Phasmophobia is one of the most successful horror titles in the past few years. The game currently sits on Steam with an all-time 412,091 overwhelmingly positive reviews. The game released the Phasmophobia 2022 Christmas Update, which has ruined the game in every aspect imaginable. One user on Steam said eight percent of the game that made it enjoyable is ruined. The game has all kinds of problems imaginable, from crashing, freezing, the game not starting, bugs in-game mechanics, achievements bugs, and more. Let us look at all the problems with the game, hoping the devs patch it.
Possible Fix for Issues with Phasmophobia Tempest 2022 Christmas Update
Currently, there are many issues with Phasmophobia. Here is a list of most of them with fixes and workaround that you can try.
| The Issues | Known Fixes |
| Phasmophobia not starting after update | 1. Ensure you are not running the game in DirectX 10 2. Go to Steam Launch Options for the game and delete the value there 3. Verify the game files 4. Reinstall the game |
| Phasmophobia is extremely bright, saturated, and blurry | Try to turn down the brightness from 1.0 to 0.8 or further down |
| Myling gives freezing evidence. Freezing on Mylings and Yokai | Try to find the ghost first before putting down the cookies |
| Phasmophobia Black Screen with White Ring | Delete the launch Options in Steam. Go to Steam > Library > Phasmophobia > Properties > Local Files > Launch Options > Delete any text there |
| Phasmophobia Graphics Problems – Blur graphics, unnatural and bright lights, blur numbers on spirit box, etc. | No known fix |
| Phasmophobia Ghost Not Eating Cookies Cookies not appearing or spawning on maps | 1. Try to smudge the room 2. Remove any objects in their room 3. Try changing the difficulty if the cookies do not appear. |
| Phasmophobia Night Vision is broken or bugged | Devs are aware of the issue. It should be patched in the next update. |
| Found all Cookies but no trophy or symbol for a badge | No known fix |
| The game exits to the main menu without any error | Check that your internet connection is not to blame |
| Phasmophobia crashes the VR and PC | Fix from the devs – make sure you are using the HTC OpenXR runtime, not SteamVR. |
| Oculus app launching when launching Phasmophobia on desktop | It is a bug with Oculus. Devs have informed the VR Company. |
| Reduction in custom difficulty reward | Players who prefer to play custom difficulty for high-risk high-rewards are not happy with the change in the game’s mechanics |
| Phasmophobia freezing temp bug | There seems to be a bug with these mechanics as well, and no workaround yet |
| Video camera IR bug – dark and can’t see | No workaround |
| Phasmophobia Wraith absence of footsteps on salt. Salt Objective is disabled | You’re not supposed to get that objective when it’s a wraith |
| Phasmophobia Christmas badge not showing | You can enable the badge by clicking in the empty space next to the “unready” text, if your brightness is low enough, you may see a circle for where to click. |
That is all we have in this guide, but there are so many bugs that we likely missed something. If you encounter something that need
I literally just bought this fucking game. And only two days after the update it no longer works.
Keep getting an error that automatically sends me to the board and it’s says failed to load on my ID in the top right corner I’m fed up with it I no longer want to play and I’ve done everything I’m not about to keep trying I’ve done everything and nothing works
Yeah, the game is in a very bad state right now. Probabaly, best to play after there have been a few patches.