Ghost Simulator

Ghost Simulator is a 300,000-word interactive horror novel by Morton Newberry. You wake as a ghost in a dusty attic and haunt a family living in your former home in the American countryside, while investigating what happened to you and how your past connects to theirs.

The Brooks family

The Brooks family includes Samantha, a writer who moved in with her family to find inspiration for her next novel; her husband Michael, a nurse anesthetist haunted by his past; and their teenage children, Ollie and Amber, who are trying to find their place in the world while living with a dead person. Getting to know their everyday lives may help you understand both your own past and humanity. You can disrupt the family, frighten them and undermine their hopes, or protect them, help them find love and support their ambitions.

Your ghostly powers

You choose your ghostly powers and can appear in dark corners, play with furniture as a poltergeist, invade dreams to turn them into nightmares, and possess people to control their actions. You can use your powers without drawing attention or turn skeptics into believers. Your choices can also shape how the family responds to their haunting, including whether you become part of their family.

Choices and encounters

You can attend a family dinner as an uninvited dead guest, recall the person you once loved and find out whether they are still alive. You can help Samantha write a best-selling horror novel or destroy her work, protect Michael from himself or let him descend into self-destruction, and help Ollie impress his high-school sweetheart or ruin their relationship. You can also attend the first Halloween party since your death, where people might play with Ouija boards. You can play as male, female or nonbinary.