Blue Thistle Ghosts . . .

. . . is a game about a long-haul trucker named Jo, who's just hoping to bake some pumpkin bread and meet a ghost. Standard stuff, y'know?

The game has a branching story path, with four possible endings and eight achievements to collect throughout, which all together clock in at just under 4k words. A guide to unlocking all endings and achievements is available in the devlog, here!

Downloads of the game come in a ZIP also containing the pivotal pumpkin bread recipe (which you can also download separately & enjoy - we had fun developing it!). Blue Thistle Ghosts is also available to play in-browser, but can experience significant lag and loadtimes - we definitely recommend downloading for the best experience.

Blue Thistle Ghosts was made for the 4th annual Spooktober Visual Novel Jam - if you like it, spread the word!

Other Features

This game also has SAVE, LOAD, and FAST-FORWARD options, as well as further audio and text speed configuration settings which can be changed whenever there's text on the screen.

There's no Back option, though scrolling while in-game will bring up a BACKLOG of the most recent lines.

Credits

Blue Thistle Ghosts was developed by the FeatherBoy team; namely Benjamin Feinstein as sole developer, responsible for writing, art, and coding, as well a few key music tracks (including Title Theme, Summoning Performance, Woodwose, and additional tracks in remixes). Other music in the game is remixed from Public Domain / Creative Commons sources; full copyright information can be found by clicking the titles or by following the links in the game's readme.txt.

Beaconsfield Village Stomp; His Last Share of the Stars; The Ants Built a City on His Chest - Doctor Turtle | Thingamajig - Jason Shaw | Lesicia - Kai Engel | Early Morning Self Reflection; A Quiet Day; Happy Bop; Looking Within - Kirk Osamayo

Content Warnings

This game contains:

• Mild swearing
• Tangential discussions of death
• A few good-natured ghosts

Blue Thistle Ghosts was created using TyranoBuilder.