Naturally, that also trains your mind to fear the inverse.
When the humispresent, you know you’re within danger’s reach.
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Those humble, DIY beginnings can still be seen in the game in some ways.
“We’ve changed our mechanics quite a lot [over the years],” Lavender told me.
If you march on with bad assumptions, the game doesn’t bail you out.
you could press on to stack more evidence or leave and see if you’ve found the right answer.
Those layers are most apparent in the ghosts themselves.
“You don’t even need to [bring equipment] in.
You might know from research and from experience that, ‘Oh, X ghost doesn’t do that event.
So I can cross that off.’
And then there might be a process like that for all 24 ghosts.
It’s too slow for this one.'
And then within like, 30 seconds, they’ve marked off like, half the journal.”
I first played Phasmophobia on PC in 2020, and I could tell there was something special to it.
It would feel like asking a magician to reveal how they perform an illusion.
Being a sensation like Phasmophobia often comes with a particular kind of baggage: copycats.
When Knight made the game, it was because no such game existed yet.
I asked the developers how they view that problem.
You know, your guy runs out of breath in, like, three seconds.
It’s about Egypt and mummies, there’s treasure-hunting.
But yeah, I definitely find it frustrating when people are like, ‘Oh, Phasmophobia is doing well.
I’ll copy that,’ and they don’t add anything."
“Even internally we’ve had loads of conversations,” Lavender added.
And people seem to go down the same route of ghost-hunting."
But the team presses on with a game many have called one of the scariest ever made.
I asked the pair what they thought of that distinction.
“I’m glad you find it scary now.
Wait until 2.0 and see what we’ve got planned.”
Added Dixon confidently, “They haven’t seen anything yet.”
Phasmophobia is out today with cross-play onXbox Series X|SandPS5, joiningSteamas its available platforms.
For now, it remains in early access.
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