The touchscreen shows the player's location in the current mansion being explored. To successfully capture, the player must vacuum the ghost until its hit points reach zero.
In September 2018, Nintendo and Next Level Games announced a third entry in the series, titled Luigi's Mansion 3, which was released worldwide on Octofor the Nintendo Switch. The game received generally positive reviews from critics, praising the game's 3D visuals and new features, but there was some criticism of the game's mission-based structure and lack of checkpoints. Dark Moon offers a cooperative multiplayer mode that can be played locally or online via Nintendo Network. Luigi progressively explores five different-themed mansions while capturing ghosts and solving puzzles in order to progress to the next level. In the game's single-player mode, the main goal is to retrieve the shards of the shattered Dark Moon, a magical object that has a pacifying effect on the ghosts who live in the game's setting, Evershade Valley, while also rescuing Luigi's brother, Mario, from King Boo, the mastermind behind the disappearance of the Dark Moon and the paranormal activity. In Dark Moon, the player controls Luigi, who is equipped with the Poltergust 5000, a specialized vacuum cleaner used to capture ghosts. The game was released in Japan on March 20, 2013, and later in that same month in most other major regions. It is also the third video game where Luigi is the main character instead of Mario after the first Luigi's Mansion game and Mario is Missing!. It is the sequel to the 2001 Nintendo GameCube game Luigi's Mansion.
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, known in Japan, Australia and Europe as Luigi's Mansion 2, is a 2013 action-adventure video game developed by Next Level Games and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS.