Can I Restore Sanity?
Thankfully, Kinetic Games was sure to give one surefire way of replenishing part of your sanity. Sanity Pills help restore your sanity by 40%, but they come at a cost. Each bottle of pills, which is good for one use, costs $45. That means you’ll need to make some money during your haunted escapades.
You absolutely want Sanity Pills on hand in larger locations like the Brownstone High School, Asylum, and Prison. On higher difficulties, they’re even more important. You can carry four bottles of Sanity Pills on you at all times, and we recommend you have at least one per person waiting in the van.
What Happens if I Have Low Sanity?
Now, sanity isn’t the same as a life bar. When it’s fully depleted, you won’t instantly die. However, it does make you a primary target for the spirit – which increases the likelihood that you won’t leave the location alive. Players will diminished sanity will attract more ghost activity. Sometimes, this can be a good thing if you’re still hunting for Evidence or trying to complete an Optional Objective. In some instances, you may want one player to have lower sanity to draw the ghost out.
But, you do also have to be careful of the ghost’s Hunt Phase. When things start to go wonky, lights flicker, and the ghost manifests, the spirit may start to hunt down players and kill them, starting with the one with the lowest sanity level. While having higher sanity won’t keep you off the ghost’s kill list or prevent the Hunt Phase from starting, it makes it a little easier to escape alive.
Knowing what sanity in Phasmophobia does and how you can manage it is vitally important to surviving a ghost hunt. Keep this information in the back of your mind, and you could become quite the prolific paranormal investigator.
