What Is The Ghost — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| [Update] v1.0.1 | 2026-10-02 | Hey Hunters, the 1.0 Launch was a huge success so far, so now I push out the first update. Thank you! Big Changes: For New Players there is now a beginner help button in the van which shows the ghost and explains why. This is available until the first win. Halloween Event now also gives you 6 Void Essence. You can now see the difficulty infos again. |
| What Is The Ghost 1.0 Has Arrived! | 2026-10-01 | 🎉 It's here!What Is The Ghost is now playable in version 1.0.⭐ Steam Reviews: Your Feedback MattersLet me know what you like or don't like. Even a short review helps me and the game enormously to gain visibility on Steam and reach more players. Without your reviews, the game cannot be improved. Feedback is very important for the developer.🎃 Halloween EventThe whole month of October is all about Halloween. Collect candy and fill your basket as often as you like, and get a reward every time. Collect the pumpkins scattered across all maps to receive a secret reward.🔥 What to Expect52 Steam achievementsGlobal & local leaderboardsSeasons – the |
| 1.0 Prepatch | 2026-10-01 | Hey Hunters, quick patch before we launch in a few hours. If you have the opportunity please test the changes and tell me if there is anything not working. Changes: The Player now has a visual sign over its head showing danger during a hunt when flashlight is on or being chased. Flashlight now automatically turns off when you enter a locker. Small Table and Well should block line of sight with ghost, making them finally a good looping spot. Added 3 new optional tasks. Adjusted the time until the next hunt is possible in easy and normal. Fix: Death Lake had a spot where you get stuck. Fix: The Controller lost focus in some situations. |
| 🎃 Halloween Event Is Now Live! | 2026-09-30 | 🎃🎃🎃 Hey Hunters, the Halloween Event is now live until November 1st. Wish you a lot of fun! You can make a lot of progress during the event and earn a secret reward. 🎃🎃🎃 |
| [Update] v0.9.8 | 2026-09-27 | Hey Hunters, quick update bringing us the Halloween Event 1 Day earlier and fixing the overlapping player lights in multiplayer, should look a lot better now! Changes: Halloween Event starting September 30th. Fixed Overlapping Player Lights in Multiplayer. |
| [Update] v0.9.7 | 2026-09-23 | Hey Hunters, just a few days left until 1.0 launch. I'm very excited! This is one of the last updates before we launch. Big Changes: Halloween Event starting October 1st is now fully implemented. Halloween Event “Collect Sweets”: Collect Sweets and fill the bag, claim your reward. Repeat as often as you want. Halloween Event “Collect Pumpkins”: Collect 500 Pumpkins and earn a Secret Reward that will never come back again. Pumpkins are on all maps, some are quite hidden but will always be at the same position. Added Ghost Secret Texts: Yurei, Shifter, Yokai, Goryo. Changes: Increased the size for the perfect hit skillcheck. Moved the x2/x3 squ |
| [Update] v0.9.6.5 | 2026-09-15 | Hey Hunters, I reworked the minigame when you extract an artifact. This gives you the possibility to gain more exp and I really hope you like it. Also there are 20 new steam achievements. Big Changes: 20 New Steam Achievements. Anomaly Skillcheck Rework: You can now make a perfect hit which gives you 3 exp extra. Changes: Added secret texts for poltergeist and demon. Balancing change to the local leaderboard, reaching the top spots is now more realistic even for casual players. |
| [Update] v0.9.6.4 | 2026-09-14 | If you haven't already please leave me a Steam review, it really helps me a lot! Hey Hunters, this update is really cool, it brings a lot of new content and fixes. Full Release is close! Big Changes: 10 New Secrets. Ghost Secrets: Collect blue secret books to uncover secrets about all ghost types. (Secret texts are coming soon!) New Skins: Hoody (Bee), Pants (Bee), Backpack (Angel), Backpack (Demon), Standard Skin (Red Hands), Standard Skin (Blue Hands), Standard Skin (Devil Eyes) Added new languages. Multiplayer Lobby is now more user friendly. Changes: Decreased the base chance that red anomaly triggers a hunt from 50% → 45%. Decreased flas |
