Phasmophobia roadmap 2025 – every new feature in the upcoming Chronicle update and beyond

Kinetic Games has fixed players a sneak peek of what it has successful store for its co-op fearfulness sensation, Phasmophobia, for 2025, including seasonal events, representation reworks, and a monolithic overhaul to a cardinal gameplay feature.

If you've been sleeping Phasmophobia, it's clip to aftermath up, people. The co-op fearfulness crippled has you, and up to 3 buddies (or online strangers) descend upon innocuous locations to find grounds of paranormal activity, ID the supernatural perpetrator, and leave; a feat made ever-so-slightly hard by shade attacks, shade hunts, and wide brownish trousers moments that volition inevitably beryllium splattered passim your session.

There's nary warring backmost oregon exorcising the demons/ unwanted ghostly visitors – though players person been keen for the second to marque its debut arsenic a aboriginal gameplay feature, speculating it mightiness adjacent beryllium successful the 2026 Horror 2.0 update. If you've yet to effort it out, I powerfully urge it for a amusive and terrifying co-op acquisition that manages to enactment caller and surprising. And this is coming from a certified scaredy feline who's sworn disconnected fearfulness games.

But earlier each of that, we've got the archetypal large update for the game, shared successful the Phasmopobia roadmap for 2025 today. The Chronicle update is coming soon – nary connection connected however soon conscionable yet – and contains a Journal overhaul, which ties into the mode grounds is collected. It's besides rolling retired a new portion of equipment, and a caller Bleasdale Farmhouse rework.

Beyond the Chronicle update, the Phasmophobia roadmap teases much contented coming successful 2025 including a player quality overhaul, seasonal events starting with Easter, and another caller map. Kinetic Games is decidedly making the astir of the aboriginal entree period, and its hard enactment is paying off, with the crippled racking up 2million console income since it debuted connected PS5 and Xbox Series X|S astatine the extremity of October past year.

In the meantime, here's everything successful the Phasmophobia roadmap for 2025 and beyond.

Phasmophobia roadmap 2025

Journal Photos tab scrapped

First up successful the Phasmophobia roadmap for 2025 is the Chronicle update, and the biggest overhaul is the to the Journal – specifically the Photos tab. If you've been collecting grounds similar flung objects oregon doors that person been opened by ghosts with your photograph camera, the thought "how is this evidence?" whitethorn person crossed your mind. Anyone tin instrumentality a pic of a cupful connected the level and accidental Casper did it. The Chronicle update volition replace the Photo tab with a Media tab where your photo, video and dependable captures volition beryllium stored.

Capturing grounds

As you mightiness person figured out, the Chronicle update is going to alteration however hunters stitchery evidence. After the patch, there'll beryllium 2 pages for photos, 2 pages for video and presumably 2 pages for sound, though that hasn't been confirmed yet. So you tin seizure photographic, audio oregon ocular grounds which lends itself to the conception of the crippled a batch better; a video of objects being thrown is simply a overmuch amended portion of grounds of the paranormal than a photograph of an entity that was wholly moved by a ghost, I swear.

Say goodbye to the prime strategy

Along with ditching the Photo tab, Kinetic Games is scrapping the prime strategy arsenic well, which awards players 1 to 3 stars based connected the prime of the snaps, which determines however overmuch currency each photograph earns you. After all, we're not risking our necks for escaped retired here. Instead, the first seizure of immoderate of the caller pieces of media you get volition beryllium branded 'Unique' and volition container you the most currency and XP. Subsequent captures of the aforesaid 'type' – duplicates – volition beryllium worthy a batch less. In a Phasmophobia roadmap teaser blog post past December, the developer said it'll beryllium adding "a big of caller things to seizure for each media alongside this update" truthful get acceptable to shingle things up and compression arsenic overmuch wealth retired of your contracts arsenic possible.

New instrumentality – dependable recorder

To utilise the caller media tab, you're going to request thing to grounds each of those spooky sounds on, which comes with the added payment of being capable to fto your chap hunters perceive what the ghosts person been whispering and moaning astatine you; a diagnostic you can't indulge successful with the spine-chilling sounds from the Parabolic Mic. Share the scare, I say. The Sound Recorder is acceptable for the Chronicle update and volition beryllium disposable successful 3 tiers, though Kinetic Games is keeping the quality of the T3 recorder nether wraps for now, but does accidental that listening backmost to the recordings tin connection up adjuvant clues truthful carnivore that successful caput if you're brave enough.

Ghost hunters request to usage the ocular indicators connected the instrumentality to get into the scope of a recordable sound, and the recorder volition instrumentality attraction of the remainder automatically, truthful conscionable beryllium definite to enactment successful scope to get the champion recording.

Bleasdale Farmhouse rework

Bleasdale Farmhouse is getting a implicit overhaul successful presumption of its visuals and the representation itself, with redesign of the layout arsenic good arsenic caller areas, including a playable garden including shade rooms. The teaser blog showcase a fewer work-in-progress screenshots of the new areas, including the dining room, which is going to beryllium larger with a monolithic array successful the middle; the living country with a expansive piano, fireplace, and hiding nooks galore; the tea country that looks similar a Poltergeist's dream; and the trophy country that doubles arsenic a hallway.

Coming aboriginal this year...

The Phasmophobia roadmap besides gives america a peek astatine what Kinetic Games has successful store for 2025, which includes more seasonal events (starting with Easter, arsenic good arsenic Halloween and Holiday seasons), a Grafton Farmhouse update, a new tiny map that's described arsenic "sinister" and the imaginable "last straw for those with a anemic constitution", and a player quality overhaul which looks similar it'll unfastened up the last tab successful the in-game store (no existent wealth involved) wherever you'll beryllium capable to bargain outfits.

Phasmophobia successful 2026

Kinetic Games has besides hinted astatine the contents of adjacent year's Phasmophobia roadmap, teasing house representation reworks, adjacent more caller maps, and the Horror 2.0 update, which whitethorn conscionable astir warrant that you'll ungraded yourself.

There's not a monolithic magnitude present implicit and supra the info successful the teaser blog post, and nary update connected the console Spirit Box update we've been waiting connected that'll fto players utilise dependable designation erstwhile utilizing it, alternatively than being stuck successful 1 spot pressing clunky fastener inputs. We've reached retired to the devs for an ETA connected this diagnostic fixed the Phasmophobia roadmap skipped close by it. However, with each of those console sales, it seems similar it should beryllium a priority.

On that note, you tin play a one-hour escaped proceedings connected Xbox to springiness the crippled a whirl. And implicit connected PlayStation, the crippled is 25% disconnected this week until Wednesday, February 12 astatine midnight section clip successful the UK and AU, oregon Thursday, February 13 astatine 12am PST / 3am EST if you privation to get involved, which brings the terms down to £11.61 / $14.99 / AU$21.71. It usually comes successful astatine £16.75 / $19.99 / AU$28.95, truthful it's a steal!