Seven Nights Ghost is an indie horror game developed by TozukuGames, released on August 31, 2023.
You are a businessman spending seven days in a company housing before it's scheduled for demolition. Unluckily for you, the temporary living space has been haunted by the ghost of a young woman. You have to survive these seven nights while trying to figure out why your spectral roommate hasn't been able to find rest.
Seven Nights Ghost houses these examples:
- Cassandra Truth: After the first night, you told your coworkers of your encounter with the ghost in the house. They laugh at the story, of course, despite knowing the rumors of the housing being haunted.
- Cell Phones Are Useless: Your cell phone runs out of battery power on the seventh day, forcing you to play the waiting game for it to charge while avoiding getting caught by the ghost.
- Chekhov's Gun: The photo of the cat on the phone is seen at the beginning of the game. It's a photo of Nina, the cat originally owned by previous resident Madoka Sawaise who you took care of at the request of Yokoyama until Nina passed away from illness.
- Closed Circle: The entire game takes place in a company house, where you have to survive a ghost haunting the place for seven days before its scheduled demolition.
- Electromagnetic Ghosts: The electricity and the TV flickering and sporadically going out are among many signs the ghost is active and either up to her antics or is expressing a particular emotion.
- Establishing Series Moment: At the end of the first night, the Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl catches you by the hand, and merely seconds before she gets you, you raise up the donut from the table and offer it, she pauses for a moment before looking back at you and taking the donut. The sillier moments only escalate from there.
- Ghostly Glide: Despite having visible feet, the ghost prefers to glide along the floor to hunt you down in the dark.
- Haunted House: You stay in a company housing with a woman's ghost haunting you.
- Missing Reflection: Averted in the beginning. You catch glimpses of the ghost in the mirror closing in on you only to disappear afterwards.
- Multiple Endings: The way the game ends depend on whether or not you removed all the talismans in the house, and both don't end badly for you.
- Should you not remove at least one talisman before leaving, the point of view changes to Madoka as she reunites with her cat Nina in the afterlife.
- Should you remove all the talismans in the house and leave, Madoka is seen riding the train with you and enjoying a donut.
- Poltergeist: On the seventh day, you speculate the ghost is causing everything in the house to fly, wiggle, twirl in a circle and more because she's upset about something.
- Rule of Seven: You have to survive a ghost and accomplish every objective over the course of seven days.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: The ghost of a woman haunts the company house you are temporarily living in.
- Sweet Tooth: After the incident where she took a donut offered to her, she is discovered to enjoy sweet food. This led to her eating a pudding and later a donut you meant to eat yourself. She also shared a love of sweets with her cat Nina when she was alive.
- Together in Death: In one ending, Madoka finds herself in the afterlife, where she is reunited with her beloved pet cat.
- Undead Barefooter: The ghost is always barefoot, though she doesn't walk at all.
- Unfinished Business: On the seventh night, you confess your reason to believe that the reason Madoka couldn't move on was because she had lingering thoughts on her beloved cat Nina. On the eighth day, she leaves a message where she admits that, while that wasn't entirely the reason she didn't leave (she wanted to live with a good-looking guy), she nonetheless was grateful to you for caring for her cat.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: When the ghost spots a toy beetle on the floor, she immediately reacts with fear under the assumption it was a real bug until told otherwise. She gets angry about it afterwards.
