Terminal Reality was an American video game developer based in Lewisville, Texas, founded in 1994. They are best known for Ghostbusters: The Video Game in 2009 and the BloodRayne series. The studio closed in 2013.

Terminal Reality Key Games

BloodRayne (2002) and BloodRayne 2 (2004)

BloodRayne is a half-human, half-vampire agent working for the Brimstone Society against Nazi occult forces in the 1930s. The series mixed action combat with a distinctive gothic aesthetic and became Terminal Reality’s most recognizable original IP. A Uwe Boll film adaptation followed in 2005. BloodRayne remasters came to modern platforms in 2021 via Ziggurat Interactive.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009)

Terminal Reality’s most significant legacy. Written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis with the original cast returning to voice their characters, including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, William Atherton, and Annie Potts. Aykroyd called it essentially the third Ghostbusters film. It is Harold Ramis’s final performance as Egon Spengler. The game sold over three million copies. Published in North America by Atari Interactive after the original publisher Activision dropped it following the Vivendi merger.

The Closure

Terminal Reality closed in 2013 after completing The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. They built one genuinely great game in Ghostbusters and a series of interesting underappreciated titles across their two-decade history.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game

Ghostbusters: The Video Game is an action adventure game based on the Ghostbusters franchise. The game was made by multiple developers. Terminal Reality developed the…

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