Remember when you woke up at night as a kid and felt like something was in the room? Something in the shadows, watching, invisible and malevolent.

This game replicates that. It skips the Hollywood and goes right for a sort of frightening silence, a void with no music, where a small item falling off a shelf can terrify more than any meticulously crafted jump scare ever could. You don't know what's in the room with you, what it wants or what it's capable of; but you know it's there. Every bit of evidence gathered could take you closer to a moment that sends you sprinting through the dark to hide where THE THING can't find you.

I've played Resident Evil, I've played Silent Hill, but never felt the sort of hollow horror that Phasmophobia gave me on the first play. It's not trying to craft a story, it's not a grungy heavily art-directed funhouse or a politically charged allegory to make you think, nor is it an action movie, it just sends you in a haunted house that could be on your block, in your suburb, and says 'good luck'. It's scary in its banality. What's special about 10 Ridgeview Court? Absolutely nothing, it's just got a ghost in it. Could be the type that knocks things off walls, or the type that literally starts hunting you the second you walk inside, strangling your friend on the spot sending you sprinting out the front door. It's a roll of the dice. And it's surprisingly exhilarating.

Remember when you woke up at night as a kid and felt like something was in the room? Something in the shadows, watching, invisible and malevolent. This game replicates that. It skips the Hollywood and goes right for a sort of frightening silence, a void with no music, where a small item falling off a shelf can terrify more than any meticulously crafted jump scare ever could. You don't know what's in the room with you, what it wants or what it's capable of; but you know it's there. Every bit of evidence gathered could take you closer to a moment that sends you sprinting through the dark to hide where THE THING can't find you. I've played Resident Evil, I've played Silent Hill, but never felt the sort of hollow horror that Phasmophobia gave me on the first play. It's not trying to craft a story, it's not a grungy heavily art-directed funhouse or a politically charged allegory to make you think, nor is it an action movie, it just sends you in a haunted house that could be on your block, in your suburb, and says 'good luck'. It's scary in its banality. What's special about 10 Ridgeview Court? Absolutely nothing, it's just got a ghost in it. Could be the type that knocks things off walls, or the type that literally starts hunting you the second you walk inside, strangling your friend on the spot sending you sprinting out the front door. It's a roll of the dice. And it's surprisingly exhilarating.