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Mini Ghost cover art

Mini Ghost

@unepic_fran · 2017-04-28

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Dec 18, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Oct 24, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 27, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Mini Ghost" is a mini metroidvania in the 80's MSX art style and gameplay. It's the mini prequel of Ghost 1.0.

Mini Ghost is an Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie game released in 2017, priced at $1.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (95% of 421 reviews).

0
playing now
95%
positive of 421 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
3.60★
PlayStation Store rating (15 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (85 reviews).
  • · Top 22% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 11k–25k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 421 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2018-06-21) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 5 of 7 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
848420172026Week of 2017-04-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$1.99$0.992017-04-292026-05-302017-04-29 — best price $1.792018-02-15 — best price $0.992019-09-18 — best price $0.992020-05-11 — best price $1.992020-07-05 — best price $1.792020-07-27 — best price $1.992020-08-15 — best price $1.462020-09-06 — best price $1.992020-09-24 — best price $1.792020-10-16 — best price $1.462020-11-12 — best price $1.462020-12-12 — best price $1.992021-01-15 — best price $1.462021-02-03 — best price $1.992021-02-24 — best price $1.462021-03-22 — best price $1.992021-04-14 — best price $1.792021-05-11 — best price $0.992021-06-20 — best price $1.462021-07-19 — best price $1.792021-08-23 — best price $1.792021-09-12 — best price $1.792021-10-15 — best price $1.792021-11-09 — best price $1.462021-12-17 — best price $1.462022-01-17 — best price $1.462022-02-03 — best price $1.462022-02-23 — best price $1.462022-04-03 — best price $1.462022-05-07 — best price $1.462022-05-26 — best price $1.462022-07-14 — best price $1.462022-08-05 — best price $1.792022-09-02 — best price $1.792023-03-23 — best price $1.992024-12-04 — best price $1.992026-05-29 — best price $1.482026-05-30 — best price $1.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
29.4%
earned "Card 2"
6.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, French, Italian, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8824%24

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndieRetroActionCasualAdventurePlatformerLevel EditorMetroidvaniaSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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