Phasmophobia Xbox: If You’re Afraid, Do It With Friends

Perhaps you are already tired of banal and monotonous horrors, where a ghost with a knife and a headless witch jump out from every corner. Plus, everything is accompanied by characteristic creepy creaks, squeals, screams, and knocks. Add to this darkness and a scary abandoned house – and you get a typical game, the task of which is to scare you to death (preferably, not in the literal sense of the word). At first glance, Phasmophobia is the same as typical horror with screamers, but this is not so.

This game can disconnect you from real life for weeks. Don’t believe me? What if I tell you that in Phasmophobia a ghost can hear you? And you can gather a team of 4 friends and go in search of paranormal events? Remember how, as a child, you and your friends summoned the Queen of Spades and other spirits? Now imagine that you can do this in reality. Creepy, right?

Good news for all console owners: Phasmophobia is already out on Xbox and PS5. So there is a reason to get together with friends and immerse yourself in the creepy horror atmosphere. In general, the game was released quite a long time ago – back in 2020. It instantly became popular due to the cooperative function: playing in a company is always more fun (and scarier).

However, Phasmophobia was released on Xbox only this year – in the very canon of Halloween. It is very thematic. The official release date of Phasmophobia on Xbox is October 29, 2024. From that moment on, you can buy the game on the console. By the way, to get Phasmophobia on Xbox, you don’t need to spend that much money –  $20. The horror is worth the money, and now I’ll tell you why it’s so good. Prepare candles, a spirit board, and spare nerves, and we’ll go.

This is the game after which you will start to be afraid of the dark. Now you will be scared to walk around your apartment at night. Perhaps, at first, you will twitch from sharp strange sounds. Instead of regular water, you will drink holy water, and instead of pictures, your walls will be decorated with crosses.

Okay, I’m kidding, I’m exaggerating :) But Phasmophobia can scare you and leave memories in the form of ghosts and demonic entities. You may dream about this after the first game. I warn you: if you have a weak heart or have problems with nerves, then it is better not to play Phasmophobia. You’d better play something brighter and more magical. However, if you conduct secret exorcism rites at night and dream of meeting one on one with a spirit to sprinkle it well with holy water, then this horror was created for you.

Phasmophobia is a cooperative horror in which up to 4 people can play. You and your friends are ghost hunters who take photos and look for evidence of paranormal phenomena. You and your team go to various places where any activity of ghostly creatures has been recorded. Using various objects: from cameras to ultraviolet lamps, you search for the lair of the spirit and identify its activity and type. Maybe it is a poltergeist or a demon? Your task: document and record the activity of paranormal creatures and get out of here as soon as possible. By the way, there are enough monsters here. The interesting thing is that each of them is unique.

For example, Phantom is afraid of cameras, Mare is afraid of light, and Shade is a shy spirit who has difficulty making contact with people and attacks only single players. Spirit activity can be detected by low temperatures, handprints visible under ultraviolet light, conversations over the radio, and so on. If you walk around the house for a long time, you can really anger the “tenant” and he will start hunting you, and then you need to flee. By the way, you can’t go crazy in Phasmophobia.

You have a sanity level indicator: the lower it is, the more likely it is that ghosts will “stick” to you. Self-control suffers if you sit in the dark for a long time and notice a ghostly presence – moving objects, slamming doors, lights turning off. Be careful, because if the sanity level drops to zero, your character will not withstand this whole nightmare and will simply commit suicide.

It’s 2024, Phasmophobia has just been released on Xbox. However, this horror game continues to be played!

So what makes Phasmophobia so unique? The game is not scary because of endless screamers and creepy otherworldly sounds. It would seem: dark rooms, flashlights, ghosts. Everything seems ordinary, but Phasmophobia is good precisely because of its atmosphere. It is oppressive and ominous. You are not attacked by monsters every second; on the contrary, they are usually not visible. You only feel their presence. It is as if they see you. This very expectation of a sudden appearance gives that very atmosphere of tension and horror.

The monsters practically do not have any physical embodiment – the evil something is invisible and intangible. You do not see it, but you know – it is near. It sees you, it hears you – and soon it will overtake you.

Voice chat is what makes Phasmophobia a truly unique and interesting horror game. You can communicate with your friends and imagine that you are a real ghost hunter and detective. But the coolest feature of the voice chat is the ability to summon a spirit.

The ghost constantly listens to what you say and reacts to keywords, curses, and its name, which is randomly asked at the beginning of the match.

In addition, through voice chat, you communicate with the ghost itself through a special radio. And yes – thanks to this function, you can anger the ghost with screams and endless questions to such an extent that it will eventually attack you. Watch your speech!

The sound in the game also changes depending on the circumstances: in large rooms, there is an echo, speech through the radio sounds muffled and with interference, and comrades are worse heard at a distance. And if the radio suddenly turns off –  you will no longer be able to warn them that the paranormal activity counter is sounding the alarm, and most likely the evil spirit is already on its way to strangle them. They simply won’t hear your screams. And you won’t hear them.

Imagine this atmosphere: you walk through gloomy rooms where you can’t see anything without a flashlight; you talk to your friends and your enemies, who listen to you and are preparing to attack at the most unexpected moment for you. Now that’s a real horror!

Playing Phasmophobia on Xbox, you can highlight the following pros:

1. Psychological horror: it’s not the monsters themselves that scare you, but the anticipation of their attack.
2. The ability to communicate via voice chat with friends and comment with spirits.
3. A large number of monsters and their uniqueness.
4. Cooperative: playing together is not so scary.
5. Good community.

There are, of course, also cons:

1. Character graphics. They often bend unnaturally.
2. Ghosts often behave strangely, not as expected from them.
3. Bugs.