Kinetic Games, the developer behind Phasmophobia, has released a new update to celebrate the spooky ghost investigation game’s first anniversary.
The Anniversary Update, which is available now, introduces a number of changes to improve gameplay, including a journal “overhaul” that allows players to cross off evidence and change game settings. As well as that, a much anticipated offline single-player mode has been added to the game.
Changes have been made to the way insurance works too. Players will no longer get a pity payment of $10 on failed contract; now insurance will depend on the chosen difficulty.
A few hotfixes have been released on top of that, mainly to do with bugs and missing fonts and characters. There have also been some changes in VR. Solo VR players will now get a photo reward, and the VR mute button has been changed to the pause button for all controllers.
“It has been an amazing year for Kinetic Games and Phasmophobia and I would like to thank everyone for their amazing support,” said the developer in a brief statement on the game’s Steam page. “Today, Phasmophobia is one of the highest-rated games on Steam which is incredible and something I never imagined happening. It doesn’t stop there either, we have many great updates planned for the future including this Halloween!”
The game’s previous big update, Exposition, which launched a couple of weeks ago, featured two new ghost types- Myling and Goryo, as well as new and improved equipment.
Words by Denitsa Gencheva
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