Guide through position
A ghost’s location helps define the giant’s next destination and the direction of his actions.
Working title · Playable private Steam demo
Giant & Ghosts
One giant. Too many directions.
A cooperative dark-fantasy roguelite where players become ghosts and share responsibility for one vulnerable giant. Guide his path, direct his powers, carry the resources that sustain him, and work together to keep his flame alive.
The central idea
The biggest character needs the whole team.
The giant is the center of every encounter, but the ghosts decide what happens next. They float over the battlefield as commanders, guides, and positional targeting cursors.
The ghosts are not conventional fighters. Their strength comes from coordination: directing the giant, delivering resources, responding to danger, and balancing different ideas about the team’s next move.
Shared responsibility
How it is designed to play
Command shared power
Players coordinate movement and ability commands around one shared protagonist.
Support the journey
Ghosts gather and deliver resources that sustain the giant and contribute to progression.
Protect the flame
The run continues while the giant survives; his flame reaching zero is the central failure condition.
Stay readable under pressure
The fixed camera and controller-oriented interaction are designed to keep team choices legible.
Run structure
A systems-driven roguelite loop
Runs are designed around replayable objectives and changing pressure rather than a fixed sequence of missions.
- Run
- Arena
- Objective
- Modifier
- Pressure
- Payoff
Destroy
Guide the giant toward priority targets and coordinate his attacks.
Hold
Keep the giant inside an active area while pressure builds.
Collect & deliver
Use ghost mobility to recover objective items and move them into place.
Hunt
Direct the giant toward a moving target that tries to preserve its distance.
Survive
Keep the giant alive through escalating pressure until the scenario ends.
Platforms
Built around full-controller play.
A working Mac development build is available to invited testers through a private Steam Playtest. Windows PC and Steam Deck are planned platforms as active development continues.
The Steam Playtest is not a public release. This page does not claim that public or submission-ready builds currently exist for every target platform.
PCTarget platform
MacPrivate Steam Playtest demo
Steam DeckTarget platform
Development team
Experience across systems, art, and production
Elastic Labs combines game-development leadership with rendering, systems engineering, visual development, and production planning.
Vladimir Shumsky
Founder · Game Producer
Leads project direction, production planning, and platform strategy, bringing a background in GPU rendering, real-time graphics, and cloud systems.
Anton Morozov
Chief Artist · Game Designer
Leads visual development and game design. Released-title contributions include Prime World and Pathfinder: Kingmaker.
View portfolioKirill Reznichenko
Technical Lead · Unreal Engine Developer
Unreal Engine developer with more than six years of UE4/UE5, C++, Blueprints, multiplayer, and performance experience, including prior CTO leadership.
View profileAliaksandr Valmus
Software Engineer
Supports software engineering for Giant & Ghosts as part of the Elastic Labs development team.
Development status
A candid view of where the project stands
A working private Steam demo is being used to test the core loop, controls, arena combat and objectives, and cooperative systems while active development continues.
This page presents
The project’s private-demo status, current design direction, platform plan, development focus, and team.
This page does not announce
A release date, a public build, or completed platform ports.
Media disclosure
Current Giant & Ghosts imagery on this site is concept visualization that closely represents the private demo’s visual direction. It is not direct gameplay footage or capture from the build.
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