It’s nearing the Spooky Season, and that means Kinetic Games smartly took some time to give everyone an update as to the status of the indie smash-hit horror game. 

The biggest takeaway here is the updated roadmap, revising the designs and timeline for upcoming updates. While nothing here is live immediately, it’s a reassurance from the team that the game is realigning goals and adapting to the challenge of developing the game. This is a good thing, and the transparency is commendable. 

Custom Difficulty

Here is the first update to drop sometime in September. They’ve gone over this before in a previous blog post, but it’ll allow experienced Ghost Hunters to fine-tune their hunt to their choosing. While this is a fun addition it more or less just enables folks to mess around in the game by tweaking ghost interactions, hunt durations and sanity conditions it does little to breathe any new and tangible content into the game, which I think is the most needed thing right now. Though they’re adding a few new [REDACTED] to the game so that’s something…Ghosts, right? Gotta be ghosts.

Progression 

So this is an interesting one, being pushed back all the way to 2023. However, it looks like half of the original progression update. This first half appears to focus on the lighting and weather effects for the game. My hunch is that this will be a nice change, but when the other half lanches is when the update will feel complete. They’re just touching on in it here makes me think it won’t be much to write home about. 

The meat lies in the second half of the roadmap where according to the team the game will receive all new models, animations, and game systems. This is what Phas really needs and has needed for a long time. Since expanding the team with Kinetic Games we’ve seen a steady stream of quality of life changes and incremental updates but this progression update has been needing to happen for a while. 

While the progression update is going to be sometime in 2023, we’ll at least get some new ghosts and a new map for the remainder of 2022 to tide us over while the team works on more substantial revisions.