Phasmophobia events and updates for 2025: Easter, Halloween, and holiday haunts

The Blood Moon in Phasmophobia, it's bright red with a summoning circle underneath
(Image credit: Kinetic Games)

The Phasmophobia 2025 roadmap promised Easter, Halloween, and Holiday seasonal events would return this year with feedback implemented from its 2024 celebrations, along with new major patches like the Chronicle update. We've already seen some of that with changes to its Easter event, the Cursed Hollow, which added auto-claim for rewards, more personal goodies, and a map rotation.

To keep up with the rest of the year's haunting event schedule, we're always watching and waiting—hoping for a sign from the Blood Moon cult—and plan to record any release date evidence or speculation below.

When is the next Phasmophobia seasonal event?

When is the Phasmophobia Halloween event?

Phasmophobia begins its annual Halloween event, Crimson Eye, on October 9. The event runs through October 31, and will bring back familiar spooky decor from last year's Blood Moon cult haunts with new rewards and a special weather condition that guarantees more aggressive ghosts.

Like more recent Phasmophobia events, this year's Crimson Eye features both individual and community-related goals for ghost hunters. For your personal efforts, you'll get the animated Child of the Cult ID Card and an upgradeable Crimson Eye trophy, while the group effort rewards regular version of the card and a Blood Moon trophy.

When is the next Phasmophobia update?

Aside from the next seasonal event, Phasmophobia also has one more major update planned for 2025, simply titled the Player Character Overhaul for now. The new small map, Nell's Diner, will also join the ghost-hunting game sometime late in the year.

Phasmophobia event schedule and updates in 2025

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Ghost hunters typically don't get much notice before a Phas event begins, but we can at least speculate based on teases and historical hauntings of years past. So far, we've seen the Cursed Hollow in April and Crimson Eye in October. We'll keep the usuals, plus any updates or extras like Phasmophobia Twitch Drops, outlined below.

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Event/Update

Dates

Cursed Hollow (Easter)

April 17 - May 7

Chronicle Update

June 24

Chronicle Twitch Drops

June 24 - July 15

Grafton Animated ID Twitch Drops

August 7 - 8

Grafton Farmhouse Rework

August 12

Grafton Standard ID Twitch Drops

August 12 - 26

Crimson Eye (Halloween)

October 9 - 31

Holiday

December

New Map: Nell's Diner

Late 2025

Previous Phasmophobia seasonal events

(Image credit: Kinetic Games)

There's no going back to collect some old rewards, but keeping track of historic haunts is helping in predicting any upcoming ghost activity. Or it's just a nice way to double-check your trophy cabinet and mourn the empty spaces.

2024 Event dates

  • Easter — March 26 - April 9
  • Halloween: Crimson Eye — October 28 - November 17
  • Holiday: Winter's Jest — December 12 - December 31

2023 Event dates

  • Easter — April 15 - April 20
  • Halloween — October 7 - November 4
  • Holiday — December 14, 2022 - January 9, 2023

2022 Event dates

  • Easter — March 26 - April 9
  • Halloween — October 26 - November 10
  • Holiday — December 11, 2023 - January 9, 2024
Andrea Shearon
Evergreen Writer

Andrea has been covering games for nearly a decade, picking up bylines at IGN, USA Today, Fanbyte, and Destructoid before joining the PC Gamer team in 2025. She's got a soft spot for older RPGs and is willing to try just about anything with a lovey-dovey "I can fix them" romance element. Her weekly to-do always includes a bit of MMO time, endlessly achievement hunting and raiding in Final Fantasy 14. Outside of those staples, she's often got a few survival-crafting games on rotation and loves a good scare in co-op horror games.

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