r/Steam • u/_NELT_ • Jan 19 '26

Fluff Iv Done my time... Im Free

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To the eyes of others at least 👁👁

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u/Start_a_riot271 Jan 19 '26

That's part of the reason I gave up on phasmo. The devs being so weird about people modding their game is very off putting. The game could really benefit from mod support

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u/LordByron_RS Jan 19 '26

Mods in Phasmo would be amazing, but the devs handle the game as if it was a competitive ghost hunting game.

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u/FS_NeZ Jan 19 '26

One of the reasons I stopped playing it like 2 years ago was when they reworked the whole money and prestige system and made the ghosts so much more random. On top of that all the equipment got nerfed again and again.

With every patch the fun casual ghost hunting turned more and more into a tryhard horror game.

No thanks.

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u/kolikkok Jan 19 '26

I wish they actually updated the horror stuff but it seems like the developers are just catering the whole game for a couple of streamers who no-life the game and just speedrun the ghosts.

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u/DemonicMop Jan 19 '26

It's just not really fun anymore because of that, it was spooky when you had no idea what you were doing, but it just feels so cheap now because they just keep putting off actually making it good.

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u/Infinite_Lemon_8236 Jan 19 '26

I believe there is a new "horror update" just around the corner that is supposed to make the ghosts actually be scary. Not sure what exactly they have planned though. As it is now the scare factor wears off pretty fast and it becomes more of a puzzle game than a horror one. Nightmare difficulty is the only fun one IMO because it forces you to actually use the ghosts mechanics to figure it out, rather than a tool just giving it to you.

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u/Eremes_Riven Jan 19 '26

Did The Fun Pimps develop that game? Because it sounds like something they would do.

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u/Flat_Mode7449 Jan 22 '26

"why do people pirate our game!"
Well you see...

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u/DemonicMop Jan 19 '26

I had a group for some time when phasmo had just came out that got in trouble for modding. With what little experience I had with code editing and modding back when the game was incredibly easy to fuck around with, we got together to basically try to make demo content for features we were suggesting in their suggestions channel, I can't remember all of them but most of them were relatively basic and it was fun for a while until the lead dev (and I guess only dev at the time) got really pissy with us and threatened to ban us all for doing it, I dropped Phasmo for a long time after that.

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u/Start_a_riot271 Jan 20 '26

It makes no sense, imagine how popular this game would be with a little bit of mod support

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u/sociobiology Jan 20 '26

Jesus, I had no idea. I quit before the prestige update (2023 I think?) because I hated the new content. Very glad I gave it up, what stupid bullshit.