It just wouldn’t be the Halloween season without Ghostbusters. And for Switch fans, the day has finally arrived with the launch of Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed – Ecto Edition via the Nintendo eShop. Not only that, but Spirits Unleashed is also now available on Steam after being previously releases on the Epic Games Store.
“We are super excited to bring Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed to all gaming platforms,” says IllFonic CEO & Co-Founder Charles Brungardt. “As a lifelong fan of Ghostbusters, IllFonic has been hard at work to bring busting and haunting to all fans with the Ecto Edition. We are expanding the story, adding new maps, ghost types, and more.”
Also available as a free update for current players on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series, Xbox One, the Ecto Edition includes a new story expansion, new ghost types, two new maps and more.
The story expansion adds several new story acts to the narrative progression of Spirits Unleashed, including a new adversary to battle. To access the new content, all you have to do is level up your character.
As for the new ghost type, the Overlord and its variants have arrived just in time for Halloween. This new ghost type is imbued with never-before-documented passive abilities that makes them even more difficult to tether. The Overlord’s aura emits a looming dread, compounding a creeping sense of fear within anyone in range. Overlords don’t “slime” or “shock” those in their way; rather, they devastate them by swiping with their claws, and hurling any physical objects that are in range.
For the new maps, we get a haunted restaurant in Petey’s Pirate Cove, and the Galway Subway Station, which has seen an influx of old-timey train cars and encounters with tormented apparitions.
Lastly, there’s a whole new assortment of cosmetics and gear shells to unlock, along with the usual bug fixes and improvements.