The Sanity Survival weekly challenge in Phasmophobia drops you into quite a tough predicament where your sanity is limited, you don’t have much to work with, and the power is permanently out. It’s a tricky trial, but it has excellent rewards.
Everything about the Sanity Survival challenge works directly against you, which makes this a tough one to work through. If you’re struggling to get it done, here’s how to complete the Sanity Survival challenge in Phasmophobia.
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What is the Sanity Survival challenge in Phasmophobia?
The Sanity Survival challenge is one of Phasmophobia’s many special weekly-themed trials. A different challenge is available to tackle every week, and successfully finishing one grants you 5,000 experience and $5,000 cash.
Weekly challenges are a great way to level up fast and a good way to unlock some of Phasmophobia’s achievements. They’re always worth doing, but they’re generally quite tricky to actually complete.
Sanity Survival Phasmophobia challenge rules
The special rules for the Sanity Survival challenge you need to know about before attempting this trial are as follows.
- Must be completed on 10 Ridgeview Court.
- The fuse box is broken.
- The ghost will only give you two pieces of evidence.
- The sanity screen in the truck is broken.
- Your sanity starts at 75 percent.
- You cannot restore your sanity once it’s been lost.
- The Tarot Cards and Voodoo Doll are the only Cursed Possessions available to use.
- You only have one Crucifix.
- You have no Incense.
- You have a mix of Tier I and Tier II equipment.
- Tier I: Head Gear, Crucifix, Tripod, Ghost Writing Book, Spirit Box, EMF Reader, Thermometer, Photo Camera, Sound Sensor, Salt, Parabolic Microphone, Motion Sensor, Sanity Medication, and Igniter.
- Tier II: Video Camera, DOTS Projector, Flashlight, Firelight, and UV Light.
How to complete the Sanity Survival Phasmophobia weekly challenge
To complete the Sanity Survival challenge in Phasmophobia, you need to identify the ghost that is haunting 10 Ridgeview Court three separate times.
You’re allowed to fail this challenge as many times as you like, and you won’t lose anything for doing so. As long as you get the contract done correctly three times while the challenge is active, you can still earn the rewards.
Phasmophobia Sanity Survival challenge tips
The Sanity Survival challenge is a pretty difficult one to complete successfully unless luck plays massively in your favor, so here are some tips to help get you through this challenge.
Assemble a ghost hunting squad
There are some weekly challenge modes you can easily tackle alone, but Sanity Survivial is the kind of trial where you really need allies at your side to succeed. You have little sanity and cannot restore it, which means you’re quite vulnerable from the moment you step into the house.
On your own, completing the investigation may take a long time. It’s also pretty dangerous and easy to die if you’re the only target on the map. With other players at your side, your odds of finding the ghost quickly and surviving through hunts are a lot better.
If you have friends who play, you can set up a lobby with them. If not, you can join others using the matchmaking feature. Either way, your odds are a lot better with help.
Prepare to face many ghost hunts
Since your sanity starts low at 75 percent, you need to be ready to face lots of ghost hunts. You’ll likely encounter many early hunters, but even beyond them, most regular ghosts can come after you fairly soon depending on how fast your sanity is drained.
Make sure you have a strategy in place for when hunts do happen. Since you have no Incense, your only real options are to run or hide. Be sure you know the map layout so you know where to go ahead of time to increase your odds of survival.
Pay attention to ghost behavior and unofficial evidence
You’re limited to just two pieces of evidence in this challenge, so watching for unofficial evidence and ghost behavior indicators is crucial for success. This doesn’t work with every ghost type, but it does work for quite a few. Some indicators you can watch for are as follows.
- Ghost Orbs: If you have two pieces of evidence and spot Ghost Orbs as a third one, you know you have caught The Mimic. This ghost always displays fake Ghost Orbs, so even though this challenge is limited to two, the fake orbs will always be present when it’s The Mimic.
- Frequent singing or Parabolic Microphone scream: Banshees are known to perform singing events more frequently than other ghosts. They also sometimes emit a signature wail on the Parabolic Microphone.
- Specific activity chart markings: The Twins sometimes create some specific strange patterns you might be able to spot on the activity board.
- Missing ghost in photo: If you take a photo that’s labeled as a ghost but none are present, you may have caught a Phantom. This ghost disappears in photographs.
- Super shy ghost: There’s a good chance you’ll get hunted a lot in this challenge since there’s no way to manage your sanity, but if the ghost seems strangely super shy and unwilling to hunt, it might be a Shade.
- DOTS on Video Camera: The Goryo will only show itself on the DOTS Projector through a Video Camera. This means you can identify it with certainty if you see DOTS on camera, but not in person, or rule out this ghost if you do see DOTS without a camera.
- Copying other ghost behaviors: Another way to identify The Mimic is to watch out for a ghost that seems to regularly swap the behaviors it’s performing. This Mimic changes the ghost type it’s mimicking around every 30 seconds to two minutes, so you can pick up on this trait if you watch closely.
- Refusal to step in Salt: When the ghost just won’t step in Salt but is interacting with everything else, it’s probably a Wraith. This ghost refuses to ever step in Salt, so you can also cross it out if the ghost does step in some.
- Special throw: The Poltergeist loves to throw items, and has a special throw that occurs during hunts where it throws an item every 0.5 seconds and can throw multiple objects at once.
- Ghost ball mist event: If you see a ball of mist hurl itself at you with a hiss, you can rule out the Oni since this ghost cannot perform this ghost event.
- Six-finger fingerprint: The Obake has a chance of leaving behind a special six-finger fingerprint mark you can detect with your UV Light, which will be a full handprint with six fingers. It can also leave two fingerprints on light switches.
Use strategies from other challenges
Although the Sanity Survival weekly trial is quite tough, there are also way more difficult ones that cycle into Phasmophobia. You can use the same strategies you can employ in other challenges to find success here.
In trials like No Evidence and The Apocalypse Draws Near, the ghost refuses to give you any evidence at all, which means you instead have to turn to other methods of deciding what it is. These same methods work well here since you cannot get the third piece of evidence you need, so consider using these and other challenge strategies you know of to help you navigate this one.
Reroll and try again
Giving any challenge another try is always one of the best tips for Phasmophobia, but rerolling in this trial is an especially important move to consider. Some ghosts are a lot easier to identify with little to no evidence than others, which means some matches will be fundamentally much easier. Keep at it and give it your all to have the best chance of eventually getting it done.
Others Asked
What do you need to do to complete the Lights Out! challenge in Phasmophobia?
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What makes "The Apocalypse Draws Near" challenge in Phasmophobia particularly difficult?
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What is the Technophilia challenge in Phasmophobia?
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Published: Mar 3, 2025 03:00 pm