Players create or join a lobby where preparation for the contracts is done. Completing objectives and gathering evidence provide a payout completing as much as possible to level up, unlock maps and difficulties, and earn money. Phasmophobia features speech recognition allowing certain pieces of equipment and even the ghost to hear players speaking and understand key words and phrases. Players can communicate through voice chat, both locally within a short distance and globally via walkie-talkies. The player works solo or in a group with up to three other players to complete a contract in which they must identify the type of ghost haunting the specified site. Phasmophobia is a horror investigation survival game played from a first-person perspective. It was the best selling game on Steam globally for several weeks in October to November 2020. On October 15 of the same year, the game was the sixth-most popular game on Twitch.

The game received a large influx of popularity the following month due to many well-known Twitch streamers and YouTubers playing it, mainly for the Halloween season. The game became available in early access through Steam for Microsoft Windows with virtual reality support in September 2020. It is based primarily on the popular hobby of ghost hunting. Phasmophobia is a paranormal horror game developed and published by British indie game studio Kinetic Games. Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X/S, Playstation 5ġ8 September 2020 (PC) August 2023 (Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5) ( early access)

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