Co-op horror game Phasmophobia has spent quite some time in Early Access, but support from its developers hasn’t slowed down at all. Art director Corey J. Dixon has revealed in an interview with IGN that Phasmophobia might end up getting a full release some time in 2026. In the interview, Dixon said that the 1.0 release for the horror title will be “in line” with the planned Horror 2.0 update for the game.
The update will mark developer Kinetic Games as considering Phasmophobia to be “feature-complete”, and while it will no longer be an Early Access game at that point, the studio will continue to work on it. Among the things that players can expect in the form of post-launch support are reworks to maps as well as new content.
“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.”
As for figuring out when exactly Phasmophobia can be considered complete, Dixon brings up the fact that the studio is often asked by the game’s community for specific features, and the developers love this kind of feedback, which then ends up with new feedback-based features being developed for the title. Ultimately, however, he noted that the game will be done when the studio considers it done.
“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.”
As for whether Kinetic Games has any plans to work on a sequel to Phasmophobia once the co-op game exits Early Access, Dixon noted that the idea is not completely out of the picture. While he didn’t make any promises about a sequel, he did mention that there are aspects of the original game that the studio has wanted to improve now that they have some experience with the game.
“I wouldn’t write it off. It would be a fun challenge to see if we could do another one. There are a lot of things that I know we would change as a company if we went into [Phasmophobia] fresh. There’s definitely things we would all probably say, ‘Oh, let’s not do that!’ Or ‘that would be awesome. We should do that instead.’ So, yeah, you never know. It’s definitely not off the cards.”
Kinetic Games had announced a roadmap for Phasmophobia for 2025, which includes additions like a new map, as well as reworks to the game’s older maps. The title is available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. The PC version of the game also supports SteamVR, while the PS5 release supports PlayStationVR2. For more details, check out our review of the PS5 version.
