Phasmophobia 2025 Update Roadmap Revealed
The developers behind ghost-hunting horror game Phasmophobia have revealed the roadmap for updates this year, including a new map and player character overhaul.
Today, Kinetic Games, the developer behind multiplayer paranormal investigation game Phasmophobia, released a look at their upcoming content Roadmap for the rest of 2025. This year’s updates will include an overhaul of the player character design, a new small map, and the return holiday events. While this is exciting for fans of Phasmophobia, it is important to keep in mind that the game is still being actively developed, so things can change.
Phasmophobia devs lay out roadmap for content updates throughout 2025
Phasmophobia launched in Early Access on Steam in 2020, but has gotten consistent updates in that time, even launching on consoles last October. At the time of writing, which is a random Tuesday, there are over 24,000 players in-game on Steam. To say this indie game is a hit is an understatement. The Steam page shows that Phasmophobia has over 600,000 user reviews with 96% of those reviews being positive. It is rare to find a game on Steam with such universal approval.
Major Updates
Kinetic Games has two major updates planned for 2025. The first is the Chronicle update. According to the team’s website this will be “all about revamping the way you record evidence (and [are] rewarded for it!)…” The journal in which players can make notes of their findings to try to identify the ghost will have a media tab “which will house Photos, Videos, as well as evidence [recorded] by our new piece of hunting equipment – the Sound Recorder.” There is currently no release date for when this update will launch.
The other major update planned for 2025 is a player character overhaul. Kinetic Games will be “refreshing character models, improving animations and adjusting the overall experience when it comes to your Phasmophobia character.” This won’t include full player customization, but Kinetic Games did mention that is an update they are hoping to have ready for 2026.
Minor Updates
The Phasmophobia team is also planning to introduce a brand-new map sometime this year. They are not revealing too many details just yet, but we do know one thing. This will be a small map, much like the houses already available in the game. The developers added that for future maps they plan to keep the sizes smaller, therefore giving them the opportunity to release more maps more regularly.
Old maps will receive significant reworks this year. Bleasdale Farmhouse will be completely overhauled and will be released in March. Grafton Farmhouse and 6 Tanglewood Drive are the other two maps that will receive reworks later this year. The team said “you can expect to see complete artistic overhauls of each map, including new assets and animations, a high level of visual detail as well as a few layout changes. They’ll still be the maps you’ve grown to love through endless investigation, however.”
Seasonal events will be returning, with the team implementing feedback received from last year’s events. Halloween’s event featuring the Blood Moon cult will return, as well as Winter’s Jest, which featured Krampus. Though they have said that the Easter event will have a “new take.” More details will be revealed in April as the new Easter event approaches.
That’s all for now. Kinetic Games will continue to update players on future plans, including the upcoming Horror 2.0 update, which is when the game will finally leave Early Access.
