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After making its console debut on Xbox Series and PS5, asymmetric horror game Phasmophobia is back in the limelight. Not just a brilliant game for flatscreen players, Phasmophobia has also been a standout VR game on PC, and now PSVR 2. However, the game won’t be making the jump to the most popular VR platform: Meta Quest.
In an interview with VideoGamer for an upcoming episode of the New VideoGamer Podcast, Phasmophobia developers at Kinetic Games explained that a Quest 2 or Quest 3 version of the game isn’t in the cards as the team is currently busy with the game’s existing platforms.
No Phasmophobia for Quest
Speaking to VideoGamer, Phasmophobia developer Ben Lavender explained that the team is aware of the huge demand for a standalone Quest version of the game. However, that likely won’t happen for a long time. Not only is it a lot of work for the small team, but making sure everything runs properly on Quest is a tall ask.
“We have seen the demand for it definitely,” Lavender explained. “I think the biggest challenge for us in terms of supporting standalone hardware is what’s normally a quality thing is kind of relevant to our game mechanics. So, what I mean by that, is, like, the lights in the room like you can turn them on and off dynamically. So, that in itself makes the game quite expensive especially on a headset or a Switch or an older- gen PlayStation console or Xbox console.”
“Never say never… after 1.0 we might touch on it and have a look again.”
PHASMOPHOBIA DEVELOPER KINECTIC GAMES
Lavender explained that the level of optimsation needed to a full VR port to Quest is the “biggest challenge”, especially as the team wants to keep the title cross-compatible across all platforms. While the Quest 1 and 2 would have made for impossible ports, there is hope that the newer Quest 3 could support the game as it ships games like Batman: Arkham Shadow.
“To be honest, it’s not something we’ve looked at for the [Quest] 3 specifically because we’ve been very busy running around with everything else currently,” Lavender explained. “But, yes, you know, it might get to a point where it’s feasible to have on a standalone headset whether it’s the 3 whether it’s whatever is after that. But right now like with our team size being so small especially we don’t have a massive amount of hands to kind of go around and try these things, unfortunately.”
Lead marketing and partnerships manager Asim Tanvir explained that the team isn’t ruling out a Quest 3, or standalone VR port, sometime in the future, but with the team busy on future content updates and patches, it’s not feasible right now.
“We wouldn’t turn down or kind of say ‘no’ to an opportunity like that but we’d have to obviously make sure it falls within the right space for our team,” Tanvir revealed. “So, yeah, I mean, never say never… after 1.0 we might touch on it and have a look again.”
Phasmophobia is available right now on Xbox Series, PS5 and PC. For more Phasmo news, read about why the developers won’t get rid of the game’s broken animations, despite really wanting to.
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