Phasmophobia Is Getting A Major Overhaul That Will Affect "Every Contract You Play"

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Heading into 2025, Kinetic Games, the developers of , have given players a brief preview of what's to come in the game's next major update. Originally released in October 2020, is one of the earlier examples of an objective-based co-op horror game in a similar vein to later releases like and, tasking players with gathering evidence to identify ghosts in haunted locales. Four years after its release, the game is still in early access on Steam but is receiving steady updates.

In a blog post on the Kinetic Games website, 's developers shared a preview of the content planned for the game's next major update, coming at an unspecified date in 2025 — an update which the post characterizes as "" The update will include major changes to some of the game's systems, including the Journal and the post-contract quality system, as well as other additions like new equipment and a map rework.

The biggest addition in 's next update will be some major changes to the game's systems, most notably a new «Media» tab in the Journal, replacing Photos. The Media tab will function similarly to the current Photos page, but with the notable addition of captures from video cameras and a new piece of equipment, the Sound Recorder, as well. Replacing quality, captures will instead be rated for being «Unique», with repeated capture types offering less money and XP.

Phasmophobia has released on console today, just in time for the new collaborative Crimson Eye event, also known as the Blood Moon event.

Interactions, in the upcoming update, will be captured with video instead of photos, further incentivizing players to get a variety of capture types, and videos will get their own section on the Media tab of the Journal. The kinds of things that can be captured on video, according to the blog post, include events like "[][]" — things which would be hard to meaningfully capture in still photos.

Additionally,the update will add the previously mentioned Sound Recorder, a new piece of player equipment