Ghostrunner review
A ninja who spends more time running on the walls than the floors climbs a dystopian skyscraper while his personal death count spirals into the thousands.
- Developer: One More Level, 3D Realms, Slipgate Ironworks
- Publisher: All in! Games
- Release: 27 October
- On: Windows
- From: GOG Epic Steam
- Price: £25/€28/$33
Elite cyber ninja? I died 1423 times in Ghostrunner. Over a seven hour campaign that roughly works out at three deaths a minute. That’s the kind of toll even today’s shower of political leaders would struggle to shrug off. A body count so vast I wonder if I ever actually understood Ghostrunner or simply fluked through. In the same way that I passed my driving test after nine failures: instead of enjoying my right to drive, I remember the nine out of ten people who think I’m a danger to the public. In both cases I feel glum despite the victory.