Eagerly anticipated ghost-hunting game Phasmophobia was a hit on Steam, and the wait for it to come to PlayStation has been torturous, plagued by repeated delays and at least one fire. Developer Kinetic Games posted a development roadmap, which still doesn't give us a date but does promise that the console release, when it does arrive, will benefit from gameplay reworks and performance upgrades.
Initially planned for an August 2023 release on PS5 and PSVR2, the cooperative horror title caused a stir on Steam. It was further delayed after "a recent fire incident in our office building and unpredicted development issues" pushed that timeline back still further before the console release was postponed indefinitely in October.
Are you anticipating playing Phasmophopia on PS5 or PSVR2 when it finally arrives? Or are the prospect of immersive, first-person spooks too scary for you? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source store.steampowered.com]
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I played this game years ago with friends and it was great. Then it got some updates that kinda ruined the experience by making the ghosts extremely lethal. Hopefully when it gets released fully for more people it's in a good place.
No problem, take your time and get it right. Can't wait to do this coop in VR.
As long as it has none of that woke virus ghost stuff I keep seeing, panderverse and the message.
@zhoont I didn't have a PC capable of handling it, but I was really enjoying watching streams of other people playing it all the way until that update, and had been looking forward to eventually playing it with my mother and brother. Once that update hit, a lot of the fun seemed to go out of it, and the boosted difficulty level (which seems to have gotten worse over time) ended any interest my family and I had in trying it ourselves.
@MiaowMinx Yeah, didn't expect someone else to understand this niche topic but you're absolutely right. My friends and I played a few times and we would just get hunted and murdered too quickly because the ghosts were more aggressive AND they had more clues + harder clues. I remember we had the ghost down to a few choices before 2/3 of us died, and we were convinced it couldn't have been Oni because we spent like 5 minutes trying to trigger I think spirit box and it never did. That was another frustrating change- ghosts were more lethal and clues were more arbitrarily elusive.
I dont want to sound mean to all the people who say this game is hard, but honestly they just suck. This game is not hard once you learn the game. Maybe play it a little and get experience. Saying the update made the game hard is an overstatement. If you cant beat nightmare mode then just do professional or amateur. It frustrates me when people say this game is too hard . You aren't going to be able to just guess the ghost or survive immediately. Suck it up and learn the game.
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