{"id":278243,"date":"2025-06-11T18:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/there-are-no-ghosts-at-the-grand-renovate-by-day-hunt-ghosts-by-night\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:08:07","slug":"there-are-no-ghosts-at-the-grand-renovate-by-day-hunt-ghosts-by-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/there-are-no-ghosts-at-the-grand-renovate-by-day-hunt-ghosts-by-night\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are No Ghosts at the Grand: Renovate by Day, Hunt Ghosts by Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  • There Are No Ghosts at the Grand <\/em>is a surreal first-person mystery where you renovate a haunted hotel by day and hunt ghosts by night.<\/li>\n
  • Use talking power tools to uncover secrets, solve puzzles, and battle supernatural threats.<\/li>\n
  • Explore a spooky English seaside town filled with side quests, hidden locations, and strange characters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

    Revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase, There Are No Ghosts at the Grand<\/em> is a surreal, first-person, narrative-driven mystery. It\u2019s part-renovation game, part-ghost story, part-musical. See the trailer below, and read on for a full breakdown of our unique new game:<\/p>\n

    You play as a young American man, Chris David, who unexpectedly inherits The Grand, a dilapidated British seaside hotel along the English east coast.<\/p>\n

    Players will help Chris renovate and restore the old hotel using a set of talking power tools. But be warned\u2026 beneath the veneer of paper and paint you apply during the day, something horrible shivers and slithers in the night.<\/p>\n

    30 Days and 30 Nights to Complete the Renovations<\/h2>\n

    To renovate the hotel, players will have access to exaggerated power tools such as the sand blaster, paint sprayer, furniture cannon, and the daisy chain gun, to blast the hotel back to its former glory. This isn\u2019t a simulation though, players don\u2019t have to be exact. Decorating and renovating is fast, fluid and fun. You don\u2019t have to get every spot \u2013 just enough is close enough.<\/p>\n

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    But with only 30 days and 30 nights to complete the job, choose each room carefully \u2013 because when the time runs out something<\/em> will come for you.<\/p>\n

    Luckily, players are not alone. Meet your AI DIY assistant, Robert C MacBrushy. He\u2019s a cross between Star Trek\u2019s Scotty and Microsoft\u2019s Clippy. He\u2019s also an expert in all things DIY \u2013 and the supernatural, but we\u2019ll come back to that.<\/p>\n

    With MacBrushy\u2019s help, players will smash out old windows, blast broken furniture, splash paint and paper across walls, and shoot furniture cleaner across the room, like some crazy cross between Mary Poppins and Marcus Fenix. But sometimes, you\u2019ll need to slow down and think, as you\u2019ll also come across environmental puzzles that will need a little lateral thinking, and some hidden clues to solve.<\/p>\n

    Progress is made through the game by completing rooms and revealing their secrets, but you can only decorate by day. At night, you have other<\/em> problems to deal with.<\/p>\n

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    Decorator by Day, Ghost Hunter by Night<\/h2>\n

    In There are No Ghosts at the Grand<\/em>, the main character, Chris, has a secret. Although he inherited the hotel, he\u2019s not just here to renovate\u2026 not really.<\/p>\n

    At night, once the decorating is done for the day, he searches for something. Clues hidden behind walls, old blueprints revealing hidden spaces, strange doors leading to strange places. Players will help him whilst also trying to figure out what\u2019s really going on. There\u2019s something unpleasant lurking in the hotel, something ancient that leaves multi-legged footprints across freshly painted walls. Scuttling can be heard in those walls, furniture moves by itself. At night, the hotel isn\u2019t safe.<\/p>\n

    But don\u2019t worry, Robert C. MacBrushy is here to help with this too. At night, when the world changes, so do your power tools, and they have hidden modes that have special effects on certain supernatural denizens. Unleash the vacuum on vengeful spirits. Expose invisible assailants with the paint sprayer. Take out an unpleasant spook with a well aimed bookcase to the face with the furniture cannon. If you learn how to use your tools, you can survive the night.<\/p>\n

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    Quirky Characters and a Sarcastic, Australian Cat<\/h2>\n

