Phasmophobia

For VR: It's just not good, fam. Wonky controls, weird navigation menu. Almost impossible to really get anything done.

i went in and said "do something spooky", it did something spooky. beside the point, very fun game, especially with friends

The game is very good and I really enjoy playing it with my friends but one specific thing is very annoying to me, the selection of your items with the mouse wheel. My mouse is working fine but it takes too long to nagivate through your inventory and picking the right item so I would recommend adding an hotbar to the game and selecting your item with keybinds.

Had this game for years but recently picked it back up, love the equipment progression. I was discouraged after losing my old levels when the big update happened and it took me a while to give it another chance, but god this game is addictive.

Loaded into my first game and got plates flinged at me. Its was a demon.
Amazing

Everyone knows when this game was extremely popular everyone on the internet, but is it really good ?

- The gameplay is nice, can get very repetitive, I wouldn't be able to play this game for hours for a few days in a row, I would need breaks. The reason is because it's always the same cycle for each game, grabbing items, finding the room, placing everything there, if you are attacked hide, and leave. Even the weekly challenges don't change much. I wish there would be a difference between locations of different actions to do, but it still is quite fun for a while !

- The graphics are basic, nothing much to say. The animations for the players are very funny though haha

- The soundtrack has nothing to offer, I wish there were some interesting scary musics played throughout the game.

- This game is still very replayable because that's the point, grinding experience and money and finding as many ghosts as possible, it's also very fun when you are playing with friends and you can hear them scream^^

In general, I would say this game deserves the love it is getting, I would recommend it if you have some friends to play with though !

I've waited for years for them to add horror 2.0 - the update they hinted at forever ago. I don't care about all these endless ui reworks - or progression reworks - or slightly different maps. They said in the first timeline of updates posted years ago that soon they'd be releasing horror 2.0, which is, NEW GHOST INTERACTIONS. That's all I have ever cared about. They just posted ANOTHER timeline, changing and updating the journal again, adding new ways to record evidence again, and other random trivial stuff.

Playing a horror game gets boring when they same few things keep happening forever. Still the same hands appear when you die. Still the same weird sequence in a basement plays after death. STILL a few things move, or the same sounds play, or the sink turns on, or the phone rings, etc... It's all the same few "scares" that arent even that scary - without anything new in years.

In one day they could add so many more interesting sounds to play randomly and that would do so much to refresh the same boring and repetitive ghost "interactions". I write jump scares for a game on unity and create new, interesting little scares all the time. How have they not added one in god knows how long? Literally anything to make me feel like I dont know exactly what to expect every game? This game was fun when you didn't know what could happen - but when you realize its the same few, not scary ghost "interactions" it becomes a dull and pointless grind of finding evidence perpetually.

This game is by far one of the best games I have ever played. I'm not much of a horror fan so when I started playing this game I could barely play for two minutes before getting too scared and turning the game off. Now I play for hours with friends and randoms on the internet and have some of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. It's definitely more of a play with friends game but it is also fun to play solo as well. If you're on the fence about this game jump the fence and go for it. If you think it's too scary for you GO FOR IT. Like I said, this is the most fun I've had with a game in a long time.

10/10 would recommend if you want someone whispering random things in your ear :P

It's fun especially with friends, but you'll develop trust issues (NEVER trust your friends with cursed objects, they will get you killed).

ps. I had a lot of experience in getting ghosted that I excel in ghost hunting.

I absolutely love this game!, bought it to play with my gf and it quickly became one of my favourites, I 100% suggest getting it!

Super Fun Game ! Great to play in a group. love the aspect of gathering evidence and figuring out what ghost you have.

i personally find a few of the maps are a bit to big but this isn't a massive issue as there are so many maps and with each ghost investigation you experience the maps differently every time.

graphics are good i did have an issue with the trees flashing white but this was an easy fix within the video settings.

super fun would recommend to anyone !! had a lot of scares and laughs!

Truly amazing game, the ghost killed my friend, who pee peed when he started hunting, then 5 minutes after the ghost was about to kill me, and he stopped and we both started munting my friend. Truly innovative game bringing up the standards 10/10

The definitive ghost hunting experience. Love playing this in both standard and VR modes. One of my friend's groups go-to games.

A puzzle game with horror elements - a perfect mix of grind and fun! Every ghost hunt feels unique.

It's a great game but my friend was banned by a corrupt Game Developer for an "Offensive Name" when it was a translation of "Vikkyishim" was used as his name in the game. He attempted to appeal his ban, it was immediately denied with "No Appeal" and was banned by their official Discord. Great game, corrupt team.

