Phasmophobia adds voodoo doll, tarot deck, and other scare necessities

Phasmophobia is one of the best horror games ever made, a unique co-op experience that’s loosely based on those American haunted house shows but amazingly inventive, surprising, and replayable with it. And scary! This game frightens the bejeesus out of me, but I keep coming back for that sweet hit of cold, panicked fear.

But you knew all that, right? The game has been a significant success for developer Kinetic Games, which has since release kept making significant additions and changes to the game, and true-to-form the latest update adds a tonne of new stuff to tickle your collywobbles.

Most significant is the addition of cursed objects in locations where ghosts are haunting. A random one will spawn on each map in various locations, and can be used to trade sanity for information about the ghost. You also run the risk it’ll take more than the sanity, however, and add an additional negative effect such as permanently angering the ghost.

There’s a nice range of these that have different effects: ghosts will sing along to the music box, for example, but if you get too close there may be ‘a nasty surprise’; You can stick a pin in a voodoo doll to trigger a reaction from the ghost; There’s a haunted mirror that shows you the ghost’s room if you dare to peek; a summoning circle where you can temporarily trap the ghost; a deck of ten Tarot cards with their own effects; And finally, a rework of the existing Ouija board with new effects. “You must now say ‘Goodbye’ to finish talking with a ghost on the Ouija Board, or else…”