Special events and challenges

This page lists **special events and challenges** that have occured within *Phasmophobia*. Some events will give out trophies, which will be displayed in the lobby.

## Easter 2022

During this event, each map had a fixed number of easter eggs spawn in fixed locations. Players could use the pick up (default: E on keyboard) key to collect them. Once all the eggs in the map have been collected, the sanity of all players would be restored to 100%.

## Apocalypse Challenge

*Main article: Apocalypse Challenge*

The Apocalypse Challenge is a challenge introduced in the Apocalypse update. With custom difficulties being introduced, a challenge was created for players to play on the hardest difficulties and achieve objectives. The requirements for the challenge are as follows:

* Create a custom difficulty (see below)
* Play in Singleplayer on Sunny Meadows Mental Institution
* Complete all 4 objectives (including identifying the ghost type)
* Obtain a ghost photo (any number of stars)
* Survive the investigation

Once the player completes the contract successfully, trophies will be awarded automatically based on the custom difficulty set:

* 6x multiplier or higher: Bronze
* 10x multiplier or higher: Silver
* 15x multiplier: Gold

No further action is required upon completion. Once obtained, these trophies will be displayed in the lobby.

Completing a higher multiplier will automatically reward the trophies from the lower multipliers; all three trophies can be obtained within the same 15x multiplier contract.

This challenge is permanent.

## Trick or Treat

An interactive event was introduced for Halloween 2022. In this event, some maps would have a fixed number of carved pumpkins containing candies, similar to Easter 2022. These maps are indicated by a jack o' lantern symbol in the contract selection board. To complete each map, the player must be on Nightmare difficulty (not a custom Nightmare preset) and do the following in order:

* Collect all the candies.
* After all the candies are collected, new carved pumpkins would spawn, requiring players to light (default: F on keyboard) them up with a lighter.
* Once both of these are done, the ghost will now show up with a pumpkin head for the remainder of the contract. The player(s) must then take a photo of the ghost. The photo does not have to be labelled nor be the first ghost photo as long as the ghost is technically in the photo.

Each time a step is completed, a laughing sound will play. The player does not have to survive as long as all the steps are completed.

If the map's weather is Heavy Rain, the player must start a new contract, as some pumpkins are located outside and thus cannot be lit.

Completed maps will have a check mark on top of the pumpkin label. Once the activity has been done across all the maps containing the pumpkins, the player is rewarded with a pumpkin trophy. This event lasted from 0.7.1.0 until 0.7.1.5.

Aside from this event, the lobby and the van also had various decorations.

## Christmas 2022

During this event, the lobby is decorated with various Christmas decorations. A temporary challenge was also added. Similar to the Trick or Treat event, participating maps would feature a Holiday Sticker on the map selection board on Intermediate difficulty. The player is then required to visit all 7 maps and do the following on each map:

1. Collect 6 cookies to add them to a plate
2. Place the completed plate near the ghost
3. Wait for the ghost to eat the cookies; this will cause the player's vision to darken, and a hunt starts after their vision clears if they are in the investigation area. The ghost will now appear for the remainder of the contract with a Christmas garb as the one seen from Christmas 2021, and the weather will turn to snow.
4. Correctly identify the ghost and leave alive

After completing all the maps, the player will receive a Holiday '22 Badge (for the ID Card) and Trophy. The maps can be done in either singleplayer or multiplayer.

This event was introduced with the *Tempest* update (0.8.0) and ended on 9 January 2023 (0.8.0.7).

## 2023 Riddles

In 0.8.1.0, a riddle event was added, inclusive of runes that can be seen with UV light in the lobby...

## April Fools 2023

On 1 April 2023, a same-version hotfix (0.8.1.3) was released to add some new features:

* Player and ghost model heads are now comically big
* Most ghost vocalisations are now sped up and have a higher pitch
* Other players now appear to T-pose by default
	+ Consequently, all their photos are taken upside down
* Ghosts will occasionally appear in T-pose (such as during certain ghost events or when producing a D.O.T.S Projector silhouette)

This lasted the whole 24 hours of the day (UK timezone), and was reverted afterwards.

## Easter 2023

An event was introduced for Easter 2023. Similar to the Trick or Treat and the Christmas 2022 events, participating maps would feature an Easter Sticker on the map selection board. The player is required to visit all 7 small maps and do the following on each map:

* Collect all the hidden Easter eggs.

Once all eggs are collected, a laughing sound will play, indicating that the objective has been completed.

Compared to other holiday challenges, this can be done on either singleplayer or multiplayer, on any difficulty (including custom difficulties of any multiplier, even 0x), and there is no need to find the ghost type or acquire a ghost photo. The player only needs to be alive the moment the last egg is picked up, and can be dead at any other time.

After completing this objective on all maps, the player will receive an Easter '23 Badge (for the ID Card) and Trophy.

This event lasted from 0.8.1.4 until 0.8.1.6.

## Halloween 2023

An event was introduced for Halloween 2023. Similar to previous events, participating maps would feature a Pumpkin Sticker on the map selection board. The player can visit all 9 maps and do the following on each map:

* Find the recipe ingredient note found in a pumpkin's mouth.

Once the player knows the full recipe, they can proceed to add the ingredients to the cauldron found in Maple Lodge Campsite in order to complete the event.

This can be done on either singleplayer or multiplayer, on any difficulty (including custom difficulties of any multiplier, even 0x), and there is no need to find the ghost type.

After completing this event, the player will receive a Halloween '23 Badge (for the ID Card) and Trophy.

This event was introduced in 0.9.1.0 and lasted until 0.9.2.0.

## Christmas 2023

An event was introduced for Christmas 2023. During this event, 7 small maps would feature a Snowman Sticker while Sunny Meadows had a Snowball Gun Sticker on the map selection board. To complete the event, the player needed to do the following:

* Find 3 mysterious parts on Sunny Meadows

Once all parts are collected, a laughing sound will play, indicating that the objective has been completed, which will add a newly built device in the van.

* Using a snowball gun, destroy all the dancing snowmen on the 7 maps featuring a Snowman Sticker

Each time all the snowmen in a map are destroyed, the weather changes to Snow, and the ghost changes its model and initiates a hunt.

After destroying the snowmen on all maps, the player will receive a Holiday '23 Badge (for the ID Card) and Trophy.

This event can be done on either singleplayer or multiplayer, on any difficulty (including custom difficulties of any multiplier, even 0x), and there is no need to find the ghost type.

This event was introduced in 0.9.3.0 and lasted until 0.9.4.0.

## Notes

1. ↑ There is a known bug where the Silver trophy will temporarily not show upon completion. This will fix itself upon reloading the game.