Dancing with Ghosts
A gentle ghost story about learning to live after loss. A teen girl, weighed down by the death of her parents, befriends a little ghost only she can see and finds her way back through friendship, dance, and small kindnesses. A wholesome Thai life-sim, with a dozen little minigames, and a lot of joy.
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Dancing with Ghosts is a gentle Thai narrative life-sim, fully voiced in Thai, with about 8 to 12 hours of story, a game about the small kindnesses that bring a person back to themselves.
Mai is fifteen, and since her parents died she has been moving through her days as if half-asleep, present on the outside and far away within. Then she meets Pim, an eleven-year-old phii, the warm and friendly kind of ghost from Thai folklore, and the only one Mai can see. Little by little, it is the joyful little ghost who teaches the living girl how to find her way back to joy.
From HumaNature Studios and Greg Johnson, creator of ToeJam & Earl, a deeply personal project written through real-life grief. The village is modeled on his Thai family's home in Bang Pa-In, and it is made from the inside: Thai artists, Thai animators, and Thai voices.
Play as Mai. Spend your days helping around the village, earning coins and good karma that unlock the next parts of the story.
Between conversations, the village opens into small games and quiet moments:
Thai dance, a rhythm game and the heart of the story. Learn the steps Mai's mother once taught, and pass them on to Pim.
Heart-lights. Drift through the village as Pim to sense what a neighbor quietly wishes for, then help Mai grant it.
Riverboating and scootering, ferrying neighbors along the river and through the lanes.
Cooking and the market, trading and sharing the food that holds a village together
