Ghostory

This game was a great surprise! Not sure why I had it on my priority backlog, but I had tons of fun!

Ghostory is a puzzle-platformer game (more puzzle than platformer) with retro graphics that will challenge your brain.

The premise is simple, but really well explored: You can turn between normal and ghost forms, but you also need to carry your backpack with you, and you can only carry it while being corporeal. While in ghost form, you can fly around and through stuff, and you need to constantly switch between forms in order to bring your backpack through the levels.

A few highlights:
- Smooth difficulty progression. First levels are small and easy, with few different elements. Later on, the levels become huge, with multiple new elements being added as your progress through the story.
- Very smart puzzles. You can see a lot of effort's been put into the puzzles. It may take a while to figure out what you need to do, but once you do it's very rewarding. Be ready to spend an hour or more on later levels (there are 28 of them, plus interludes)!
- Little focus on platforming. Not sure about you, but when I play puzzle-platformers, I'm not a fan of games that put a lot of emphasis on the precision platforming aspect, and require you to do tons of precise jumping very fast. Some of the platforming sections are a bit harder, sure, but they all seem fair (if they don't, you're probably trying to do the wrong thing).
- Extra side quests. Besides going through the levels, there are also some side missions that you can complete for an extra challenge. This included collecting artifacts with your backpack, herding frogs into their homes and other stuff.

If you're into this kind of game, be sure to give it a try, this is probably one of my favorite indie games in the genre, and on top of that it's cheap!

Very nice game.
It's a puzzleplatformer. But except for a very few spots, the platforming is not the difficulty. It's about unwinding the puzzles.

And those puzzles are great. It sounds easy there are keys and locked doors and switches and moving platforms. You can see everything that is happening. And still it is hard to find the solution.
But very motivating.
And if you despair, there are help videos in game.

What can I say here, lovely platformer with illusive puzzle elements, loads of fun here folks. It looks like a simple platformer but kept my attention and kept getting harder as I moved forward. Thoroughly enjoyable and very surprising gameplay. Runs perfectly on my Steam Deck.