Gaming: Phasmophobia's Roadmap Includes Evidence Of A 1.0 Launch In 2026: A...

Phasmophobia's early access build celebrates its sixth anniversary as a viral ghost-hunting breakout on Steam later this year, but that's assuming we make it to September before the 1.0 launch. If Kinetic Games' latest roadmap stays on track, then we'll be cutting it close, as Phasmophobia is planning for its 1.0 launch with a horror rework and lore update sometime this year.

It's a big year for Phas as the horror rework and lore updates coupled with 1.0's debut are one of several major patches outlined. There's also a Unity 6 and network update on the roadmap that I hope will fix some of the frustrating connection issues I occasionally run into, and the long-awaited player character overhaul launches soon.

I'm stoked to finally show up to the function (hopefully) not wearing the same thing as three of my friends. And by wearing the same thing, I mean all playing as the exact same guy with no way of knowing who's who.

Anyway, as is Phasmophobia tradition, the Kinetic team is pretty hush-hush about the finer details around big patch plans, keeping things scarier for all of us come launch day. So, for a little extra roadmap context, I've scraped together a bit of what we do know and included some of my recent coverage on Phasmophobia updates and interviews from 2025.

We've spent years clinging to the vague "large horror overhaul of the ghost and game mechanics" description outlined on Phasmophobia's Trello. We've also seen a ton of game-changing updates since then, both big and small, which only makes me more curious about what's left for Kinetic to seriously overhaul.

Kinetic has taken to sort of rebranding the update, simply referring to Horror 2.0 as Phasmophobia 1.0. Exactly what the horror and mechanic overhauls include is still a bit nebulous, but the Kinetic blog says Horror 2.0 "will be the meatiest part of the 1.0 release and will give even the most seasoned Ghost Hunter a host of new scares and surprises."

Originally planned for Q4 2025, the long-awaited player model overhaul was delayed and moved to Q1 2026. Kinetic says it won't share much else on any changes until it's closer to a patch date, but a recent development preview showcased some of the unique character models coming to Phas. The update will also include free cosmetics for players to collect and customize their avatars. No live service gimmicks here.

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