The Phantom Fellows

The Phantom Fellows is a point-and-click adventure comedy about Oliver Cobblestone, who can see and communicate with one dead person: Englebert Picklebender. The two run The Phantom Fellows, a paranormal investigation service that helps living clients find peace from hauntings while giving spirits closure and rest. You play as Oliver and Englebert during seven days of investigations in Elderberry, Colorado, meeting living residents and spirits as a larger, more malevolent threat begins to pursue Oliver.

Investigate hauntings

Each day brings its own goals and characters. You explore locations, solve puzzles and help spirits who may be seeking closure, a lost possession or simply a chance to play a prank. You also need to provide the living client who hired you with proof of your work. Exploration can reveal extra interactions, story details and alternative ways to solve puzzles.

Oliver can interact with the physical world, while Englebert can get past obstacles that block the living. Switching between them becomes available on Day 2. Some puzzles can also be solved with objects found in locations from earlier days, though you do not have to leave the current day's location to complete them.

Explore Elderberry

The game has seven playable days, with an overarching story building toward a confrontation. A fast-travel map unlocks on Day 3, letting you revisit locations from previous days for more interactions, world building and alternative puzzle solutions. The environments use hand-drawn pixel art and animations, and you can walk or float through them freely.

Tools and interactions

You can click on objects throughout the environments to see Oliver and Englebert inspect and interact with them, often with distinct dialogue. Englebert also acts as a mentor: ask him for advice to receive hints with increasing levels of detail, and stop him whenever you want to work things out on your own. Controls are designed for keyboard play, with point-and-click controls also available.