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Great game. Don't listen to the dudes with the complains about lower graphics. It's just so more people can play. The game still looks fantastic. I'm a vive player.

TLDR; Good game, recommend heavily.



Devs, if you are reading this, thank you, and ♥♥♥♥ you for such a game that I want to keep playing, but also want to cry over.

So, to begin, Phasmaphobia is a VR supported multiplayer horror title (Yes I get it, you read the store page.) that I think everyone with a vr headset should play. It stars you and up to 3 of your friends hunting a ghost in a haunted house. The ghost can be a variety of things from a spirit, a poltergeist, a banshee, or a straight up demon and that's not even half of the options. You and your possible buddies have to do a list of objectives while trying to stay sane and figure out what type of ghost you're dealing with.


The game persists of mostly going through the house looking for cold spots, EMF readings, or finding things the ghost responds to, and oh yeah, did I mention that the game has voice recognition?..... VOICE RECOGNITION. The command list is so extensive, I genuinely didn't understand until I looked it up! Your mic is on at all times so it knows what you say and where. You can say its name and it'll respond. You can say little things like I'm scared and it'll make your fear even worse.

The ghost is an AI that stays mostly in one room of the house. The typical ghost will hide in its room of choice until you come bouncing in asking for it to show itself. The ghost can do one of three phases at once. One, is that its invisible and will give moderate signs of activity such as flickering the lights. Two, it jumpscares you as a shadow form of itself or as a quick glimpse of its true self. Three is where the fun begins, the ghost will start hunting you.... It will chase you down and snap your neck with all of its strength. You can hide, but it'll find you if you're not quiet.

Luckily, you're not helpless. You have a variety of tools that you can buy with points you earn on ghost jobs such as a crucifix to stop the ghost from hunting or a sanity pill that you can take to bolster your mind!

So, here's the part where I say "10/10 best horror ever" and ♥♥♥♥. I love this game, but I wish there was more to it. If the ghost is a shade, it can take half an hour for anything to happen before it makes itself known. On the other foot, I've also seen ghosts that don't give you enough time to open the door to the room you were hiding in before it starts hunting you again.

The game needs action, but not enough to where you can't do anything. But also just enough so you don't die of boredom asking it questions like "Can you give us a sign?" 50 times over. It's still in early alpha, so that does give me hope for the future. Sorry for the long wait, so here are my ratings!

Graphics: 8/10 charming, but in a way that isn't trying to be ultra-realistic
Gameplay: 7/10 I love the gameplay, but sometimes ghosts don't want to be active and that gets boring.
Scares: 10/10 The ambience alone can make you ♥♥♥♥ yourself, not to mention the short and rare jumpscares.
Sound: 9/10: No music, but plenty of sounds to make you think you heard something... maybe you did hear something?
AI: 6/10 I praise the AI so much, but realistically, they don't follow the patterns that the guide lays them out to be.

The game is amazing and has great potential. I dunk hours upon hours in this game.

Pretty good

It's good.

The game is fun. The gameplay is fun. The weapons are fun. The characters are cool.

I once reviewed this game as a bad game. I hated it with my soul. With the developers constantly updating like they do and the ability to actually do fun things now, I feel like the game is better now. I rate 8/10 - not enough za warudo.

I-I can't stop the voices..... the constant whispering in my ears, neigh my very soul! T-They're everywhere! T-The sounds of their voices echoing through the black void called dark souls! The soul shattering howls that pierce my very being! The god for saken mind tearingly evil demon who possesses this game! Damn you Oscar! Oh no! He found me! AHHHHH!!!.............. praise the sun......





P.S. DSFix is bae.

<Defeats God of Destruction Beerus>
<Gets a C>
"OH COME ON! YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT!" - Vegeta
<Goes back and watches DBZ Battle of Gods>
420/10 - "Vegeta totally kicked his ass" - IGN

Grappled on a giant f***in bug's butt, and proceeded to shoot said butt until clip was empty. Reloaded and did it again. 10/10 would shoot again.