# Get this game! Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective for the Iphone/Ipad
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-this-game-ghost-trick-phantom-detective-for-the-iphone-ipad/611760
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [February 4, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-this-game-ghost-trick-phantom-detective-for-the-iphone-ipad/611760 "2012-02-04T16:04:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-this-game-ghost-trick-phantom-detective-for-the-iphone-ipad/611760/1 "2012-02-04T16:04:46Z")
Get this game. I played it for the DS and absolutely loved it. It has one of my favorite plots in a game and has really unique gameplay.
You’re dead.
That’s how the game begins. You’ve just died, have no memory of who you are, how you died, or anything else. All you have is the ability to stop time, make objects move a little, and…the ability to reverse time 4 minutes before anyone else’ death and try to prevent their death.
Over the course of one night, you unravel the mystery of who you are, how you died, and what the great mystery is that everyone else in the game is working on.
The first two chapters are free, so give it a shot.
It’s a great game and if the $10 is too much for you, add it to your appshopper queue and get it during a price drop. You won’t be disappointed. It was one of the best new games I played last year.
[Slidetoplay has said it is in the running for 2012 year-end awards already.](http://www.slidetoplay.com/story/ghost-trick-phantom-detective-review)
Anyone else play this game? Let’s avoid spoilers.
[Itunes Link](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ghost-trick-phantom-detective/id489113377?mt=8)
I am not connected to the game at all and this isn’t an advertisement. Just a big recommendation.
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### Author:  [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-this-game-ghost-trick-phantom-detective-for-the-iphone-ipad/611760/2 "2012-02-04T16:49:55Z")
I will give it a try for iPhone. Thanks for the recommendation. I’m sick, so deserve a little diversion while I lie slugabed.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-this-game-ghost-trick-phantom-detective-for-the-iphone-ipad/611760/3 "2012-02-04T17:09:36Z")
> [@Savannah](#):
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> I will give it a try for iPhone. Thanks for the recommendation. I’m sick, so deserve a little diversion while I lie slugabed.
Remember, the first two chapters are free, so give it a free chance first.
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### Author:  [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-this-game-ghost-trick-phantom-detective-for-the-iphone-ipad/611760/4 "2012-02-04T19:48:44Z")
Great game, easily worth $10.
It has the same creator as the Ace Attorney series, and in my opinion is better than all but the first Ace Attorney game (and is even better than that in some ways).
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### Author:  [@Chipacabra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chipacabra)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-this-game-ghost-trick-phantom-detective-for-the-iphone-ipad/611760/5 "2012-02-04T20:51:30Z")
I actually like it better than the Ace Attorney games. The story and gameplay mesh better, and the story is one of those rarities that both stands on its own pretty well, and takes advantage of the personal experience of being a video game.
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### Author:  [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-this-game-ghost-trick-phantom-detective-for-the-iphone-ipad/611760/6 "2012-02-06T14:30:38Z")
Yeah, it’s a great game. It’s a port of a DS game from last year, which I think was at least mentioned here and there in game-of-the-year discussions. Ten bucks is a steal.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-this-game-ghost-trick-phantom-detective-for-the-iphone-ipad/611760/7 "2012-02-07T02:42:19Z")
It’s also a really funny game in parts, something that is all too lacking in many games today.