I used to love Phasmophobia, Literally played it non-stop for the better part of a year when it first was released in early access. The silly and super scary times of those early days really had me on the hook. But lately I feel like the game has taken a direction that's focused on one specific kind of player rather than all kinds of players. The maps feel like they're more so built for looping and chases, which personally I feel makes it harder for new players and non-horror game players to actually enjoy the game. The ghost's AI seem to be a little bit on the sluggish side, since sometimes it takes 20+ minutes to get some of the evidence and the game feels like you need to quite literally study up on every ghost behavior in order to guess the correct ghost. Phasmo is starting to become a game where you can't just pop into the game and just have a good time with friends. It's bordering on the line of being too much of a chore to play rather than letting fun scary times happen. This game is most likely good for players who prefer critical thinking and deduction with the some scares involved.

This game is garbage anymore. Back on launch and for awhile after it the game had this charm to it. Once the youtubers played it to death and formed these uber meta strats on how to figure the ghost out as fast as possible and convinced the devs it was too easy so now ghosts do nothing until its time to hunt you its so boring theres so many types now its bloated. It aint a fun game to play with your buddies its an all out play it by the youtube strat or you wont be figuring the ghost out at all.

this game has a learning curve, but I love being able to play it with friends or even with random lobbies online! its such a great community!

equal parts puzzle and spooky, its a great time!

5/10

Phasmophobia starts off great. The atmosphere is tense, the ghost hunting feels immersive, and the unknown keeps you on edge. But once you learn the patterns, the magic fades.

Endgame boils down to finding the ghost room as fast as possible, throwing down equipment, and waiting. Once you know where it is, the "investigation" turns into a waiting game rather than actual horror. Ghosts stop being threats and become predictable obstacles, and hunts feel more like annoyances than anything else.

After a while, every match feels the same. There’s no real reason to stay longer, no real challenge once you crack the formula. If you’re new, you’ll have fun. If you’re experienced? It’s just a checklist.

Good game. It's super fun with friends, and has consistent improvements. Not much else to say.

Game is awesome and lots of fun. It has great community as well. The devs are committed and it shows by making this such a great game and kg partners make it so welcoming with there lets plays. Big shout out to devs (CJ, Phsyco & others of course) and my favorite phasmo KG partners/content creators Insym, Impulse and hydra!

This game is a lot of fun and continues to challenge you as you go. There's so many options to customize how you play. I definitely recommend trying it!

core gameplay loop
go in room
wait for 5 minutes and nothing happens
repeat until something happens
when something happens your friend will scream over the radio "get out"
die because there is no way to fucking get out without passing the ghost
lose

Phasmophobia’s ghost hunts are intense and full of suspense. The co-op gameplay makes it even better. This one’s a must-play!

This is a tough one because the game is fun. I even bought it years ago for 5 friends. However the development is very lazy at this point. There is absolutely no reason the game is still as basic as it is after all this time. There is only a handful of maps that get stale quite quickly. It somehow takes the devs YEARS to make new ones or like a year to rework an old one... Which is insanely slow... There is a horrible repetitious grind to 'Level Up' that is used for filler because of lack of content. And when you are done leveling there is no reason to keep playing... You've seen everything 100x. (This is coming from someone that Plays nightmare and insanity difficulty usually at this point.)

And there STILL is no Unique scares that should of been in the game forever ago like the ghost appearing outside windows and watching you, pictures changing (Eyes blacked out for example) or being destroyed, symbols appearing on walls, floors, the ghost breaking things like windows, tvs or such when P***ed off, etc... Just something that would give some type of intrigue other than ghost manifest sometimes, ghost throws stuff sometimes, ghost moves door sometimes, and that's it!!

The ghost implementation and interactions straight up are about as lazy and low effort as can be because apparently the devs want to be able to drop a ghost into a okayish map (that they somehow take two years to make) then do some basic (Usually Buggy) path mapping and call it good. Again as low effort ghost and level design as they can get away with.

It is just shameful as the game could be so much more. I've had fun playing, but at this point I just can't recommend it unless it is extremely cheap or the Devs actually decided to start putting some effort into filling out the game some with real content.

(On another side note, the lack of support for people being able to make community maps really is holding the game back. Maybe the Devs are just afraid that the community will show how incompetently slow they are working because I guarantee that within weeks we would have a flood of way better designed and thought out maps from the community then the devs shave made in YEARS!!)

Edit: Just thought of some other stuff too. The ghost models an animations have been the same for 5 years now too which is all of about 10 of them.

And there is about 5 animations of the ghost. Most of the time they are just standing there or sliding across the ground. And the death animation... My GOD... It's been the same stupid 'Guess Who' eye grab animation this entire time too... Like come on...

You also have the same 5 (I think) player models to choose from which is confusing especially as there is no customization what so ever and no name tags so if 3 people decide to play their favorite, same model, you literally can't tell who is who.