| [Update] v0.9.6 | 2026-09-09 | Hey Hunters, we finally have protective items we can use during a mission. Since we have multiplayer I would be happy if you play some games with your friends and try the new protective/survival items. Big Changes: Reworked Equipment Shop. Survival Items: You can now buy survival items like crucifix. You can use them by pressing F ingame. Crucifix: Place down where the ghost spawns and it will prevent a hunt from happening 2x. Incense Stick: Let the ghost run trough the smoke and it will not harm you for 6 seconds. Adrenaline: Instantly regain your stamina. Changes: If you drain the complete sprint bar the sprintbar turns red and you have to |
| Release Date is here | 2026-09-07 | Hey Hunters,After an incredible journey through Early Access, What Is The Ghost is officially moving on to its next chapter.📅 Early Access ends October 1st.That’s right, on October 1st, What Is The Ghost will officially leave Early Access.Thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way. ❤️ |
| [Update] Early Access v0.9.5.3 (stable) | 2026-09-06 | Hey Hunters, yes I am really active right now pushing out a lot of updates. This is because the 1.0 Launch comes closer real fast. This time I added a feature which will improve playing multiplayer a ton. There is now a shared inventory. You see each others artifacts! This needs some testing so please play and report any bugs. Big Changes: Shared Inventory: You now see the artifacts from your teammates in the ghost hunter 9000. New Ghost Event: Darkness. Changes: Tooltips now have a fixed width and texts are centered. Fix: Ghost fragment did not spawn in multiplayer. Fix: Optional task “dont get seen” got reset in multiplayer when your teamma |
| Early Access v0.9.5.2 (stable) | Small Update | 2026-09-04 | Hey Hunters, quick update. Soon I will announce the new 1.0 release date. It is no longer october 26th. Big Changes: New Skin: Devil Horns (Long Hair) (Legendary) Changes: Daily Rewards are now randomized you can get either Exp, Money or Void Essence. Finding a cursed artifact in the analyzer now has a small chance to trigger a ghost event which rarely can happen to be a hunt. Finished localisation. Quests are now translated correctly now when you change language. Reduced the camera shake for opening anomaly. Fix: Sometimes you get 4 void essence at the same time during a mission. |
| Early Access v0.9.5 (stable) | Update | 2026-09-02 | Hey Hunters, this update brings a feature that some of you suggested a while ago and some polishing. And hey, the first new season for the global leaderboard has started! Big Changes: Global Leaderboard Seasons, every month the global leaderboard will reset and the best 3 players will get a huge reward. The best 3 from the old leaderboard should get their reward, if not please tell me! Daily Reward: You will now get a daily reward when starting the game for up to 14 days in a row. Each day gives you a better reward so build your streak by playing daily! Changes: Added some game juice (camera shake, freezes and particles).Exclamation Mark adde |
| Early Access v0.9.4.1 (stable) | Balancing Hotfix | 2026-08-31 | Hey Hunters, quick update fixing the prices for the previous Mastery Hub Rework. The Prices make way more sense now and the whole Skilltree is now 10x less expensive. This should enable you to buy an upgrade every 1-4 missions. To make it more clear, before, you needed 23.000 Void Essence to complete the whole skilltree, now you need just 2.900 Void Essence. Thank you for the feedback! Every feedback makes the game better! |
| Early Access v0.9.4 (stable) | Major Update | 2026-08-29 | Hey Hunters, I took the time to rework a core system: The Mastery Hub (Skilltree). It now takes a different approach and there are 8 new skills you can upgrade. You will get your Void Essence (Skillpoints) refunded on first start with the new update. Also there are now optional tasks during a mission which give you extra money. This is the last major update before the 1.0 Launch. It would help me a ton if you play and provide me some feedback. Big Changes: Mastery Hub Rework: I completely reworked the mastery hub, you will get all your void essence refunded and start fresh. There are a lot of new skills and the design is now way more clean an |
