This free pumpkin festival game is the best thing to happen all Halloween

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A screenshot of the pumpkin I carved for Ghost Town's 999th Annual Pumpkin Festival. It is a very large orange pumpkin with a very tiny smiley face in the middle

Adamgryu, creator of ‘Game That Graham Won’t Shut Up About 2019’ winner A Short Hike, has released a pay-what-you-can pumpkin carving game on itch. Just in time for the spookiest weekend of the year, Mayor Bones Proudly Presents: Ghost Town’s 999th Annual Pumpkin Festival is a genuine Halloween treat, and the best cure for October blues I have yet come across.

The premise is simple: you carve a pumpkin. Every player can submit three pumpkins to the server, but you can have as many goes as you want at the carving table. When you’ve got a pump you’re happy with, you can place it in the festival display alongside the work of your fellow ghosts. It is, and I am not exaggerating here, wonderful.

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Alice Bell