Ancraophobia

Ancraophobia is a horror game about identifying and catching ghosts. You use tools to find three pieces of evidence, mark them in your journal and use the evidence to identify the ghost. Then you select that ghost in the journal, set a trap where it is likely to go and try to carry the closed trap out of the house.

Find the ghost

Each ghost has a favourite room, where it spends most of its time. The room that stays cooler than the others is likely, but not certainly, to be its favourite. A ghost can switch the light in its current room on or off from anywhere, but it must be near a door or object to interact with it.

The ghost provides only three pieces of evidence. You can look for them in these ways:

• Spirit Box: turn it on and wait for a response. The ghost responds only when you are within a certain distance, the box is in a room with the light off, and it is not outside.
• Ghost Writing: the ghost may write on the clipboard when it tries to throw it. If it throws the clipboard without writing on it, ghost writing is not one of its evidences.
• Crucifix: if the ghost tries to hunt within range of the crucifix, it burns, glows red and makes a noise, preventing the hunt. If the ghost does not have crucifix as evidence, it has no effect.
• Ghost Camera: the camera may reveal the ghost when it is not normally visible. Seeing it when it is not hunting confirms this evidence, though it appears only briefly every 10–50 seconds and may not be visible every time.
• EMF 5: a level 5 reading confirms the evidence. This is shown by the red dot, all lights being lit and a very high tone.
• Blood: when the ghost throws something, it has a chance—but not a certainty—of leaving a blood splat on the first surface it hits. A splat confirms this evidence.

Catch the ghost

After finding all three evidences, take the ghost trap, interact with it and select the one remaining ghost in the journal. Place the trap somewhere the ghost is likely to go; the doorway to its room is suggested. A success sound and the trap closing mean you can take it out of the house to win. If the trap breaks and disappears, you lose, and the ghost will hunt you until you are dead.