Ghost 1.0

In Ghost 1.0, players play as a gynoid known as the Chassis, controlled by a female humanoid known as Ghost. As an artificial intelligence, Ghost has the ability to use the Chassis as her physical body and engage in combat by shooting enemies and using other weapons and techniques. Ghost can also abandon the Chassis, leaving it defenseless and traveling the world as a virtual "ghost" to hack into other robots and take them over. This can be used to find secrets or to destroy other robots that would otherwise be dangerous. If the Chassis is destroyed, it is automatically replicated by a 3D printer.

In typical Metroidvania fashion, the player is expected to explore the game world and collect various access cards and other items that will unlock the next area of the game. At certain points at the end of a level, the player must fight bosses to proceed. Certain rooms contain alarms that must be triggered, causing a gauntlet of enemies that can be fought repeatedly for more money (in the form of energy).

The game takes place in the future, and revolves around two intelligent but socially awkward cybercriminals, the roboticist Boogan (Jonathan Jones) and the hacker Jacker (Andrew Miller). The two of them desire to infiltrate the space station owned by the Nakamura Corporation, which is the world's largest and wealthiest producer of androids. They believe that Nakamura holds the source code for their highly intelligent androids, or "Nakas", within the station, since all the androids are controlled from a single server room. They find a contact named Viktor (Steven Kelly) who claims to have a number of freelance spies who work for him, and they hire one named "Ghost" (Mirisha Lottich) from him to sneak into the station via space elevator.

They tell Ghost to do whatever is necessary to capture the artificial intelligence code, believing they can sell it to the highest bidder and become rich. However, as Ghost shuts down various parts of the station, her behavior starts to become unusual. Boogan and Jacker begin to suspect that Ghost is actually a sentient AI that resides on the same server as the Nakas. They also discover that Nakamura is synthesizing organic compounds aboard the station for some reason.

Ghost 1.0 received generally positive reviews, with an aggregate score of 80/100 on Metacritic for the PC version of the game.

Ramon Nafria of Vandal Online rated the game 9/10, calling it "one of the best Metroidvanias we've played in the last few years". David Jagneaux of Nintendo Life rated the game's Switch version 7/10, praising the gameplay mechanics as "subtle and clever". He also praised the game's world design as making internal sense and called the game's soundtrack "rocking". However, he criticized the game's story as "forgettable" with "cheesy", "cringe-inducing" humor.