Ghosts Before Dawn

Keep the night watch

The lanterns are still burning, but the village stands empty. A corpse herder's bell rings beyond the gates. The ghost market is open for business. Beyond the snow, a brazier marks the way to shelter.

Ghosts Before Dawn is a pixel-art survivor-like inspired by Chinese folklore. Your weapons cast automatically while you weave through enemies, gather experience, and choose the upgrades that will carry you through the night. Survive ten minutes, then defeat the final bosses to reach daybreak.

Weapons attack automatically. You choose where to move and how to grow.

Build your own ghost-banishing arsenal

Combine homing talismans, orbiting swords, summoned paper corpses, and spirit-banishing gongs. Build with 13 weapons, 17 evolved forms, and 14 passive items. Start with five weapon slots and five passive slots, unlock a sixth of each through permanent upgrades, discover four weapon synergies, and choose between alternate evolutions for four weapons.

Combine evolved weapons with Five Elements effects.

Bring the Five Elements together

Chain attacks through the generating cycle of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water to trigger area bursts. Equip all five elements to strengthen your build and unleash a recurring formation around you.

Find a way through seven haunted locations

Hold a protective formation in a corpse hall. Take shelter aboard a lantern-lit ferry. Spend your hard-earned coins at the ghost market and warm yourself beside a brazier during a blizzard.

Snow Temple: find a way through the ghosts and back to the braziers.

Return stronger for the next night

Unlock 8 characters, each with a starting weapon and a distinct trait. Invest in 21 permanent upgrades, pursue 30 in-game achievements, fill your collection, and test new builds across five difficulty levels.

Keep moving. Dawn is not here yet.

Join our community

Official QQ group: 1109787365. Share your builds, report issues, and make it through the night together.