Phasmophobia – Quick Nightmare Guide

Welcome to Phasmophobia on Nightmare! You feel like Professional is too easy, maybe a bit ballsy, so you jump on Nightmare and now you’re throwing forbidden curses at the game.

Sanity Management

Your activity and sanity monitors are smashed!

This means you can’t easily detect EMF 5 and have to use the sensor to confirm it.

The worse part is that you don’t know your exact sanity either. For this, I recommend playing a lot and getting a feel for the sanity drop in game.

Do keep in mind that on Coop, your sanity drains 2x faster than on Solo. So, don’t start jumping to conclusions about the ghost while switching from Solo to Coop and vice versa.

Usual Sanity Management methods still work on Nightmare such as holding a Candle, having building lights on and such.

Sanity Pills restore 25% Sanity on Nightmare.

If you get an Ouija Board as your Cursed Object, you can ask what your Sanity is. You will get an answer which will give you a rough understanding of it but keep in mind that it drains 5% of your Sanity if you ask this (4% if it’s a Demon) so the value given by the Ouija Board might be on the edge or even over it. Here is the best question to ask and the answers with their meanings.

Question:

What is my Sanity?

Answers:

• Healthy (100% – 81%)
• Good (80% – 61%)
• Average (60% – 41%)
• Bad (40% – 21%)
• Awful (20% – 0%)

Starting and Surviving Hunts

If you play Nightmare, you will have to get very well acquainted with hunts since very often, you will have to purposefully start a hunt to test for ghost behavior.

Starting Hunts

You can start a hunt in a number of ways.

One of the less costly yet effective methods is to get your Sanity low enough and politely (or impolitely) ask for one. Saying the word “Hunt” in game has a chance of forcing an actual hunt.

Of course, there are more words that can help accomplish that such as “Scared”, “Show us” and curse words so get your F bombs ready.

Another easy but more dangerous way to start a hunt is by using a Cursed Object. All Cursed Objects have a way to start a Cursed Hunt which has a grace period of only 1 second (regular grace period on Nightmare is 2 seconds) and has a noticeably longer duration.

The drawback of forcing a Cursed Hunt is that every other hunt in that match will be a Cursed Hunt. If you decide to do this, I recommend doing your objectives before and always being ready to book it to a hiding spot.

Surviving Hunts

Seems simple enough. Just hide lmao

Well, not so fast. Since this is Nightmare, a hunt doesn’t end when someone dies. In fact, it extends. If you’re playing Coop, avoid hiding in the same spot with someone else. If the ghost finds you, everyone in that hiding spot is fυcked.

As you may have noticed, most hiding spots are blocked off on Nightmare. Usually, you have but one or two open in the whole map. Having a good closet or locker can be beneficial but you can’t always rely on it.

Instead try finding rooms where you can squeeze behind doors. Doors block the ghost line of sight so as long as you are in a room with not much space behind and in front of a door, are holding the door open and have your equipment off and mouth shut, you should be safe.

Good examples of such spots would be the upper basement door on Ridgeview and most bathroom doors on Edgefield. Find at least 2 good spots on the map you play in case one is inaccessible and get comfortable in them since you’ll be there often.