Over the weekend, the 25th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival concluded, and in its game program, developer Friday Sundae announced that it had won the 2026 Tribeca Games Award for its unreleased video game, There Are No Ghosts at the Grand, for excellence in artistic storytelling, according to a press release. There Are No Ghosts at the Grand was selected across 12 categories from the Tribeca Games Official Selections, which aims to bring “together distinctive games from around the world” and was playable at the event.
“There Are No Ghosts at the Grand is a very personal game for our small team. It brings together music, mystery, British seaside culture and a story about the things families pass down through generations. Sharing the demo with audiences in New York has been a special moment for us,” Friday Sundae co-founder and managing director, Anil Glendinning, said in a statement.
Alongside that fantastic and deserved news, the studio has released a new behind-the-scenes video that revealed that Broadway and Tony-nominated actor, Alex Brightman, will star as There Are No Ghosts at the Grand‘s lead role as Chris David, where the new lead talks about the role. Sounds like a perfect fit with There Are No Ghosts at the Grand being a straight-up musical in the gaming space, letting Brightman bring his musical background from his performances in Beetlejuice and School of Rock into a game like There Are No Ghosts at the Grand, “where dialogue and song flow naturally together.”
“Chris is an outsider trying to keep his cards close as the Grand starts to reveal far more than he expected. What I love is that the game has the energy of musical theatre, but it’s interactive. You’re not just watching Chris sing. You’re helping choose how he responds as the story unfolds through dialogue and song,” Alex Brightman said in a statement describing his character.
There Are No Ghosts at the Grand is set to launch for PC and Xbox Series via Game Pass in 2026.
