"Ghost Town" was met with generally strong reviews from music critics, often being ranked as one of the album's highlights. Meaghan Garvey of "Pitchfork" pointed to the track as ""ye"s clear highlight," while she regarded the outro by 070 Shake and Kid Cudi's refrain as being better than West's verse, specially noting that 070 Shake's "performance is unexpectedly magnetic." Carrie Battan from "The New Yorker" named the track as the best song, pointing out its elements of soul and pop punk, though viewed the track as "the finest example of hip-hop's current fascination with rock music" and praised the outro by 070 Shake for showing that her "androgynous, pubescent voice is used to create a bridge between the joyous and the morbid." Outside of "I Thought About Killing You" and "Yikes", "The Independent"s Christopher Hooton billed the track as the album's "only other remotely good song." Hooton continued, viewing it as being salvaged by 070 Shake "with a stunning, anthemic and sincere vocal over a crunchy guitar riff." Rob Sheffield of "Rolling Stone" complemented the song for being the only track on "Ye" that "stands on its own" and also directed praise towards 070 Shake's vocals, though concluded by writing that the song has "genuine heart – enough heart to make you wish Kanye could find a way out of his current creative trap." Douglas Greenwood from "NME" described the song as the album's "penultimate and perhaps strongest track" and argued that it "owes a great deal to its euphoric, rocky outro" from 070 Shake, with him viewing the outro as "a moment of real clarity on a record that's immediately impactful." Writing for "Entertainment Weekly", Alex Suskind highlighted the song as one of "Ye"s "few bright spots," commenting that it "resembles "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" opus 'Runaway'" and Suskind directed praise towards the lyrical content. Adam Rothbarth of "Tiny Mix Tapes" commented with praise for Kid Cudi's "purposely gnarly" refrain, West's "elegant vocal performance" and the production of the song. However, Rothbarth opined that the production "sets the perfect foundation for 070 Shake's cyclical" outro and cited the outro as one of the highlights of "Ye".