Play Soul Getter - Houkago Bouken RPG (Japan) Online

After class, you and your classmates bust ghosts instead of doing homework—talking down demons and recruiting weird spirits (like a killer desk) to fight for you. The school’s haunted hallways are full of turn-based scuffles and dumb little puzzles.

Genre: RPG

Released: 2000

File size: 520 bytes

Game Overview

Soul Getter - Houkago Bouken RPG is one of those weird little Game Boy Color games that makes you go, "Wait, why didn’t this get more attention?" It starts off like a typical school-life RPG—until your homeroom teacher casually drops that your class is actually a squad of ghost hunters. Yeah, after-school activities here mean crawling through haunted hallways and negotiating with demons instead of club meetings.

The combat’s straightforward turn-based stuff, but the real fun comes from recruiting spirits to fight alongside you. Some are total pushovers, others will wreck your party if you’re not careful, and a few just have hilarious designs (there’s a sentient desk that hits like a truck). The pixel art’s got that chunky GBC charm, and the dungeons are just the right mix of puzzles and random encounters to keep things moving.

It’s definitely a product of its time—grindy in spots, translation’s a bit rough—but there’s something oddly cozy about its mix of school sim and dungeon crawler. If you’ve ever wanted to argue with a yokai during lunch break, this is your game.