| Early Access v0.9.3 (stable) | Major Update | 2026-08-19 | Hey Hunters, we are getting closer to the Full Release, to enable more people to test the game I reduced the price from $9,99 to $7,99. This update is quite big, please take your time to read the patchnotes. First of all I would like to ask, if you haven't already, please leave a review for this game, it helps a ton! Big Changes:New Map: Snow Road (Unlocks at Level 65) Full Controller Support added. We need a lot of testing here. Please play with controller as much as possible and tell me any bugs/feedback. I want us to have a stable Controller Support until 1.0 Launch. Automated Chat Messages: To make gameplay in multiplayer easier the game |
| Early Access v0.9.2.7 (stable) | Localisation Update | 2026-08-15 | Hey Hunters, quick update adding new languages: Russian Brazilian Portuguese Korean Japanese French Spanish Have a nice day! :) |
| Controller Support added! | 2026-08-09 | Hey Hunters, as part of a big update I've added Full Controller Support for the following gamepads: - Playstation - Xbox - Steam Deck - Nintendo Switch Full Patch Notes will be arrive when the update was fully rolled out. ❤️ Hope you give me some feedback! |
| Early Access v0.9.1 (stable) | Update | 2026-07-31 | Hey Hunters, quick update fixing some issues and adding chinese language to the game. Big Changes: New Language added: Chinese. Prestige Glow Preview: You can now see a preview of how the glow will look ingame. Prestige Glow Toggle: You can now enable/disable Prestige Glow in My Avatar. Changes: Added a small pitch variation each time a sound is played. Changed a imporant project window setting (Window/Stretching/Mode: viewport → canvas_items), might be helpful in the future. Halloween Event is ready to go, starting October 1st. Godot Engine Version Upgrade from 4.4 → 4.5. First start of the game sets the language to the players OS language. |
| Early Access v0.9 (stable) | Update | 2026-07-22 | Hey Hunters, this update brings us unlimited replayability. The prestige level was previously capped at 3, now this cap is removed. That means your strength as a ghost hunter scales into infinity! There is no limit. Show your dedication once more. Big Changes: Prestige Level Cap removed. You can now prestige forever. Changes: Changed how the prestige level looks in the main menu top bar. Some minor changes & fixes. |
| Early Access v0.8 (stable) | Update | 2026-06-24 | Hey Hunters, to celebrate the upcoming Steam Summer Sale where we participate with a 40% discount I dropped this update. I really hope you like it. Big Changes: New Secret added. New Steam Achievement added. Curse of Silence: This is a new hardcore curse which makes that you are unable to hear the ghost whispers and footsteps. You never know where the ghost is. You can now see Anomalies if you are dead in multiplayer. The Ghost now opens doors he passes during a hunt. Changes: Added the missing descriptions for the new death artifacts. When unlocking Hard Difficulty you now get the information that you can see and activate red ritual circles. |
| Early Access v0.7 (stable) | Big Update | 2026-06-02 | If you haven't already please leave me a Steam review, it really helps me a lot!Hey Hunters, this update brings a new ghost and a new feature where you can collect artifacts and earn extra rewards. Big Changes: New Ghost: Shinigami. New Artifact Type: Death Objects. New Rune: Rune of Death. New Tab in Hunter Network: Artifacts. Document all artifacts and get rewards. Changes: All new features in the Hunter Network will be marked as NEW! for a while until they are known in the community. Fixed some looping spots. Added new whispering sounds for the ghost. |
| Early Access v0.6.5 (stable) | Early Access | 2026-05-29 | If you haven't already please leave me a Steam review, it really helps me a lot! Hey Hunters, this update improves the overall gameplay and fixes bugs. Big Changes: Looping (Feedback needed): Started adding new loop spots, balanced player and ghost speeds so you can technically outplay the ghost. ! I really depend on your feedback on this, is the ghost still too slow/fast? Is looping really possible? Changes: Daily Quests fixed, they refresh normal again. You now need to select a map and difficulty in multiplayer lobby to start a game. Analyzer now has an outline if a new player has never interacted with it before. To make it more clear that |
