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Love, Ghostie is a sweet and silly shipper's treat

Ghost match analysis

A penguin blushes at a robot on a cinema screen, as two ghosties lean in for a kiss in their seats in Love, Ghostie.
Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Janbeh Games, LLC

As you can perhaps tell from the slightly disdainful quotation marks, I am not a "shipping" person. I find it kind of annoying, in fact, if anything tending to un-ship fictional couples who clearly have no chemistry and are just doing it for the script.

It's fair to say then that Love, Ghostie isn't made for me. It's so specific that shipping might even be its genre, since it doesn't really fit into puzzle or interactive fiction. You're a ghostie, and you run a shared house full of humans unaware that ghosts exist, and that their culture is apparently based on pairing up the living. I guess... circle of life?

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