    At its heart, There Are No Ghosts at the Grand<\/em> is a story about people and the baggage they leave behind. You\u2019re never alone as you explore the hotel and the surrounding town, and you\u2019ll meet each of our game\u2019s quirky characters as you delve deeper into the hotel.<\/p>\n

    Each character is a custodian of a particular room that you can unlock: from Colin, the elderly caretaker in the lounge, to his daughter Lily in the garden. You\u2019ll meet the town mayor, Maddie in the boathouse, and Adam the police officer in the cinema room, watching re-runs of old buddy cop films.<\/p>\n

    Presiding over them all is Mr Bones, the hotel\u2019s cat, and perhaps its most mysterious resident. Like the hotel itself, he\u2019s a creature of duality. By day, he\u2019s an ordinary cat who follows you around and likes belly rubs. By night, he\u2019s a sarcastic and mercurial character who waxes lyrical (in a deep Australian accent) about the hotel\u2019s many secrets and hidden places. But is he a friend or foe?<\/p>\n

    Each character has their own story, questline, and agenda, which you can help or hinder as you play.\u00a0 They also each have their own song because There Are No Ghosts at the Grand<\/em> is also <\/em>a musical.<\/p>\n

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    A Musical Ghost Story<\/h2>\n

    There Are No Ghosts at the Grand<\/em> is a musical, but not in the traditional musical theatre sense. Think of it more like a cool, dusty album of British ska and punk songs from the 1980s that you might find in your dad\u2019s record collection.<\/p>\n

    These are songs with attitude, bite, and hummable hooks. Each character will introduce themselves through song, the style of which is unique to them, from spooky ska to wartime jazz, and even skater punk.<\/p>\n

    You\u2019ll be able to duet with them and make dialogue choices in verse to explore their story further. The songs are full gameplay sequences involving player action and choices, whilst the lyrics and furniture go flying.<\/p>\n

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    Exploring Kingswood-on-Sea<\/h2>\n

    Players won\u2019t be spending all their time in the Grand Hotel. Right outside the door lies the village of Kingswood-on-Sea, a crumbling, spooky, seaside town, full of secrets and side activities.<\/p>\n

    This small open world lets players leave the hotel at any time, even at night, to explore its abandoned shops, winding streets and hidden mysteries. You can restore an abandoned minigolf course and play a round or two, comb the beach with a half-working metal detector, or find shops to renovate and restore, each with unique rewards.<\/p>\n

    The streets of Kingswood-on-Sea are full of strange little secrets, and they reward curiosity. Find a rusty old scooter that you can restore and ride through the village, discover an old fishing boat that players can fix up and take out into the shallow coastal waters, or explore the hidden coves and sunken bays. It even has a winch to dredge for lost treasures, if you can find the locations hinted at in clues found in the hotel.<\/p>\n

    Just\u2026 be back before nightfall. Under the inky blackness of the frozen North Sea, something stirs in the depth, and it slithers onto the land at night.<\/p>\n

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    Summing It All Up<\/h2>\n

    There Are No Ghosts at the Grand<\/em> is a game about restoration and ruin. About strange townsfolk and suspicious upholstery. About music, memory, ghosts, and the awkward legacy of inherited property. It\u2019s a spooky, funny, slightly tragic mystery, wrapped in ska riffs, talking tools, and night-time terrors.<\/p>\n

    You\u2019ll renovate. You\u2019ll investigate. You\u2019ll duet. It\u2019s a musical where you can skip the songs, a comedy with a dark secret, and a game that lies to you constantly, with a narrator you shouldn\u2019t quite trust. If you\u2019re very lucky, or very unlucky, you might just uncover the truth about the Grand Hotel. Assuming the Grand doesn\u2019t uncover something about you first.<\/p>\n

    There Are No Ghosts at the Grand<\/em> is a ghost story where the ghosts might be memories, or lies, or something crawling up the beach in the moonlight. The Grand Hotel is waiting, and is coming to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox PC, and Game Pass in 2026. Just\u2026 don\u2019t trust the upholstery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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