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game


The Outbound Ghost is an adventure RPG about helping ghosts ascend to the afterlife. The town of Outbound is, quite literally, a ghost town – a home to troubled spooks with unresolved earthly issues, condemning them to an eternity haunting their old *ahem* haunts.

Battle the past, gain new abilities, solve puzzles, and uncover the mysteries of Outbound to help its unliving residents find peace, freeing them from the shackles of their ghostly limbo.

  • Colourful characters: Meet a lovable cast of spooks along the way, each with their own story to unravel
  • Combat encounters: Unlock figments of your past personality, such as Regret, Comradery, and Jealousy and use them as party members in turn-based battles
  • Aspects System: Craft materials earned by winning combat encounters into badges, which can be equipped for various effects and stat boosts
  • A world in 2.5D: Adorable, paper-style characters inhabit a world with depth and detail to create a distinctly eye-catching visual style



In the world of The Outbound Ghost, ghosts are the embodiment of regret. Most people go to the afterlife after dying, yet those who were unhappy with their previous lives become ghosts and are forced to haunt the Earth until they right their wrongs. Of course, this is not always possible since doing this as a ghost is orders of magnitude harder than when you are a human. However, some manage to do this and are able to spend the rest of their deaths in the afterlife. In The Outbound Ghost, your task is to help others fix or come to terms with their past lives so that they can enjoy the pleasures of eternal bliss. You must achieve that for yourself too, but it's not so easy to mend the mistakes of your past life when you don't even remember them.
Last evaluated Jun 25, 2026
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