The Last Ghoul — a dark fantasy action game for PC, by CTS-GAMING

Key art of The Last Ghoul: the ghoul hero, seen from behind, sword lowered, facing the castle gate as ghouls pour through it under a red moon

CTS-GAMING presents

Top-down action in a dark fantasy world.

You wake at the bottom of a well, under the dead: a ghoul, but still lucid. Hold the gates, harpoon the brutes, devour the dead to stay alive, and follow the voice that keeps telling you to get up.

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Hack and Slash
Top-Down
Dark Fantasy
Gore
Story Rich
Singleplayer

Windows PC · Steam

About the game

Get up.

Every hundred years, the water of the old well turns black, and the people of the estuary turn into ghouls.

You wake at the bottom of that well, under the dead. A ghoul yourself, but lucid. A voice tells you to get up.

The Last Ghoul is a top-down action game with a story. Crawl out of the sewers, find a blade, and hold the castle until dawn against waves of the hungry. Then the well pulls you further down, into older nights of the same curse.

The hero, seen from behind, walks through the rain towards the barred gate of the castle; a brazier burns in the foreground — The gate, the first night.

What you do

Fight, take, hold.

Fight like a ghoul.
Slash, charge heavy blows, roll, kick, and devour the fallen to heal and feed your Frenzy.
Take what the dead leave behind.
Swords and axes taken from the dead, harpoons that drag the brutes down, powder kegs that clear a gate.
Hold the line.
Gates, chapels and wells to defend with the machines of each place: a portcullis, ballistae, a ballast cage, a ship’s broadside.
Keep moving.
Gallop through a burning town, cross a harbour at low tide, board a ship in a storm.
Face the masters of the hungry.
A Glutton, a Necromancer, a Baron whose heart beats behind iron ribs, and worse further down.

Screenshots

The castle, the crypt, the sewers.

Captured in the game engine. Some of these show blood and dismemberment.

The castle courtyard at night under the rain, seen from above: braziers, the skull gate, and a wave of ghouls running across the flagstones — The courtyard under the rain. The first wave runs at the chapel.

The hero, seen from behind, stands sword in hand as ghouls come through the arched gate towards him — They come through the gate.

Seen from above, the portcullis of the gate falls on a file of ghouls; blood on the stones — The portcullis falls on a file of ghouls.

The hero, harpoon raised, faces an armoured brute carrying a huge flail in the night courtyard — A harpoon against a brute: drag it in, or die under its flail.

A huge glowing ghoul, the Glutton, raises both arms over the hero in the courtyard; a red warning circle on the ground — The Glutton raises his blow. Roll.

In the crypt, the hero seen from behind walks on ghouls clawing at an iron grate; a lantern glows behind it — Claws on the reliquary grate. A lantern still burns behind it.

Ghouls caught on a burning cremation slab in the crypt, smoke rising in front of an old fresco of the well — The cremation slabs of the crypt.

A heavy sword blow sends a ghoul’s head flying in a spray of blood, in the night courtyard — A heavy blow. The gore is heavy, and readable.

The crypt before the first wave: the iron cage over the well, stone statues, a lit grate, bodies on the floor — The crypt, before the first wave.

In motion

The portcullis.

The reliquary.

Out of the sewers.

Highlights

No two nights play the same.

A campaign of about five hours: a castle under siege, a pirate harbour, a ship in a storm, a monastery in the snow.
Every chapter has its own place, its own machines and its own way to move.
A story told through places, memories and a few spoken lines, never through walls of text.
Heavy, readable gore: limbs fly, and hunger is a mechanic, not a decoration.
A voice in the well, and three endings.

Fact sheet

Developer: CTS-GAMING (comtosee SRL), Namur, Belgium
Platform: Windows PC, on Steam
Genre: Top-down action, hack and slash, dark fantasy
Players: Single player
Languages: English, French
Demo: 15 December 2026, free, on Steam
Release: To be announced

Mature content

The Last Ghoul contains frequent, graphic fantasy violence against undead humanoids: blood, dismemberment, decapitation, and a ghoul who devours corpses to survive. It also shows dead bodies, including hanged corpses, and deals with dark themes of death, guilt and abandonment. There is no sexual content and no nudity.