| 1.0 Launch News | 2026-05-27 | Hey everyone, today I finally want to talk to you about the planned 1.0 launch of What Is The Ghost, the official farewell to Early Access.The game has been out for quite a while now, and honestly, I’m extremely grateful for everything that has happened since then. Thanks to your feedback, development improved incredibly fast. Many systems have been reworked, multiplayer is now running very smoothly, and we currently have barely any major bugs left. On top of that, the game already offers a lot of content.🌟 The game currently includes:Multiplayer7 Maps9 Different Ghost TypesSkilltreePrestige SystemHardcore ModeDaily & Weekly QuestsCharakter |
| Early Access v0.6.3 (stable) | Update | 2026-05-20 | Hey Hunters, small patch adding the possibility to exclude ghosts from your final guess in the ghost wiki and some bugfixes. Changes: You can now rightclick a ghost in the ghost wiki to exclude it from your final guess. Fixed a bug where the ghost can spawn in campfires in death lake. Fixed a bug where weekly quests did not show correct. Fixed the heartbeat sound making some weird noises. Fixed a bug where the locker did not close after a teammate left the locker. |
| Early Access v0.6 (stable) | Big Update | 2026-05-18 | Hey Hunters, with a brand-new map and a new ghost, this update brings us a huge step closer to full release. Early Access has been going really well so far, I’ve received a ton of valuable feedback from all of you, and thanks to that I’ve already added lots of new content, improvements, and polish. At this point, we’ve become a really solid ghost hunting game and the first one ever to do it in 2D Pixel-Art. Big Changes: New Map: Graveyard. New Ghost: Banshee, The Banshee announces her presence through ominous voices and disturbing sounds. Her screams echo through the darkness, slowly driving anyone who remains near her for too long into madne |
| Early Access v0.5.3 (stable) | Update | 2026-05-17 | If you haven't already please leave me a Steam review, it really helps me a lot!Hey Hunters, quick update before I drop new map and ghost in the next one. This update implements secrets and a new currency. You can now collect secret books ingame and unlock secrets, mostly lore about the game. And some other nice changes! Big Changes: Secrets: In the Hunter Network you can find a tab called “Secrets”. Collect Secret Books ingame and unlock secret content like Lore and Pictures. Secret Books: You will find red books ingame, collect them and unlock secrets. Unlocking secrets also gives you a exp, money and void essence reward. 5 New Steam Achiev |
| Early Access v0.5.1 (stable) | Update | 2026-05-13 | If you haven't already please leave me a Steam review, it really helps me a lot! Hey Hunters, quick update, improving the map visuals and adding 12 new artifacts. Big Changes: 12 new artifacts added. Improved all map visuals. Making them less empty. |
| Early Access v0.5 (stable) | Update | 2026-05-11 | If you haven't already please leave me a Steam review, it really helps me a lot! Currently we have 20% discount on the game! Consider buying/gifting What Is The Ghost :) Hey Hunters, finally we get very good quality of life and balancing into What Is The Ghost. Hope you like this update. Big Changes: Autobuy: You can now select your favorite runes & flashlight so they will be automatically bought when you start a mission (if you have enough money).Changes: Locker Close duration is now scaling with difficulty. On easy and medium the door closes way faster. You can now see a progressbar filling when you enter a locker. If the progress bar is fu |
| Early Access v0.4.2 (stable) - Update | 2026-05-08 | Hey Hunters, quick update to celebrate the upcoming 20% discount for What Is The Ghost. I really like the changes, hope you do aswell. Big Changes: Sprint: You can now sprint as long as stamina is not completely empty. If the stamina is empty you have to wait 2 sec until you start regaining stamina and sprint again. Changes: Max Stamina decreased from 150 → 130. You can now see the artifact your teammates get from an anomaly and hear the collect sound. Fixed a bug where the locker was half open for teammates when you leave the locker in multiplayer. Fixed a bug where if you get all map skulls you did get the reward for all map stars. Now you |