All it would take is for devs to add the ability to wear a different hat, jacket or so forth to fix that issue... Has it happened yet? Nope of course not... Again just absolute laziness...

Used to be scary and fun, now its just whatever with boring grind. Unity engine on modern pc is just terrible, i remember playing on crappy pc with much more stable fps, trying to change settings do literally nothing, can be new windows problem but if game works like on directx 8 looking like one its kinda hard to enjoy free time, probably better to just find somewhere old version and just enjoy it alone or with friends

This games hella fun,
when theh goose busteirs and the shit on a platter
who you gonna call?

Bro this game feels like edwins coming inside of me,
hardest part was putting the evidence together to find out its the mimic
tbh this game made me summon the bog monster the demon what needs to deuce and throws T P at you
bro does not need it for his bungwhole
so im not so sure.

Review Title
An Immersive and Terrifying Co-op Experience

Review Text:

Phasmophobia is a thrilling co-op horror game where you and your friends investigate haunted locations. The atmosphere is genuinely creepy, and the unpredictable ghost behavior keeps every round exciting. Playing in VR adds another layer of immersion, making it even more terrifying. If you enjoy cooperative horror games, I highly recommend giving Phasmophobia a try!

-decide to play with an expert friend
-get carried
-the friend dies
-panic
-get absolutely groped by the ghost since you are in nightmare mode
10/10 experience

VERY fun game i love this game, it is so good. All they need to add are more characters and somewhat maps.

I solidly don't recommend this game.
It's peak has past.
Go to one of the other games that are adjacent.

When this game launched it was fantastic developer that cared and appreciated their community. Updating bugs almost the moment the community noticed them and the community requests were always the next update.

Since getting a team on board they have split from the communities wants of more experience content and focused solely on new cosmetics and further updates towards the loom of the game and less about the actual spook of the game.
They have dropped sever road maps including the horror 2.0 that people have heavy requested and pushed it back and back in favour of other minor things people don't want.

As someone who enjoyed this game to the point of speed running it with mates and streaming it prior, seeing the devs cutting off any suggestions and doing what they want with no consideration of what we as a community ask for, as they currently don't even take suggestion feedback is a serious issue and down right a slap in the face to us who used to love it.

I personally believe the main initial developer has lost any will or drive to make things happen in this game and has moved on or is getting told what to do and how to do it by their team and by other equity owners since incorporation.

Very fun and scary, but need friends to really have fun

It's been a great experience to play this game with my friends. I highly recommend the game if you wanna just laugh and hear your friends scream. The only downside is I wish they had more maps to play and they would add a running stamina bar.

This game has become unplayable online and after endless trouble shooting there is no known fix for it, the game will just say "Disconnected:Exception" anytime I either join or try to host a game.

Countless other people also have this issue, on the Discord server for the game everyone asks for how to fix this but there is no official fix for it, many people recommend using a VPN but that's not a method which works for everyone and plus nobody should have to use a VPN for this game to work.

Hopefully it gets fixed but this issue has been persisting for months.

Fun both with and without friends, but certainly funnier with friends. Endless trolling potential, especially with cursed possesions. Might take some time to get into it as there is a lot of information you have to infer on your own from playing or through wiki-gaming. The devs deliver on their promises of updates and that's what makes this game so good imo as you have reasons to get back into it.

A very attractive game in the genre of horror that is very entertaining. Anyone can spend hours with their mates with this super attractive game. This is a new style in horror games and, I can honestly recommend it to all my friends.

Love playing this game with friends. Jump scares as well as building scares. Once you play for a while it loses some of its creepiness but still makes for a good scare every now and then. Play with headphones and lights off for better atmosphere.

Spent 20 minutes laughing with my friend about the shovel spinning in the roof of the van , finally found the ghost type after another 20 , immediately died after that .
10/10 good game

The suction power of this vacuum is impressive. It effortlessly picks up dust, dirt, and even pet hair that I thought was embedded permanently in my carpets. It performs equally well on hardwood floors and carpets, seamlessly transitioning between the two without losing efficiency. For a fraction of the cost of a Dyson, I was skeptical at first, but it truly holds its own against the big-name brand.

I can’t recommend this game enough. I’ve been playing it with friends since the beta version, and it’s hands down one of the best co-op experiences out there. You can really see the effort and passion the team has put into improving the game with every update. It’s been amazing to watch it grow into what it is today. Proud to see how far it’s come!

This game is truly scary. this is a ghost hunting game and goal of this game is to go into a house or building and try and figure out what type of ghost is occupying the building. You are able to do this by finding various evidence by using equipment and gadgets. You are also able to complete side objectives that give you extra money and experience.

When I play this game solo, I almost lose my balls when I get jumpscared and killed by the ghost. Playing in groups makes the game feel less scary, but it can still be scary. The game gets even scarier when you play on nightmare and insanity which are the 2 hardest difficulties.

