Horror is one of the most fascinating genres of video games because of all the different ways you can use it. One game might be in your face with gore and horrific creatures, but another featured a slow creeping dread, a sense of isolation where you’re the only person around. Ghostwire Tokyo is one of the most effective realizations of that latter idea, giving you a photorealistic city to explore —one where the streets lie empty and barren as ad boards still squawk their usual word salad. Ghostwire is an incredible horror game that manages to nail tone better than almost anything else out there and has a fascinating story and strong combat to boot. It’s a must-play now that it’s on PS Plus.
Ghostwire takes place in modern-day Tokyo, right after a catastrophic paranormal event has made every person in the city vanish into thin air — except you. You play as a young man named Akito, who’s possessed by a spirit that inhabits his right hand and gives him supernatural powers. At the urging of the spirit you start investigating the city, and a man in a Hannya mask that seems to be behind everything. You quickly learn that the spirit inhabiting Akito is an investigator named KK, who was trying to stop Hannya’s plan to purge the city, but failed.
