Phasmophobia News

'It didn't exist and I wanted to play it': Phasmophobia's lead dev got tired of trawling around Steam for a co-op horror puzzle game so decided to just make it himself

When Larian Studios' CEO Swen Vincke took the stage at The Game Awards to present Game of the Year he also relayed a bit of advice to other studios: Make a game that you want to play yourself, and your game will do well. Something that Daniel Knight, CEO of Kinetic Games and lead developer, did years ago with Phasmophobia...
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'I don't actually play horror games': Phasmophobia's lead developer had no intention of making a horror game but still kicked off a whole new genre

I'll never forget the first time my friends and I played Phasmophobia. It was like nothing I'd ever played before, absolutely hilarious, and surprisingly terrifying—it still is. So it's rather funny to me that not only does Phasmo's creator not really play horror games but he didn't intend to make one either...
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Phasmophobia Is Part of the WDC Steam Sale!

[p][/p][p]We're excited to announce that Phasmophobia is a part of the World Ocean Day Steam Sale.[/p][p][/p][p]You can save 25% on Phasmophobia until June 12th, 2025, with each sale going towards supporting the WDC in their conservation work[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]If you want to read more about WDC, you can do so here: [/p][p]https://whales.org/[/p][p] [/p][p]Keep up to date with all the awesome gaming activities WDC does by signing up to their mailing list here: [/p][p]https://games.whales.org/#newsletter[/p][p] [/p][p]And you can find many other amazing games in the sale here: [/p][p]https://bit.ly/WODSale25[/p][p] [/p][p]Thank you for joining us and for supporting WDC! [/p][p][/p][p]*10% of our net revenue from this sale (after Steam platform fees) will support WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation. WDC is a UK registered charity (no. 1014705).[/p]

Spooky friend-time ghost-em-up Phasmophobia is the next videogame to get the movie treatment

Back in 2020, Phasmophobia took the formula of reality shows like Ghost Adventures, where frat boys explore a haunted location saying "woah" at every sound, and turned it into early access gold. It was our co-op game of the year, won best debut at The Game Awards, and has gone on to sell 23 million copies. Now it's being made into a movie...
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Phasmophobia will be getting a sound recorder, evidence revamp, and more with its Chronicle update next month

The next Phasmophobia update, Chronicle, is due out next month with a newly revealed June 24th release date, and developer Kinetic Games have offered up some details on what it calls one of the game's "biggest updates" so far. So, let's have a look at what that entails! The key addition with this update is the arrival of sound evidence, which as you can probably guess is a new haunting paranormal proof type that you'll acquire by using the newly added sound recorder.