The Outbound Ghost, a turn-based RPG based on Paper Mario, has been dogged by a strange legal drama that left it off the list for almost two full years. That curse has now been lifted, its legal problems resolved, and there's even a brand new sequel on the way.
The removal of Outbound Ghost from Steam and the Nintendo Switch eShop was very strange because its own independent developer, Conradical Games, is the party that issued a copyright strike. However, the developer's complaint was against the game's publisher, Digerati. At the time, Conradical Games claimed that it had not “received a single dollar in royalties from the publisher”, which was also allegedly “underreporting revenue” and refusing to fix unresolved issues in the console port, claims which Digerati refuted. The whole debacle left The Outbound Ghost in limbo, until now, that is.
“The lawsuit is over,” Conradical Games announced on social media. “The outgoing ghost is back!” In addition to the original game's return to Steam and Switch, plus “new platforms coming soon,” the developer revealed that a sequel has also been quietly in development.
The Outbound Ghost: Reborn runs with the first game's charming paper art style and time-oriented turn-based combat, but also adds a Pokémon twist to the “where the monsters you use are ghostly figments of your imagination” formula. Best of all, the sequel will be “100% free to all Kickstarter backers and Steam players.” And if you've been a fan of the campy, creepy world, there's a “new game in the same universe called Soul Stalker” that's now in early access on Steam and coming to all consoles on October 24.
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