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Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the Dusk

A shaky lead about a stiff in a haunted house puts Jake Hunter on a perilous path of clues and dark secrets. When the owner of the home comes clean that the place is cursed and the body count starts rising…

63 31 August 2017

Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the Dusk is an adventure developed by Orange, released 31 August 2017 on Nintendo 3DS.

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What Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the Dusk is

Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the Dusk is an adventure game developed by Orange and released in 2017. It was published by Aksys Games. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A shaky lead about a stiff in a haunted house puts Jake Hunter on a perilous path of clues and dark secrets. When the owner of the home comes clean that the place is cursed and the body count starts rising, Jake realizes he's facing a threat unlike any other. Experience a new chapter in the Jake Hunter saga, along with five additional hard-boiled tales of detectives, deductions, danger, death and of course, dames. Use all your skills: search crime scenes, interview suspects and uncover the truth.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Jake Hunter series

Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the Dusk is the fifth of 6 entries we hold in the Jake Hunter series. It arrived 8 years after Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past. The next entry was Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the Dusk in 2017. Its critic score of 63 is almost exactly the series average of 63. The highest-rated entry is Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past at 70.

See all 6 Jake Hunter games in release order →

How it was received

Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the Dusk holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 8 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the Dusk launched on 31 August 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.

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When did Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the Dusk come out?
Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the Dusk was released on 31 August 2017 for Nintendo 3DS.

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