The greatest challenges in developing Ghost Keeper are time and ensuring the game’s core feels perfectly balanced: tight, challenging, and deeply satisfying to play.
Our small Polish indie studio has poured immense passion and effort into Ghost Keeper, and with your Kickstarter support, we can bring this vision to life in a truly unforgettable way.
Ghost Keeper is an ambitious project that merges classic elements from beloved old-school games of the genre with various modern innovations. Allowing you to delve into the ultimate scaring experience. Become the leader of a group of peculiar monsters and experience equally strange adventures set in the climate of 19th-century England. The core mechanics are already built and playable, we’re not starting from scratch.
We manage development meticulously, with a clear pipeline and regular feedback from focus groups to ensure top-notch quality. Ghost Keeper will evolve with new content before launch and receive ongoing updates post-release, from minor tweaks to major expansions, all delivered directly to players as part of the core experience.
Every recruit joins with a story, a temperament, and a toolkit that changes how you play:
Ghosts Subtle, slippery and theatrical. - Phineas, the Mad Inventor Turns “don’t press that button” into a lifestyle. Remote detonations, volatile contraptions, and chain-reaction glee. - Madame Vale, the Diva A voice that shatters glass… and sometimes souls. Lure crowds, break defenses, and bring the house down (literally).
Beasts Physical terrors with primal momentum. - Shadowmaw A wolf sculpted from darkness and smoke. Stalks in silence, hits swiftly and vanishes between rifts before the screams fade out.
Demons Powerhouses with a price. Handle with care (or don’t and reap the consequences). - Malifax, Demon of Chaos Possession, crowd-turning, and beautifully indiscriminate mayhem. Unmatched control - if you can keep the leash from snapping.
REWARDS
Each tier (starting from Deluxe, which grants Supporter Discord role), can grant appropriate Discord role name.
$5 – Ghostly Gratitude Thank-you in the Digital Cemetery of Gratitude, campaign updates.
$12 – Early Bird: Steam Key (Limited ~500) Steam key at launch + updates + Cemetery credit. (Early-bird discounts for the fastest ones)
$14 – Game Steam Key Steam key at launch + updates + Cemetery credit.
$25 – Art Book Edition Deluxe + Digital Art Book (PDF).
$40 – Founder Pack Founder credit (separate section in credits) + in-game cosmetic (e.g., ghostly HUD flair/titleplate) + Dev Q&A live session access.
$70 – Design Council (Limited ~100) Founder Pack + Design-vote access (polls on minion skills, map props, UI flavor lines) + Private dev diary (extra behind-the-scenes updates).
$149 – Name a Mortal (Limited 50) Design Council + name an NPC mortal (with our lore approval) + “Catacombs of Infamy” credit (special section).
$249 – Write an Epitaph (Limited 30) All above + your portrait in game, appearing on random walls.
$499 – Your Scream in the Game (Limited 15) All above + you provide a clean vocal (we process it) used as a panic/terror VO variant somewhere in the game (opt-in, curated).
$2,500 – Design a Mortal Encounter (Limited 5) All above (except scream if slots gone) + co-design a unique mortal (appearance hook + quirk + short encounter).
$5,000 – Create a Minion (Limited 3) All above + co-create a minor ghost or beast. We provide a template and 2–3 revision rounds.
$10,000 – Level Patron (1 slot) All above + a mission inspired by your idea (within our art set + design constraints) + “Level Patron” credit card at the end of that mission.