Ghost Ferry

Ghost Ferry v1.5.0 – Flashback: The Marigold, 1952

A new part of the story: the night the Marigold sailed.

- Flashback · 1952. Five years before Chapter 1, Walter Ridley keeps the booth at Saltmere on the night of 16 October 1952. The Marigold is licensed for twenty-four, and the gale is coming. It is told in black and white, fully voiced, with its own music and two endings that depend on what you choose to do.
- It opens once you finish Chapter 1, and it sits between the two chapters in the Chapters window, so you play the story in order.
- The keeper’s book: before your first shift you can sign it with a name (or leave it blank and stay “the new keeper”). You can change it from the pause menu. From night 3, one of the dead may greet you by name… and you know what Hale said about that. You can’t question that passenger through the grille, so you will have to judge them on the papers alone.
- The title screen is quieter now: only its music. Each chapter brings its own sounds when you start it.

Thank you to loading___ for noticing that Hale warns you about your name, but the game never asked for it!

Your progress is kept as always.

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Ghost Ferry v1.4.1 – Know what you did in Chapter 2

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In Chapter 2 it was hard to tell whether you had judged someone right. Now you can:

- Every morning opens on the arrivals ledger: everyone who came off the boat, whether you landed them or sent them back, and what they really were. Your mistakes are ringed in red.
- Brannock tells you how the night went, in his own voice.
- During the night, a mistake is now shown as it happens. When one of the dead walks into the town, a window across the quay goes dark. When a living person is sent back, they look back at the office all the way up the gangway. The first time each happens, Brannock explains what it means.

A word on how Chapter 2 plays: it is not the same game as Chapter 1. Chapter 1 is about investigation: tickets, lists, the register, the tools. Chapter 2 is about the story. The answers are in the words: the telegrams, the notes on your desk, what each passenger tells you, the ledger, the morning papers. Take your time and read everything, and the nights will make sense.

Thank you to loading___ for pointing this out! (And no, it was never the coffee mug.)

Your progress is kept as always.

Ghost Ferry v1.4 – Chapter 2: The Other Shore
Chapter 2 is here. Open Chapters from the title screen.

Five years after the Marigold went down, the dead are coming ashore at Hollin Bay. You keep the arrivals office on the other side of the crossing, for seven nights in December 1957. This time the truth hides as much in what people say as in what you see: a word on the telegraph tape, a line in the ledger, a name that should not be there.

- Seven new nights, each with its own weather, visitors and scares.
- A fully voiced opening, and three endings, each with its own film and its own music. What you write in the ledger decides which one you see.
- The telegraph, the arrivals ledger and the tape of 1952, scattered in pieces across the nights.
- Once you have finished the chapter, you can play any of its nights again.
- It is a quieter, slower chapter than the first, with more story than inspection. It is best played after Chapter 1, but it is open to everyone.

Also new in Chapter 1:
- A Main Menu button in the pause menu, so you can leave a night without reloading the page.
- When you make a mistake, the message now names the exact line of the file that gave the dead one away. It stays on screen longer and is repeated in the morning report. Thank you to loading___ for pointing this out!
- Walter Ridley’s file in the register finally has his photograph.
- Fixed a rare freeze that could leave the screen stuck until a reload.
- The game loads faster on slow connections, and uses much less memory.

Your progress and your endless runs are kept as always. Thank you for every comment, bug report and kind word: they shaped every night of this chapter.

Ghost Ferry v1.3.5 – a fairer, steadier booth
- A full screen button beside the pause button: the passenger files are much easier to read.
- Every lie the dead tell can now be caught on paper. Some of their answers contradicted nothing in the files; those are gone, and the living no longer have file notes that look like a dead one’s slip.
- People keep their story from night to night: someone found frozen on the bench in the morning report no longer comes back alive, and the same name no longer turns up safe one night and dead the next.
- A mistake’s explanation stays on screen long enough to read it.
- The register’s numbers match what passengers say (“most nights” means hundreds of crossings), and rain runs up a coat only on rainy nights.
- Searching MARIGOLD in the register no longer costs minutes of the night.
- Restarting a night or switching language mid-night now asks first; the volume sliders can be heard in the pause menu; the lower part of the telephone answers it too.
- Many small fixes to texts, layout and the Russian translation.
- If you enjoy Ghost Ferry, you can now leave the developer a small thank-you in Kreds (Pause, Support). It is entirely optional: nothing in the game is bought with money, and a donation changes nothing in play.

Your progress and your endless runs are kept.