Ghost Adventures

The final game Toby(4) and I played while at my work was the spinning top-based dexterity game Ghost Adventure.

Essentially “Ghost Adventure” is a game where you have to spin a top and then navigate them around a 3D board collecting resources and along grooves.

The game comes with 8 different boards that you must navigate through and you can play in one of 2 ways. You can either play individual missions or follow through a comic book that guides you through the adventure. The comic book while cool doesn’t have any writing in it so actually follows the story of the ghost mouse being broken out of the statues by the wolf Vikings and why he then has to go on a spinning top to save the day is kinda baffling and tricky to follow.

As you go through the game there are special points where you have to make little jumps on the board and there are also points where you have to do a massive jump, rotate the board to the other side and catch the top. To get a perfect run you have to cover multiple boards in one go by moving the top from board to board.

And here in liest this game’s biggest problem… It is very very hard.

It is clearly aimed at kids or at least families yet this is one of the hardest dexterity-type games I have ever had to do. We played this for about an hour and Toby struggled to do more than one board at a time and I found getting past the second mission pretty tricky. I had a look through the later ones and this is the kinda thing you are gonna have to practice to the bone to achieve.

Playing this game I would liken it to learning to do high-end tricks on a yoyo. everyone can do it but to get good at it and get the later tricks is going to quite literally take days of practice.

Component quality is very high. The board are great, the top is fine (although could have been a bit sturdier) and the presentation is top-notch).

In the end, this wasn’t for us. In case you haven’t already realised we like variety and like playing many different games and the time taken to get to any kind of level at this is not something I think any of us are willing to do and I think most kids under the age of 10 would find doing this tricky as the dexterity levels are extremely high.

So it’s not a glowing recommendation from me and this is going to go into my next sales post (which I must do this week) but if you or your child like practising and doing hard skilled dexterity stuff I could definitely see this being a top game for some people… just not us.