Difficulty Levels Explained — Phasmophobia Guide

Compare Phasmophobia difficulty levels: Amateur, Intermediate, and Professional. Understand sanity effects, setup times, and ghost activity.

Phasmophobia offers several difficulty levels, each increasing the challenge and rewards. Amateur is perfect for beginners, offering a long setup time, high starting sanity, and frequent sanity pill spawns. Intermediate reduces setup time, lowers starting sanity, and makes sanity pills less common. Professional significantly shortens setup time, starts you with very low sanity, and removes sanity pills entirely, forcing you to rely on careful play and the truck. Nightmare is the ultimate challenge, removing one piece of evidence, making ghost activity more erratic, and further reducing sanity. Higher difficulties offer greater monetary rewards and experience, but demand a deeper understanding of game mechanics and ghost behaviors.