Ghost Hour (2026)
Ghost Hour is a spooky platformer set in a storm-lashed manor where the great clock stopped one minute before midnight, so the ghosts' hour never ends. You play a telegram runner in a yellow slicker who must find four lost clock parts across thirteen rooms and carry them back to the Great Hall. Indoors you only see what your candle lights, and the wax keeps burning down, so every dark corridor is a gamble between saving light and scaring off what lurks there. Ghosts drift through walls, bats steal your wax and werewolves patrol the floors, while flashes of lightning briefly reveal the whole room. Made by Bruno Keymolen and Claude and released under the MIT license (github.com/brunokeymolen/ghosthour).
Objective • Find the four lost clock parts hidden around the manor and bring them to the clock in the Great Hall. • Rescue Brooke, who is trapped on the top plank in the Bedroom with the clock's winding key. Controls • Joystick in port 2: left and right to walk. • Up to jump or climb, down to climb down. • Fire raises your candle to drive off nearby ghosts, bats and wolves (it burns wax faster). • Keyboard alternative: W A S D to move and SPACE for the candle. • Press fire on the title screen to start. Tips • Indoors you only see what the candle lights, and it dims as the wax burns. Wax does not burn outdoors. • In the dark you only see eyes, so watch for them and raise the candle when something gets close. • Ghosts cost 1 nerve and werewolves cost 2. At zero nerve you faint. Bats steal wax instead. • Pick up candles to refill your wax. The candle in the Great Hall comes back every time you re-enter. • A white twinkle marks a clock part and a yellow twinkle marks a candle. Walk into a part to take it. • To free Brooke, stand beside her and hold fire for about two seconds. Modes • Single player.