👻Phasmophobia
Ghost hunting with walkie-talkies and the lights off.
The genre-defining co-op ghost hunter. Identify ghost types using paranormal equipment before the thing in the next room learns your name and hunts you. Terrifying with headphones. Still receiving major updates years later.
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Quickstart
How to actually play this with friends — written by Claude.## Set it up - Install via Steam; host from the main menu and invite up to three friends through Steam or crossplay - Nexus hosts community patches that bump the 4-player cap higher, but compatibility is patchy — check patch notes against your game version before trusting one - Play with proximity/walkie-talkie voice and headphones on; half the scares are audio cues you'll miss on speakers
## Your first session - Start on Amateur difficulty in a small map (Tanglewood, Willow) to learn the equipment loop without a hunt ending the round early - Split up to gather evidence faster, but regroup the moment anyone hears footsteps or sees a shadow figure - Write down evidence as you go instead of trusting memory — a wrong ghost-type guess wastes the whole investigation
## Group size advice - Shines at 3-4 — enough hands to split equipment and cover more rooms without anyone standing around - 1-2 players is still fully viable and ratchets up the tension considerably - Only reach for an unofficial cap-raising patch if your whole group insists on more than four; it's not guaranteed stable
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