Developer Kinetic Games has kicked off this year’s Crimson Eye event for co-operative horror game Phasmophobia. The event, starting today, will go on until October 31, and will bring with it a host of new tasks that players must team up to take on as a group. Completing these tasks rewards players with in-game items. Check out the trailer celebrating Crimson Eye 2025 below.
As part of the Crimson Eye event this year, a number of levels will have the Blood Moon weather occur. This occurrence means that the level will offer harder challenges, with Ghosts as well as Sanity drain being faster. Completing Blood Moon levels, however, will also grant higher rewards.
The pool of maps that will be affected by Blood Moon during this year’s Crimson Eye event are 6 Tanglewood Drive, Camp Woodwind, Grafton Farmhouse, Bleasdale Farmhouse, Point Hope, 42 Edgefield Road, and 13 Willow Street. Every day throughout the period of the event will see four maps picked from this pool to guarantee Blood Moon weather. Other maps from throughout the game can also get Blood Moon, but this can only happen at random.
All rewards that players get from missions with Blood Moon active are increased by 10 percent. Along with this, the Crimson Eye event will end with rewards for all Phasmophobia players, assuming some community and personal goals have been completed. These rewards include an in-game Crimson Eye trophy, and an ID Card and Badge set.
Back in August, art director Corey J. Dixon had spoken about the Early Access development of Phasmophobia, and when we might finally see the title get its 1.0 release. In an interview, Dixon said that the 1.0 update for the game will likely be close to the release of the planned Horror 2.0 update that is still under development. This means that it will likely happen some time in 2026.
“We definitely have plans for 1.0, probably in line with our Horror 2.0 update, where we feel the game is feature-complete,” Dixon said. “It doesn’t mean we’ll stop working on it — we still want map reworks and new maps and stuff in the future, so there’ll be more stuff for the game. But I think once the Horror 2.0 has been redone, which is the next thing we work on after the [2025’s] Player Update, the game will feel finished. Once that’s in, I think it will be in a good spot.”
Dixon also spoke about how Kinetic Games loves feedback from players, especially when it comes to adding in new features. While the studio loves working on these features, it also means that it becomes harder for it to decide when Phasmophobia can be considered complete.
“It’s really difficult to know [when it may be finished],” he explained. “Our community is constantly putting out, ‘Oh, it should have this!’ so we can look at that and just keep doing it! We’d love to work on it until we’re really happy with it. We haven’t set a date or an update that’s like: we’re done. I think we’ll just know: there’ll be that company-wide feeling that this project is done now, we’ve made it the best it can be, which is what [creator] Dan [Knight] wanted Day One. I think we’ll know when we hit that milestone — I don’t think we can plan for that.”
Phasmophobia is available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. PC and PS5 players can also use their respective VR headsets to experience the co-op horror offered by the title from a new perspective.