The Other Side
by Vectora Games · 7 Mar, 2025
About the Game
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The Other Side is a 1-6 player cooperative paranormal investigation game. Players work together to identify and cleanse entities using a range of equipment, and environmental tools. Gather evidence, track ghost behavior, and complete objectives across different locations using both traditional, and modernized tools.
Players can customize their characters and unlock items to personalize their headquarters. Built in Unreal Engine 5, the game focuses on modern, functional investigation systems and detailed environments.
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Play solo, or with up to five other players as you investigate haunted locations. Work together to identify and cleanse entities by gathering evidence and completing objectives.
In-Game Voice Chat:
Communicate with your team using proximity-based voice chat. Share information, coordinate movement, and respond to events in real time. Players can even communicate with their fallen friends by using the spirit box.Shared Equipment:
Players can bring and use equipment during contracts, allowing teams to coordinate loadouts and approach each investigation strategically. Success depends on how effectively tools are used, and information is shared.
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Progress through the game to unlock more customization options across your loadout, character, and headquarters. Earn money via contracts to spend on customization options for yourself, your vehicle, and headquarters. Upgrading to a larger vehicle increases the number of items you can bring into investigations.
Character Customization:
Customize your character with a range of apparel, hairstyles, and skin tones.Headquarters Outfitting:
Unleash your creativity as you furnish and upgrade your base, sculpting its appearance to reflect your success in completing contracts and tasks. Create an atmospheric hub that fellow ghost hunters envy.
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Identify:
Determine the ghost type by gathering evidence, and observing behavior. Use investigation tools to track activity, collect date, and correctly identify the ghost haunting the location.Cleanse:
Now that the Identify Team has done their job, it's time for you to do yours. Work as a team to cleanse the location of the ghost haunting it. Use your ghost-hunting tools to identify the ghost's characteristics, and input them into the Spectral Affixer, revealing the location of the artifacts binding the ghost to the location. Find the artifacts and destroy them to banish the ghost from the location.
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Investigate a range of locations, each with distinct layouts, environmental details, and each with their own gameplay challenges. Every location is designed to support evidence gathering, ghost tracking, and contract objectives.
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Version 0.9.7.5_h
Thank you to the entire community for helping spot many of these issues and suggesting several of these quality-of-life additions during our last stage meeting in the Discord. Your feedback genuinely helps shape The Other Side and we appreciate everyone who took the time to participate!
Additions:
Added live Steam player counts to the session finder
Added a visual indicator in the HUD equipment slots when equipment is powered on
Added equipment status indicators to the HUD for relevant items, including remaining Holy Spray charges, Anxiety Pill usage, and Glowstick light intensity
Added the ability to interact with dropped equipment
Added an always-on HUD reticle/crosshair option (this is experimental and will be expanded upon in coming updates)
Players you encounter in-game are now automatically added to Steam's Recent Players list
Added a filter option to hide full sessions in the session browser
Changes:
Session sorting now maintains its state after refreshing
Session codes are now case insensitive
Players can no longer join sessions that are already at capacity
Reduced radio voice chat volume
Improved Spectral Affixer lighting quality
Reduced the long black screen delay after the drive-up intro finishes
Fixes:
Fixed an issue where rapidly clicking could cause Holy Water to spray multiple times at once, instantly consuming all charges
Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor would snap back to the center of the screen after returning to the main menu
Removed the Easter Event tab from the HQ laptop browser's homepage
Fixed an issue where disconnecting from the session while interacting with the Spectral Affixer would leave it unusable
Fixed glitch spots in Abaddon Hallows East
Fixed glitch spots in Summerhill Psychiatric Institution
Corrected Shura and Skia ghost speed discrepancies from previous patch notes
Fixed an event in Summerhill Psychiatric Institution causing the door to remain locked for several minutes
Fixed the tricycle causing players to glitch through the floor in St. Joseph's Orphanage
Fixed the Doppelganger being able to hunt from outside of its favorite room
Version 0.9.7.5_h
Thank you to the entire community for helping spot many of these issues and suggesting several of these quality-of-life additions during our last stage meeting in the Discord. Your feedback genuinely helps shape The Other Side and we appreciate everyone who took the time to participate!
Additions:
Added live Steam player counts to the session finder
Added a visual indicator in the HUD equipment slots when equipment is powered on
Added equipment status indicators to the HUD for relevant items, including remaining Holy Spray charges, Anxiety Pill usage, and Glowstick light intensity
Added the ability to interact with dropped equipment
Added an always-on HUD reticle/crosshair option (this is experimental and will be expanded upon in coming updates)
Players you encounter in-game are now automatically added to Steam's Recent Players list
Added a filter option to hide full sessions in the session browser
Changes:
Session sorting now maintains its state after refreshing
Session codes are now case insensitive
Players can no longer join sessions that are already at capacity
Reduced radio voice chat volume
Improved Spectral Affixer lighting quality
Reduced the long black screen delay after the drive-up intro finishes
Fixes:
Fixed an issue where rapidly clicking could cause Holy Water to spray multiple times at once, instantly consuming all charges
Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor would snap back to the center of the screen after returning to the main menu
Removed the Easter Event tab from the HQ laptop browser's homepage
Fixed an issue where disconnecting from the session while interacting with the Spectral Affixer would leave it unusable
Fixed glitch spots in Abaddon Hallows East
Fixed glitch spots in Summerhill Psychiatric Institution
Corrected Shura and Skia ghost speed discrepancies from previous patch notes
Fixed an event in Summerhill Psychiatric Institution causing the door to remain locked for several minutes
Fixed the tricycle causing players to glitch through the floor in St. Joseph's Orphanage
Fixed the Doppelganger being able to hunt from outside of its favorite room
Version 0.9.7.5_g - Adopt Your Bunny!
We’ve seen a massive wave of new investigators joining The Other Side recently, and a lot of you just missed out on the Easter Event’s exclusive Pet Bunny, our very first Headquarters pet.
So, we’re doing something special.
Content Creators will soon receive an exclusive HQ furniture item: a Bunny Kennel. Players who visit a participating creator’s Headquarters will be able to interact with the kennel to unlock their own Pet Bunny to keep in their HQs permanently.
Thank you all for the incredible support lately we have a ton of new stuff coming real soon!
Fixes:
Improved network stability for connections with changing NATs
Fixed shadows on some furniture
Fixed a spot in Abaddon East where ghosts could become stuck
Performance optimizations in Abaddon East/West
Tricycle in St. Joseph's Orphanage could cause players to get pushed below the floor
Various other minor performance/stability fixes
Changes:
Windowed Mode now has a border to allow resizing and dragging
Adjusted the radio volume to better match proximity voice chat
Adjusted Leaderboard TV furniture UI to support numbers above 999
Additions:
Content Creators now have a Bunny Kennel furniture that visiting players to their HQ can interact with to obtain their own pet bunny!*
*Starting at 4PM BST / 11AM EST - Visit a content creator lobby (labeled CONTENT CREATOR in the session finder) and interact with the kennel to claim your bunny. There are 5 different fur variations and is unchangeable. One bunny per person. No returns.
Version 0.9.7.5_d
Fixes:
Various stability issues have been addressed
Settings UI was showing in main menu before going to settings
Room bounds were not fully encompassing one of the lots in Abaddon Hallows West
Changes:
Wraith's disorientation time from Holy Water is now 5 seconds (as stated in previous patch notes)
Additions:
Added session filtering for lobbies that have hidden easter eggs
Session owners can now change session privacy without needing to restart the session
Ability to recover all easter eggs in your HQ if you've placed the maximum amount
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Uploaded Jun 08, 2026
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How to Install
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• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
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