4 million players have tried Ghostwire: Tokyo

Developers from a Japanese studio Tango Gameworks boasted that 4 million players went to their virtual version of Tokyo, full of ghosts and traps. A title from the creators of the horror series The Evil Within or this year’s music event Hi-Fi Rush certainly helped the recent release on the Xbox Series and inclusion in subscription services. Game pass And PS Plus.

Ghostwire: Tokyo he made an interesting journey. From the studio he founded in 2010. Shinji Mikami, creator of the Resident Evil series and later the aforementioned The Evil Within, another horror title was expected. Instead, the Japanese writers gave players a ghost action game that, while scary, is a far cry from previous Tango games in that regard. In addition, Mikami himself did not work on the game (left his studio this year), the development was led by the producer Ikumi Nakamurawhom he replaced after she left the studio in September 2019. Kenji Kimura.

The action-adventure from the Japanese metropolis (both in setting and in origin) hit the market in March 2022 as a PS5 console exclusive, at a time when the studio (as part of ZeniMax) was already owned by Microsoft. A year after its release, the game also appeared on the Xbox, appearing on both competitors’ subscription services at the same time.

In the end, the game was received mostly positively. “After the 100-hour epics of the past few weeks, Ghostwire is a welcome return to a more palatable line of video games, not least because it’s the closest thing to a shooter in terms of genre. As a playground, he will offer an impressively crafted Tokyo, filled with armies of living myths and modern urban legends,” we wrote in review.