Outside of that, there are many different ghost types with some being more dangerous than others, and at the end of the day, this is a well made horror game with fun and exciting gameplay.

The devs won't add anything new or rework core game elements instead they rework Shop and Items like 3 times for 5 years straight and it takes them 2 years to rework a farmhouse map. Game is super repetitive, animations have been the same and character models since 2020. It is just sad to see how slowly things are happening and when something does happen, its nothing interesting just like a new plush or a small improvement that they call "Major" update.

very fun to watch my friends get scared, also the cursed items are fun to mess with

Love this game so much! A lot of fun when playing with friends, cant wait for the new updates coming throughout the year too! :D My only issue is probs on the larger maps, its so hard to get things moving along as the maps are super huge. :( But otherwise, great game and defo recommend!

Used to love this game. It was one of my most played, still is my most played game, but there is now so many cheaters its crazy. I hate running lobbies now because once they get ingot your lobby you cannot kick them and they just follow you every time you try to make a new lobby. You report and block them and they just rejoin back into your lobby. I have stopped recommending this game to my friends because there are so many cheaters its hard to play.

pls stop with the irrelevant updates and seasonal events that are only there to pump sales and fast track the horror 2.0 goddamn

Still waiting for my prestige banner from before the rework.

Not a terrible game, but the direction it went depresses me. I feel like whenever titles like these hit that streamer sensation point developers start hearing "Lose Yourself" and bite off more than they can chew, hire a larger team before haphazardly reworking their game into something completely unrecognizable in the hopes of keeping around a crowd that was always going to leave to chase the next big thing. Logging in to see my progress wiped a second time on top of a seasonal event board sent me over. Why does a game like this need events?

The game's scare factor is strongest in its buildup, payoff is always variable. Hunts ultimately serve to the games detriment, the ghosts would be scariest if they were a constant but subtle threat killing players as a more unpredictable manner (still utilizing sanity). Hunts take that away by giving the game a clear "YOU CAN DIE NOW" sequence that kills all that tension that the game is so masterful at establishing and instead makes the game feel arcady. I understand why hunts exist from a progression standpoint (If players can lose their personal investment from dying you need gameplay to be somewhat predictable and to have a learning curve that can be mastered), but phasmophobia shouldn't be built from a progression first mindset.

Which is the problem in my eyes; the events, season map skins, constant equipment tweaking and balancing, and the clear focus on off-map progression makes the game feel like they are trying to develop a MP competitive grindfest like Dead by Daylight or Friday the 13th, and not a player focused HORROR game with no competitive mechanics. The game's focus should be on the moment to moment gameplay on a given map, not amassing resources to buy your next tier of equipment in the background.

Post rework (I'd say even as far back as when they added cursed items) this game lost its soul. The new asylum map in particular feels like something you'd see coming from a phasmophobia imitator and not from the OG itself in how over the top committed to horror tropes it is. The old asylum was a little bit much, but still gave the impression of having been a functional healthcare facility at one point. Beyond that it was fun to explore, like walking GM Krot. The new asylum would feel right at home in a Rob Zombie movie with how on the nose it is. My favorite level had always been the prison, because I believe this game's horror works best when in a clinical, lifelike, setting. I grew up watching ghost adventures and such, this game's original state felt perfectly suited to living out that larp. The current state of game, once again, reminds me more of games like Dead by Daylight where the developers intent of scaring you is completely secondary to the contained gameplay loop.

Anywho, I wish there was a neutral react. I gave it the blue thumb because I can bitch about the direction the game went all I want, it's 4 years old they haven't tried to milk me for any DLC. The primary loop is still fun enough, with enough of the old maps around that I can still play the game at its best, subtle.

The bar really is that low anymore. I swear it used to cost 14 bucks though, I wouldn't spend more than that on it but I could be misremembering.

great game, unfortunately disappointed that the ghost does not edge you at 42 edgefield

They earned 20M € thanks to console release.

2025 roadmap is a joke, lazy gameplay update. Most of the points are from 2023 roadmap. Development of the game is abandoned. Is this game just a cash grab? Why are they releasing so low content per year if they overfunded the game already?

Also, events are repetitive and they think we enjoy them so they didn't listen the community and they are planning on re-release them lol

If they keep delaying development updates, the game will release in 2030...

P.S. Horror 2.0 is a myth.

I really wanted to recommend this game, but the amount of time updates take to come out is far too slow; even for an indie dev company. They made millions off of this game alone, they have hired a few developers but so far thats about it. They have released updates to make the game better but the rate that these updates are coming out is slow. Even slower than many other indie games that made no where near what this game made but somehow they can release content at a faster pace.

Also if your going to add a progression system to this game, do it properly, not a slow and mediocre grind fest.